Legal Scholarship Blog

Law-Related Calls for Papers, Conferences, and Workshops
A Service from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law & University of Washington School of Law

September 14, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

September 14, 2007

Cincinnati

Luis Fuentes-Rohwer (Indiana Law), Bringing Democracy to Puerto Rico:  A Rejoinder

Duke

Steven Shavell (Harvard Law)

Florida State

Heidi Hurd (Illinois Law), The Morality of Mercy

Iowa

Mary Louise Fellows (Minnesota Law)

San Diego

David Schkade (UC San Diego Business), Judicial Decision Making (Cf. Are Judges Political:  An Empirical Analysis of the Federal Judiciary (co-authored with Cass Sunstein, Lisa Ellman & Andres Sawicki)

UCLA Faculty Friday

Sasha Volokh (Georgetown), Choosing Interpretive Methods: A Positive Theory of Judges and Everyone Else

Villanova

Ellen Wertheimer (Villanova Law), Calling It a Leg Doesn’t Make It a Leg: Doctors, Lawyers, and Tort Reform

Virginia

William Widen (Miami Law), New Directions for Asset Partitioning Theories?: Empirical Evidence from Bankruptcy Reorganizations

Posted by on September 9th, 2007 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Empirical Legal Studies, EVENTS, Health Law, Jurisprudence, Law and Economics, Tort Law, Uncategorized | no comments

September 13, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

September 13, 2007

Boston

Bob Bone (Boston Law)

Florida State

Suja Thomas (Cincinnati Law), Why the Motion to Dismiss is Now Unconstitutional

Georgetown

Sasha Volokh (Georgetown Law), Choosing Interpretive Methods: A Positive Theory of Judges and Everyone Else

Iowa

Arthur Bonfield (Iowa Law), An Agenda for Revising Iowa’s Public Records and Open Meetings Laws

NYU Legal, Political and Social Philosphy

Sharon Street (NYU Bioethics)

Posted by on September 9th, 2007 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, EVENTS, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized | no comments

September 12, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

September 12, 2007

Connecticut

Mark Janis (UConn), Mr. Justice Holmes: Birds, Wars & Race

George Washington

Nathan Winograd (Author of), Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No Kill Revolution in America

NYU Legal History

Geoffrey Stone (Chicago Law), Sexing the Constitution: Chapter III – The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment

Oregon Environmental and Natural Resources Law

Hari Osofsky (Oregon Law), Climate Change and the Alien Tort Claims Act

Suffolk Law and Society

Paul Finkelman (Albany Law), Legal History and Race

Toledo

Thomas Karol (AssistantU.S. Attorney), The Prosecution of Saddam Hussein’s Regime

UCLA Williams Institute

Stephen Russell (University of Arizona Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences), Adolescents’ Attitudes About Marriage for Same-Sex Couples

Posted by on September 9th, 2007 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Criminal Law, Environmental Law, EVENTS, Family Law, International Law, Law and Race, Law and Sexuality, Legal History, Uncategorized | no comments

September 11, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

September 11, 2007

Georgetown

David Luban (Georgetown), On the Commander-in-Chief Power

Marquette

Chad Oldfather (Marquette Law), A Consequentialist Analysis of Universal De Novo Review

NYU Law, Economics, and Politics

Maggie Penn (Harverd University-Government), The Possibility of Statehood

Ohio State University

Susan A. Bandes (DePaul Law), Victims, “Closure,” and the Sociology of Emotion

Pittsburgh

Elena Baylis (Pitt Law), Early Adopters: Congolese Military Courts and the International Criminal Court Statute

Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law

Robert Nachtigall (UCSF), The Disposition Decision: How Post-IVF Couples Decide What to Do with Their Surplus Frozen Embryos

SMU

Dale A. Carpenter (Minnesota Law), Traditionalism and Gay Marriage

UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations

Ed McCaffery (USC Law), Explorations in the Theory of Optimal Consumption Taxes

Posted by on September 9th, 2007 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, EVENTS, Family Law, Government Law, Health Law, International Law, Law and Economics, Law and Science, Law and Sexuality, Legal Ethics, Tax Law | no comments