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Law-Related Calls for Papers, Conferences, and Workshops
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September 26, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

September 26, 2007

Connecticut

Michael Knoll (Penn Law), Taxes and Competitiveness

Emory

John Pottow (Michigan Law), Myth and Realities of Forum Shopping in Cross-Border Insolvencies

NYU Legal History

Roderick Hills (NYU Law), Federalism and Fear: Sorting and Democratizing in Federal Regimes

Oregon Environmental and Natural Resources Law

Mark Unno (Oregon), The Buddha’s Fire Sermon and Global Warming

Southwestern

Robert Lind (Southwestern Law), The Commodification of Lectures and the Teacher Exception fo the Work-Made-For-Hire Rules of Copyright Authorship

Stetson

Danielle Keats Citron (Maryland Law), Technological Due Process

UCLA Williams Institute

Amanda Baumle (Houston Sociology), Border Identities: Intersections of Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Vanderbilt

Gordon Wood (Brown History), The Origins of American Constitutionalism

Posted by on September 23rd, 2007 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, EVENTS, Law and Sexuality, Legal History, Tax Law | no comments

September 25, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

September 25, 2007

Emory Law and Social Sciences

Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law)

Georgetown

Carrie Menkel-Meadow (Georgetown Law), Cultural Variations in Restorative Justice: Interactions of Law, Dispute Resolution and Culture in the Transition from Repression to Democracy from Case Studies of Chile, Argentina and China

NYU Law, Economics, and Politics

Jean Ensminger (California Institute of Technology Anthropology), Getting to the Bottom of Corruption: An African Case Study in Community Driven Development

Pittsburgh

Jules Lobel (Pitt Law), The Commander in Chief and Congress

UC Berkeley Law, Business and the Economy

Joseph Rosenbaum (Ernst & Young), Digital Breadcrumbs – a Forensic Accountant’s Journey through a Corporate Scandal

SMU Law and Citizenship

Linda Bosniak (Rutgers-Camden Law), The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership

UNLV

Michael Olivas (Houston Law), “Colored Men” and “Hombres Aqui”: Hernandez v. Texas and the Emergence of Mexican American Lawyering

Posted by on September 23rd, 2007 | Alternative Dispute Resolution, Business Law, Civil Rights Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, EVENTS, Immigration Law, Law and Economics, National Security Law | no comments

September 24, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

September 24, 2007

Alabama

Orly Lobel (San Diego Law)

California-Hastings

Scott Sundby (Washington & Lee Law), War and Peace in the Jury Room: How Capital Juries Reach Unanimity

Columbia Law & Economics

Michael Kremer (Harvard Economics), Protecting Antiquities: A Role for Long-Term Leases?

Hofstra

Ruth O’Brien (The Graduate Center of the City University of New York), Telling Stories Out of Court: A Different Type of Legal Narration

Indiana-Bloomington

Philippe Sands (University College London Law), Poodles and Bulldogs: the US, Britain and the International Rule of Law

Lewis & Clark

Henry Drummonds (Lewis & Clark Law), Reforming Labor Law By Reforming Preemption Doctrine and Unleashing the States

Loyola Tax Policy

Jim Repetti (Boston College Law), Democracy and Opportunity A New Paradigm for Tax Equity

Minnesota Public Law

Richard Frase (Minnesota Law), What Factors Explain Persistent Racial Disparities in Minnesota’s Prison and Jail Populations?

Seton Hall

Trevor W. Morrison (Cornell Law)

Suffolk Law & Society

Matthew Palmer (Yale Law)

Temple

David Hoffman (Temple Law), Docketology, District Courts, and Doctrine

Texas Human Rights

Karen Engle (Texas Law) & Gerald Torres (Texas Law), Indigenous Roads to Development and Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Indigenous Peoples and Reparations

UCLA Mondays

Sean Pine (UCLA Law), Developments in Information Technology for Law Faculty

USC US-China Institute

Liu Peng (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Religious Policies in China: An Overview

Washington University in St. Louis

Bob Ahdieh (Emory Law)

Vanderbilt

Kenneth Ayotte (Northwestern Law), Optimal Property Rights in Financial Contracting 

Posted by on September 23rd, 2007 | Civil Rights Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, International Law, Jurisprudence, Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, Law and Race, Property Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Criminal Theory – Baton Rouge

On November 16-17, 2007, Louisiana State University Law School will host a workshop on criminal law theory. Participants will include: Markus Dubber (SUNY Buffalo), Antony Duff (Stirling Philosophy), Kim Ferzan (Rutgers-Camden), Stuart Green (LSU), Douglas Husak (Rutgers Philosophy), Paul Robinson (U. Penn), Carol Steiker (Harvard), and Bob Weisberg (Stanford). The purpose of the workshop will be to plan a collection of essays entitled “Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law,” to be published by Oxford University Press.

Contact: Stuart P. Green

Posted by on September 23rd, 2007 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Criminal Law, Jurisprudence | no comments