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October 1, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

October 1, 2007

Chicago Law and Philosophy

Grant Lamond (Oxford Law)

Columbia Legal Theory

Kenneth Shepsle (Harvard Political Science)

Hofstra

Mary Anne Case (Chicago Law), Inaugural Address: Colloquium on Law and Sexuality

Loyola Tax Policy

Daniel Korb (IRS), The Impact of Tax Scholarship on Tax Administration

Seton Hall

James Gibson (Richmond Law)

Suffolk

W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell Law), Authority and Interpretation

Temple

Cristina Rodriguez (New York University Law), The Significance of the Local in Immigration

Toledo

John Lott (Maryland), Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don’t

UCLA Faculty Mondays

Tim Fong (UCLA Pyschiatry), Gambling and the Law: Hidden Addictions with Real Consequences?

Vanderbilt

Emanuel Zur (NYU Business PhD), The Activist Investors – Investment Opportunities, Free Cash Flow, and Overinvestment

Virginia Law and Economics

Abraham Wickelgren (Northwestern Law), Advantage Defendant: Why Sinking Litigation Costs Make Negative Expected Value Defenses, but not Negative Expected Value Suits Credible

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October 1, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law and Philosophy

Grant Lamond (Oxford Law)

Columbia Legal Theory

Kenneth Shepsle (Harvard Political Science)

Hofstra

Mary Anne Case (Chicago Law), Inaugural Address: Colloquium on Law and Sexuality

Loyola Tax Policy

Daniel Korb (IRS), The Impact of Tax Scholarship on Tax Administration

Seton Hall

James Gibson (Richmond Law)

Suffolk

W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell Law), Authority and Interpretation

Temple

Cristina Rodriguez (New York University Law), The Significance of the Local in Immigration

Toledo

John Lott (Maryland), Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don’t

UCLA Faculty Mondays

Tim Fong (UCLA Pyschiatry), Gambling and the Law: Hidden Addictions with Real Consequences?

Vanderbilt

Emanuel Zur (NYU Business PhD), The Activist Investors – Investment Opportunities, Free Cash Flow, and Overinvestment

Virginia Law and Economics

Abraham Wickelgren (Northwestern Law), Advantage Defendant: Why Sinking Litigation Costs Make Negative Expected Value Defenses, but not Negative Expected Value Suits Credible

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Call for Papers Deadline: International Humanitarian Law, Conflict — Jerusalem

December 1, 2007

The Minerva Center for Human Rights, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Tel Aviv Delegation present Complementing IHL: Exploring the Need for Additional Norms to Govern Contemporary Conflict Situations, June 1-3, 2008. The conference “seeks to examine if, how and to what extent the regulation of certain contemporary conflict situations could be improved – whether by the development or reinterpretation of international humanitarian law (IHL) or by the introduction of complementary norms derived from alternative legal sources.”

The call for papers deadline is Dec. 1, 2007.

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International Humanitarian Law, Conflict — Jerusalem

June 1, 2008toJune 3, 2008

The Minerva Center for Human Rights, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Tel Aviv Delegation present Complementing IHL: Exploring the Need for Additional Norms to Govern Contemporary Conflict Situations, June 1-3, 2008. The conference “seeks to examine if, how and to what extent the regulation of certain contemporary conflict situations could be improved – whether by the development or reinterpretation of international humanitarian law (IHL) or by the introduction of complementary norms derived from alternative legal sources.”

The call for papers deadline is Dec. 1, 2007.

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International Humanitarian Law, Conflict — Jerusalem

The Minerva Center for Human Rights, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Tel Aviv Delegation present Complementing IHL: Exploring the Need for Additional Norms to Govern Contemporary Conflict Situations, June 1-3, 2008. The conference “seeks to examine if, how and to what extent the regulation of certain contemporary conflict situations could be improved – whether by the development or reinterpretation of international humanitarian law (IHL) or by the introduction of complementary norms derived from alternative legal sources.”

The call for papers deadline is Dec. 1, 2007.

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Human Rights – Jerusalem

November 18, 2007toNovember 19, 2007

Constitutional Rights and International Human Rights: Separate But Equal?, Nov. 18-19, 2007, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

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Judicial Office in Constitutional Democracy — Philadelphia

October 16, 2007

Viallanova University School of Law hosts the John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics and Culture, The Judicial Office in Our Constitutional Democracy: Avoiding Dogmatism on a Disputed Question, Tues., Oct. 16, 2007. The keynote speaker is Justice Antonin Scalia.

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