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2007 Annual Meeting of Midwestern Law and Economics Association: Day One

2007 Annual Meeting of Midwestern Law and Economics Association at the University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota

9:05 – 10:20 a.m.  Regulation and Governance 

Dale Thompson, Optimal Federalism Across Many Dimensions
Guiseppe Dar-Mattiacci, Multi-Level Governance and Risk Diversification
Jonathan Remy Nash, Environmental Regulation Through the Looking-Glass

10:30 – 11:45 a.m.  Procedure and Family Law

Scott Moss, O Brave New World That Has Such Creatures Evidence:  An Economic Analysis of Courts’ Misguided Rules on Discovery of Digital Evidence
Margaret Brinig, The One Size Fits All Family
Vincy Fon & Francesco Paris, Plaintiff in Default:  An Economic Analysis

1:00 – 2:15 p.m.  Behavioral Law and Economics:  Theory

Peter Huang, Law and Human Flourishing:  Fostering Happiness, Learning, and Mindfulness
Jeffrey Lipshaw, Aboutness, Thingness, Models, and Understanding
Jeff Stake & Michael Alexeev, Who Responds to U.S. News & World Report’s Law School Rankings?

2:30 – 3:45 p.m.  Tax and Finance

Bradley Borden, The Aggregate-Plus Theory of Partnership Taxation
Elizabeth Brown, A Preliminary Look at Regulatory Structures for Financial Services
Joseph Warburton, Business Trusts Versus Corporations:  Evidence from the British Mutual Fund Industry

4:00 – 5:15 p.m.  Law and Medicine

Robert Katz, Gimme Some Skin:  When Tissue Banks Compete for Transplant Tissue, Who Wins?
Robert Mikos, Supervising Criminal Activity:  The Case of State Medical Marijuana Exemptions
Elizabeth Weeks, Right to Experimental Treatment

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October 12, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Georgetown Law and Economics

Karla Hoff (World Bank)

Georgia

Chris Brummer (Vanderbilt Law)

Rutgers-Camden

Eric Muller (North Carolina Law), American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese-American Disloyalty in World War II

Texas

Lino Graglia(Texas Law), Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc.: The Strange Career of the Law of Resale Price Maintenance

UCLA Faculty Fridays

Ann Carlson (UCLA Law), Iterative Federalism and Climate Change

USC

David Cruz (USC Law), Sexual Judgments: Federalism and Gender Identity Determinations

Villanova

Mitch Nathanson (Villanova Law), What’s in a Name or, Better Yet, What’s it Worth?: Cities, Sports Teams and the Right of Publicity

Virginia Law

Richard Schragger (Virginia Law), Cities, Economic Development, and the Free Trade Constitution

Washburn

John Bickers (Northern Kentucky Law), Of Non-horses, Quantum Mechanics, and the Establishment Clause

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October 12, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Georgetown Law and Economics

Karla Hoff (World Bank)

Georgia

Chris Brummer (Vanderbilt Law)

Rutgers-Camden

Eric Muller (North Carolina Law), American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese-American Disloyalty in World War II

Texas

Lino Graglia(Texas Law), Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc.: The Strange Career of the Law of Resale Price Maintenance

UCLA Faculty Fridays

Ann Carlson (UCLA Law), Iterative Federalism and Climate Change

USC

David Cruz (USC Law), Sexual Judgments: Federalism and Gender Identity Determinations

Villanova

Mitch Nathanson (Villanova Law), What’s in a Name or, Better Yet, What’s it Worth?: Cities, Sports Teams and the Right of Publicity

Virginia Law

Richard Schragger (Virginia Law), Cities, Economic Development, and the Free Trade Constitution

Washburn

John Bickers (Northern Kentucky Law), Of Non-horses, Quantum Mechanics, and the Establishment Clause

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History, Subordination, Social Change – Cincinnati

The University of Cincinnati College of Law hosts the inaugural symposium of the Freedom Center Journal, Friday, Oct. 26, 2007. Reconstructions: Historical Consciousness and Critical Transformation “will explore the uses of history to understand ongoing subordination and to craft strategies for social change.”

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History, Subordination, Social Change – Cincinnati

The University of Cincinnati College of Law hosts the inaugural symposium of the Freedom Center Journal, Friday, Oct. 26, 2007. Reconstructions: Historical Consciousness and Critical Transformation “will explore the uses of history to understand ongoing subordination and to craft strategies for social change.”

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Multidistrict Litigation – New Orleans

The Tulane Law Review is planning a symposium, The Problem of Multidistrict Litigation, February 15-16, 2008, in New Orleans.

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Multidistrict Litigation – New Orleans

The Tulane Law Review is planning a symposium, The Problem of Multidistrict Litigation, February 15-16, 2008, in New Orleans.

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Choice of Law – Durham, NC

The Tulane Law Review and the Duke Center for International and Comparative Law present The European Choice-of-Law Revolution — A Chance for the United States? February 9, 2008, Durham, NC.

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Choice of Law – Durham, NC

The Tulane Law Review and the Duke Center for International and Comparative Law present The European Choice-of-Law Revolution — A Chance for the United States? February 9, 2008, Durham, NC.

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October 11, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Mike Meurer (Boston Law), Pirates or Victims: Who Gets Sued for Patent Infringement?

Brooklyn

Alice Ristroph (Utah Law), The Dog’s Distinction: Good Intentions as a Constitutional Standard

Columbia Tax Colloquium

Mitchell Kane (Virginia Law), Corporate Taxation and International Charter Competition

Fordham

Robert Lloyd Howse (Fordham Law)

Georgetown

Michael Doran (Georgetown Law), Intergenerational Equity in Fiscal Policy Reform

Iowa

George Thomas (Rutgers-Newark)

Loyola

Douglas Kysar (Cornell Law), Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity

Minnesota Public Law

Daniel Ernst (Georgetown Law), The Politics of Administrative Law: New York, 1938

Northwestern Law & Economics

Edward Iacobucci (Toronto Law), An Empirical Examination of the Governance Choices of Income Trusts

NYU Legal, Political and Social Philosophy

Moshe Halbertal (NYU Law), Self-Transcendence, Violence and the Political Order

Pittsburgh

Dorothy Roberts (Northwestern University), The Racial Geography of Child Welfare: Toward a New Research Paradigm

Saint Louis

Leandra Lederman (Indiana-Bloomington), Taxing Virtual Worlds

SMU

Lily L. Batchelder (NYU Law), The Superiority of an Inheritance Tax over an Estate Tax and No Wealth Transfer Tax

Vanderbilt

Chris Serkin (Brooklyn Law)

Washington

Hyung-Nam Kim (Kyungsung Law), The Reverse Double Standard of Judicial Review in Korea

Yale Law and Economics

Abraham Bell (Fordham Law), Private Takings

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Media Trials – Durham, NC

Duke Law School just held “The Court of Public Opinion,” a conference on the practice and ethics of trying cases in the media, Sept. 28-29, 2007. Duke press release, Oct. 4, 2007.

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Media Trials – Durham, NC

Duke Law School just held “The Court of Public Opinion,” a conference on the practice and ethics of trying cases in the media, Sept. 28-29, 2007. Duke press release, Oct. 4, 2007.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 11th, 2007 | CONFERENCES, Criminal Law | no comments

Call for Papers Deadline: International Junior Scholars Conference – Palo Alto, CA

Harvard Law School and Stanford Law Schoolare launching

the legal academy’s first international junior faculty conference. The annual conference is aimed at identifying and bringing the next generation of leaders in legal scholarship from across the world together at the Harvard and Stanford campuses.

A distinguished panel of some twenty senior legal scholars from across the world will select the papers to be presented and will serve as commentators at the conference itself. Papers may be on any legally relevant subject, and may utilize any legally relevant approach — quantitative or qualitative, sociological, anthropological, historical, or economic — on the role and function of law and legal systems in the modern world, or in the past.

The first conference will be at Stanford in October 2008. The first call for papers deadline is Jan. 4, 2008.

Source: Harvard press release, Oct. 10, 2007.

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International Junior Scholars Conference – Palo Alto, CA

Harvard Law School and Stanford Law Schoolare launching

the legal academy’s first international junior faculty conference. The annual conference is aimed at identifying and bringing the next generation of leaders in legal scholarship from across the world together at the Harvard and Stanford campuses.

A distinguished panel of some twenty senior legal scholars from across the world will select the papers to be presented and will serve as commentators at the conference itself. Papers may be on any legally relevant subject, and may utilize any legally relevant approach — quantitative or qualitative, sociological, anthropological, historical, or economic — on the role and function of law and legal systems in the modern world, or in the past.

The first conference will be at Stanford in October 2008. The first call for papers deadline is Jan. 4, 2008.

Source: Harvard press release, Oct. 10, 2007.

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Public Interest Celebration – Cambridge, MA

From March 13 through March 15, Harvard Law School will host A Celebration of Public Interest. The public interest celebration will be the first of its kind at HLS and we think the first of its kind in the nation. The Celebration will bring together graduates from across the years and across practice settings who are engaged in public service activities.

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Public Interest Celebration – Cambridge, MA

From March 13 through March 15, Harvard Law School will host A Celebration of Public Interest. The public interest celebration will be the first of its kind at HLS and we think the first of its kind in the nation. The Celebration will bring together graduates from across the years and across practice settings who are engaged in public service activities.

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Call for Papers Deadline: Future of Securities Fraud Litigation

The Future of Securities Fraud Litigation Conference, Feb. 8, 2008, Claremont, CA.

ORGANIZERS: RAND Corporation, Financial Economics Institute, Claremont McKenna College
CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: Nov. 1, 2007.
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The Future of Securities Fraud Litigation – Claremont, CA

The Future of Securities Fraud Litigation Conference, Feb. 8, 2008, Claremont, CA.

ORGANIZERS: RAND Corporation, Financial Economics Institute, Claremont McKenna College
CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: Nov. 1, 2007.
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Family Law Exceptionalism – Dighton, MA

The Harvard Law School Program on Law and Social Thought, the HLS European Law Research Center and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law are in the midst of a multi-year project in comparative family law entitled “Up Against Family Law Exceptionalism.”

This series commenced at a conference held at HLS in February 2007. In 2007-08, they will conduct three workshops focusing on special topics within our broader inquiry: Part One, FLE in Colonization/Decolonization/Modernization, was Sept. 14-15, 2007, in Dighton, MA; Part Two, FLE and the Economic Family, will be Feb. 8-9, 2008, at the University of Toronto; and Part Three, Genealogies of “The Family” and “Family Law”, at a date and location to be announced.

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Family Law Exceptionalism – Toronto

The Harvard Law School Program on Law and Social Thought, the HLS European Law Research Center and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law are in the midst of a multi-year project in comparative family law entitled “Up Against Family Law Exceptionalism.”

This series commenced at a conference held at HLS in February 2007. In 2007-08, they will conduct three workshops focusing on special topics within our broader inquiry: Part One, FLE in Colonization/Decolonization/Modernization, was Sept. 14-15, 2007, in Dighton, MA; Part Two, FLE and the Economic Family, will be Feb. 8-9, 2008, at the University of Toronto; and Part Three, Genealogies of “The Family” and “Family Law”, at a date and location to be announced.

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Family Law Exceptionalism – Toronto

The Harvard Law School Program on Law and Social Thought, the HLS European Law Research Center and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law are in the midst of a multi-year project in comparative family law entitled “Up Against Family Law Exceptionalism.”

This series commenced at a conference held at HLS in February 2007. In 2007-08, they will conduct three workshops focusing on special topics within our broader inquiry: Part One, FLE in Colonization/Decolonization/Modernization, was Sept. 14-15, 2007, in Dighton, MA; Part Two, FLE and the Economic Family, will be Feb. 8-9, 2008, at the University of Toronto; and Part Three, Genealogies of “The Family” and “Family Law”, at a date and location to be announced.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 11th, 2007 | Comparative Law, CONFERENCES, Family Law | no comments

Seventh Circuit – Carbondale, IL

Southern Illinois University School of Law announces a conference on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

The conference will be held on February 22 and 23, 2008, at the law school. The focus of the conference will be on the process by which the court decides cases, including its relations with other courts. Topics to be covered include aspects of the judges’ decision-making; the court’s caseload and how it is handled; the way in which circuit precedent is developed and announced; and the court’s relationship to district courts and the Supreme Court. This will be one of the first academic conferences to examine the workings of this important and influential court. Presenters and commentators will include several judges of the court, district judges, and political science and law professors.

There will be no registration fee for the conference, but advance registration will be required. The conference is offered for CLE credit, which will require a fee. Those who wish information about conference logistics should contact Ms. Bonnie Miller at SIU-C Law School (bmiller[at]siu.edu; 618-453-8730).

Update (Feb. 25, 2008): Southern Illinois had to cancel this conference because of an ice storm.

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Seventh Circuit – Carbondale, IL

Southern Illinois University School of Law announces a conference on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

The conference will be held on February 22 and 23, 2008, at the law school. The focus of the conference will be on the process by which the court decides cases, including its relations with other courts. Topics to be covered include aspects of the judges’ decision-making; the court’s caseload and how it is handled; the way in which circuit precedent is developed and announced; and the court’s relationship to district courts and the Supreme Court. This will be one of the first academic conferences to examine the workings of this important and influential court. Presenters and commentators will include several judges of the court, district judges, and political science and law professors.

There will be no registration fee for the conference, but advance registration will be required. The conference is offered for CLE credit, which will require a fee. Those who wish information about conference logistics should contact Ms. Bonnie Miller at SIU-C Law School (bmiller[at]siu.edu; 618-453-8730).

Update (Feb. 25, 2008): Southern Illinois had to cancel this conference because of an ice storm.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 10th, 2007 | Civil Procedure, CONFERENCES, Empirical Legal Studies | no comments

October 11, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Mike Meurer (Boston Law), Pirates or Victims: Who Gets Sued for Patent Infringement?

Brooklyn

Alice Ristroph (Utah Law), The Dog’s Distinction: Good Intentions as a Constitutional Standard

Columbia Tax Colloquium

Mitchell Kane (Virginia Law), Corporate Taxation and International Charter Competition

Fordham

Robert Lloyd Howse (Fordham Law)

Georgetown

Michael Doran (Georgetown Law), Intergenerational Equity in Fiscal Policy Reform

Iowa

George Thomas (Rutgers-Newark)

Loyola

Douglas Kysar (Cornell Law), Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity

Minnesota Public Law

Daniel Ernst (Georgetown Law), The Politics of Administrative Law: New York, 1938

Northwestern Law & Economics

Edward Iacobucci (Toronto Law), An Empirical Examination of the Governance Choices of Income Trusts

NYU Legal, Political and Social Philosophy

Moshe Halbertal (NYU Law), Self-Transcendence, Violence and the Political Order

Pittsburgh

Dorothy Roberts (Northwestern University), The Racial Geography of Child Welfare: Toward a New Research Paradigm

Saint Louis

Leandra Lederman (Indiana-Bloomington), Taxing Virtual Worlds

SMU

Lily L. Batchelder (NYU Law), The Superiority of an Inheritance Tax over an Estate Tax and No Wealth Transfer Tax

Vanderbilt

Chris Serkin (Brooklyn Law)

Washington

Hyung-Nam Kim (Kyungsung Law), The Reverse Double Standard of Judicial Review in Korea

Yale Law and Economics

Abraham Bell (Fordham Law), Private Takings

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October 10, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Connecticut

Gillian Metzger (Columbia Law), Federalism and Administrative Law

Emory

David Bederman (Emory Law), Shipwrecks, Treasure and Pirates: Old Law for New Booty

Fordham

Geoffrey R. Stone (Chicago Law), Sexing the Constitution

Hofstra

Andrew Schepard (Hofstra Law), The Uniform Collaborative Law Act- From Private Association to Public Policy?

NYU Legal History

Renee Lettow Lerner (George Washington Law), Disenchantment with Democracy: Reforming Judicial Elections during and after the Civil War

Oregon Environmental and Natural Resources Law

Nancy Shurtz (Oregon Law), Mother Earth says: “I’m Cool with Carbon Taxes”

SMU Law and Citizenship

Teemu Ruskola (Emory Law), Law’s Empire: The Legal Construction of “America” in the “District of China”

Washburn

Bill Merkel (Washburn Law), Unprincipled Originalism and the Right to Arms

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IP – Cambridge, MA

Fellows of the RSA in the US hosts IP and the Trend towards Openness, Wed. Oct. 10, 2007.

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IP – Cambridge, MA

Fellows of the RSA in the US hosts IP and the Trend towards Openness, Wed. Oct. 10, 2007.

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From Strawberries to Software: Immigration to Silicon Valley

From Strawberries to Software:  Immigration to Silicon Valley
San Jose State University, College of Social Sciences
April 10-11, 2008

This conference will bring together academic and community stakeholders to discuss multiple facets of immigration, make policy recommendations, and foster on-going collaboration.  Community stakeholders who are interested in sharing “best practices” in working with immigrant communities or models of immigrant integration are particularly encouraged to participate.  They may do so by submitting a summary of their best practices and/or models. 

The conference will feature a Keynote Address by Dr. Annalee Saxenian, Dean and Professor of the School of Information and Profesoor in the Department of of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

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From Strawberries to Software: Immigration to Silicon Valley

From Strawberries to Software:  Immigration to Silicon Valley
San Jose State University, College of Social Sciences
April 10-11, 2008

This conference will bring together academic and community stakeholders to discuss multiple facets of immigration, make policy recommendations, and foster on-going collaboration.  Community stakeholders who are interested in sharing “best practices” in working with immigrant communities or models of immigrant integration are particularly encouraged to participate.  They may do so by submitting a summary of their best practices and/or models. 

The conference will feature a Keynote Address by Dr. Annalee Saxenian, Dean and Professor of the School of Information and Profesoor in the Department of of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.  The deadline for submitting an abstract/summary is October 26, 2007.

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From Strawberries to Software: Immigration to Silicon Valley

From Strawberries to Software:  Immigration to Silicon Valley
San Jose State University, College of Social Sciences
April 10-11, 2008

This conference will bring together academic and community stakeholders to discuss multiple facets of immigration, make policy recommendations, and foster on-going collaboration.  Community stakeholders who are interested in sharing “best practices” in working with immigrant communities or models of immigrant integration are particularly encouraged to participate.  They may do so by submitting a summary of their best practices and/or models. 

The conference will feature a Keynote Address by Dr. Annalee Saxenian, Dean and Professor of the School of Information and Professor in the Department of of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.  The deadline for submitting an abstract/summary is October 26, 2007.

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 9th, 2007 | CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES, Immigration Law | no comments

2007 Annual Meeting of Midwestern Law and Economics Association: Day Two

2007 Annual Meeting of Midwestern Law and Economics Association at the University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota

9:05 – 10:20 a.m.  Torts

Nuno Garoupa & Tom Ulen, The Economics of Activity Levels in Tort Liability and Regulation
Nicholas Georgakopoulos, Tort in Agency:  Transaction Costs
David Hyman, The Effect of Caps on Non-Economic Damages:  Evidence from Texas Medical Malpractice Cases

10:30 – 11:45 a.m.  Environmental Law and Property

Daniel Cole, The Stern Review and Its Critics
Lee Ann Fennell, Homeownership 2.0

1:00 – 2:15 p.m.  Arbitration, Litigation, and Judging

Christopher Drahozal & Quentin Wittrock, Is There a Flight from Arbitration?
Stephen Ware, Merit Selection and Judicial Nominating Commissions
Rafael Pardo, Anatomy of an Adversary Proceeding

2:30 – 3:45 p.m.  Corporate and Securities Law

Frederick Tung, The New Death of (Corporate) Contract:  Creeping Fiduciary Duty for Creditors
Alexander Robbins, The Rule 10b-5(1) Loophole:  An Empirical Study
Antony Page, Revising the Short-Swing Trading Rules for the 21st Century

4:00 – 5:15 p.m.  Corporate Law and Contracts

Peter Oh, Piercing Versus Lifting
Matthew Bodie, Workers, Information, and Corporate Combinations
Fan Zhang, Dynamic Contract Breach

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2007 Annual Meeting of Midwestern Law and Economics Association: Day One

2007 Annual Meeting of Midwestern Law and Economics Association at the University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota

9:05 – 10:20 a.m.  Regulation and Governance 

Dale Thompson, Optimal Federalism Across Many Dimensions
Guiseppe Dar-Mattiacci, Multi-Level Governance and Risk Diversification
Jonathan Remy Nash, Environmental Regulation Through the Looking-Glass

10:30 – 11:45 a.m.  Procedure and Family Law

Scott Moss, O Brave New World That Has Such Creatures Evidence:  An Economic Analysis of Courts’ Misguided Rules on Discovery of Digital Evidence
Margaret Brinig, The One Size Fits All Family
Vincy Fon & Francesco Paris, Plaintiff in Default:  An Economic Analysis

1:00 – 2:15 p.m.  Behavioral Law and Economics:  Theory

Peter Huang, Law and Human Flourishing:  Fostering Happiness, Learning, and Mindfulness
Jeffrey Lipshaw, Aboutness, Thingness, Models, and Understanding
Jeff Stake & Michael Alexeev, Who Responds to U.S. News & World Report’s Law School Rankings?

2:30 – 3:45 p.m.  Tax and Finance

Bradley Borden, The Aggregate-Plus Theory of Partnership Taxation
Elizabeth Brown, A Preliminary Look at Regulatory Structures for Financial Services
Joseph Warburton, Business Trusts Versus Corporations:  Evidence from the British Mutual Fund Industry

4:00 – 5:15 p.m.  Law and Medicine

Robert Katz, Gimme Some Skin:  When Tissue Banks Compete for Transplant Tissue, Who Wins?
Robert Mikos, Supervising Criminal Activity:  The Case of State Medical Marijuana Exemptions
Elizabeth Weeks, Right to Experimental Treatmen

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October 9, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law and Economics

Benjamin A. Olken (Harvard Society of Fellows), The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh

Georgetown

Lawrence Solum (Illinois Law), Virtue Jurisprudence

Harvard Economics

Steven Shavell (Harvard Law), Moral Duty to Obey the Law

Harvard Internet

Drew Clark (Center for Public Integrity), Media Tracker, FCC Watch, and the Politics of Telecom, Media and Technology

Marquette

Lee Harris (Memphis Law), Cap-for-Performance: Improving Healthcare Quality Through Tort Reform

New York Law School

Marshall E. Tracht (Hofstra Law), Sale-Leaseback Recharacterization in Bankruptcy

NYU Law, Economics, and Politics

Ian Ayres (Yale Law), Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk

UC Berkeley Law, Business and the Economy

Carmen Chang (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati), Challanges and Opportunities for American Lawyers in China or with Chinese Companies

UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations

Doug Lichtman (UCLA Law), Building Book Search Right

Vanderbilt

Todd Zywicki (George Mason Law)

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Immigrants, Vigilantes, and Immigration Reform: Civil Rights in the 21st Century

Immigrants, Vigilantes, and Immigration Reform:  Civil Rights in the 21st Century
October 19, 2007
SMU Dedman School of Law
Dallas, Texas

At the outset of the 21st Century, United States immigration law and policy has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. In recent years we have witnessed among other things, calls for dramatically restricting immigration in light of an alleged threat to American national identity, increased border law enforcement associated with thousands of deaths on the U.S./Mexican border and vigilante activity, special immigration laws and legal procedures enacted for the “war on terror,” and mass marches protesting draconian immigration reform in cities across the United States, including Dallas, Texas. The conference seeks to deal with these issues.

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Immigrants, Vigilantes, and Immigration Reform: Civil Rights in the 21st Century

Immigrants, Vigilantes, and Immigration Reform:  Civil Rights in the 21st Century
October 19, 2007
SMU Dedman School of Law
Dallas, Texas

At the outset of the 21st Century, United States immigration law and policy has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. In recent years we have witnessed among other things, calls for dramatically restricting immigration in light of an alleged threat to American national identity, increased border law enforcement associated with thousands of deaths on the U.S./Mexican border and vigilante activity, special immigration laws and legal procedures enacted for the “war on terror,” and mass marches protesting draconian immigration reform in cities across the United States, including Dallas, Texas. The conference seeks to deal with these issues.

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October 8, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Columbia Law and Economics

Lior J. Strahilevitz (Chicago Law), Reputation Nation: Law in the Era of Ubiquitous Personal Information

Florida State

Royal Gardner (Stetson Law), “No Net Loss”: Prospects for Long-Term Success of Wetland Mitigation Sites

Hofstra

Laura Appleman (Willamette Law), Taking Back the Jury Trial Right

Loyola Tax Policy

Larry Zelenak (Duke Law), The Federal Retail Sales Tax That Wasn’t: An Actual History and an Alternative History

Michigan International Law

Tang Xin (Tsinghua Law), New Progress of Corporate Governance in China

Temple

Lawrence E. Mitchell (George Washington Law), The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry

Texas

Daniel Bonilla (Los Andes Law), Culturally Diverse Black Communities in Colombia

Texas Human Rights and Justice

Daniel Bonilla (Los Andes Law), Legal Pluralism and Extra-Legal Property: Class, Culture and Law in Bogota

UCLA Faculty Mondays

Dean Spade (UCLA Law), Documenting Gender: Identity Incoherence and Rulemaking

Vanderbilt

William Bratton (Georgetown Law)

George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon), The Economist as Therapist: Methodological Ramifications of ‘Light’ Paternalism

Washington

Lester Mazor (Hampshire Law), Topic: Lecture on the work of Italian legal and political thinker Georgia Agamben

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October 10, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Connecticut

Gillian Metzger (Columbia Law), Federalism and Administrative Law

Emory

David Bederman (Emory Law), Shipwrecks, Treasure and Pirates: Old Law for New Booty

Fordham

Geoffrey R. Stone (Chicago Law), Sexing the Constitution

Hofstra

Andrew Schepard (Hofstra Law), The Uniform Collaborative Law Act- From Private Association to Public Policy?

NYU Legal History

Renee Lettow Lerner (George Washington Law), Disenchantment with Democracy: Reforming Judicial Elections during and after the Civil War

Oregon Environmental and Natural Resources Law

Nancy Shurtz (Oregon Law), Mother Earth says: “I’m Cool with Carbon Taxes”

SMU Law and Citizenship

Teemu Ruskola (Emory Law), Law’s Empire: The Legal Construction of “America” in the “District of China”

Washburn

Bill Merkel (Washburn Law),  Unprincipled Originalism and the Right to Arms

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 7th, 2007 | Administrative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, EVENTS, Jurisprudence, Legal History, Property Law, Uncategorized | no comments

October 9, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law and Economics

Benjamin A. Olken (Harvard Society of Fellows), The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh

Georgetown

Lawrence Solum (Illinois Law), Virtue Jurisprudence

Harvard Economics

Steven Shavell (Havard Law), Moral Duty to Obey the Law

Harvard Internet

Drew Clark (Center for Public Integrity), Media Tracker, FCC Watch, and the Politics of Telecom, Media and Technology

Marquette

Lee Harris (Memphis Law), Cap-for-Performance: Improving Healthcare Quality Through Tort Reform

New York Law School

Marshall E. Tracht (Hofstra Law), Sale-Leaseback Recharacterization in Bankruptcy

NYU Law, Economics, and Politics

Ian Ayres (Yale Law), Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk

UC Berkeley Law, Business and the Economy

Carmen Chang (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati), Challanges and Opportunities for American Lawyers in China or with Chinese Companies

UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations

Doug Lichtman (UCLA Law), Building Book Search Right

Vanderbilt

Todd Zywicki (George Mason Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 7th, 2007 | Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Contract Law, EVENTS, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Jurisprudence, Law and Economics, Law and Technology, Securities Law, Tort Law, Uncategorized | no comments

October 8, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Columbia Law and Economics

Lior J. Strahilevitz (Chicago Law), Reputation Nation: Law in the Era of Ubiquitous Personal Information

Florida State

Royal Gardner (Stetson Law), “No Net Loss”: Prospects for Long-Term Success of Wetland Mitigation Sites

Hofstra

Laura Appleman (Willamette Law), Taking Back the Jury Trial Right

Loyola Tax Policy

Larry Zelenak (Duke Law), The Federal Retail Sales Tax That Wasn’t: An Actual History and an Alternative History

Michigan International Law

Tang Xin (Tsinghua Law), New Progress of Corporate Governance in China

Temple

Lawrence E. Mitchell (George Washington Law), The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry

Texas

Daniel Bonilla (Los Andes Law), Culturally Diverse Black Communities in Colombia

Texas Human Rights and Justice

Daniel Bonilla (Los Andes Law), Legal Pluralism and Extra-Legal Property: Class, Culture and Law in Bogota

UCLA Faculty Mondays

Dean Spade (UCLA Law), Documenting Gender: Identity Incoherence and Rulemaking

Vanderbilt

William Bratton (Georgetown Law)

George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon), The Economist as Therapist: Methodological Ramifications of ‘Light’ Paternalism

Washington

Lester Mazor (Hampshire Law), Topic: Lecture on the work of Italian legal and political thinker Georgia Agamben

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 7th, 2007 | Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, EVENTS, International Law, Law and Economics, Law and Gender, Law and Race, Law and Society, Tax Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Call for Papers Deadline – Supreme Court

The Tulsa Law Review invites you to submit an article for our Annual Supreme Court Review Issue that will feature Guest Editor Erwin Chemerinsky.

PAPER REQUIREMENTS:
Papers should address any Supreme Court decision from the 2006-2007 term, and within that range, any issue(s) within that decision. Alternatively, papers may discuss an issue that spans multiple Supreme Court cases that were decided within the same term. Papers must not be previously published or accepted for publication.

DEADLINE:
Papers must be received electronically by January 15, 2008.

INQUIRY OR SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Please direct all inquiries or e-mail your submissions to:

CONTACT: Tulsa Law Review
attn: Kelly Merkle
Email: kelly-merkle[at]utulsa.edu

with “Supreme Court Review” noted in the subject line of your message.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 5th, 2007 | EVENTS | no comments

Call for Papers – Supreme Court

The Tulsa Law Review invites you to submit an article for our Annual Supreme Court Review Issue that will feature Guest Editor Erwin Chemerinsky.

PAPER REQUIREMENTS:
Papers should address any Supreme Court decision from the 2006-2007 term, and within that range, any issue(s) within that decision. Alternatively, papers may discuss an issue that spans multiple Supreme Court cases that were decided within the same term. Papers must not be previously published or accepted for publication.

DEADLINE:
Papers must be received electronically by January 15, 2008.

INQUIRY OR SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Please direct all inquiries or e-mail your submissions to:

CONTACT: Tulsa Law Review
attn: Kelly Merkle
Email: kelly-merkle[at]utulsa.edu

with “Supreme Court Review” noted in the subject line of your message.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 5th, 2007 | CALLS FOR PAPERS, Constitutional Law | no comments

October 5, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Alabama

Michele Goodwin (Minnesota Law), Biotechnology: The New Empire

Cincinnati

Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), Law School Rankings:  Past, Present, and Future

Drake Constitional Law Center

Emma Coleman Jordan (Georgetown), Wealth and Inequality: Thinking about Communities and Individualism

Duke

Zephyr R. Teachout (Duke Law)

Duke Global Law

Susan Rose-Ackerman (Yale Law), Treaties and National Security

Georgetown Law and Economics

Tom Hazlett (George Mason Law), Natural Experiments in U.S. Broadband Regulation

Iowa

Christina Bohannan (Iowa Law), Copyright Harm and Fair Use

New York Law School South Africa Reading Group

Adam Dodek (Toronto Law), The Springbok, the Maple Leaf, and the Eagle: South African-Canadian Constitutional Relationships in a World of Old, New, and Middle-Aged Constitutions

Northern Kentucky

Wolfram Karl (Salzburg Law), Fundamental Rights and Terrorism–The European Experience

Southwestern

Kate Bohl (Stetson Law), Generations of X and Y Take Legal Writing: Practical Strategies for Class Management

Texas

Robert Mikos (UC Davis), Regulating under the Influence of the Controlled Substances Act

UCLA Faculty Fridays

Curtis Milhaupt (Columbia Law), Reputational Sanctions in China’s Security Market

USC

Nicole Garnett (Notre Dame Law), Suburbs as Exit, Suburbs as Entrance

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 5th, 2007 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property, International Law, Law and Economics, Law and Science, Legal Education, Legal Research & Writing, National Security Law, Securities Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Call for Papers Deadline: Global Legal Skills – Monterrey, Mexico

Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey hosts Global Legal Skills Conference III, Feb. 28-March 1, 2008. Details here.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 4th, 2007 | EVENTS | no comments

Global Legal Skills – Monterrey, Mexico

Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey hosts Global Legal Skills Conference III, Feb. 28-March 1, 2008. Details here.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 4th, 2007 | EVENTS | no comments

Call for Papers Deadline: Feminist Legal Theory — Baltimore

The University of Baltimore School of Law is planning a Feminist Legal Theory and Feminisms Conference. The conference will begin with a keynote address by Gloria Steinem the evening of Thursday, March 6, 2008. On Friday, March 7, 2008, the conference will continue with a day of presentations by legal academics, practitioners and activists regarding current scholarship and/or legal work that explore the evolution of feminism and feminist legal theory and its application to current legal theory and practice. The call for papers deadline is October 15, 2007. Details here.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 4th, 2007 | EVENTS | no comments

Feminist Legal Theory — Baltimore

The University of Baltimore School of Law is planning a feminist legal theory and feminisms conference, Can You Hear Us Now? How New Feminist Legal Theories and Feminisms Are Changing Society. The conference will begin with a keynote address by Gloria Steinem the evening of Thursday, March 6, 2008 Friday, March 7, 2008. On Friday, March 7, 2008, the conference will continue with a day of presentations by legal academics, practitioners and activists regarding current scholarship and/or legal work that explore the evolution of feminism and feminist legal theory and its application to current legal theory and practice. The call for papers deadline is October 15, 2007. Details here.

Update (2/20/08): Steinem’s address has been moved from March 6 to March 7.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 4th, 2007 | EVENTS | no comments

Feminist Legal Theory — Baltimore

The University of Baltimore School of Law is planning a feminist legal theory and feminisms conference, Can You Hear Us Now? How New Feminist Legal Theories and Feminisms Are Changing Society. The conference will begin with a keynote address by Gloria Steinem the evening of Thursday, March 6, 2008 Friday, March 7, 2008. On Friday, March 7, 2008, the conference will continue with a day of presentations by legal academics, practitioners and activists regarding current scholarship and/or legal work that explore the evolution of feminism and feminist legal theory and its application to current legal theory and practice. The call for papers deadline is October 15, 2007.

Update (2/20/08): Steinem’s address has been moved from March 6 to March 7. Details after the jump. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 4th, 2007 | CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES, Jurisprudence, Law and Gender | 2 comments

October 5, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Alabama

Michele Goodwin (Minnesota Law), Biotechnology: The New Empire

Cincinnati

Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), Law School Rankings:  Past, Present, and Future

Drake Constitional Law Center

Emma Coleman Jordan (Georgetown), Wealth and Inequality: Thinking about Communities and Individualism

Duke

Zephyr R. Teachout (Duke Law)

Duke Global Law

Susan Rose-Ackerman (Yale Law), Treaties and National Security

Georgetown Law and Economics

Tom Hazlett (George Mason Law), Natural Experiments in U.S. Broadband Regulation

Iowa

Christina Bohannan (Iowa Law), Copyright Harm and Fair Use

New York Law School South Africa Reading Group

Adam Dodek (Toronto Law), The Springbok, the Maple Leaf, and the Eagle: South African-Canadian Constitutional Relationships in a World of Old, New, and Middle-Aged Constitutions

Northern Kentucky

Wolfram Karl (Salzburg Law), Fundamental Rights and Terrorism–The European Experience

Southwestern

Kate Bohl (Stetson Law), Generations of X and Y Take Legal Writing: Practical Strategies for Class Management

Texas

Robert Mikos (UC Davis), Regulating under the Influence of the Controlled Substances Act

UCLA Faculty Fridays

Curtis Milhaupt (Columbia Law), Reputational Sanctions in China’s Security Market

USC

Nicole Garnett (Notre Dame Law), Suburbs as Exit, Suburbs as Entrance

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 4th, 2007 | CONFERENCES, Constitutional Law, EVENTS, Intellectual Property, International Law, Law and Economics, Law and Science, Law and Technology, Legal Education, Legal Research & Writing, National Security Law, Securities Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Evil, Law & the State: Issues in State Power & Violence

Call for Papers
Evil, Law & the State:  Issues in State Power & Violence
March 7-9, 2008
Salzburg, Austria

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference will explore issues surrounding evil and law, with a focus on state power and violence. Perspectives are sought from those engaged in any field relevant to the study of law and legal culture: anthropology, criminology, cultural studies, government/politics, history, legal studies, literature, philosophy, psychology, religion/theology, and sociology, as well as those working in civil rights, human rights, prison services, politics and government (including NGOs), psychiatry, healthcare, and other areas.

Jump to full post

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 4th, 2007 | EVENTS | no comments

Evil, Law & the State: Issues in State Power & Violence

Call for Papers
Evil, Law & the State:  Issues in State Power & Violence
March 7-9, 2008
Salzburg, Austria

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference will explore issues surrounding evil and law, with a focus on state power and violence. Perspectives are sought from those engaged in any field relevant to the study of law and legal culture: anthropology, criminology, cultural studies, government/politics, history, legal studies, literature, philosophy, psychology, religion/theology, and sociology, as well as those working in civil rights, human rights, prison services, politics and government (including NGOs), psychiatry, healthcare, and other areas.

Jump to full post

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 4th, 2007 | CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES, Criminal Law, Jurisprudence, Law and Humanities, Law and Society, Legal Ethics | no comments

October 4, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Leora Bilsky (Tel Aviv Law), “Speaking Through The Mask”: Israeli Arabs and the Changing Faces of Israeli Citizenship

Brooklyn

George Conk (Brooklyn Law), A New Tort Code Emerges

Columbia

William Simon (Columbia Law), The Market for Bad Legal Advice: Academic Professional Responsibility Consulting as an Example

Columbia Tax Colloquium

David Weisbach (Chicago Law), A Welfarist Approach to Disabilities

Florida State

Daniel Rodriguez (Texas Law), State Constitutionalism and the Scope of Judicial Review

Georgetown

Louis M. Seidman (Georgetown Law), Book Panel on Silence and Freedom with commentary by Professors Seidman, Sanford Levinson (Texas Law), and Lawrence Solum (Illinois Law)

Iowa

Sharon Davies (Ohio State Law), The Killing of Father James E. Coyle–A Search for Justice in 1921 Birmingham, Alabama

Michigan State

Edward Cheng (Brooklyn Law), The Clinical-Statistical Controversy in Law

Minnesota Public Law

Richard Banks (Stanford Law), Race Consciousness, Color Blindness and Antidiscrimination Doctrine

NYU Legal, Political and Social Philosophy

Leslie Greene (Oxford Law), Being Tolerated

Ohio Northern

Susan Rose-Ackerman (Yale Law), Corruption and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Ohio State

Edward Lee (Ohio State Law), Freedom of the Press 2.0

Richmond

Jim Gibson (Richmond Law), Reasonableness

Saint Louis

Childress Lecture Faculty Colloquium

SMU

Jenia Turner (SMU Law), Defense Perspectives on the Tension Between Politics and Law in International Criminal Trials

Vanderbilt

Lori Ringhand (Kentucky Law), “I’m Sorry, I Can’t Answer That”: Positive Scholarship and the Supreme Court Confirmation Process

Washburn

Michael Hunter Schwartz (Washburn Law), How the Best Law Teachers Plan Their Classes

Yale Legal Theory Workshop

William Galston (Maryland Public Policy), Realism in Political Theory

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 3rd, 2007 | Civil Rights Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, EVENTS, International Law, Jurisprudence, Law and Race, Law and Society, Legal Education, Legal History, Tort Law, Uncategorized | no comments

October 4, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Leora Bilsky (Tel Aviv Law), “Speaking Through The Mask”: Israeli Arabs and the Changing Faces of Israeli Citizenship

Brooklyn

George Conk (Brooklyn Law), A New Tort Code Emerges

Columbia

William Simon (Columbia Law), The Market for Bad Legal Advice: Academic Professional Responsibility Consulting as an Example

Columbia Tax Colloquium

David Weisbach (Chicago Law), A Welfarist Approach to Disabilities

Florida State

Daniel Rodriguez (Texas Law), State Constitutionalism and the Scope of Judicial Review

Georgetown

Louis M. Seidman (Georgetown Law), Book Panel on Silence and Freedom with commentary by Professors Seidman, Sanford Levinson (Texas Law), and Lawrence Solum (Illinois Law)

Iowa

Sharon Davies (Ohio State Law), The Killing of Father James E. Coyle–A Search for Justice in 1921 Birmingham, Alabama

Michigan State

Edward Cheng (Brooklyn Law), The Clinical-Statistical Controversy in Law

Minnesota Public Law

Richard Banks (Stanford Law), Race Consciousness, Color Blindness and Antidiscrimination Doctrine

NYU Legal, Political and Social Philosophy

Leslie Greene (Oxford Law), Being Tolerated

Ohio Northern

Susan Rose-Ackerman (Yale Law), Corruption and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Ohio State

Edward Lee (Ohio State Law), Freedom of the Press 2.0

Richmond

Jim Gibson (Richmond Law), Reasonableness

Saint Louis

Childress Lecture Faculty Colloquium