| October 26, 2007 |
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.”
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.”
| February 15, 2008 | to | February 16, 2008 |
The Tulane Law Review is planning a symposium, The Problem of Multidistrict Litigation, February 15-16, 2008, in New Orleans.
The Tulane Law Review is planning a symposium, The Problem of Multidistrict Litigation, February 15-16, 2008, in New Orleans.
| February 9, 2008 |
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.
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.
Mike Meurer (Boston Law), Pirates or Victims: Who Gets Sued for Patent Infringement?
Alice Ristroph (Utah Law), The Dog’s Distinction: Good Intentions as a Constitutional Standard
Mitchell Kane (Virginia Law), Corporate Taxation and International Charter Competition
Michael Doran (Georgetown Law), Intergenerational Equity in Fiscal Policy Reform
Douglas Kysar (Cornell Law), Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity
Daniel Ernst (Georgetown Law), The Politics of Administrative Law: New York, 1938
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
Dorothy Roberts (Northwestern University), The Racial Geography of Child Welfare: Toward a New Research Paradigm
Leandra Lederman (Indiana-Bloomington), Taxing Virtual Worlds
Lily L. Batchelder (NYU Law), The Superiority of an Inheritance Tax over an Estate Tax and No Wealth Transfer Tax
Washington
Hyung-Nam Kim (Kyungsung Law), The Reverse Double Standard of Judicial Review in Korea
| September 28, 2007 | to | September 29, 2007 |
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.
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.
| January 4, 2008 |
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.
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.
| March 13, 2008 | to | March 15, 2008 |
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.
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.
| November 1, 2007 |
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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| February 8, 2008 |
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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| September 14, 2007 | to | September 15, 2007 |
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.
| February 8, 2008 | to | February 9, 2008 |
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.
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.
| February 22, 2008 | to | February 23, 2008 |
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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