| October 16, 2007 |
The Houston Business and Tax Law Journal is soliciting papers for a symposium issue on Patenting Tax Strategies. Submissions are due October 2, 2007. At an evening program on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007, two speakers will discuss the issue — a patent expert opposing the practice, and a tax expert arguing for it.
Thanks: Tax Prof Blog.
| October 20, 2007 |
American Indian Law and Literature
Fourth Annual Indigenous Law Conference
Michigan State University College of Law
October 18 & 20, 2007
9:00-10:30 a.m. Raymond Kiogima, Larry Plamondon, Hon. JoAnne Gasco & Margaret Noori, “Kinship as Action: Anishinaabe Relationships from a Linguistic Perspective”
10:45-12:15 p.m. Bruce Duthu, “Bear Narratives: Blending Cultural and Legal Voices in Defense of the Bear”
Melissa Tatum, “The Role of Narrative in Defining Cultural Property”
Kirsten Carlson, “Unresolved Disputes: Narratives in the Transformation and Processing of Persistent Claims”
12:30-2:00 p.m. David Carlson, The Pragmatics of Literary Nationalism
Amelia Katanski, “Writing the Living Law: American Indian Literature as Legal Narrative”
Jennifer Camden & Kate Fort, “Cooper’s The Pioneers & Johnson v. M’Intosh: Legal Fictions of 1823″
Stuart Rieke & Monique Vondall-Rieke, “Perceptions of Restorative Justice: A Winter’s Tale, A Jury of Her Peers, and Shamengwa”
| October 18, 2007 |
American Indian Law and Literature
Fourth Annual Indigenous Law Conference
Michigan State University College of Law
October 18 & 20, 2007
9:00-10:30 a.m. Kristen Carpenter, “The Actual State of Things”: American Indian Legal Fictions and Truths
Renee Knake, “How Lawyers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas: A study of James Welch’s The Indian Lawyer
Wenona Single, “Rebellious Judging”
10:45-12:15 p.m. Margaret Montoya & Christine Zuni Cruz, “Narrative Braids: Performing Racial Literacy”
Larry Cata Backer, “Nostalgia Written in Blood: The Noble Savage and Latin American Political Identity”
Jo Carrillo, “Legal Culture, Communicative Circuits and Symbols”
1:30-3:00 p.m. Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, “Crossover”
Carla Pratt, “The Construction of Indian Identity: As an Africanless Identity in Indian Law and Literature”
Frank Pommersheim, “Poetry and Law: What Is the Relationship Exactly?”
3:15-5:00 p.m. Gordon Henry, “Trying Skins: Courtoom Scenes in American Indian Fiction”
Matthew Fletcher, “Red Leaves and the Dirty Ground: The Cannibalism of Law and Economics”
Sonia Katyal, “Iconic Intersectionality”
7:00 p.m. Keynote: Chairman Frank Ettawageshik
American Indian Law and Literature
Fourth Annual Indigenous Law Conference
Michigan State University College of Law
October 18 & 20, 2007
| October 27, 2007 |
International Law Weekend 2007 by the American Branch of the International Law Association at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York in New York, New York on October 25-27, 2007.
International Law Weekend 2007 by the American Branch of the International Law Association at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York in New York, New York on October 25-27, 2007.
Stefano DellaVigna (Cal-Berkeley Economics), Detecting Illegal Arms Trade
Heidi Li Feldman (Georgetown Law), On Certain Social Practices: Lies, Deception, and Disclosure
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler (NYU Law), Are “Pay Now, Terms Later” Contracts Worse for Buyers? Evidence from Software License Agreements
Mark Umbreit (Minnesota Social Work), Restorative Justice and Human Rights: From the Impact of Capital Punishment on Healing of Family Survivors to Truth & Reconciliation Process in Liberia
Linda Jellum (Mercer Law), Which is to be Master: The Judiciary or the Legislature?
| October 16, 2007 |
Stefano DellaVigna (Cal-Berkeley Economics), Detecting Illegal Arms Trade
Heidi Li Feldman (Georgetown Law), On Certain Social Practices: Lies, Deception, and Disclosure
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler (NYU Law), Are “Pay Now, Terms Later” Contracts Worse for Buyers? Evidence from Software License Agreements
Mark Umbreit (Minnesota Social Work), Restorative Justice and Human Rights: From the Impact of Capital Punishment on Healing of Family Survivors to Truth & Reconciliation Process in Liberia
Linda Jellum (Mercer Law), Which is to be Master: The Judiciary or the Legislature?
| 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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