Cincinnati
Bernadette Atuahene (Chicago-Kent Law), The Legitimacy of Property Rights
Connecticut
Robert L. Rabin (Stanford Law), The Case for Specially Compensating Victims of Terrorists Acts: An Assessment
Drexel
Joan Heminway (Tennessee Law), Does Sarbanes-Oxley Foster the Existence of Ethical Executive Role Models in the Corporation?
Georgetown Law and Economics
Abe Wickelgren (Northwestern Law)
Illinois
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology to Foster Active Student Learning
Northern Kentucky
John Bickers (Northern Kentucky Law), Of Nonhorses, Quantum Mechanics, and the Establishment Clause
Texas
Jens Dammann (Texas Law), Majority Freezeouts
UCLA Faculty Fridays
Hiroshi Motomura (North Carolina Law), Undocumented Immigrants or Illegal Aliens? A Roadmap 25 years after Plyler v. Doe
USC
Jonathan Lear (Chicago Philosophy), What is it to be Deprived of a World?
Vanderbilt
Michelle Boardman (George Mason Law). Actuarial Data in Insurance Interpretation: Factual Intent Behind Contractual Words
Virginia
Curtis Bradley (Duke Law), The Story of Ex parte Milligan: Military Trials, Enemy Combatants, and Congressional Authorization
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 30th, 2007
| Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, Immigration Law, Insurance Law, Law and Economics, National Security Law, Property Law, Uncategorized |
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Michigan State University College of Law hosts the 5th Annual MSU Indigenous Law Conference: Forty Years of the Indian Civil Rights Act – History, Tribal Law, and Modern Challenges, Oct. 10-11, 2008. Confirmed speakers already include Catharine MacKinnon, Gloria Valencia-Weber, Carole Goldberg, Duane Champagne, Stacy Leeds, Kristen Carpenter, Angela Riley, and others. The proposal deadline for the call for papers is Feb. 1, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 29th, 2007
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| October 10, 2008 | to | October 11, 2008 |
Michigan State University College of Law hosts the 5th Annual MSU Indigenous Law Conference: Forty Years of the Indian Civil Rights Act – History, Tribal Law, and Modern Challenges, Oct. 10-11, 2008. Confirmed speakers already include Catharine MacKinnon, Gloria Valencia-Weber, Carole Goldberg, Duane Champagne, Stacy Leeds, Kristen Carpenter, Angela Riley, and others. The proposal deadline for the call for papers is Feb. 1, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 29th, 2007
| EVENTS |
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Michigan State University College of Law hosts the 5th Annual MSU Indigenous Law Conference: Forty Years of the Indian Civil Rights Act – History, Tribal Law, and Modern Challenges, Oct. 10-11, 2008. Confirmed speakers already include Catharine MacKinnon, Gloria Valencia-Weber, Carole Goldberg, Duane Champagne, Stacy Leeds, Kristen Carpenter, Angela Riley, and others. The proposal deadline for the call for papers is Feb. 1, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 29th, 2007
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES, Indian Law |
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Boston
Laura Beny (Michigan Law)
Columbia
Ben Liebman (Columbia Law) & Curtis Milhaupt (Columbia Law), Reputational Sanctions in China’s Securities Market
Columbia Tax Colloquium
Deborah Schenk (NYU Law), The Political Economy of Tax Reform: The Case for Retaining the AMT
Florida State
David Schmidtz (Arizona Philosophy), The History of Liberty
Minnesota Public Law
Sanford Levinson (Texas Law), Three Types of Constitutional Crises
Northwestern Law and Economics
David Arthur Skeel (Penn Law), The Future of the Global Law Firm
Stanford Law and Economics
Anup Malani (Chicago Law), Valuing Laws as Local Amenities
Vanderbilt
Michael Kang (Emory Law), Race and Democratic Contestation
Yale Legal Theory
Bonnie Honig (Northwestern Political Science), Antigone’s Anachronism? Homeric Mourning in Democratic Athens
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 29th, 2007
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, EVENTS, International Law, Law and Economics, Law and Race, Legal History, Securities Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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Boston
Laura Beny (Michigan Law)
Columbia
Ben Liebman (Columbia Law) & Curtis Milhaupt (Columbia Law), Reputational Sanctions in China’s Securities Market
Columbia Tax Colloquium
Deborah Schenk (NYU Law), The Political Economy of Tax Reform: The Case for Retaining the AMT
Florida State
David Schmidtz (Arizona Philosophy), The History of Liberty
Minnesota Public Law
Sanford Levinson (Texas Law), Three Types of Constitutional Crises
Northwestern Law and Economics
David Arthur Skeel (Penn Law), The Future of the Global Law Firm
Stanford Law and Economics
Anup Malani (Chicago Law), Valuing Laws as Local Amenities
Vanderbilt
Michael Kang (Emory Law), Race and Democratic Contestation
Yale Legal Theory
Bonnie Honig (Northwestern Political Science), Antigone’s Anachronism? Homeric Mourning in Democratic Athens
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 29th, 2007
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, Law and Economics, Law and Race, Legal History, Securities Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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Chicago-Kent
Michael A. Scodro (Solicitor General of Illinois) & William Marshall (Solicitor General of Ohio) & Barry Sullivan (Jenner & Block), Apellate Litigation in the States
Chicago-Kent Legal History
Christopher Schmidt (American Bar Foundation), Civil Disobedience and the Constitution: The Case of the Sit-ins
CUNY
Wendy Espeland (Northwestern Sociology), Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds
NYU Legal History
Jane Burbank (NYU History), The Middle Ground of Law: Litigantion, Supervision, and Governance in Late Imperial Russia
UCLA Williams Institute
Brad Sears (UCLA Law), HIV Discrimination in Dental Care
Villanova
Gerry Korngold (Case Western Reserve Law)
Washington
Bob Gomulkiewicz (Washington Law), The Federal Circuit’s Licensing Law Jurisprudence: Its Nature and Influence
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 28th, 2007
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, EVENTS, Health Law, Jurisprudence, Law and Race, Law and Sexuality, Legal History, Uncategorized |
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Chicago-Kent
Michael A. Scodro (Solicitor General of Illinois) & William Marshall (Solicitor General of Ohio) & Barry Sullivan (Jenner & Block), Apellate Litigation in the States
Chicago-Kent Legal History
Christopher Schmidt (American Bar Foundation), Civil Disobedience and the Constitution: The Case of the Sit-ins
CUNY
Wendy Espeland (Northwestern Sociology), Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds
NYU Legal History
Jane Burbank (NYU History), The Middle Ground of Law: Litigantion, Supervision, and Governance in Late Imperial Russia
UCLA Williams Institute
Brad Sears (UCLA Law), HIV Discrimination in Dental Care
Villanova
Gerry Korngold (Case Western Reserve Law)
Washington
Bob Gomulkiewicz (Washington Law), The Federal Circuit’s Licensing Law Jurisprudence: Its Nature and Influence
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 28th, 2007
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Jurisprudence, Law and Race, Law and Sexuality, Legal History, Uncategorized |
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On January 26, 2008, the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, will host the annual Ohio Legal Scholarship Workshop. The Workshop is open to junior faculty (those who have been teaching for eight years or fewer) at the nine Ohio law schools and the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University. The Workshop provides a supportive environment for individuals to present their current work and receive constructive feedback from their colleagues at neighboring schools. We also have an opportunity for participants to give short presentations on ideas for future scholarship that have not yet developed into a paper. If you are interested in presenting your article, serving as a facilitator, or sharing your ideas for future work, please contact Annecoos Wiersema at Wiersema.1|at|osu.edu by December 7, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 27th, 2007
| EVENTS |
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On January 26, 2008, the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, will host the annual Ohio Legal Scholarship Workshop. The Workshop is open to junior faculty (those who have been teaching for eight years or fewer) at the nine Ohio law schools and the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University. The Workshop provides a supportive environment for individuals to present their current work and receive constructive feedback from their colleagues at neighboring schools. We also have an opportunity for participants to give short presentations on ideas for future scholarship that have not yet developed into a paper. If you are interested in presenting your article, serving as a facilitator, or sharing your ideas for future work, please contact Annecoos Wiersema at Wiersema.1|at|osu.edu by December 7, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 27th, 2007
| EVENTS |
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On January 26, 2008, the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, will host the annual Ohio Legal Scholarship Workshop. The Workshop is open to junior faculty (those who have been teaching for eight years or fewer) at the nine Ohio law schools and the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University. The Workshop provides a supportive environment for individuals to present their current work and receive constructive feedback from their colleagues at neighboring schools. We also have an opportunity for participants to give short presentations on ideas for future scholarship that have not yet developed into a paper. If you are interested in presenting your article, serving as a facilitator, or sharing your ideas for future work, please contact Annecoos Wiersema at Wiersema.1|at|osu.edu by December 7, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 27th, 2007
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES, JUNIOR SCHOLARS |
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Chicago Law and Economics
Howard F. Chang (Penn Law), Optimal Taxation, Working Women, and the Disadvantages of Immigration Restriction as a Policy to Improve Income Distribution
Harvard Economics
Jonathan Baron (Penn), How Intuitions Conflict with the Economic Theory of Deterrence
New York Law School
David Johnson (NYLS) & Beth Simone Noveck (NYLS) & Richard K. Shewin (NYLS), New “Best Practices” in Law Teaching
Notre Dame
Carter Snead (Notre Dame Law), Neuroimaging and the “Complexity” of Capital Punishment
Vanderbilt
Melissa Waters (Washington & Lee Law), Diagonal Dialogue: What Skidmore Deference Can Teach Us About Giving ‘Respectful Consideration’ to International Court
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 27th, 2007
| Administrative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Immigration Law, International Law, Law and Economics, Law and Gender, Law and Technology, Tax Law |
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Cincinnati
Bernadette Atuahene (Chicago-Kent Law), The Legitimacy of Property Rights
Connecticut
Robert L. Rabin (Stanford Law), The Case for Specially Compensating Victims of Terrorists Acts: An Assessment
Drexel
Joan Heminway (Tennessee Law), Does Sarbanes-Oxley Foster the Existence of Ethical Executive Role Models in the Corporation?
Georgetown Law and Economics
Abe Wickelgren (Northwestern Law)
Illinois
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology to Foster Active Student Learning
Northern Kentucky
John Bickers (Northern Kentucky Law), Of Nonhorses, Quantum Mechanics, and the Establishment Clause
Texas
Jens Dammann (Texas Law), Majority Freezeouts
UCLA Faculty Fridays
Hiroshi Motomura (North Carolina Law), Undocumented Immigrants or Illegal Aliens? A Roadmap 25 years after Plyler v. Doe
USC
Jonathan Lear (Chicago Philosophy), What is it to be Deprived of a World?
Vanderbilt
Michelle Boardman (George Mason Law), Actuarial Data in Insurance Interpretation: Factual Intent Behind Contractual Words
Virginia
Curtis Bradley (Duke Law), The Story of Ex parte Milligan: Military Trials, Enemy Combatants, and Congressional Authorization
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 26th, 2007
| Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, EVENTS, Immigration Law, Insurance Law, Law and Economics, National Security Law, Property Law |
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Chicago Law and Economics
Howard F. Chang (Penn Law), Optimal Taxation, Working Women, and the Disadvantages of Immigration Restriction as a Policy to Improve Income Distribution
Harvard Economics
Jonathan Baron (Penn), How Intuitions Conflict with the Economic Theory of Deterrence
New York Law School
David Johnson (NYLS) & Beth Simone Noveck (NYLS) & Richard K. Shewin (NYLS), New “Best Practices” in Law Teaching
Notre Dame
Carter Snead (Notre Dame Law), Neuroimaging and the “Complexity” of Capital Punishment
Vanderbilt
Melissa Waters (Washington & Lee Law), Diagonal Dialogue: What Skidmore Deference Can Teach Us About Giving ‘Respectful Consideration’ to International Court
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 26th, 2007
| Administrative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Criminal Law, EVENTS, Immigration Law, International Law, Law and Economics, Law and Gender, Law and Technology, Tax Law |
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Chicago Law and Philosophy
Claire Finkelstein (Penn Law)
Columbia Law and Economics
John McGinnis (Northwestern Law), The Desirable Constitution and the Case for Originalism
Hastings
Adam Scales (Washington & Lee Law), Following Form: Corporate Succession and Liability Insurance
Loyola Tax
Benjamin M. Leff (Vinson & Elkins), “Sit Down and Count the Cost”: Valuing the Speech of Charities in Order to Constitutionally Enforce the 501(c)(3) Campaign Intervention Ban
UCLA Faculty Mondays
Rick Sander (UCLA Law), The Impact of Prop 209 on California Undergraduates
Queen’s Law
Honourable Marshall Rothstein (Supreme Court of Canada), Law and Economics in Legal Practice
Vanderbilt
Victor Fleischer (Illinois Law), Regulatory Craftsman
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 26th, 2007
| Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, EVENTS, Law and Economics, Uncategorized |
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Chicago Law and Philosophy
Claire Finkelstein (Penn Law)
Columbia Law and Economics
John McGinnis (Northwestern Law), The Desirable Constitution and the Case for Originalism
Hastings
Adam Scales (Washington & Lee Law), Following Form: Corporate Succession and Liability Insurance
Loyola Tax
Benjamin M. Leff (Vinson & Elkins), “Sit Down and Count the Cost”: Valuing the Speech of Charities in Order to Constitutionally Enforce the 501(c)(3) Campaign Intervention Ban
UCLA Faculty Mondays
Rick Sander (UCLA Law), The Impact of Prop 209 on California Undergraduates
Queen’s Law
Honourable Marshall Rothstein (Supreme Court of Canada), Law and Economics in Legal Practice
Vanderbilt
Victor Fleischer (Illinois Law), Regulatory Craftsman
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 26th, 2007
| Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, Law and Economics, Uncategorized |
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The Yale Journal of International Law will host its 6th Annual Young Scholars’ Conference March 1, 2008. It is soliciting papers from current students. The deadline for submission is Dec. 10, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 21st, 2007
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The Yale Journal of International Law will host its 6th Annual Young Scholars’ Conference March 1, 2008. It is soliciting papers from current students. The deadline for submission is Dec. 10, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 21st, 2007
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The Michigan State University College of Law Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program hosts the MSU College of Law Scholars Workshop, Feb. 15-16, 2008, in East Lansing, MI. “The Scholars Workshop offers an opportunity for junior scholars (untenured and recently tenured) working in the ares of intellectual property, communications, and cyberlaw to receive detailed feedback on their work from senior scholars. Articles will be chosen prior to the Workshop through a blind-review selection process.” The submission deadline is Dec. 7, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 21st, 2007
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| February 15, 2008 | to | February 16, 2008 |
The Michigan State University College of Law Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program hosts the MSU College of Law Scholars Workshop, Feb. 15-16, 2008, in East Lansing, MI. “The Scholars Workshop offers an opportunity for junior scholars (untenured and recently tenured) working in the ares of intellectual property, communications, and cyberlaw to receive detailed feedback on their work from senior scholars. Articles will be chosen prior to the Workshop through a blind-review selection process.” The submission deadline is Dec. 7, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 21st, 2007
| EVENTS |
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The Michigan State University College of Law Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program hosts the MSU College of Law Scholars Workshop, Feb. 15-16, 2008, in East Lansing, MI. “The Scholars Workshop offers an opportunity for junior scholars (untenured and recently tenured) working in the ares of intellectual property, communications, and cyberlaw to receive detailed feedback on their work from senior scholars. Articles will be chosen prior to the Workshop through a blind-review selection process.” The submission deadline is Dec. 7, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 21st, 2007
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES, Intellectual Property, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Technology |
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The Third Annual Comparative Law Works in Progress Workshop will be May 14-16, 2008, at the University of Michigan Law School, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is sponsored by: American Society of Comparative Law, University of Michigan Law School, University of Illinois College of Law, and Princeton University, Program for Law and Public Affairs.
The call for papers deadline is Feb. 15, 2008. Details after the jump. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 21st, 2007
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, EVENTS |
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| May 14, 2008 5:00 pm | to | May 16, 2008 5:00 pm |
The Third Annual Comparative Law Works in Progress Workshop will be May 14-16, 2008, at the University of Michigan Law School, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is sponsored by: American Society of Comparative Law, University of Michigan Law School, University of Illinois College of Law, and Princeton University, Program for Law and Public Affairs.
The call for papers deadline is Feb. 15, 2008. Details after the jump. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 21st, 2007
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The Third Annual Comparative Law Works in Progress Workshop will be May 14-16, 2008, at the University of Michigan Law School, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is sponsored by: American Society of Comparative Law, University of Michigan Law School, University of Illinois College of Law, and Princeton University, Program for Law and Public Affairs.
The call for papers deadline is Feb. 15, 2008. Details after the jump. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 21st, 2007
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Comparative Law, CONFERENCES, JUNIOR SCHOLARS |
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Chicago-Kent
David S. Rudstein (Chicago-Kent Law), Retrying the Acquitted in England
Harvard Law and Economics
Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law), Public and Private Firm Compensation Compared: Evidence from Japanese Tax Returns
New York Law School
Anita S. Krishnakumar (St. John’s Law), Representation Reinforcement and the Court-Congress Dialogue
NYU Law, Economics, and Politics
Debra Satz (Stanford Philosophy), The Moral Limits of Markets: Why Some Things Should Not be for Sale
USC China Law
Jeffrey Lehman (Cornell Law), China and the Rule of Law: Do Law Schools Matter?
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 20th, 2007
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Comparative Law, Criminal Law, EVENTS, Law and Economics, Legal Education, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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The UC Berkeley School of Law and its Kadish Center for Morality, Law & Public Affairs co-host ISUS X: The Tenth Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Sept. 11-14, 2008. “Scholars representing all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences are encouraged to participate.”
The call for papers deadline is Feb. 18, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 20th, 2007
| EVENTS |
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| September 11, 2008 | to | September 14, 2008 |
The UC Berkeley School of Law and its Kadish Center for Morality, Law & Public Affairs co-host ISUS X: The Tenth Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Sept. 11-14, 2008. “Scholars representing all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences are encouraged to participate.”
The call for papers deadline is Feb. 18, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 20th, 2007
| EVENTS |
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Chicago-Kent
David S. Rudstein (Chicago-Kent Law), Retrying the Acquitted in England
Harvard Law and Economics
Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law), Public and Private Firm Compensation Compared: Evidence from Japanese Tax Returns
New York Law School
Anita S. Krishnakumar (St. John’s Law), Representation Reinforcement and the Court-Congress Dialogue
NYU Law, Economics, and Politics
Debra Satz (Stanford Philosophy), The Moral Limits of Markets: Why Some Things Should Not be for Sale
USC China Law
Jeffrey Lehman (Cornell Law), China and the Rule of Law: Do Law Schools Matter?
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 20th, 2007
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Comparative Law, Criminal Law, Law and Economics, Legal Education, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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Columbia Law and Economics
Luigi Zingales (Chicago Business), Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
Loyola Tax Policy
Neil Buchanan (George Washington Law), What Do We Owe Future Generations: Framing the Issues, with an Application to Budget Policy
Michigan International Law
John B. Bellinger (U.S. Dep’t of State), The United States and International law: Three Current Controversies
Seton Hall
Vince Blasi (Columbia Law), Madison and the Sedition Act of 1798
Temple
Alice Abreu (Temple Law), Contracting the Definition of Income: The Role of Administrability as an Independent Tax Policy Value
Texas Human Rights
Patrick Macklem (Toronto Law), What is International Human Rights Law? Three Applications of a Distributive Account
Toledo
Danny Bogden (McDonald Carano Wilson), Starting Over: An Insider View of the Attorney General Firings
UCLA Faculty Mondays
Saul Friedlander (UCLA History), Towards an Integrated History of the Holocaust
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 19th, 2007
| Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, International Law, Law and Economics, Law and Humanities, Legal History, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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Columbia Law and Economics
Luigi Zingales (Chicago Business), Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
Loyola Tax Policy
Neil Buchanan (George Washington Law), What Do We Owe Future Generations: Framing the Issues, with an Application to Budget Policy
Michigan International Law
John B. Bellinger (U.S. Dep’t of State), The United States and International law: Three Current Controversies
Seton Hall
Vince Blasi (Columbia Law), Madison and the Sedition Act of 1798
Temple
Alice Abreu (Temple Law), Contracting the Definition of Income: The Role of Administrability as an Independent Tax Policy Value
Texas Human Rights
Patrick Macklem (Toronto Law), What is International Human Rights Law? Three Applications of a Distributive Account
Toledo
Danny Bogden (McDonald Carano Wilson), Starting Over: An Insider View of the Attorney General Firings
UCLA Faculty Mondays
Saul Friedlander (UCLA History), Towards an Integrated History of the Holocaust
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 19th, 2007
| Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Law and Economics, Law and Humanities, Legal History, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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Cincinnati
Tom Eisele (Cincinnati Law), Participating in Disillusion and Renewel
Duke International and Comparative Law
Lawrence Rosen (Princeton Anthropology), The Cultural Defense Plea in the U.S. and the U.K.
Georgetown Law and Economics
April Klein (NYU Business)
McGill Legal Theory
Steven Bank (UCLA Law), War and Taxes: Is there an American Tradition of Wartime Fiscal Sacrifice
Pittsburgh
Marjorie Cohn (Thomas Jefferson Law) & Michael Lewis (Ohio Northern Law), Debating the Status of Detainees in the “War on Terror”
Stetson
Antonio Orti Vallejo (Granada Law)
Texas
Mark Greenberg (UCLA Law), The Standard Picture and its Discontents
UCLA Faculty Fridays
Lior Stahilevitz (Chicago Law), Reputation Nation: Law in an Era of Ubiquitous Personal Information
USC
Anne Dailey (UConn Law), Imagination and Choice
Vanderbilt
David Klein (Virginia Law)
Villanova
Holning Lau (Hofstra Law), Formalism: From Racial Integration to Same Sex Marriage
Virginia
Jody Kraus (Virginia Law) and Robert Scott (Columbia Law), Contract Design and Contractual Intent
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 16th, 2007
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Comparative Law, Contract Law, EVENTS, Family Law, Law and Sexuality, Law and Society, National Security Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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Cincinnati
Tom Eisele (Cincinnati Law), Participating in Disillusion and Renewel
Duke International and Comparative Law
Lawrence Rosen (Princeton Anthropology), The Cultural Defense Plea in the U.S. and the U.K.
Georgetown Law and Economics
April Klein (NYU Business)
McGill Legal Theory
Steven Bank (UCLA Law), War and Taxes: Is There an American Tradition of Wartime Fiscal Sacrifice?
Pittsburgh
Marjorie Cohn (Thomas Jefferson Law) & Michael Lewis (Ohio Northern Law), Debating the Status of Detainees in the “War on Terror”
Stetson
Antonio Orti Vallejo (Granada Law)
Texas
Mark Greenberg (UCLA Law), The Standard Picture and its Discontents
UCLA Faculty Fridays
Lior Stahilevitz (Chicago Law), Reputation Nation: Law in an Era of Ubiquitous Personal Information
USC
Anne Dailey (UConn Law), Imagination and Choice
Vanderbilt
David Klein (Virginia Law)
Villanova
Holning Lau (Hofstra Law), Formalism: From Racial Integration to Same Sex Marriage
Virginia
Jody Kraus (Virginia Law) and Robert Scott (Columbia Law), Contract Design and Contractual Intent
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 16th, 2007
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Comparative Law, Contract Law, Family Law, Law and Sexuality, National Security Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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Boston
David Walker (Boston Law), Book/Tax Conformity and Equity Compensation
Boston College Legal History
Gerald Leonard (Boston Law), Rethinking Dred Scott
Brooklyn
Robert C. Hockett (Cornell), Winning Trade-Liberalization More Stakeholders by Making More Stockholders: A Global Stock-Ownership Plan
Columbia
Jesse Fried (UC Berkeley), Deviations from Contractual Priority in the Sale of VC-Backed Firms
Columbia Tax Colloquium
Edward McCaffery (USC Law), An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Consumption Taxes
Florida State
Erin O’Hara (Vanderbilt Law), The Law Market
Georgetown
Stephen Shute (Birmingham Law), Self-Control in the Modern Provocation Defense
Marquette
Lea Vandervelde (Iowa Law)
NYU Legal, Political and Social Philosophy
John Dunn (Cambridge Political Science), Capitalist Democracy: Elective Affinity or Beguiling Illusion? and Disambiguating Democracy
Stanford Law and Economics
Jonathan Macey (Yale Law), The Problem of Corporate Governance
Vanderbilt
Adam Feibelman (North Carolina Law)
Virginia Junior Faculty Forum
Nathan Oman (William & Mary Law), The Thirteenth Amendment and Specific Performance
Washington
Jane Winn (Washington Law), Globalization and the Reinvention of Contract Law
Yale Law and Economics
Dean Lueck (Arizona Economics), The Rectangular Survery versus Metes and Bounds: Systematic and Unsystematic Land Demarcation
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 15th, 2007
| Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Contract Law, Criminal Law, EVENTS, Law and Economics, Legal History, Securities Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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Boston
David Walker (Boston Law), Book/Tax Conformity and Equity Compensation
Boston College Legal History
Gerald Leonard (Boston Law), Rethinking Dred Scott
Brooklyn
Robert C. Hockett (Cornell), Winning Trade-Liberalization More Stakeholders by Making More Stockholders: A Global Stock-Ownership Plan
Columbia
Jesse Fried (UC Berkeley), Deviations from Contractual Priority in the Sale of VC-Backed Firms
Columbia Tax Colloquium
Edward McCaffery (USC Law), An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Consumption Taxes
Florida State
Erin O’Hara (Vanderbilt Law), The Law Market
Georgetown
Stephen Shute (Birmingham Law), Self-Control in the Modern Provocation Defense
Marquette
Lea Vandervelde (Iowa Law)
NYU Legal, Political and Social Philosophy
John Dunn (Cambridge Political Science), Capitalist Democracy: Elective Affinity or Beguiling Illusion? and Disambiguating Democracy
Pittsburgh
Larry Kramer (Stanford Law)
Stanford Law and Economics
Jonathan Macey (Yale Law), The Problem of Corporate Governance
Vanderbilt
Adam Feibelman (North Carolina Law)
Virginia Junior Faculty Forum
Nathan Oman (William & Mary Law), The Thirteenth Amendment and Specific Performance
Washington
Jane Winn (Washington Law), Globalization and the Reinvention of Contract Law
Yale Law and Economics
Dean Lueck (Arizona Economics), The Rectangular Survery versus Metes and Bounds: Systematic and Unsystematic Land Demarcation
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 15th, 2007
| Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Law and Economics, Legal History, Securities Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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Chicago-Kent
Rhonda Wasserman (Pittsburgh Law), Are You Still My Mother? Interstate Recognition of Adoptions by Gays and Lesbians
Connecticut
Virginia Hettinger (UConn Political Science), Games Institutions Play: The Supreme Court, Congress, and the Seperation of Powers
Emory
Holning Lau (Hofstra Law)
Iowa
Jacqueline Lipton (Case Western Reserve Law)
NYU Legal History
David Golove (NYU Law), The Independence of the Admiralty Courts in British and American Law
Penn Tax
Kirk Stark (UCLA Law), Rich States, Poor States: American Federalism and the Politics of Fiscal Equaliziation
Roger Williams Public Interest
Teny Gross (Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence), Preventing Gang Violence and Promoting Nonviolence in Providence
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 14th, 2007
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Comparative Law, EVENTS, Family Law, Law and Politics, Law and Sexuality, Law and Society, Legal History, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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Chicago-Kent
Rhonda Wasserman (Pittsburgh Law), Are You Still My Mother? Interstate Recognition of Adoptions by Gays and Lesbians
Connecticut
Virginia Hettinger (UConn Political Science), Games Institutions Play: The Supreme Court, Congress, and the Seperation of Powers
Emory
Holning Lau (Hofstra Law)
Iowa
Jacqueline Lipton (Case Western Reserve Law)
New York Law School
Karen Brown (GW Law), Can Cross-Border Distribution Serve the Carribean Region?
NYU Legal History
David Golove (NYU Law), The Independence of the Admiralty Courts in British and American Law
Penn Tax
Kirk Stark (UCLA Law), Rich States, Poor States: American Federalism and the Politics of Fiscal Equaliziation
Roger Williams Public Interest
Teny Gross (Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence), Preventing Gang Violence and Promoting Nonviolence in Providence
Washington
Walter Walsh (Washington Law), Riot or Assembly? The Place of Orange Day Parades in the Historical Discourse of Rights
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 14th, 2007
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Comparative Law, Family Law, Law and Politics, Law and Sexuality, Law and Society, Legal History, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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Chicago-Kent
Bernadette Atuahene (Chicago-Kent Law), The Legitimacy Equilibrium in Property Law
Duke International and Comparative Law
Joseph Lookofsky (Copenhagen Law), Desperately Seeking Subsidiarity: Danish Private Law in Scandinavian, European & Global Context
Georgetown
Amanda Leiter (Georgetown Law), Inaccurate Precision: The Dangers of Quantitative Standing Inquiry
Harvard Internet and Society
Gary Kebbel (Knight Foundation)
New York Law School
Jethro K. Lieberman (New York Law School), Tribeca Square Press: What Shall We Publish
Harvard Law and Economics
Jonathan Klick (Florida State Law), The Effect of Contract Regulation: The Case of Franchising
Pittsburgh
Robert Bartlett (Georgia Law)
Marquette
Robert Adler (Utah Law), The Implications of Climate Change for Water Law
UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations
Suzanne Scotchmer (UC Berkeley Economics), Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 13th, 2007
| Administrative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Comparative Law, Contract Law, Environmental Law, EVENTS, Intellectual Property, Law and Economics, Law and Technology, Property Law, Uncategorized |
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Chicago-Kent
Bernadette Atuahene (Chicago-Kent Law), The Legitimacy Equilibrium in Property Law
Duke International and Comparative Law
Joseph Lookofsky (Copenhagen Law), Desperately Seeking Subsidiarity: Danish Private Law in Scandinavian, European & Global Context
Georgetown
Amanda Leiter (Georgetown Law), Inaccurate Precision: The Dangers of Quantitative Standing Inquiry
Harvard Internet and Society
Gary Kebbel (Knight Foundation)
New York Law School
Jethro K. Lieberman (New York Law School), Tribeca Square Press: What Shall We Publish
Harvard Law and Economics
Jonathan Klick (Florida State Law), The Effect of Contract Regulation: The Case of Franchising
Pittsburgh
Robert Bartlett (Georgia Law), Reexamining the Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on Firms’ Going-Private Decisions
Marquette
Robert Adler (Utah Law), The Implications of Climate Change for Water Law
UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations
Suzanne Scotchmer (UC Berkeley Economics), Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 13th, 2007
| Administrative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Comparative Law, Contract Law, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property, Law and Economics, Law and Technology, Property Law, Uncategorized |
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Georgia State
Sara Beale (Duke Law)
Loyola Tax Policy
Adam Rosenzweig (Washington University at St. Louis), Risk & Derivatives: Does the Income Tax Subsidize Hedge Funds
Minnesota Public Law
Amy Wax (Penn Law), Engines of Inequality: Class, Race, and Family Structure
San Diego
Adam Mossoff (Michigan State Law), Patents, Property and Property Theory
Seton Hall
Mary Ann Case (Chicago Law)
Temple
Mark Heywood (AIDS Law Project), Politics and Poor Global Health
Vanderbilt
James Cox (Duke Law)
Virginia Law and Economics
Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law), Optimal Political Control of the Bureaucracy
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 12th, 2007
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Georgia State
Sara Beale (Duke Law)
Loyola Tax Policy
Adam Rosenzweig (Washington University at St. Louis), Risk & Derivatives: Does the Income Tax Subsidize Hedge Funds
Minnesota Public Law
Amy Wax (Penn Law), Engines of Inequality: Class, Race, and Family Structure
San Diego
Adam Mossoff (Michigan State Law), Patents, Property and Property Theory
Seton Hall
Mary Ann Case (Chicago Law)
Temple
Mark Heywood (AIDS Law Project), Politics and Poor Global Health
Vanderbilt
James Cox (Duke Law)
Virginia Law and Economics
Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law), Optimal Political Control of the Bureaucracy
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 12th, 2007
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| April 5, 2008 | to | April 6, 2008 |
The College of New Jersey will host the 35th Annual Conference on Value Inquiry: Values and Medicine, April 5-6, 2008, in Ewing, NJ. The call for papers deadline is Jan. 14, 2008.
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The Journal of Tort Law invites submissions of original and unpublished manuscripts for its second volume, to be published in 2008. See the call for papers here.
Thanks: Legal Theory Blog.
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Day Two of the Second Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies at NYU Law School in NY, NY. (Authors, Papers, and Discussants after the jump.)
9:00-11:00 Law & Politics II
Christopher Berry & Jacob Gersen, The Fiscal Consequences of Electoral Institutions (Discussant: Eric Helland)
Delia Bailey & Jonathan Katz, Re-Assessing the Impact of Majority-Minority Districts on Congressional Elections (Discussant: Nate Persily)
Anna Bassi, Rebecca Morton & Jessica Trounstine, How the Delegation of Voting Rights Affects the Measurement of Voting Behavior (Discussant: Matt McCubbins)
9:00-11:00 Corporate IV
John Armour, Simon Deakin, Prabirjit Sarkar, Mathias Siems, Ajit Singh, Shareholder Protection & Stock Market Development: Test of Legal Origins Hypothesis (Discussant: Howell Jackson)
Simi Kedia & Shivaram Rajgopal, Neighborhood Matters: The Impact of Location on Broad Based Stock Option Plans (Discussant: Scott Schaefer)
James Brown, Dino Falaschetti & Michael Orlando, Auditor Independence and Earnings Quality: Evidence for Market Discipline vs. Sarbanes-Oxley Proscriptions (Discussant: April Klein)
9:00-11:00 Finance, Bankruptcy & Corporate Governance II
Vedran Capkun, Bankruptcy Resolution: Duration, APR Violations, DIP Financing & Delaware (Discussant: Richard Hynes)
Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Frederick Tung & Xue Wang, Law, Agency Costs and Project Finance: An Empirical Analysis (Discussant: Kose John)
Marina Martynova & Luc Renneboog, A Corporate Governance Index: Convergence and Diversity of National Corporate Governance Regulations (Discussant: Hannes Wagner)
9:00-11:00 Medical Malpractice
Michelle Mello & David Studdert, Deconstructing Negligence: The Role of Individual and System Factors in Causing Medical Injuries (Discussant: John Rolph)
David Hyman, Bernard Black, Charles Silver & William Sage, The Effect of Caps on Non-Economic Damages on Jury Verdicts, Post-Verdict Payouts, and Settlements: Evidence from Texas Medical Malpractice Cases (Discussant: Cathy Sharkey)
Ronen Avraham & Alvaro Bustos, The Unexpected Effect of Tort Reform: Do Caps Delay Settlements? (Discussant: Kathy Spier)
9:00-11:00 Race and Sex
Joseph Price & Justin Wolfers, Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees (Discussant: Ian Ayres)
Amit Gandi, Matthew L. Spitzer & Simon Wilkie, Cheap Sex and the Changing Economics of Broadcast Television (Discussant: Dan Crane)
Katerina Linos, What Accounts for the Development of Employment Anti-Discrimination Laws Across OECD Countries? (Discussant: Kim Yuracko)
9:00-11:00 Property & Environment I
Hilary Sigman, Environmental Liability and Redevelopment of Old Industrial Land (Discussant: Richard Stewart)
Vicki Been, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Michael Gedal & Ioan Voicu, The Impact of Supportive Housing on Surrounding Neighborhoods (Discussant: Jay Weiser)
Jonathan Remy Nash, Packaging Property: The Effect of Paradigmatic Framing of Property Rights (Discussant: Richard Epstein)
11:00-12:35 Law & Politics III
Sanford Gordon, An Analysis of Partisan Bias in Federal Public Corruption Prosecutions (Discussant: Anne Morrison Piehl)
Cheryl Boudreau & Mathew McCubbins, From Competition to Competence? Theory and Experiments Regarding Deliberation and Citizen Learning (Discussant: Rebecca Morton)
11:15-12:35 Corporate V
Marco Becht, Colin Mayer, Hannes Wagner, Where Do Firms Incorporate? Deregulation and the Cost of Entry (Discussant: Jens Damann)
Cindy Alexander, Mark Chen, Duane Seppi, Chester Spatt, The Role of Advisory Services in Proxy Voting (Discussant: Edward Rock)
11:15-12:35 Securities II
Artyom Durnev, Merritt Fox, Randall Morck & Bernard Yeung, Required Line of Business Reporting and Share Price Accuracy (Discussant: Allen Ferrell)
Alicia Davis Evans, Do Individual Investors Affect Share Price Accuracy? Some Preliminary Evidence (Discussant: Stephen Choi)
11:15-12:35 Taxation II
Mihir Desai & Dhammika Dharmapala, Taxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities (Discussant: David Walker)
Michael Barr & Jane Dokko, Paying to Save: Tax Withholding and Asset Allocation Among Low- and Moderate-Income Taxpayers (Discussant: Nadia Eissa)
11:15-12:35 Family Law
Ira Mark Ellman, Sanford Braver & Robert MacCoun, Intuitive Lawmaking: The Example of Child Support (Tess Wilkinson-Ryan)
Betsey Stevenson, Divorce-Law Changes, Household Bargaining, and Married Women’s Labor Supply Revisited (Discussant: Lynn Mather)
11:15-12:35 Property & Environment II
Janice Nadler & Shari Seidman Diamond, Eminent Domain and the Psychology of Property Rights (Discussant: Robert Ellickson)
David Markell & Tom Tyler, Using Empirical Research to Explore the Ways to Enhance Citizen Roles in Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (Discussant: Jeffrey Rachlinski)
1:35-3:35 Courts & Judges IV
Clifford Carrubba, Barry Friedman, Andrew Martin & Georg Vanberg, The Power on the Supreme Court (Discussant: Daniel Rodriguez)
Jonathan Kastellec & Jeffrey Lax, Case Selection and the Study of Judicial Politics (Discussant: Dan Klerman)
Stephen Choi, Gaurang Mitu Gulati & Eric Posner, Professionals or Politicians: The Uncertain Empirical Case for an Elected Rather than Appointed Judiciary (Discussant: Stefanie Lindquist)
1:35-3:35 Corporate VI
Kate Litvak, Long-Term Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley on Cross-Listing Premia (Discussant: Craig Doidge)
Vitaliy Zheka, Does Corporate Governance Causally Predict Firm Performance? Panel Data and Instrumental Variables Evidence (Discussant: Mathias Siems)
Xi Li, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Cross-Listed Foreign Private Issuers (Discussant: Reinier Kraakman)
1:35-3:35 Financial Institutions
Martin Cihak & Richard Podpiera, Are More Integrated Prudential Supervision Agencies Characterized by Better Regulation and Supervision? (Discussant: Richard Scott Carnell)
Bart Leyman & Koen Schoors, Loan Securities and Bank Debt Restructuring of Small to Medium-Sized Distressed Firms (Discussant: Charles Calomiris)
Donato Masciandaro, Determinants of Financial Supervision Regimes: Markets, Institutions, Politics, Law or Geography? (Discussant: Geoffrey Miller)
1:35-3:35 Health
Barak Richman, Insurance Mandates: Do They Hurt Those They’re Designed to Help? (Discussant: Russell Korobkin)
Pascoe Pleasence, Nigel Balmer & Alexy Buck, Mental Health and the Experience of Problems Involving Rights (Discussant: Sherry Glied)
Jill Horwitz & Austin Nichols, What Do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix (Discussant: Henry Hansmann)
1:35-3:35 Juries and Judges
Alayna Jehle, Monica Miller & Markus Kemmelmeier, The Influence of Accounts and Remorse on Mock Jurors’ Judgments of Offenders (Discussant: Jennifer Robbennolt)
Jeffrey Rachlinski, Sheri Lynn Johnson, Andrew Wistrich, Chris Guthrie, Does Unconscious Bias Affect Trial Judges? (Discussant: Kristin Lane)
Mary Rose, Christopher Ellison & Shari Seidman Diamond, Preferences for Juries over Judges Across Racial and Ethnic Groups (Discussant: Valerie Hans)
1:35-3:35 Civil Litigation II
Thomas Cohen, Do Federal and State Courts Differ in How They Handle Civil Trial Litigation: A Portrait of Civil Trials in State and Federal District Courts (Discussant: Nicole Waters)
Rebecca Eyre, Joe Cecil & Eric Topor, Judicial Management of Patent Claim Construction (Discussant: Bhaven Sampat)
Thomas Bak, John Golmant & James Woods, A Comparison of the Effects of the 1978 and 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Legislation (Discussant: Vedran Capkun)
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Day One of the Second Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies at NYU Law School in NY, NY.
9:00-11:00 Courts & Judges I
Frank Cross, Thomas Smith & Antonio Tmarchio, Determinants of Cohesion in the Supreme Court’s Network of Precedents (Discussant: Tracey George)
Charles Cameron & Thomas Clark, The Macro-Politics of the Supreme Court (Discussant: Nicola Persico)
Jeffrey Segal, Chad Westerland & Stafanie Lindquist, Congress, the Supreme Court, and Judicial Review: Testing a Constitutional Separation of Powers Model (Discussant: Lewis Kornhauser)
9:00-11:00 Corporate I
Martijn Cremers, Vinay Nair & Urs Peyer, Takeover Defenses and Competition (Discussant: Daniel Wolfenzon)
Rejin Guo, Timothy Kruse & Tom Nohel, Undoing the Powerful Anti-Takeover Force of Staggered Boards (Discussant: Guhan Subramanian)
Xavier Grioud & Holger Mueller, Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries (Discussant: Andrew Metrick)
9:00-11:00 Bankruptcy I
Lynn LoPucki & Joseph Doherty, The Determinants of Professional Fees in Large Bankruptcy Reorganization Cases Revisited (Discussant: Ed Morrison)
Jay Westbrook & Elizabeth Warren, Chapter 11: Conventional Wisdom and Reality (Discussant: Antoinette Schoar)
Ronald Mann, Making Sense of Nation-Level Bankruptcy Filing Rates (Discussant: Stephen J. Lubben)
9:00-11:00 Civil Litigation I
Kuo-Chang Huang, Does Discovery Promote Settlement? A Lesson from Taiwan (Discussant: Keith Hylton)
Seth Seabury, Inferring Beliefs from Selected Samples: Evidence from Civil Litigation (Discussant: Anup Malani)
Gillian Hadfield, Settlement Values: How 9/11 Victims Saw the Choice Between Money and Going to Court (Discussant: Robert Rabin)
9:00-11:00 Criminal I
Nancy King, Fred Cheesman & Brian Ostrom, Habeas Litigation in the U.S. District Courts (Discussant: Trevor Morrison)
Jeffrey Fagan, Aaron Kupchik & Akiva Liberman, Be Careful What You Wish For: Legal Sanctions and Public Safety Among Adolescent Offenders in Juvenile and Criminal Court (Discussant: Samuel Gross)
9:00-11:00 Intellectual Property
James Bessen & Michael Meurer, The Private Costs of Patent Litigation (Discussant: Jay Kesan)
Mark Lemley & Bhaven Sampat, Is the Patent Office a Rubber Stamp? (Discussant: Katherine Strandburg)
Paul Heald, Property Rights and the Efficient Exploitation of Copyrighted Works: An Empirical Analysis of Public Domain and Copyrighted Fiction Best Sellers (Discussant: Barton Beebe)
11:00-1:15 Law & Politics I
Michael Alvarez, Delia Bailey & Jonathan Katz, Estimating the Effect of Voter Identification Laws on Turnout (Discussant: Andrew Martin)
Jonathan Nagler & Jan Leighley, Electoral Laws and Turnout, 1972-2004 (Discussant: Charles Cameron)
Adam Cox & Thomas Miles, Judging the Voting Rights Act (Discussant: Ellen Katz)
11:15-1:15 Corporate II
Alexander Dyck, Adair Morse & Luigi Zingales, How Pervasive Is Corporate Fraud? (Discussant: Jennifer Arlen)
Jonathan Karpoff, Scott Lee & Gerald Martin, The Determinants of Managerial Decisions to Cook the Books (Discussant: Mark Cohen)
Anup Agrawal & Tommy Cooper, Corporate Governance Consequences of Accounting Scandals: Evidence from Top Management, CFO and Auditor Turnover (Discussant: Cindy Alexander)
11:15-1:15 Bankruptcy II
Rainer Haselmann & Paul Wachtel, Institutions and Bank Behavior (Discussant: Curtis Milhaupt)
Tom Chang & Antoinette Schoar, Judge Specific Differences in Chapter 11 and Firm Outcomes (Discussant: Alan Schwartz)
Kenneth Ayotte & Edward Morrison, Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11 (Discussant: Barry Adler)
11:15-1:15 Experimental Dispute Resoltuion I
Russell Korobkin & Joseph Dorety, Who Wins in Settlement Negotiations? (Discussant: Charles Silver)
Juan Carrillo & Thomas Palfrey, The Compromise Game: Two-Sided Adverse Selection in the Laboratory (Discussant: Kathy Zeiler)
Claudia Landeo, Tort Reform and Disputes Under Endogenous Beliefs (Discussant: Dan Simon)
11:15-1:15 Criminal II
Randi Hjalmarsson, Crime and Expected Punishment: Changes in Perceptions at the Age of Criminal Majority (Discussant: Justin McCrary)
Danton Berube & Donald Green, The Effects of Sentencing on Recidivism: Results from a Natural Experiment (Discussant: Daniel Ho)
David Abrams, Marianne Betrand & Sendhil Mullainathan, Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race? (Discussant: Justin Wolfers)
11:15-1:15 Empirical Analysis
Anup Malani, Expectations of Future Laws (Discussant: Eric Talley)
Michael McDonald & Justin Levitt, Seeing Double Voting: An Extension of the Birthday Problem (Discussant: Dan Rubinfeld)
William Anderson & Martin T. Wells, Numerical Analysis in Least Squares Regression with an Application to the Abortion-Crime Debate (Discussant: Bruce Spencer)
2:15-4:15 Courts & Judges II
Christina Boyd, Lee Epstein & Andrew Martin, Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging (Discussant: Kevin Quinn)
Tracey George & Albert Yoon, Chief Judges: The Limits of Attiudinal Theory and Possible Paradox of Managerial Judging (Discussant: Jeff Segal)
Matthew Sag, Tonja Jacobi & Maxim Sytch, The Effect of Judicial Ideology in Intellectual Property Cases (Discussant: Patrick Egan)
2:15-4:15 Corporate III
Yair Listokin, Management Always Wins the Close Ones (Discussant: Edward Rock)
Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Martijn Cremers & Urs Peyer, CEO Centrality (Discussant: Paul Oyer)
Howard Rosenthal & Erik Voeten, Measuring Legal Systems (Discussant: Katharina Pistor)
2:15-4:15 Commercial Contracts
Adair Morse, Payday Lenders: Heroes or Villains? (Discussant: Larry White)
Christopher Lewis Peterson, Usury Law, Payday Loans, and Statutory Slight of Hand: An Empirical Analysis of American Credit Pricing Limits (Discussant: Michael Barr)
Katherine Porter, Profiting from ‘Profligates’: The Credit Industry’s Business Model for Postbankruptcy Lending (Discussant: Oren Bar-Gill)
2:15-4:15 Torts
Paul Rubin & Joanna Shepherd, The Demographics of Tort Reform: Winners and Losers (Discussant: Theodore Eisenberg)
Eric Helland, Crash & Learn: Consumption Externalities and the Reduction of Aircraft Accidents (Discussant: MIchael Heise)
Alan Marco & Casey Salvietti, What Does Tort Law Deter? Precaution and Activity Levels in No-Faul Automobile Insurance (Discussant: Bentley MacLeod)
2:15-4:15 Criminal III
Beth Simmons & Allison Danner, Credible Commitments and the International Criminal Court (Discussant: Andrew Guzman)
Samuel Gross & Barbara O’Brien, Frequency and Predictors of False Conviction: The Problem, and Some Data on Capital Cases (Discussant: John Blume)
Stephane Mechoulan, The External Effects of Black-Male Incarceration on Black Females (Discussant: JJ Prescott)
2:15-4:15 Experimental II: Decisionmaking about Risk
John Darley, Lawrence Solan, Matthew Kugler & Joseph Sanders, Liability for Risk: Citizens’ Perspectives on Liability for Loss of Chance (Discussant: Richard Lempert)
Dan Kahan, Paul Slovic, Donald Braman, John Gastil & Geoffrey Cohen, Affect, Values and Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions: An Experimental Investigation (Discussant: Robert MacCoun)
4:30-5:50 Courts & Judges III
James Gibson & Gregory Caldeira, Knowing About Courts (Discussant: Neal Beck)
Jed Shugerman, The Twist of Long Terms: Disasters, Elected Judges, and American Tort Law (Discussant: Sandy Gordon)
4:30-5:50 Securities I
Howell Jackson & Mark Roe, Public Enforcement of Securities Laws: Preliminary Evidence (Discussant: Jack Coffee)
Karen Nelson & Adam Pritchard, Litigation Risk and Voluntary Disclosure: The Use of Meaningful Cautionary Language (Discussant: Jill Fisch)
4:30-5:50 Contracts
Jonathan Klick, Bruce Kobayashi & Larry Ribstein, The Effect of Contract Regulation: The Case of Franchising (Discussant: Gillian Hadfield)
John Horton, Contract Characteristics and the Probability of Litgation (Discussant: Alan Marco)
4:30-5:50 Legal Profession
Paul Oyer & Scott Schaefer, Personnel-Economic Geography: Evidence from Large US Law Firms (Discussant: Geoffrey Miller)
Herbert Kritzer, To Lawyer, or Not to Lawyer, Is That the Question? (Discussant: Tom Baker)
4:30-5:50 Finance, Bankruptcy & Coporate Governance I
Vladimir Atanasov, Bernard Black, Conrad Ciccotello, Stanley Gyoshev, How Does Law Affect Finance? An Examination of Financial Tunneling in an Emerging Market (Discussant: Alexander Dyck)
Art Durney & larry Fauver, Stealing from Thieves: Firm Governance and Performance When States Are Predatory (Discussant: Vik Khanna)
4:30-5:50 Taxation I
Chris Sanchirico, Progressivity and Potential Income: Measuring the Effect of Changing Work Patterns on Income Tax Progressivity (Discussant: Daniel Shaviro)
Joel Slemrod, Why Is Elvis on Burkina Faso Postage Stamps? The Commercialization of State Sovereignty (Discussant: Jon Bakija)
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Cincinnati
David Stras (Minnesota Law), Judicial Appointments and Ideology
Duke
Stephen Burbank (Penn Law)
Florida
James Repetti (Boston College Law), Democracy and Opportunity: A New Paradigm in Tax Equity
Georgetown Law and Economics
Henry Hu (Texas Law)
New York Law School Clinical Theory
Robert Condlin (Maryland Law), “Every Day and in Every Way We Are All Becoming Meta and Meta,” or How Communitarian Bargaining Theory Conquered the World (of Bargaining Theory)
New York Law School South Africa Reading Group
Diana Gordon (CUNY Criminal Justice), Transformation & Trouble: Crime, Justice, and Participation in Democratic South Africa
Texas
Brad Wendel (Cornell Law), “The Authority of Law” in The Ethics of Legality
UCLA Faculty Fridays
Ed Stein (Cardozo Law), Etiology, Mutability, and the Law: A Critique of Biological and Psychological Arguments for Lesbian and Gay Rights
USC
Richard Banks (Stanford Law), Race Consciousness, Colorblindness, and Antidiscrimination Doctrine
Virginia
J.B. Ruhl (Florida State Law), Climate Change and the Endangered Species Act: Building Bridges to the No-Analog Future
Washington University in St. Louis
Hiroshi Motomura (North Carolina Law)
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Cincinnati
David Stras (Minnesota Law), Judicial Appointments and Ideology
Duke
Stephen Burbank (Penn Law)
Florida
James Repetti (Boston College Law), Democracy and Opportunity: A New Paradigm in Tax Equity
Georgetown Law and Economics
Henry Hu (Texas Law)
New York Law School Clinical Theory
Robert Condlin (Maryland Law), “Every Day and in Every Way We Are All Becoming Meta and Meta,” or How Communitarian Bargaining Theory Conquered the World (of Bargaining Theory)
New York Law School South Africa Reading Group
Diana Gordon (CUNY Criminal Justice), Transformation & Trouble: Crime, Justice, and Participation in Democratic South Africa
Texas
Brad Wendel (Cornell Law), “The Authority of Law” in The Ethics of Legality
UCLA Faculty Fridays
Ed Stein (Cardozo Law), Etiology, Mutability, and the Law: A Critique of Biological and Psychological Arguments for Lesbian and Gay Rights
USC
Richard Banks (Stanford Law), Race Consciousness, Colorblindness, and Antidiscrimination Doctrine
Virginia
J.B. Ruhl (Florida State Law), Climate Change and the Endangered Species Act: Building Bridges to the No-Analog Future
Washington University in St. Louis
Hiroshi Motomura (North Carolina Law)
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| November 2, 2007 | to | November 4, 2007 |
The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys presents the 2007 NAELA Institute – It’s Now or Never, November 2-4 (with a presession day on Nov. 1), 2007, in Memphis, TN.
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| June 1, 2008 | to | June 6, 2008 |
AALS Midyear Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio on June 1-6, 2008:
June 1-4: Workshop for Law Librarians
June 3-6: Conference on Constitutional Law
June 3-6: Conference on Evidence
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| January 25, 2008 | to | January 26, 2008 |
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA’S
ELEVENTH ANNUAL TAX SYMPOSIUM
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
January 25 & 26, 2008
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PUNITIVE DAMAGES, DUE PROCESS, AND DETERRENCE:
THE DEBATE AFTER WILLIAMS
Hosted by The Charleston School of Law
Friday, September 7, 2007
8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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| October 26, 2007 | to | October 27, 2007 |
CENTRAL STATES LAW SCHOOL ASSOCIATION AND JOURNAL OF LAW IN SOCIETY
JOINT CONFERENCE
October 26-27, 2007
Announcement & Call For Papers
Symposium Paper Proposal Submission Deadline: August 25, 2007
Open Workshop Abstract Submission Deadline: August 25, 2007
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Boston
Greg Keating (USC Law), In Defense of De Minimis
Cincinnati
Suja Thomas (Cincinnati Law), The Civil Jury: The Disregarded Constitutional Actor
Columbia
Jane Stapleton (Texas Law), Philosophers, Lawyers and Choosing What We Mean by “Causation” in the Law
Columbia Tax Colloquium
Michael Knoll (Penn Law), Taxes and Competitiveness
Drake Constitutional Law
Samuel Issacharoff (NYU Law), Democracy at War
Florida State
Julian Juergensmeyer (Georgia State Law)
Fordham
Henry B. Hansmann (Yale Law), A Global Market for Judicial Services
Georgetown
Abbe Smith (Georgetown Law), I Ain’t Takin’ No Plea: The Challanges in Counseling Young People Facing Serious Time
Minnesota Public Law
Dan Ortiz (Virginia Law), Nice Legal Studies
Northern Kentucky
Jennifer Kreder (Northern Kentucky Law), Towards an International Tribunal for Nazi-Looted Art Disputes
Northwestern Law and Economics
Jesse M. Fried (UC Berkeley Law), Deviations from Contractual Priority in the Sale of VC-Backed Firms
NYU Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy
Rainer Forst (Goethe University), Toleration and Democracy and Pierre Bayle’s Reflexive Theory of Toleration
Penn Law and Economics
Bernard Black (Texas Law), Identifying the Effect of Board Structure on Firm Value: Event Study, DiD, Firm Fixed Effects, and IV Evidence from Korea
Pittsburgh
Michelle Mello (Harvard Public Health), Legal & Policy Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic
Washington
Craig H. Allen ( Washington Law), Law and Maritime Strategy: The Global Legal Order 2020 Project
Amanullah Shah (Washington Law), General Musharraf’s Proclamation of Emergency and Suspension of the Constitution of Pakistan
Yale Legal Theory
David Dyzenhaus (Toronto Law), The Puzzle of Martial Law
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 8th, 2007
| Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Commercial Law, Comparative Law, Criminal Law, Health Law, International Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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Boston
Greg Keating (USC Law), In Defense of De Minimis
Cincinnati
Suja Thomas (Cincinnati Law), The Civil Jury: The Disregarded Constitutional Actor
Columbia
Jane Stapleton (Texas Law), Philosophers, Lawyers and Choosing What We Mean by “Causation” in the Law
Columbia Tax Colloquium
Michael Knoll (Penn Law), Taxes and Competitiveness
Drake Constitutional Law
Samuel Issacharoff (NYU Law), Democracy at War
Florida State
Julian Juergensmeyer (Georgia State Law)
Fordham
Henry B. Hansmann (Yale Law), A Global Market for Judicial Services
Georgetown
Abbe Smith (Georgetown Law), I Ain’t Takin’ No Plea: The Challanges in Counseling Young People Facing Serious Time
Minnesota Public Law
Dan Ortiz (Virginia Law), Nice Legal Studies
Northern Kentucky
Jennifer Kreder (Northern Kentucky Law), Towards an International Tribunal for Nazi-Looted Art Disputes
Northwestern Law and Economics
Jesse M. Fried (UC Berkeley Law), Deviations from Contractual Priority in the Sale of VC-Backed Firms
NYU Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy
Rainer Forst (Goethe University), Toleration and Democracy and Pierre Bayle’s Reflexive Theory of Toleration
Penn Law and Economics
Bernard Black (Texas Law), Identifying the Effect of Board Structure on Firm Value: Event Study, DiD, Firm Fixed Effects, and IV Evidence from Korea
Washington
Craig H. Allen ( Washington Law), Law and Maritime Strategy: The Global Legal Order 2020 Project
Amanullah Shah (Washington Law), General Musharraf’s Proclamation of Emergency and Suspension of the Constitution of Pakistan
Yale Legal Theory
David Dyzenhaus (Toronto Law), The Puzzle of Martial Law
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 7th, 2007
| Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Commercial Law, Comparative Law, Criminal Law, EVENTS, International Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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| November 11, 2007 | to | November 12, 2007 |
The Presidency and the Supreme Court will take place Nov. 11-12, 2007, at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will give the keynote address. The conference is cosponsored by the 12 presidential libraries and the National Archives. Admission is free but pre-registration is required.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 7th, 2007
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The Presidency and the Supreme Court will take place Nov. 11-12, 2007, at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will give the keynote address. The conference is cosponsored by the 12 presidential libraries and the National Archives. Admission is free but pre-registration is required.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 7th, 2007
| CONFERENCES, Constitutional Law, Law and Politics |
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Chicago-Kent
Randall W. Roth (Hawaii Law), The Lawyer as Whistleblower: Lessons from the Bishop Estate Controversy
Chicago-Kent Legal History
Nathan Oman (William & Mary Law), Preaching in the Courthouse and Judging in the Temple
Connecticut
Bethany Berger (UConn Law), Red: Uses of American Indian Race
Duke International and Comparative Law
Jean-Marie Henckaerts (Legal Advisor to the International Red Cross), The IRC Report on International Humanitarian Law and Its Critics
Emory
Jonathan Klick (Florida State Law), Cheap Donuts and Expensive Broccoli: The Effect of Relative Prices on Obesity
NYU Legal History
Sophia Lee (NYU Law, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow), “Race, Sex and Rulemaking, 1964-1977: Revising Equal Protection History, Recovering Administrative Constitutionalism” and “Almost Revolutionary: Administrative Constitutionalism, Labor Politics, and Workplace Civil Rights, 1935-1978″
Oregon Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Steven Kevan (Oregon Physics) and Greg Bothun (Oregon Physics), Physicists on Renewable Energy
Vanderbilt
Robert Ahdieh (Emory Law)
Washington
Steve Calandrillo (Washington Law), Time Well Spent: An Economic Analysis of Daylight Saving Time Legislation
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 7th, 2007
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Environmental Law, Indian Law, International Law, Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, Law and Humanities, Law and Religion, Law and Science, Legal Ethics, Legal History, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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Chicago Law and Economics
Jesse M. Shapiro (Chicago Business), What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers
Georgetown
Nan Hunter (Georgetown Law), Risk Governance and Democracy in Health Care
Georgia State
Hon. Winston P. Bethel (DeKalb County), Offering Mental Health Treatment to Criminal Offenders Instead of Jail
Harvard Law and Economics
Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law) and Assaf Hamdani (Bar-Ilan Law), Protecting Minority Shareholders
Harvard Internet
Christine Harold (Author of “OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture”)
Marquette
Bruce Boyden (Marquette Law), Cows, Copyrights, and Cotton Looms: Enclosure as a Metaphor for Copyright Law
New York Law School
Kenneth C. Kettering (New York Law School), Securitization and Its Discontents
NYU Law, Economics, and Politics
Lewis Kornhauser (NYU Law), Modeling Courts
Pittsburgh
William Luneburg (Pitt Law), Anonymity and its Dubious Relevance to the Constitutionality of Lobbying Disclosure
Yale Information Society Project
Johannes Britz (Wisconsin-Milwaukee Information Studies), To Talk or Not to Talk: A Critical Analysis of the Telecommunication Policy in South Africa from a Social Justice Perspective
Yale Legal History
David Skeel (Penn Law), The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
| Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Economics, Law and Politics, Law and Religion, Law and Technology, Uncategorized |
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| March 7, 2008 | to | March 9, 2008 |
Forgiveness: Probing the Boundaries is an inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference, research and publishing project” that “aims to explore the nature, significance, and practices of forgiveness.” The conference will take place March 7-9, 2008, in Salzburg, Austria. The deadline for abstracts was Nov. 2, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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Forgiveness: Probing the Boundaries is an inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference, research and publishing project” that “aims to explore the nature, significance, and practices of forgiveness.” The conference will take place March 7-9, 2008, in Salzburg, Austria. The deadline for abstracts was Nov. 2, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
| Jurisprudence, Law and Humanities, Law and Psychology |
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| October 24, 2007 | to | October 26, 2007 |
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LAW AND RELIGION AT EMORY UNIVERSITY
FROM SILVER TO GOLD: THE NEXT 25 YEARS OF LAW AND RELIGION
A SILVER ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
October 24-26, 2007
Emory University School of Law
Tull Auditorium
Atlanta, Georgia
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| November 8, 2007 | to | November 9, 2007 |
THE ENDURING LEGACY OF WOOD V. LADY DUFF GORDON
Pace University School of Law
November 8th and 9th 2007
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2008 AALS Conference on Constitutional Law will be held at the AALS Mid-Year Meeting on June 3-6, 2008, at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio. In recognition of the growing significance of positive legal scholarship in the development of constitutional law and theory, the Committee has designated one session of the conference for the presentation of papers devoted to this topic. Up to four papers will be selected for presentation. Papers will be presented at moderated, concurrent sessions. The faculty members chosen must register for the Conference and will be responsible for their own travel and other expenses.
Topic: Papers must discuss or (preferably) demonstrate how empirical and/or positive legal scholarship can inform constitutional theory or doctrine.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, EVENTS |
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| October 19, 2007 | to | October 20, 2007 |
Michigan State University College of Law’s Indigenous Law and Policy Center hosts its 4th Annual Indigenous Law Conference in East Lansing on October 19-20, 2007. The conference topic is American Indian Law and Literature.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| March 28, 2008 | to | March 29, 2008 |
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities holds its Annual Meeting in the Bay Area (its sponsored by San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley) March 28-29, 2008.
Organizers are accepting proposals for papers, panels, and roundtables.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| September 28, 2007 | to | September 29, 2007 |
The European Society for International Law hosts Biennial Research Forum of the European Society of International Law: “The Power of International Law in Times of European Integration,” Budapest, 28th -29th September 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| September 16, 2007 | to | September 20, 2007 |
The International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL) – XIIIth World Congress on Procedural Law will be in Salvador/Bahia, Brazil, Sept. 16-20, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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Feminist law professors are meeting for the Feminist Pedagogy Conference, Oct. 12, New York, NY.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| October 25, 2007 | to | October 28, 2007 |
The American Society for Legal History has its annual meeting in Tempe, AZ, October 25-28, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| October 31, 2007 | to | November 4, 2007 |
National Lawyers Guild – 70th Anniversary Law for the People Convention, Oct. 31 – Nov. 4, Washington, D.C.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| November 15, 2007 | to | November 17, 2007 |
The Federalist Society meets for its Annual National Lawyers Convention, in Washington, DC on Nov. 15-17, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| November 17, 2007 | to | November 20, 2007 |
Law, Religion and Culture Group, American Academy of Religion, Nov. 17-20, 2007, San Diego, CA.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| November 23, 2007 | to | November 24, 2007 |
The Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, based at the Faculty of Law of the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands), is organizing an academic conference on Methods of Human Rights Research on November 23-24, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| January 23, 2008 | to | January 26, 2008 |
The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) midwinter institute is IP Practice Today: Techniques for Getting the Job DONE in Phoenix, Jan. 23-26. “IP experts will outline best practices in critical practice areas such as licensing, litigation, portfolio management and prosecution.”
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| March 6, 2008 | to | March 8, 2008 |
The American Law-Psychology Society meets in Jacksonville, Florida on March 6-8, 2008. Call for papers deadline: Sept. 21, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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The California Indian Law Association hosts its Seventh Annual Indian Law Conference, October 11, 2007, Pechanga Resort & Casino, Pechanga Indian Reservation, Temecula, California.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| February 6, 2008 | to | February 12, 2008 |
If you like to plan ahead (the ABA certainly does!), here are future ABA meetings: Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| August 7, 2008 | to | August 12, 2008 |
If you like to plan ahead (the ABA certainly does!), here are future ABA meetings: Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| October 25, 2007 | to | October 26, 2007 |
“LexUM, the University of Montreal’s legal informatics laboratory, will host the 8th International Conference Law Via The Internet – Access to Law and the New Web Reality. The event will take place at the Marriott Château Champlain in Montreal (Canada) and will be preceded by the Annual Meeting of the Legal Information Institutes (LIIs).” October 25-26, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| November 16, 2007 | to | November 17, 2007 |
The Education Law Association (formerly NOLPE) has its 53rd Annual Conference, “Education and Society: Accountability, Safety, & Climate,” November 15-17, 2007, in San Diego.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| March 6, 2008 | to | March 7, 2008 |
Stetson University College of Law is planning its Tenth International Wildlife Law Conference for March 6-7, 2008, in Granada, Spain. Currently the events web page just has a banner to “save the date,” but more information about the conference will doubtless be available soon.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| October 17, 2007 | to | October 19, 2007 |
Samford University Cumberland School of Law offers Credentialed for What? Exploring business and law education for public obligation, October 17-19, 2007, Birmingham, AL. Speakers include William May (Inst. for Practical Ethics and Public Life), Sandy Douglas (President of Coca-Cola North America), and Deborah Rhode (Stanford Law School).
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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The Asian Wall Street Journal and O’Melveny and Myers present the 6th Annual China Financial Markets Conference, Nov. 13, in Hong Kong.
Thanks: China Law Blog.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| October 17, 2007 | to | October 20, 2007 |
NE2007: Libraries Without Borders II, the 4th Northeast Regional Law Libraries Meeting, will be in Toronto, October 17-20, 2007. “A diverse and challenging program of over 40 sessions is being planned around the theme in all its senses — the internationalization of law, the globalization of legal practice, and the role of libraries and librarians in an ever-changing world of information that recognizes no borders.”
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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| September 14, 2007 | to | September 16, 2007 |
Birkbeck University of London hosts the 2007 Critical Legal Conference: Walls, Sept. 14-16. “We seek to put into question the very structures which separate schools, traditions, states, world-views.”
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
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Chicago Law and Economics
Jesse M. Shapiro (Chicago Business), What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers
Georgetown
Nan Hunter (Georgetown Law), Risk Governance and Democracy in Health Care
Georgia State
Hon. Winston P. Bethel (DeKalb County), Offering Mental Health Treatment to Criminal Offenders Instead of Jail
Harvard Law and Economics
Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law) and Assaf Hamdani (Bar-Ilan Law), Protecting Minority Shareholders
Harvard Internet
Christine Harold (Author of “OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture”)
Marquette
Bruce Boyden (Marquette Law), Cows, Copyrights, and Cotton Looms: Enclosure as a Metaphor for Copyright Law
New York Law School
Kenneth C. Kettering (New York Law School), Securitization and Its Discontents
NYU Law, Economics, and Politics
Lewis Kornhauser (NYU Law), Modeling Courts
Pittsburgh
William Luneburg (Pitt Law), Anonymity and its Dubious Relevance to the Constitutionality of Lobbying Disclosure
Yale Information Society Project
Johannes Britz (Wisconsin-Milwaukee Information Studies), To Talk or Not to Talk: A Critical Analysis of the Telecommunication Policy in South Africa from a Social Justice Perspective
Yale Legal History
David Skeel (Penn Law), The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
| Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Economics, Law and Politics, Law and Religion, Law and Technology, Uncategorized |
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Chicago Law and Economics
Jesse M. Shapiro (Chicago Business), What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers
Georgetown
Nan Hunter (Georgetown Law), Risk Governance and Democracy in Health Care
Harvard Law and Economics
Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law) and Assaf Hamdani (Bar-Ilan Law), Protecting Minority Shareholders
Harvard Internet
Christine Harold (Author of “OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture”)
Marquette
Bruce Boyden (Marquette Law), Cows, Copyrights, and Cotton Looms: Enclosure as a Metaphor for Copyright Law
New York Law School
Kenneth C. Kettering (New York Law School), Securitization and Its Discontents
NYU Law, Economics, and Politics
Lewis Kornhauser (NYU Law), Modeling Courts
Pittsburgh
William Luneburg (Pitt Law), Anonymity and its Dubious Relevance to the Constitutionality of Lobbying Disclosure
Yale Information Society Project
Johannes Britz (Wisconsin-Milwaukee Information Studies), To Talk or Not to Talk: A Critical Analysis of the Telecommunication Policy in South Africa from a Social Justice Perspective
Yale Legal History
David Skeel (Penn Law), The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007
| Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Law and Economics, Law and Politics, Law and Religion, Law and Technology, Uncategorized |
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The Human Rights Law Centre and Methods and Data Institute at the University of Nottingham announce a multi-disciplinary conference: The International Criminal Court and the State, Nov. 9, 2007, Nottingham.
The conference will bring together experts from the fields of law, politics and international relations as well as practitioners from the Court, civil society, states and the International Criminal Court Legal Tools Partners.
Thanks: Empirical Legal Studies.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 5th, 2007
| CONFERENCES, Criminal Law, International Law |
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| July 3, 2008 | to | July 5, 2008 |
The Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration has issued a call for papers in connection with its conference on The History of Double Tax Conventions to be held July 3-5, 2008, in Rust, Austria. Researchers interested in wriiting a report about their countries may apply to participate (with a subsidy); applications are due Dec. 15, 2007.
Thanks: Paul Caron, Tax Prof Blog.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 5th, 2007
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The Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration has issued a call for papers in connection with its conference on The History of Double Tax Conventions to be held July 3-5, 2008, in Rust, Austria. Researchers interested in wriiting a report about their countries may apply to participate (with a subsidy); applications are due Dec. 15, 2007.
Thanks: Paul Caron, Tax Prof Blog.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 5th, 2007
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The Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration has issued a call for papers in connection with its conference on The History of Double Tax Conventions to be held July 3-5, 2008, in Rust, Austria. Researchers interested in wriiting a report about their countries may apply to participate (with a subsidy); applications are due Dec. 15, 2007.
Thanks: Paul Caron, http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 5th, 2007
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Comparative Law, CONFERENCES, Legal History, Tax Law |
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| November 8, 2007 | to | November 11, 2007 |
The National Consumer Law Center presents its 16th Annual Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, Nov. 8-11, 2007, Washington, DC.
In addition to the main conference, there will be day-long “intensives” on particular topics:
- Class Action Symposium;
- Doing Well While Doing Good;
- Stopping Foreclosures: Loan Workouts, Servicing Claims, and Bankruptcy Strategies;
- Fighting Predatory Mortgage Lending through Litigation: An Introduction to the Evolving Marketplace and Legal Theories;
- Attacking Debt Collectors’ Suits, Repossessions, and Arbitrations.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 5th, 2007
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The National Consumer Law Center presents its 16th Annual Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, Nov. 8-11, 2007, Washington, DC.
In addition to the main conference, there will be day-long “intensives” on particular topics:
- Class Action Symposium;
- Doing Well While Doing Good;
- Stopping Foreclosures: Loan Workouts, Servicing Claims, and Bankruptcy Strategies;
- Fighting Predatory Mortgage Lending through Litigation: An Introduction to the Evolving Marketplace and Legal Theories;
- Attacking Debt Collectors’ Suits, Repossessions, and Arbitrations.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 5th, 2007
| Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, CONFERENCES, Property Law |
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Chicago Law and Philosophy
Scott Anderson (Chicago Law)
Columbia Law and Economics
Daniel E. Ho (Stanford Law), Congressional Agency Control: The Impact of Statutory Partisan Requirements on Regulation
Duke International and Comparative Law
Honorable Diane Wood (7th Circuit Fed. Ct. of Appeals), The Role of International Law in Federal Courts
Hofstra
Zachary Kramer (Arkansas Law), Heterosexuality and Title VII
Michigan International Law
Joanne Mariner (Human Rights Watch), The CIA’s Detention, Interrogation and Rendition Program
Missouri
Jennifer Brown (Quinnipiac Law), Peacemaking in the Culture War Between Gay Rights and Religious Liberty
Queen’s Law
Christina Rodriguez (NYU Law), Immigration and Inevitability
Seton Hall
Bernard Freamon (Seton Hall Law), Ancient Slavery and Modern Trafficking: Connections and Disconnections
Temple
Anthony E. Varona (American Law), Retheorizing the Internet
Texas Human Rights
Vasuki Nesiah (International Center for Transitional Justice), Delimiting Accountability: Writing History out of Justice
Toledo
Justice Jack Jacobs (Delaware Supreme Court), The Responsibilities of Directors in the New Millennium
UC Berkeley Law, Businss and the Economy
Dana Welch (Welch ADR), Ethics and the Business Lawyer
UCLA Faculty Mondays
Gary Blasi (UCLA Law), The Assault on Skid Row: Low Roads and High Roads to Reducing Chronic Homelessness
Vanderbilt
Eric Talley (UC Berkeley)
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 5th, 2007
| Administrative Law, Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Government Law, Immigration Law, International Law, Law and Economics, Law and Race, Law and Religion, Law and Sexuality, Legal History, National Security Law, Uncategorized |
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Chicago-Kent
Randall W. Roth (Hawaii Law), The Lawyer as Whistleblower: Lessons from the Bishop Estate Controversy
Chicago-Kent Legal History
Nathan Oman (William & Mary Law), Preaching in the Courthouse and Judging in the Temple
Connecticut
Bethany Berger (UConn Law), Red: Uses of American Indian Race
Duke International and Comparative Law
Jean-Marie Henckaerts (Legal Advisor to the International Red Cross), The IRC Report on International Humanitarian Law and Its Critics
Emory
Jonathan Klick (Florida State Law), Cheap Donuts and Expensive Broccoli: The Effect of Relative Prices on Obesity
NYU Legal History
Sophia Lee (NYU Law, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow), “Race, Sex and Rulemaking, 1964-1977: Revising Equal Protection History, Recovering Administrative Constitutionalism” and “Almost Revolutionary: Administrative Constitutionalism, Labor Politics, and Workplace Civil Rights, 1935-1978″
Oregon Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Steven Kevan (Oregon Physics) and Greg Bothun (Oregon Physics), Physicists on Renewable Energy
Vanderbilt
Robert Ahdieh (Emory Law)
Washington
Steve Calandrillo (Washington Law), Time Well Spent: An Economic Analysis of Daylight Saving Time Legislation
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 5th, 2007
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Environmental Law, EVENTS, Indian Law, International Law, Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, Law and Religion, Law and Science, Legal Ethics, Legal History, Uncategorized |
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Chicago Law and Philosophy
Scott Anderson (Chicago Law)
Columbia Law and Economics
Daniel E. Ho (Stanford Law), Congressional Agency Control: The Impact of Statutory Partisan Requirements on Regulation
Duke International and Comparative Law
Honorable Diane Wood (7th Circuit Fed. Ct. of Appeals), The Role of International Law in Federal Courts
Hofstra
Zachary Kramer (Arkansas Law), Heterosexuality and Title VII
Michigan International Law
Joanne Mariner (Human Rights Watch), The CIA’s Detention, Interrogation and Rendition Program
Missouri
Jennifer Brown (Quinnipiac Law), Peacemaking in the Culture War Between Gay Rights and Religious Liberty
Queen’s Law
Christina Rodriguez (NYU Law), Immigration and Inevitability
Seton Hall
Bernard Freamon (Seton Hall Law), Ancient Slavery and Modern Trafficking: Connections and Disconnections
Temple
Anthony E. Varona (American Law), Retheorizing the Internet
Texas Human Rights
Vasuki Nesiah (International Center for Transitional Justice), Delimiting Accountability: Writing History out of Justice
Toledo
Justice Jack Jacobs (Delaware Supreme Court), The Responsibilities of Directors in the New Millennium
UC Berkeley Law, Businss and the Economy
Dana Welch (Welch ADR), Ethics and the Business Lawyer
UCLA Faculty Mondays
Gary Blasi (UCLA Law), The Assault on Skid Row: Low Roads and High Roads to Reducing Chronic Homelessness
Vanderbilt
Eric Talley (UC Berkeley)
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 4th, 2007
| Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, Government Law, Immigration Law, International Law, Law and Economics, Law and Race, Law and Religion, Law and Sexuality, Legal Ethics, Legal History, National Security Law, Uncategorized |
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| October 4, 2007 | to | October 5, 2007 |
Law Seminars International presents Gamer Technology Law, Oct. 4-5, 2007, in Seattle. (We don’t usually include commercial CLEs here, but this one was sent to us by a professor who recommended it.)
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 3rd, 2007
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| May 23, 2008 | to | May 26, 2008 |
The Rhetoric Society of America holds its 13th Biennial Conference, May 23-26, 2008, Seattle, Washington. The conference theme is: The Responsibilities of Rhetoric.
Proposals for sessions and individual presentations are due by September 15, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 3rd, 2007
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| May 17, 2008 | to | May 20, 2008 |
The University of Oregon hosts “The Promise of Reason: The New Rhetoric After 50 Years,” May 17-20, 2008, in Eugene.
Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca published La Nouvelle Rhétorique: Traité de l’Argumentation in 1958, a work that has since come to represent the revival of rhetoric and its reintegration with philosophy in the twentieth century. The influence of this work is felt in rhetoric, philosophy, jurisprudence, communication studies, critical theory, and the newer disciplines of argumentation and informal reasoning.
The deadline for paper proposals is Sept. 21, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 3rd, 2007
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University of St. Thomas Law Journal hosts “Peace with Creation: Catholic Perspectives on Environmental Law,” Sept. 21, 2007, Minneapolis.
Thanks: Mirror of Justice. (I wasn’t able to find more information on St. Thomas’s website.)
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 3rd, 2007
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“The first annual University of Louisville Law Journal Symposium will be held on January 18, 2008. This year’s symposium will cover the Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education case, which was decided on June 28, 2007. The University of Louisville Law Review will publish a special symposium issue containing articles by the following authors: Professor Reginald C. Oh, Professor Wendy Brown Scott, Dr. Gary Orfield with Liliana Garces and Erica Frankenberg, Professor Giardeau A. Spann, and Professor Bryan K. Fair.” More info here. [8/19: The links didn't work for me today, but I saw the pages last week.]
Thanks: Kentucky Law Review.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 3rd, 2007
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| October 10, 2007 | to | October 13, 2007 |
The Debtor-Creditor section of the Association American of Law Schools is having a special meeting in conjunction with the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges‘ Annual Meeting in Orlando. The NCBJ will meet October 10-12 and the Debtor-Creditor section will meet October 12-13.
Thanks: Credit Slips.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 3rd, 2007
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| October 26, 2007 | to | October 27, 2007 |
The University of Western Ontario hosts a lecture and conference on labour law, October 26-27, London, Ontario.
The first day is a lecture, The Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Canadian Labour Law, The 5th Annual Koskie Minsky University Lecture in Labour Law given by The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada. The second day is a conference, The Charter and Human Rights at Work: 25 Years Later.
Thanks: Workplace Law Blog.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 3rd, 2007
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| December 8, 2007 | to | December 9, 2007 |
The Indian Society of International Law will have its Fifth International Conference, “International Environmental Law,” on December 8-9, 2007, in New Delhi.
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| December 1, 2007 | to | December 5, 2007 |
The International Association of Law Libraries offers its 26th Annual Course on International Law Librarianship, Global Challenges & the Indian Legal System, Dec. 1-5, 2007, Mumbai, India.
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The Seventh ACM DRM Workshop is Oct. 29, 2007, in Alexandria, VA. (ACM is the Association for Computing Machines.)
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| October 5, 2007 | to | October 6, 2007 |
The University of Wisconsin School of Law hosts New Legal Realism Meets Feminism & Legal Theory II: Empirical Perspectives on the Place of Law in Women’s Work and Family Lives , Oct. 5-6, 2007, Madison.
Women working in a variety of settings face challenges rooted in traditional cultural and social patterns surrounding gender. These challenges include barriers in the workplace, the historic divisions between work and family lives, and cultural conceptualizations of “work” itself. This conference draws together empirical and legal perspectives to examine the different strategies and models women have used in addressing the dilemmas of work and family.
The conference is cosponsored by the Feminism and Legal Theory Project, Emory University, and the New Legal Realism Project, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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South Asian Legal Studies – Pre-Conference Workshop, October 11, 2007, Madison, Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s South Asian Legal Studies Working Group hosts a one-day intensive workshop at the start of the 36th Annual South Asia conference (October 11-14, 2007). The pre-conference will be held at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, WI.
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| October 19, 2007 | to | October 20, 2007 |
“Law & Democratization in S. Korea and Taiwan” hosted by Professor John Ohnesorge (jkohnessorge [a] wisc.edu) of the University of Wisconsin Law School and sponsored by Wisconsin’s Global Legal Studies Initiative and, October 19-20, 2007. Contact Sumudu Atapattu (saatapattu [at] wisc.edu) for details.
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| March 6, 2008 | to | March 9, 2008 |
The 26th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference will be March 6-9, 2008, in Eugene, OR. The theme is: “Cultivating Corridors for The People.”
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| April 1, 2008 | to | April 3, 2008 |
Reading University Centre for Property Law presents the 7th Biennial Conference on Property Law, April 1-3, 2008, Queens’ College, Cambridge University.
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| November 7, 2007 | to | November 10, 2007 |
The National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) holds its annual conference Nov. 7-10, 2007, in Tucson, AZ. The theme is “Leading the Way Toward Justice & Equality.”
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| June 12, 2008 | to | June 14, 2008 |
The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians holds its Annual Study Conference and Exhibition June 12-14, 2008, in Dublin. The theme is “Beyond the Pale: Planning for the Next Information Generation.”
The deadline for submission of abstracts is Sept. 30, 2007.
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“The Fourth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations will be held at the National University of Singapore from 23-25 July 2008. The conference will be co-hosted by the National University of Singapore, the University of Melbourne and the Singapore Academy of Law. The theme of the conference is ‘The Goals of Private Law‘. Scholars working in the fields of contract, tort, unjust enrichment, equity or private law theory are invited to submit proposals addressing the conference theme.” Call for Papers: deadline is December 1, 2007.
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| July 23, 2008 | to | July 25, 2008 |
“The Fourth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations will be held at the National University of Singapore from 23-25 July 2008. The conference will be co-hosted by the National University of Singapore, the University of Melbourne and the Singapore Academy of Law. The theme of the conference is ‘The Goals of Private Law‘. Scholars working in the fields of contract, tort, unjust enrichment, equity or private law theory are invited to submit proposals addressing the conference theme.” Call for Papers: deadline is December 1, 2007.
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Sussex Law School hosts Gender, Family Responsibility and Legal Change Conference 2008 (“An international, interdisciplinary conference), July 10-12, 2008, at Sussex Downs (near Brighton).
Paper proposals will be reviewed in four batches: those received by Sept. 30, 2007, those by Oct. 31, 2007, those by Dec. 31, 2007, and those by April 30, 2008.
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Sussex Law School hosts Gender, Family Responsibility and Legal Change Conference 2008 (“An international, interdisciplinary conference), July 10-12, 2008, at Sussex Downs (near Brighton).
Paper proposals will be reviewed in four batches: those received by Sept. 30, 2007, those by Oct. 31, 2007, those by Dec. 31, 2007, and those by April 30, 2008.
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| July 10, 2008 | to | July 12, 2008 |
Sussex Law School hosts Gender, Family Responsibility and Legal Change Conference 2008 (“An international, interdisciplinary conference), July 10-12, 2008, at Sussex Downs (near Brighton).
Paper proposals will be reviewed in four batches: those received by Sept. 30, 2007, those by Oct. 31, 2007, those by Dec. 31, 2007, and those by April 30, 2008.
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| April 24, 2008 | to | April 26, 2008 |
“The Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), the Institut d’Études Européennnes (IEE) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the UN University programme for Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), and the Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations invite papers for the GARNET Conference ‘The European Union in International Affairs’, to be held in Brussels on 24-26 April 2008. The conference will be the first of what we hope will be a series of conferences on this theme. The second conference is planned for 2010.”
The deadline for abstracts is September 25, 2007.
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| June 5, 2008 4:00 pm | to | June 7, 2008 8:30 pm |
| June 6, 2008 | to | June 7, 2008 |
The 2008 Health Law Professors Conference (American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics) will be June 6-7, 2008, at Drexel University College of Law, Philadelphia, PA.
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The Law & Society Review and the Center in Law, Society and Culture at the University of California, Irvine, are cosponsoring “The Paradoxes of Race, Law and Inequality in the United States,” May 2-3, 2008, Irvine, CA.
The deadline for submitting abstracts is October 31, 2007.
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| September 2, 2007 | to | September 9, 2007 |
The 25th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime is on “The Wealth of Nations – At Risk.” It will take place at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, September 2-9, 2007.
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If you’re near Champaign at on October 19, drop by the University of Illinois at 3:00 for “The Mystery of Delaware Law’s Success,” hosted by the Program in Business Law and Policy.
Thanks: Conglomerate.
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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.
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Copenhagen Conference on Control Enhancing Mechanisms in Corporate Governance, September 18, 2007.
The Centre for Economic and Business Research, the European Corporate Governance Institute, and the Copenhagen Business School are organising a free all-day conference on 18 September 2007 to take stock of the issues of surrounding control enhancing mechanisms and their economic impact at the European level and in international comparison. The conference will use the European Commission’s recently published study as basis for the discussion.
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Mundos de Mujeres / Women’s Worlds, “the most important academic congress on gender and Women’s Studies and feminist social movements,” will be hosted by the University Complutense of Madrid, July 3-9, 2008. The call for papers deadline is February 28, 2008.
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| July 3, 2008 | to | July 9, 2008 |
Mundos de Mujeres / Women’s Worlds, “the most important academic congress on gender and Women’s Studies and feminist social movements,” will be hosted by the University Complutense of Madrid, July 3-9, 2008. The call for papers deadline is February 28, 2008.
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The Fordham Environmental Law Review presents Energy and Climate Change: North and South Perspectives, Oct. 1, 2007, New York. The list of cosponsors is impressive: Sustainable Development Legal Initiative (SDLI), Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, Fordham Law School; Energy Project, Pace Law School; Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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| May 9, 2008 | to | May 12, 2008 |
Reprinted from lawprof|at|chicagokent.kentlaw.edu:
Greetings lawprofs. This is a call for papers and panelists, seeking proposals from senior academics and from LLM and SJD students as well. Jump to full post
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| November 9, 2007 | to | November 10, 2007 |
Globalizing Secured Credit Law: Current Problems, New Directions, at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California on November 9-10, 2007.
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| September 14, 2007 | to | September 15, 2007 |
William and Mary Marshall Wythe School of Law‘s Institute of Bill of Rights Law presents its Supreme Court Preview conference, Sept. 14-15, 2007, Williamsburg, VA. Participants include Joan Biskupic, Erwin Chemerinsky, Jeffrey Rosen, Kathleen Sullivan, and many more.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 2nd, 2007
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| February 14, 2008 | to | February 16, 2008 |
The J. Reuben Clark Law Society holds its Annual Conference at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (Tempe, AZ), on February 14-16, 2008. (The Law Society’s mission states “We affirm the strength brought to the law by a lawyer’s personal religious conviction. We strive through public service and professional excellence to promote fairness and virtue founded upon the rule of law.”)
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 2nd, 2007
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| January 6, 2009 | to | January 10, 2009 |
AALS Annual Meeting – Jan. 6-10, 2009, San Diego.
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Brooklyn
Michael S. Pardo (Alabama Law), Judicial Proof and the Best Explanation
Cincinnati
Victor Fleischer (Illinois Law), Regulatory Cost-Engineering: The Lawyer’s Role in Regulating Gamesmanship
Duke
David Barron (Harvard Law)
Duke Global Law
Lisa Hilbink (Minnesota Pol’y Sci), Judges beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile
Florida State
Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law), Optimal Political Control of the Bureaucracy
Georgetown Law and Economics
Kathy Spier (Harvard Law)
Missouri Law
Ian Ayres (Yale Business), Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk
UCLA Faculty Fridays
Tom Baker (UConn Law)
Vanderbilt
Jason Czarnezki (Marquette Law), An Empirical Investigation of Judicial Decisionmaking, Statutory Interpretation & the Chevron Doctrine in Environmental Law
Virginia Law
Amy Barrett (Notre Dame Law), Procedural Common Law
Washington University in St. Louis
Kevin Brown (Indiana Law)
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Brooklyn
Michael S. Pardo (Alabama Law), Judicial Proof and the Best Explanation
Cincinnati
Victor Fleischer (Illinois Law), Regulatory Cost-Engineering: The Lawyer’s Role in Regulating Gamesmanship
Duke
David Barron (Harvard Law)
Duke Global Law
Lisa Hilbink (Minnesota Pol’y Sci), Judges beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile
Florida State
Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law), Optimal Political Control of the Bureaucracy
Georgetown Law and Economics
Kathy Spier (Harvard Law)
Missouri Law
Ian Ayres (Yale Law), Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk
UCLA Faculty Fridays
Tom Baker (UConn Law), How the Merits Matter: D&O Insurance and Settlements in Securities Class Actions
Vanderbilt
Jason Czarnezki (Marquette Law), An Empirical Investigation of Judicial Decisionmaking, Statutory Interpretation & the Chevron Doctrine in Environmental Law
Virginia Law
Amy Barrett (Notre Dame Law), Procedural Common Law
Washington University in St. Louis
Kevin Brown (Indiana Law)
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 2nd, 2007
| Administrative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Environmental Law, Law and Economics, Law and Politics, Securities Law, Uncategorized |
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| November 15, 2007 | to | November 16, 2007 |
The Utah Law Review, Utah Criminal Justice Center, and Utah Criminal Justice Society (S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah) present Beyond Biology: Wrongful Convictions in the Post-DNA World, Salt Lake City, Nov. 15-16.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 1st, 2007
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| November 1, 2007 | to | November 2, 2007 |
The Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice (University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law) hosts Reclaiming and Reframing the Dialogue on Race and Racism: A Symposium Questioning the Social and Legal Assumptions About Racial Discrimination and Exploring Strategies to Advance Racial Justice, today and tomorrow, Nov. 1-2, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 1st, 2007
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The Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice (University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law) hosts Reclaiming and Reframing the Dialogue on Race and Racism: A Symposium Questioning the Social and Legal Assumptions About Racial Discrimination and Exploring Strategies to Advance Racial Justice, today and tomorrow, Nov. 1-2, 2007.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 1st, 2007
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Boston University
Amanda Frost (American Law), (Over)Valuing Uniformity
Brooklyn
Christopher Eisgruber (Princeton Law and Public Affairs), The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process
Columbia
Lani Guinier (Harvard Law), Beyond Electocracy: Rethinking The Political Representative as a Powerful Stranger
Columbia Tax Policy
Lily Batchelder (NYU Law), How Should an Ideal Consumption Tax or Income Tax Treat Wealth Transfers
Duke International and Comparative Law
Erhard Busek (Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe), Southeast Europe–A Region Regains Stability and Future: Changes and Open Problems (Kosovo, Bosnia, EU Enlargement)
Georgetown
Marty Lederman (Georgetown Law), The Commander in Chief at the Lowest Ebb
Minnesota Public Law
Gillian Metzger (Columbia Law), Administrative Law as the New Federalism
NYU Legal, Political and Social Philosophy
Ronald Dworkin (NYU Law), Responsibility Without Freedom
Stanford Law and Economics
Michael Meurer (Boston University Law), The Private Cost of Patent Litigation
Northwestern Law and Economics
Margaret F. Brinig (Notre Dame Law), The One-Size Fits All Family
Vanderbilt
Daniel Crane (Cardozo Law)
Washington University in St. Louis
Reva Siegel (Yale Law)
Yale Law and Economics
Glenn Loury (Brown Economics), Valuing Identity: The Simple Economics of Affirmative Action Programs
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 1st, 2007
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