The New England Law Review held its 2008 symposium, The Bhopal Disaster Approaches 25: Looking Back to Look Forward, on Feb. 8. The symposium discussed:
the causes and environmental and public health consequences of the 1984 chemical plant explosion in Bhopal, India;
theories of liability under which American companies can be held accountable for their international conduct through the lens of Bhopal; and
modern corporate responsibility in light of such disasters.
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 23rd, 2008
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The Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal held its 9th Annual Intellectual Property Law Symposium on Feb. 8, 2008. This page lists the presentations with links to the speakers’ slides; it may soon have streaming video as well.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 20th, 2008
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| May 9, 2008 | to | May 10, 2008 |
Osgoode Hall Law School (York University) hosts the Graduate Law Students’ Association Annual Conference May 9-10, 2008. The conference’s theme is Quo Vadis Constitution? The Boundaries of Modern Law. The call for papers deadline is March 3, 2008. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 8th, 2008
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Chicago Crime & Punishment
Andrew Dilts (Chicago Political Science Ph.D. Candidate)
Cincinnati
Robert Miller (Villanova Law), Directors as Advisors: The Role of Corporate Directors at Shareholder Meetings
Florida
Debra Lyn Bassett (Alabama Law), The Revolution of 1938 and its Discontents: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Today
Georgia International Law
Beth Simmons (Harvard Government), Theories of Commitment
Iowa
Hari Osofsky (Oregon Law)
Loyola LA
Steve Munzer (UCLA Law), Commons and Community in Biotechnological Assets
Minnesota
Ricardo Bascuas (Miami Law), Federal Sentencing: The American Inquisition
Notre Dame
Michael Moreland (Villanova Law), Torts
Queen’s Law
Alan Brudner (Toronto Law), Subjective Fault for Crime: A Reinterpretation
San Diego
Lisa Ramsey (San Diego Law)
Texas
Daniel Hamilton (Chicago-Kent), Emancipation and Contract Law: Litigating Human Property after the Civil War
Toronto Legal Theory
A.J. Julius (UCLA Philosophy), A Lonelier Contractualism
USC
Eric Claeys (George Mason Law), Jefferson Meets Coase: The Harm-Benefit Distinction in Tort Law and Economics and Natural Property Rights
Villanova
Joanna Grossman (Hofstra Law)
Virginia
Devah Pager (Princeton), Race at Work: Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets
Washburn
Sophie Sparrow (Franklin Pierce Law Center), Workshop: Using Grading Rubrics to Improve Teaching, Learning and Grading
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 8th, 2008
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Chicago Crime & Punishment
Andrew Dilts (Chicago Political Science Ph.D. Candidate)
Cincinnati
Robert Miller (Villanova Law), Directors as Advisors: The Role of Corporate Directors at Shareholder Meetings
Florida
Debra Lyn Bassett (Alabama Law), The Revolution of 1938 and its Discontents: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Today
Georgia International Law
Beth Simmons (Harvard Government), Theories of Commitment
Iowa
Hari Osofsky (Oregon Law)
Loyola LA
Steve Munzer (UCLA Law), Commons and Community in Biotechnological Assets
Minnesota
Ricardo Bascuas (Miami Law), Federal Sentencing: The American Inquisition
Notre Dame
Michael Moreland (Villanova Law), Torts
Queen’s Law
Alan Brudner (Toronto Law), Subjective Fault for Crime: A Reinterpretation
San Diego
Lisa Ramsey (San Diego Law)
Texas
Daniel Hamilton (Chicago-Kent), Emancipation and Contract Law: Litigating Human Property after the Civil War
Toronto Legal Theory
A.J. Julius (UCLA Philosophy), A Lonelier Contractualism
USC
Eric Claeys (George Mason Law), Jefferson Meets Coase: The Harm-Benefit Distinction in Tort Law and Economics and Natural Property Rights
Villanova
Joanna Grossman (Hofstra Law)
Virginia
Devah Pager (Princeton), Race at Work: Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets
Washburn
Sophie Sparrow (Franklin Pierce Law Center), Workshop: Using Grading Rubrics to Improve Teaching, Learning and Grading
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 8th, 2008
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| February 8, 2008 | to | February 9, 2008 |
Spoils of War v. Cultural Heritage: The Russian Cultural Property Law in Historical Context is sponsored by Harvard Law School Arts & Literature Law Society;
Commission for Art Recovery; Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University; Foundation for International Cultural Diplomacy; Harvard Law School European Law Research Center, Feb. 8-9, 2008, at Harvard.
After WWII, Soviet authorities, seeking reparations for the extensive costs of Nazi aggression, used special “Trophy Brigades” to empty museums, castles, and salt mines in Germany and Eastern Europe, transporting millions of cultural treasures to the USSR. These included German state-owned cultural objects, cultural objects taken from churches and synagogues, as well as a great deal of private property that had been looted by the Germans from individuals. The art works taken back to the Soviet Union were held in relative secrecy for years, until the final years of glastnost (Гла́сность). As European countries started to demand their cultural treasures and archives, Russian legislators passed a law that potentially nationalizes all cultural treasures brought to Russia at the end of World War II. In 1999 the Constitutional Court issued an opinion basically upholding the law. How do these actions comport with international law? What are the chances for restitution of these displaced cultural valuables?
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 19th, 2008
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| February 6, 2008 | to | February 8, 2008 |
The Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London hosts Commercial Law - Where from and Where to? Feb. 6-8, 2008. Panels include scholars from the UK, US, EU, and China discussing international commercial law topics. For more information, see the announcement on SSRN.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 9th, 2007
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| February 8, 2008 | to | February 9, 2008 |
The Institute of Bill of Rights Law (William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law) and the William & Mary Law Review present Citizen Lawyer, Feb. 8-9, 2008:
This conference will critically examine the “citizen lawyer” idea. Even the definition of the citizen lawyer can be a broadly debated thing. Some would say the citizen lawyer is the lawyer who serves in government or specifically in public office. Some focus on the pro bono aspect, identifying the citizen lawyer as one who does public service of a wide variety. Some, holding the broadest view would say that all lawyers are citizen lawyers, serving as they do a critical role in the justice system or the economic life of the country.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 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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| February 8, 2008 | to | February 9, 2008 |
The Harvard Law School Program on Law and Social Thought, the HLS European Law Research Center and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law are in the midst of a multi-year project in comparative family law entitled “Up Against Family Law Exceptionalism.”
This series commenced at a conference held at HLS in February 2007. In 2007-08, they will conduct three workshops focusing on special topics within our broader inquiry: Part One, FLE in Colonization/Decolonization/Modernization, was Sept. 14-15, 2007, in Dighton, MA; Part Two, FLE and the Economic Family, will be Feb. 8-9, 2008, at the University of Toronto; and Part Three, Genealogies of “The Family” and “Family Law”, at a date and location to be announced.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 11th, 2007
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UCLA School of Law hosts The Law of Succession in the 21st Century, Feb. 8, 2008. Details after the jump. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 24th, 2007
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| February 8, 2008 | to | February 9, 2008 |
Widener Law School in Harrisburg, PA hosts a works-in-progress conference for junior property scholars (Junior Scholars Conference), February 8 and 9, 2008. Details after the jump. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 11th, 2007
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