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| February 29, 2008 | ||
| April 18, 2008 |
Washington University School of Law’s next junior faculty workshop is April 18, 2008. This follows workshops held Nov. 30, 2007, and Feb. 29, 2008. Another junior faculty workshop will be held in early summer (date TBA). (Follow the link to see the speakers and papers for all four workshops.)
| February 28, 2008 | to | February 29, 2008 |
The Gonzaga Journal of International Law hosted International Trade: Law or Politics? Feb. 28-29, 2008.
| February 29, 2008 |
The UCLA Journal of International Law & Foreign Affairs held its 12th annual symposium, Crossing Borders: Trasnational Public Interest Law on Feb. 29, 2008.
| February 29, 2008 |
The University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law held its symposium, Trade Sanctions in a 21st Century Economy: Are They An Appropriate Or Effective Means Of Altering State Behavior?, on Friday, February 29th, 2008. The symposium was co-sponsored by the Institute for Law and Economics.
| February 28, 2008 | to | February 29, 2008 |
Barry Law Review and the Center for Earth Jurisprudence hosted a symposium, Framing an Earth Jurisprudcence for a Planet in Peril, Feb. 28-29, 2008. Webcasts of the presentations are available on the conference website.
| April 3, 2008 | to | April 5, 2008 |
On April 3-5, 2008, the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington will host The Individual and Customary International Law Formation. The conference will explore the current disjuncture in customary international law that results in individuals being subjects of this category of law, but not legitimate participants in its formation.
On April 3-5, 2008, the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington will host The Individual and Customary International Law Formation. The conference will explore the current disjuncture in customary international law that results in individuals being subjects of this category of law, but not legitimate participants in its formation.
On March 19-21, 2008, the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies will host Operationalizing Global Governance at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.
| March 19, 2008 | to | March 21, 2008 |
On March 19-21, 2008, the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies will host Operationalizing Global Governance at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.
| May 1, 2008 |
Bioethics announces a special issue on Ethical Implications of Social Determinants of Health to be published in February 2009, with guest editors Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. Parmet. The submission deadline is May 1, 2008.
Bioethics announces a special issue on Ethical Implications of Social Determinants of Health to be published in February 2009, with guest editors Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. Parmet. The submission deadline is May 1, 2008.
| April 10, 2008 |
Pepperdine School of Law presents Negotiating, Mediating, and Managing Conflict: Evolution in a Global Society co-sponsored by the
Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and the Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal. The symposium is Thursday, April 10, 2008.
Pepperdine School of Law presents Negotiating, Mediating, and Managing Conflict: Evolution in a Global Society co-sponsored by the
Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and the Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal. The symposium is Thursday, April 10, 2008.
| March 7, 2008 |
Steve R. Johnson (UNLV Law), The Who and What of Anti-Abuse Rules: The Debate over Codifying the Economic Substance Doctrine
Laurence Ashworth (Queen’s Business), Advertising Deception, Correction, and Defensive Consumers
Rosemary Coombe (York University), A Broken Record: Music as a Subject of Cultural Rights
Andrew Taslitz (Howard Law), Wrongly Accused Redux: How Race Contributes to Convicting the Innocent - the Informants Example
Eric Posner (Chicago Law), Professionals or Politicians: The Uncertain Empirical Case for an Elected Rather than Appointed Judiciary
Michael Hunter Schwartz (Washburn Law), Instructional Design-Based Law School Teaching Methodologies
| March 6, 2008 |
Laura Beny (Michigan Law), Private Regulation of Insider Trading in the Shadow of Lax Public Enforcement (and a Strong Neighbor)–Evidence from Canadian Firms
George Fisher (Stanford Law), Married to Alcohol: The Drug War’s Moral Roots
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Jane Dailey (Chicago History), White Supremacy Is in Peril: Race, Marriage and Sovereignty in the New World Order
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default
Ayelet Shachar (Toronto Law), The Global Race for Talent
Robert Daines (Stanford Law), Rating the Ratings: How Good are the Commercial Governance Ratings?
Alexandra B. Klass (Minnesota Law) & Elizabeth Wilson (Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs), Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration: A Consideration of Tort and Property Law
Michael Knoll (Penn Law), The Tax Advantage of ‘Sweat Equity’: What it is and its Relationship to the Carried Interest Controversy
NYU Tax Policy and Public Finance
Mihir Desai (Harvard Business), Foreign-Direct Investment and Domestic Economic Activity
St. Thomas (MN)
Robert Ahdieh (Emory Law), Standardization 2.0: A New Version of the Game
Peter Smith (George Washington Law), Originalism’s Living Constitutionalism
Chidi Oguamanam (Dalhousie Law), The Future of Personalized Medicine and Personalizing the Medicine of the Future: In Search of Insights from Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Shareen Hertel (UConn Political Science), Rights in Conflict: Insights from Transnational Labor and Economic Rights
Michael Woodford (Columbia Economics), Principles and Public Policy Decisions: The Case of Monetary Policy
Yale Workplace Theory & Policy
Jacob Hacker (Yale Political Science), The Politics of Risk Privatization in U.S. Social Policy
| March 5, 2008 | ||
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Pauline Kim (Washington Law), Exploring Panel Effects: Deliberation and Strategy on the United States Courts of Appeals
Lloyd Bonfield (New York Law School), Lord Chief Justice King’s Reports - 1714-22: ‘Commercial Law’
Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Financial Innovation and the New Chapter 11
Giuseppe De Palo (Hamline Law), The Globalization of the ‘ADR Movement
Megan Reid (USC Religion), Punishment and Appropriate Justice in Islamic Societies
Washington
Signe Brunstad (Washington Law) & Toshiko Takenaka (Washington Law), Cross-Border Cultural Teaching Experience: License Negotiation and Mock Trial with European Law Students
| March 4, 2008 |
Nathaniel Persily (Columbia Law), Vote Fraud in the Eye of the Beholder: The Role of Public Opinion in the Challenge to Voter Identification Requirements
Graeme W. Austin (Arizona Law), What is Copyright? A Constitutional Question, Apparently
Allison Tirres (DePaul Law), The Railroad, the Courthouse, and the Making of New Legal Borderlands
Yaffa Epstein, From Emission to Pollution: Business Interests and the Regulation of Smoke Emission in the Twin Cities, 1890-1910
St. Thomas (MN)
Barbara Harlow (Texas English), Tortured Thoughts: The Example Set by Ruth Frst from her Interrogation in 1963 to her Assassination in 1982
Washington
Wei Song (China Law Institute), From Invention to Innovation: Laws and Regulations of Technology Transfer in China
Mark Graber (Maryland Law), Maintaining Judicial Review: The Debate Over Section 25 Revisited
| March 3, 2008 |
Vikrant Vig (London Business), Securitization and Screening: Evidence from Subprime Mortgage Back Securities
Adrienne Davis (Virgina Law), Slavert & Shadow Families: Re-Thinking Miscegenation Regulation Through the Lens of Castle
Ian Ayres (Yale Law), Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk
Sheryll Cashin (Georgetown Law), Race, Class and the American Dream
Rebecca Tushnet (Georgetown Law), Power Without Responsibility: Intermediaries and the First Amendment
Rebecca M. Bratspies (CUNY Law), The Need for Trust in Regulatory Systems
Sonia Katyal (Fordham Law), Intellectual Property
Anthony J. Sebok (Brooklyn Law), The Inauthentic Claim
David Harvey (CUNY Anthropology), From Capital Surplus to Accumulation by Dispossession
Elizabeth Chambliss (New York Law School), When Do Facts Persuade? Some Thoughts on the Market for ‘Empirical Legal Studies’
Austen Parrish (Southwestern Law), Reclaiming International Law from Extraterritoriality
USC Law, Economics and Organization
Edward R. Morrison (Columbia Law), Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11
Washington University in St. Louis
Eleazer Klein (Schulte Roth & Zabel), Current Issues in Private Placement: A Case Study
Dayna Brown Matthew (Colorado Law), Race, Religion and Informed Consent — Lessons from Social Science
Russell A. Miller (Washington & Lee Law), Comparative Law in the Era of Global Terrorism: A Case Study for Germany’s Militant Democracy
Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt Law), Adam Smith and the Search for an Ideal Tax System
Lonny Hoffman (Houston Law), Burn Up the Chaff with Unquenchable Fire: Constructing a Sustainable Theory of Judicial Regulatory Power Over Pleading Norms
Tonya Putnam (Columbia Political Science), Beyond Presumption?: Explaining Extraterritorial Variation over Civil Claims
Brian Levack (Texas History), The Prosecution of Sexual Crimes in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law) & Robin Lenhardt (Fordham Law), Rethinking Work and Citizenship
Norman Spaulding (Stanford Law), Professional Independence in the Office of the Attorney General
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Owen D. Jones (Vanderbilt Law), Harm and Punishment: An fMRI Experiment
Karl F. Jorda (Franklin Pierce Law), Patent/Trade Secret Complementariness: An Unsuspected Synergism
| February 29, 2008 |
Dayna Brown Matthew (Colorado Law), Race, Religion and Informed Consent — Lessons from Social Science
Russell A. Miller (Washington & Lee Law), Comparative Law in the Era of Global Terrorism: A Case Study for Germany’s Militant Democracy
Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt Law), Adam Smith and the Search for an Ideal Tax System
Lonny Hoffman (Houston Law), Burn Up the Chaff with Unquenchable Fire: Constructing a Sustainable Theory of Judicial Regulatory Power Over Pleading Norms
Tonya Putnam (Columbia Political Science), Beyond Presumption?: Explaining Extraterritorial Variation over Civil Claims
Brian Levack (Texas History), The Prosecution of Sexual Crimes in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law) & Robin Lenhardt (Fordham Law), Rethinking Work and Citizenship
Norman Spaulding (Stanford Law), Professional Independence in the Office of the Attorney General
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Owen D. Jones (Vanderbilt Law), Harm and Punishment: An fMRI Experiment
Karl F. Jorda (Franklin Pierce Law), Patent/Trade Secret Complementariness: An Unsuspected Synergism
| February 29, 2008 |
The South Carolina Law Review presents The Roberts Court and Equal Protection: Gender, Race, and Class Feb. 29, 2008.
| February 29, 2008 |
The St. John’s Journal of Legal Commentary presents its 15th Annual Symposium, The National Security Constitution: New Threats, New Rules?, Feb. 29, 2008.
| February 29, 2008 |
The Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly hosts the CLQ 2008 Symposium, Frontiers of Democracy: Voters, Elections & Reform, Feb. 29, 2008.
| February 29, 2008 |
Thomas Jefferson School of Law hosts the Eighth Annual Women and the Law Conference: Women in Politics and The Role of Gender in Political Decision Making, Fri., Feb. 29, 2008.
This year’s Women and the Law Conference brings together an inspirational panel of female politicians and political scientists to examine the role of gender in U.S. politics. The conference speakers will explore a number of topics, including: the intersection of race, class and gender in elections; the role of gender in campaign messages; gender voting patterns; partisan differences in the nomination of women to office, female congressional candidates; and male/female judicial voting patterns.
| February 29, 2008 |
The Third International Legal Ethics Conference, co-hosted by the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland and Griffith Law School of Griffith University, will be held at the Sheraton Mirage Gold Coast resort, July 13-16, 2008. The call for papers deadline is Feb. 29, 2008. Jump to full post
| February 29, 2008 | to | March 1, 2008 |
The University of Chicago Law School hosts Torture, Law, and War: What are the moral and legal boundaries on the use of coercion in interrogation? February 29-March 1, 2008. The conference is in conjunction with the University of Chicago Law School’s year-long Law and Philosophy Workshop focused on coercion. It will address the nature, history, psychology, law, and ethics of coercive interrogation.
| February 29, 2008 |
The Institute of European Law at Birmingham Law School hosts The Next 50 Years: The Future of European Law & Policy: Conference on European Law & Policy in Context, July 3-4, 2008. The call for papers deadline is Feb. 29, 2008.
“Scholars and postgraduate research students in any discipline are invited to submit proposals for papers on any issue regarding the future of European Law and Policy, in particular EU membership , EU institutions and decision- making , EU policies , the protection of fundamental rights , and EU relations with the outside world.”
| February 29, 2008 |
The UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs presents Transnational Public Interest Law: Lawyering for Social Justice, Feb. 29, 2008.
| February 28, 2008 | to | March 1, 2008 |
Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey hosts Global Legal Skills Conference III, Feb. 28-March 1, 2008. Details here.
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