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March 11, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago-Kent

Josef Drexl (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law)

Georgetown

Adam Samaha (Chicago Law), Originalism’s Expiration Date

Loyola

Robert Miller (Villanova Law), Deal Risk and The Economics of Materials

Notre Dame

Rick Garnett (Notre Dame Law), The ‘Hands-Off’ Approach to Religious Doctrine: What are We Talking About

Ohio State

Samuel R. Bagenstos (Washington University in St. Louis Law)

Suffolk

Peer Zumbansen (York Law), Comparative Corporate Governance

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 10th, 2008 | Comparative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Gender, Law and Religion, Business Law, Law and Economics, Uncategorized | no comments

Medical Tourism - Madison

March 7, 2008

The Wisconsin International Law Journal held a symposium last week (March 7, 2008) entitled Dialogue on Cross-Border Health Care: Medical Tourism Meets Health Law: US - EU Dialogue.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 10th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

Medical Tourism - Madison

The Wisconsin International Law Journal held a symposium last week (March 7, 2008) entitled Dialogue on Cross-Border Health Care: Medical Tourism Meets Health Law: US - EU Dialogue.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 10th, 2008 | International Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Working from the World Up: Equality’s Future - Madison

March 14, 2008toMarch 15, 2008

Working From the World Up: Equality’s Future: A New Legal Realism* Conference Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project will take place March 14-15, 2008, in Madison. Sponsors are the University of Wisconsin Law School, the Institute for Legal Studies, the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Emory University, and the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society.

* Read about the New Legal Realism here.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 10th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

Working from the World Up: Equality’s Future - Madison

Working From the World Up: Equality’s Future: A New Legal Realism* Conference Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project will take place March 14-15, 2008, in Madison. Sponsors are the University of Wisconsin Law School, the Institute for Legal Studies, the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Emory University, and the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society.

* Read about the New Legal Realism here.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 10th, 2008 | Law and Gender, Jurisprudence, CONFERENCES | no comments

Securities Class Actions - Naples, FL

April 10, 2008toApril 11, 2008

The Continuing Evolution of Securities Class Actions, the 14th annual ILEP conference, will be held April 10-11, 2008, in Naples, FL. It is sponsored by the Institute for Law and Economic Policy and the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 10th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

Securities Class Actions - Naples, FL

The Continuing Evolution of Securities Class Actions, the 14th annual ILEP conference, will be held April 10-11, 2008, in Naples, FL. It is sponsored by the Institute for Law and Economic Policy and the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 10th, 2008 | Civil Procedure, Securities Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Teaching Contracts - Madison

February 15, 2008toFebruary 16, 2008

Contracts Law scholars gathered at the University of Wisconsin Law School on February 15 and 16, 2008, for a Contracts Workshop to discuss current teaching and scholarship in the field.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 10th, 2008 | EVENTS, CONFERENCES | no comments

Teaching Contracts - Madison

Contracts Law scholars gathered at the University of Wisconsin Law School on February 15 and 16, 2008, for a Contracts Workshop to discuss current teaching and scholarship in the field.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 10th, 2008 | Legal Education, CONFERENCES, Contract Law | no comments

March 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

March 14, 2008

Georgetown International Human Rights

Paolo Carozza (Notre Dame Law), The ‘Art’ of Democracy and the ‘Taste For Local Freedom’: International Human Rights and the American Constitutional Difference

Notre Dame

Barbara Stark (Hofstra Law), International Law

San Diego

Cary Coglianese (Penn Law)

UCLA Faculty Fridays

Eric Biber (UC Berkeley Law), Too Many Things to Do: How to Deal with the Dysfunctions of Multiple-Goal Agencies

Virginia

Tonja Jacobi (Northwestern Law), Supermedians

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 10th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, Law and Humanities, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, Uncategorized | no comments

March 13, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

March 13, 2008

Columbia

George Fletcher (Columbia Law), CORRECTING EVIL Tort Liability for Human Rights Abuses 

Fordham

Jae Lee (Fordham Law), Recidivism as Omission: A Relational Account

Georgetown

Mary Anne Case (Chicago Law), Feminist Fundamentalism

Georgia State

James Fleming (Boston University Law), Are We All Originalists Now? I Hope Not!

Harvard

Jennifer Gerarda Brown (Quinnipiac Law), Peacemaking in the Culture War Between Gay Rights and Religious Liberty 

Harvard Legal History

Hendrik Hartog (Princeton), Planning for Old Age

Michigan Law & Economics

Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law), Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Care Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan

Minnesota Faculty Works

Miranda McGowan (San Diego Law)

NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance

Ruth Mason (UConn Law), Made in America for European Taxation: The Internal Consistency Test

Northwestern Tax

Larry Zelenak (Duke Law), The Federal Retail Sales Tax that Wasn’t: An Actual History and an Alternative History 

Stanford Law & Economics

Abraham Wickelgren (Northwestern Law) & Warren Schwartz (Georgetown Law), Credible Discovery, Settlement, and Negative Expected Value Suits 

Toronto Health Law

Jill Horwitz (Michigan Law), What do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix  

Vanderbilt

Sanford Levinson (Texas Law)

Yale Legal Theory

W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell Law), Government Lawyers in the Liberal State

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 10th, 2008 | Law and Sexuality, Elder Law, Evidence Law, Comparative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, Law and Politics, Law and Technology, Insurance Law, Law and Gender, Law and Religion, Tax Law, Health Law, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Tort Law, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Legal History, Uncategorized | no comments

March 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

March 10, 2008

Chicago-Kent

Josef Drexl (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law)

Chicago Law & Philosophy

Alan Wertheimer (Vermont Political Science)

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Alastair Norcross (Rice Philosophy), Consequentialism and Commitment

Georgetown Statutory

Lisa Schultz Bressman (Vanderbilt Law), Administrative Law

Harvard

Gary Bass (Princeton Politics), Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

Harvard International Law

Jonathan Baron (Penn Psychology)

Michigan International Law

Ambassador Luigi R. Einaudi (Secretary General, Organization of American States), The Ideal and Practice of Democratic Legitimacy in Latin America

Northwestern Law & Economics

Betsey Stevenson (Penn Business), Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

Queen’s Law

John Gardner (Oxford), H.L.A. Hart’s Punishment and Responsibility: Forty Years On

Rutgers-Camden

Michael Dorf (Columbia law), Dynamic Incorporation of Foreign Law

Seton Hall

Brett Frischmann (Loyola-Chicago Law)

Stanford Internet & Society

Jim Bessen (Boston University Law), Patent Failure

St. John’s

Alexandra D. Lahav (UConn Law), Advocacy at Unfair Hearings

UC Berkeley

Malcolm Feeley (UC Berkeley Law) & Edward Rubin (Vanderbilt Law), Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise

UC Berkeley Law & Economics

Ethan Kaplan (UC Berkeley Economics) & Arindrajit Dube (UC Berkeley Wage and Employment) & Suresh Naidu (UC Berkeley Ph.D.), Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information

UCLA Mondays

Arleen Leibowitz (UCLA Public Policy), The Road to Health is Paved With Poor Incentives

USC Law, Economics and Organization

Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), Guarding the Guardians: The Law & Economics of Judicial Councils

Yale Corporate Law

Paul Grossman (Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker), Imaginative Responses to Real World Litigation Problems

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 9th, 2008 | Law and Sexuality, Comparative Law, Law and Society, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, Law and Philosophy, Law and Technology, Law and Economics, Administrative Law, Health Law, Criminal Law, Education Law, Business Law, International Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments