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Climate Change - New Orleans

April 4, 2008toApril 5, 2008

Tulane Law School’s 13th Annual Environmental Conference on Law, Science & the Public Interest — Climate Change: In the Community & the Courtroom — was April 4-5, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 14th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

April 11, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

April 11, 2008

Cincinnati

Ajay Mehrotra (Indiana Law), The Public Control of Corporate Power: The 1909 Corporate Tax, the Sixteenth Amendment, and the Legal Foundations of the Modern Fiscal State

Florida

Paul Butler (George Washington Law)

Georgetown International Human Rights

Balakrishnan Rajagopal (MIT), The Limits of Legalizing Social Rights

Ohio State

Mitu Gulati (Duke Law)

Texas

Brian Tamanaha (St. John’s Law), The Bogus Tale About the Legal Formalists

UCLA Faculty Fridays

Vicki Schultz (Yale Law)

USC

Gillian Lester (UC Berkeley Law)

Virginia

Adam Levitin (Georgetown Law), Mortgage Market Sensitivity to Bankruptcy Modification

Washington

Robert Aronson (Washington Law), Winning at All Costs: Ethics and Integrity in Law, Sports, and Film

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 5th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, Bankruptcy Law, Legal Ethics, Law and Economics, Business Law, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

April 10, 2008

Akron

Arti K. Rai (Duke Law), The Supreme Court (Re)Discovers Patents: Implications for the Biopharmaceutical Industry

Boston University

Robert Hillman (Cornell Law)

Columbia

Elizabeth Emens (Columbia Law), Intimate Discrimination: The State’s Role in the Accidents of Sex and Love

Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender

Noah Zatz (UCLA Law), What Is a Working Family?: Revisiting the Class parity Analysis of Welfare Work Requirements & What Welfare Requires from Work

Florida State

Rick Geddes (Cornell Human Ecology)

Georgetown

Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law), Transnational Labor Citizenship

Georgia State

Dr. Ellen Bassee

Harvard

Laurence Helfer (Vanderbilt Law), Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community

Michigan Law & Economics

Guy Rub (Michigan Law, Student Fellow), The Efficiency of Contracts that Reallocate Entitlements in Creative Work: A Skeptical View

Minnesota Faculty Works

Jessica Litman (Michigan Law), Rethinking Copyright

Missouri

Catherine Smith (Denver Law)

NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance

Alan Auerbach (UC Berkeley Law), Long-Term Objectives for Government Debt

Suffolk

Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law), Comparative Corporate Law and Emerging Markets

Temple International Law

Jutta Brunnee (Toronto Law), Interactional International Law: Reflections on Obligations

UCLA Legal Theory

Sarah Song (UC Berkeley Law), Three Models of Civic Solidarity

Yale Human Rights

Ralph Steinhardt (George Washington Law), Corporate Complicity and the Alien Tort Statute

Yale Law & Economics

C. Fritz Foley (Harvard Business), Welfare Payments and Crime

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 5th, 2008 | Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, Tort Law, Comparative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Technology, EVENTS, Commercial Law, International Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, Contract Law, Health Law, Business Law, Tax Law, Family Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 9, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

April 9, 2008

Chicago International Law

Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), International Delegation Through Treaties: The Nth Power

Chicago-Kent

Michal Gal (Haifa Law)

Connecticut

David Garland (NYU Sociology), Peculiar Institution: Capital Punishment and American Society

Michigan Tax Policy

David Gamage (UC Berkeley Law), Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidance: A Tentative Defense of “Double Taxation”

NYU Legal History

Sophia Lee (NYU Law, Golieb Fellow), Hotspots in a Cold War: The NAACP’s Postwar Workplace Constitutionalism, 1948-1964 & Chapter 4 - Almost Revolutionary: Administrative Constitutionalism, Labor Politics & Workplace Civil Rights, 1935-1978

Oregon Environment and Natural Resources Law

Kathy Cashman (Oregon Geology), Geologic Perspectives on Paleoclimate

Toronto Tax Law & Policy

Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), Murphy vs. IRS: Another Front in the War Against the Income Tax

UC Hastings

Hadar Aviram (UC Hastings Law)

Villanova

Frank Valdes (Miami Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 5th, 2008 | Labor and Employment Law, Legal History, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Science, EVENTS, International Law, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property, Criminal Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 8, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

April 8, 2008

Chicago Law & Politics

John Witt (Columbia Law), Form and Substance in the Law of Counterinsurgency Damages

Chicago-Kent

Cynthia Estlund (NYU Law)

Chicago-Kent Legal History

Serena Mayeri (Penn Law)

Connecticut Tax

Joshua Blank (NYU Law), What’s Wrong With Shaming Corporate Tax Abuse

Duke International & Comparative Law

Angelos Pangratis (European Union), The Future of E.U.-U.S. Relations

Fordham

William Eskridge, Jr. (Fordham Law), Vetogates, Chevron, Preemption

Georgetown

Gregg Bloche (Georgetown Law), The Emergent Logic of Health Care

Harvard Internet & Society

Steve Ward (Oxford Internet Institute)

Loyola

Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), The Life Span of Written Constitutions

Minnesota Law & History

Tom Romero II (Hamline Law), Creating and Containing the Multiracial Hetereotopia: Kelo, Parents, and the Spatialization of Color(blindness) in the Berman-Brown Postmetroplis

St. Thomas (Mn)

Charles Reid (St. Thomas (Mn) Law)

Toronto Law & Literature

Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa English), Give Me a Precedent: Past, Present and Future in Victorian Fiction and Law

UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations

Stephen Choi (NYU Law), Empirical Evidence on Securities Arbitration

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 5th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Comparative Law, National Security Law, EVENTS, Law and Technology, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Politics, Law and Race, Law and Literature, Constitutional Law, Tax Law, Health Law, International Law, Securities Law, Law and Economics, Legal History, Uncategorized | no comments

April 7, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

April 7, 2008

Alabama

Jim Krier (Michigan Law)

Chicago Law & Philosophy

John Hagan (Northwestern Sociology)

Columbia Law & Economics

Efraim Benmelech (Harvard Economics), Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Leif Wenar (Sheffield Philosophy), The Analysis of Rights

Georgetown Statutory Colloquium

Theodore Ruger (Penn Law), Gonzales v. Oregon and the Normative Constitution of American Health Care

Georgia

David Arthur Skeel (Penn Law)

Harvard

Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown Law), The Endowment Effect: Implications of Recent Empirical Developments for Legal Theory & Exchange Asymmetries Incorrectly Interpreted as Evidence of Endowment Effect Theory and Prospect Theory

Harvard International Law

Paul Slovic (Oregon Psychology)

Michigan International Law

Eleanor Sharpston (Advocate General, European Court of Justice), ‘Freedom, Security, and Justice’ in the European Union: The Story so Far and (some of) the Challenges for the Future

Penn Law & Philosophy

Jody Kraus (Virginia Law), The Correspondence and Divergence in Contract and Promise 

Rutgers-Camden

Frank Pasquale (Seton Hall Law), Taxing Tiering: Addressing Inequality in Health Care as Cross-Subsidization Declines

Seton Hall

Stephanie Ben-Ishai (York Law)

St. John’s

Rosemary C. Salomone (St. John’s Law), Official English: The Reality and the Rhetoric

Stetson

Jerry L. Anderson (Drake Law), An Empirical Study of Attitudes Toward Zoning

Texas

Albert Choi (Virginia Law)

Michael Conroy (Colibri Consulting), How Civil Society is Striking Back at Neoliberal Globalization: Tales from the ‘Certification Revolution’

UC Berkeley

Richard Perry (San Jose State University), On the Strange Career of the Cultural Defense

UC Berkeley Law & Economics

Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law) & Jide Nzelibe (Northwestern Law), Political Accountability Under Alternative Institutional Regimes

UCLA Faculty Mondays

Fiona Harrison (California Institute of Technology), Three Big Questions about the Universe (and how Astrophysicists are trying to answer them)

Yale Corporate Law

William H. McDavid (Ret. General Counsel, J.P. Morgan Chase), Enron: The Aftermath

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 5th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Humanities, Empirical Legal Studies, EVENTS, Law and Politics, Courts, Law and Philosophy, Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, Health Law, Property Law, Business Law, Tax Law, International Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Critical Tax Conference - Tallahassee, FL

April 4, 2008toApril 5, 2008

Florida State University College of Law hosts the Critical Tax Conference April 4-5.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 2nd, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

Law and Neuroscience - Palo Alto, CA

April 5, 2008

Stanford Law School hosts the Junior Scholars Law and Neuroscience Workshop April 5, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 2nd, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

The Forgotten Constitutional Amendments - Des Moines, IA

April 5, 2008
8:30 amto12:30 pm

The Drake Constitutional Law Center is hosting its annual Symposium on The Forgotten Constitutional Amendments on Sat. April 5, 2008 from 8:30 am to 12:15 pm. The focus will be on the U.S. Constitution’s Ninth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment’s Privileges or Immunities Clause. Speakers will include Professor Dan Farber (Berkeley Law), Professor Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), Professor Michael Kent Curtis (Wake Forest Law), and others. For more information, contact Amy Russell at amy.russell[at]drake.edu.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 3rd, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

The Individual and Customary Int’l Law - Bloomington

April 3, 2008toApril 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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 29th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

Values and Medicine - Ewing, NJ

April 5, 2008toApril 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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 12th, 2007 | EVENTS | no comments

Where Truth Meets Fiction: A National Symposium on the Intersection of Forensic Science and Pop Culture

April 3, 2008toApril 5, 2008

Where Truth Meets Fiction: A National Symposium on the Intersection of Forensic Science and Pop Culture at Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 3-5, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007 | EVENTS | no comments