Legal Scholarship Blog

Legal Doubt, Scientific Certainty - Alabama

Alabama Law School hosted Legal Doubt, Scienfitic Certainty: What Scientific Knowledge Does For and To the Law on April 11, 2008.

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | Law and Technology, EVENTS, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Evidence Law | no comments

Legal Doubt, Scientific Certainty - Alabama

Alabama Law School hosted Legal Doubt, Scientific Certainty: What Scientific Knowledge Does For and To the Law on April 11, 2008.

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | Law and Technology, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Evidence Law | no comments

Disability, Reproduction, and Parenting - St. Louis

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy and
the Center for Health Law Studies presented the 20th Annual Saint Louis University Health Law Symposium, Disability, Reproduction and Parenting, April 4, 2008.

Thanks: Reproductive Rights Prof Blog.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

Disability, Reproduction, and Parenting - St. Louis

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law Policy and the Center for Health Law Studies presented the 20th Annual Saint Louis University Health Law Symposium, Disability, Reproduction and Parenting, April 4, 2008.

Thanks: Reproductive Rights Prof Blog.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | Disability Law, Family Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Products Liability Restatement - Brooklyn

Brooklyn Law School will host The Products Liability Restatement: Was it a Success? Nov. 13-14, 2008.

Thanks: Mass Tort Litigation Blog.

Update (June 5, 2008): A list of scheduled participants is here.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

Products Liability Restatement - Brooklyn

Brooklyn Law School will host The Products Liability Restatement: Was it a Success? Nov. 13-14, 2008.

Thanks: Mass Tort Litigation Blog.

Update (June 5, 2008): A list of scheduled participants is here.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | Tort Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Politics of International Law - San Francisco

Golden Gate University School of Law hosts the 17th Annual Regional Meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and the 18th Annual Fulbright Symposium: Politics of International Law, Friday, April 18, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

Politics of International Law - San Francisco

Golden Gate University School of Law hosts the 17th Annual Regional Meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and the 18th Annual Fulbright Symposium: Politics of International Law, Friday, April 18, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | International Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Immigration and Communities of Color - San Francisco

Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal’s 2008 Symposium, Confronting Hidden Borders: Immigration and Uniting Communities of Color, takes place Thursday, April 17, 2008, 3-8 p.m.

Thanks: ImmigrationProf Blog.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | Immigration Law, Law and Race, CONFERENCES | no comments

Immigration and Communities of Color - San Francisco

Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal’s 2008 Symposium, Confronting Hidden Borders: Immigration and Uniting Communities of Color, takes place Thursday, April 17, 2008, 3-8 p.m.

Thanks: ImmigrationProf Blog.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

The New Politics of Racial Uplift - Philadelphia

Stand Up! The New Politics of Racial Uplift: A Public Philosophy Symposium, May 2, 2008, is sponsored by Temple University Department of Philosophy, the Office of the Provost, the College of Liberal Arts, the Center for Humanities at Temple, the Ira Lawrence Family Fund, and the Jamestown Project.

Thanks: Feminist Law Professors.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

The New Politics of Racial Uplift - Philadelphia

Stand Up! The New Politics of Racial Uplift: A Public Philosophy Symposium, May 2, 2008, is sponsored by Temple University Department of Philosophy, the Office of the Provost, the College of Liberal Arts, the Center for Humanities at Temple, the Ira Lawrence Family Fund, and the Jamestown Project.

Thanks: Feminist Law Professors.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | Law and Race, CONFERENCES | no comments

Future of the Global Law Firm - Washington, DC

Georgetown Law’s Center for the Study of the Legal Profession is sponsoring The Future of the Global Law Firm April 17-18, 2008.

Thanks: Legal Profession Blog.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

Future of the Global Law Firm - Washington, DC

Georgetown Law’s Center for the Study of the Legal Profession is sponsoring The Future of the Global Law Firm April 17-18, 2008.

Thanks: Legal Profession Blog.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | Legal Ethics, CONFERENCES | no comments

April 11, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

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 11th, 2008 | Legal Ethics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Economics, Civil Rights Law, Business Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 11, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

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

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 | EVENTS | no comments

Law, Knowledge, and Imagination - Legal Doubt of Scientific Certainty - Tuscaloosa

Austin Sarat is organizing a three-part conference at the University of Alabama School of Law: Law, Knowledge, and Imagination.

Oct. 19, 2007 - Law’s History: How Law Understands the Past

Jan. 11, 2008 - Imagining a New Constitution for the United States in the 21st Century

April 11, 2008 - Legal Doubt of Scientific Certainty: What Scientific Knowledge Does For and to Law

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 2nd, 2007 | EVENTS | no comments

From Strawberries to Software: Immigration to Silicon Valley

From Strawberries to Software:  Immigration to Silicon Valley
San Jose State University, College of Social Sciences
April 10-11, 2008

This conference will bring together academic and community stakeholders to discuss multiple facets of immigration, make policy recommendations, and foster on-going collaboration.  Community stakeholders who are interested in sharing “best practices” in working with immigrant communities or models of immigrant integration are particularly encouraged to participate.  They may do so by submitting a summary of their best practices and/or models. 

The conference will feature a Keynote Address by Dr. Annalee Saxenian, Dean and Professor of the School of Information and Profesoor in the Department of of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 9th, 2007 | Immigration Law, EVENTS | no comments