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Law-Related Calls for Papers, Conferences, and Workshops
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April 18, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

April 18, 2008

Duke

Jennifer Arlen (NYU Law)

Florida

Honorable William Pryor (US Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit)

Georgetown International Human Rights

Peter Spiro (Temple Law), An International Law of Citizenship

New York Law School Clinical Theory

Peter Margulies (Roger Williams Law), Clinical Education and Representing Guantanamo Detainees: Identity, Efficacy, and Gatekeeping

Pittsburgh

Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt Law), Capitalism and the Tax System: A Search for Social Justice

San Diego

Alec Stone Sweet (Yale Law)

UCLA Faculty Fridays

Henry Smith (Yale Law), Community and Custom in Property

Virginia Law

Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 13th, 2008 | National Security Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, Clinics, Legal Education, Property Law, Tax Law, International Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

April 17, 2008

Boston College Tax Policy

Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), The Story of Murphy: A New Front in the War Against the Income Tax

Note: Professor Caron will be blogging on this paper today here.

Boston University

Scott Moss (Colorado Law), O Brave New World That Has Such Creatures Evidence: An Economic Analysis Of Courts’ Misguided Rules On Discovery Of Digital Evidence

Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender

Elizabeth Emens (Columbia Law), Intimate Discrimination

Columbia

Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), A Special Case?: Corporations and Campaign Finance

Fordham

Jeanne C. Fromer (Fordham Law)

Georgetown

Fernanda Nicola (American University Law), Invisible Cities: Markets, Distribution and Development in European Union Law

Harvard

Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Law), The Province of Jurisprudence Revisited

Loyola

Naomi Mezey (Georgetown Law)

Minnesota Faculty Works

Ed McCaffery (USC Law), Towards a Unified Theory of Tax and Property

NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance

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

Northwestern Tax

Diane Ring (Boston College Law), Sovereignty and International Tax

SMU

Susan Klein (Texas Law)

Southwestern

Mariano-Florentino Cuellar (Stanford Law), “Securing” the Bureaucracy: The Federal Security Agency and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 1939-1953

Suffolk

Ran Hirschl (Toronto Law)

Texas

Sai Prakash (San Diego Law), The Seperation and Overlap of War and Military Powers

UCLA Legal Theory

Joshua Cohen (Stanford Political Science), Politics, Power, and Public Reason

Washington

Amy Wildermuth (Utah Law), The Failed Mead Experiment - A Critical Review of the Skidmore Revival

Yale Legal Theory

Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 13th, 2008 | Evidence Law, Comparative Law, National Security Law, Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, Law and Politics, Law and Technology, Civil Procedure, Law and Economics, Legal History, Family Law, Business Law, Property Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, International Law, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized | no comments

April 16, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

April 16, 2008

Chicago International Law

Kathryn Sikkink (Minnesota Law), Do Human Rights Trials Make a Difference?

Chicago-Kent

Felice Batlan (Chicago-Kent Law), The Imperial SEC? Historicizing the Internationalization of the Securities Markets

CUNY

Dinesh Khosla (CUNY Law), A Case Study in Social Entrepreneurship

Emory

Katherine Stone (UCLA Law)

NYU Legal History

Michael Hoeflich (Kansas Law), Selling the Law in Antebellum America: The Sale & Distribution of Law Books, 1780-1870

St. Thomas (Mn)

Matt Bodie (St. Louis Law), The False Promise of One Share, One Vote

SMU Law & Citizenship

Keith Aoki (UC Davis Law)

UC Hastings

Tony Sebok (Cardozo Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 13th, 2008 | Law and Society, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, Courts, Law and Economics, Legal History, Business Law, International Law, Legal Education, Securities Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 15, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

April 15, 2008

Alabama

Jose Alvarez (Columbia Law), The Empire of Law or the Law of Empire

Chicago Law & Economics

Ray Fisman (Columbia Business), Learning Social Preferences at Yale Law School

Connecticut

David Yalof (UConn Law), Confirmation Obfuscation: Supreme Court Confirmation Politics in a Conservative Era

Duke

Joby Branion (Athletes First), An Insider’s Perspective

Fordham

Tanya K. Hernandez (George Washington Law), The Long Lindering Shadow: Law, Liberalism and Cultures of Racial Hierarchy and Identity in the Americas

Georgetown

Kerry Rittich (Toronto Law), Informal Labour Markets and Development

Harvard Internet & Society

Rachel Lyon (Lioness Media), Race and the Internet

Lewis & Clark

Rachelle Adam (Israeli Environmental Ministry), Addressing Biodiversity Loss: The Elusiveness of Effective International Agreements

Notre Dame

Mike Kirsch (Notre Dame Law), Evolving Interpretations of U.S. Tax Treaties 

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 13th, 2008 | Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, Law and Cyberspace, Sports Law, Legal Education, Tax Law, Environmental Law, International Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Connecticut

Adrienne Davis (Virginia Law), Slavery & Shadow Families: Re-Thinking Miscegenation Regulation Through the Lens of Case

Harvard Legal History

Cynthia Nicoletti (Harvard Law, Berger Fellow), The American Civil War as a Trial by Battle

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke Philosophy), A Hybrid Theory of Claim-Rights

Georgia

Anup Malani (Chicago Law)

Harvard

Vicki Jackson (Georgetown Law), Constitutional Cosmology: Convergence, Resistance, and Engagement

Northwestern Law & Economics

Oliver Hart (Harvard Economics), Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points

Rutgers-Camden

Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), Constitutional Law, International Law, Public Law

Seton Hall

Errol Mendes (Ottawa Common Law)

St. John’s

Jean Braucher (Arizona Law), The Supreme Court’s 5-4 Rejection of Textualist Interpretation of the Bankruptcy Code in Marrana v. Citizens Bank of Massachusetts

Stanford Internet & Society

James Fishkin (Stanford Communication), An Online Experiment in Democracy: Deliberative Polling for Democratic Reform

Temple

Salil Mehra (Temple Law)

UC Berkeley

Alison Morantz (Stanford Law), Rethinking the Great Compromise: What Happens When Large Companies Opt Out of Workers Compensation?

UCLA Faculty Mondays

Gia Lee (UCLA Law), Free Speech Deference

USC Law, Economics & Organization

Devah Pager (Princeton Sociology), Race at Work: A Field Experiment of Discrimination in Low-Wage Labor Markets

Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations

Nancy King (Vanderbilt Law)

Yale Corporate Law

Gary J. Wolfe (Seward & Kissel), Golden Ocean–Taking Supertankers from Junk Bonds to Restructuring Bankruptcy to (Someone Else’s) Profit, and Fighting Every Step of the Way

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 13th, 2008 | Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Economics, Legal History, Business Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

April 14, 2008

Connecticut

Adrienne Davis (Virginia Law), Slavery & Shadow Families: Re-Thinking Miscegenation Regulation Through the Lens of Case

Harvard Legal History

Cynthia Nicoletti (Harvard Law, Berger Fellow), The American Civil War as a Trial by Battle

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke Philosophy), A Hybrid Theory of Claim-Rights

Georgia

Anup Malani (Chicago Law)

Harvard

Vicki Jackson (Georgetown Law), Constitutional Cosmology: Convergence, Resistance, and Engagement

Northwestern Law & Economics

Oliver Hart (Harvard Economics), Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points

Rutgers-Camden

Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), Constitutional Law, International Law, Public Law

Seton Hall

Errol Mendes (Ottawa Common Law)

St. John’s

Jean Braucher (Arizona Law), The Supreme Court’s 5-4 Rejection of Textualist Interpretation of the Bankruptcy Code in Marrana v. Citizens Bank of Massachusetts

Stanford Internet & Society

James Fishkin (Stanford Communication), An Online Experiment in Democracy: Deliberative Polling for Democratic Reform

Temple

Salil Mehra (Temple Law)

UC Berkeley

Alison Morantz (Stanford Law), Rethinking the Great Compromise: What Happens When Large Companies Opt Out of Workers Compensation?

UCLA Faculty Mondays

Gia Lee (UCLA Law), Free Speech Deference

USC Law, Economics & Organization

Devah Pager (Princeton Sociology), Race at Work: A Field Experiment of Discrimination in Low-Wage Labor Markets

Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations

Nancy King (Vanderbilt Law)

Yale Corporate Law

Gary J. Wolfe (Seward & Kissel), Golden Ocean–Taking Supertankers from Junk Bonds to Restructuring Bankruptcy to (Someone Else’s) Profit, and Fighting Every Step of the Way

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 13th, 2008 | Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Economics, Legal History, Business Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments