Legal Scholarship Blog

The 85th Annual Meeting of the American Law Institute is taking place in Washington, DC, May 19-21, 2008. On the agenda: Capital Punishment Status Report; Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation; Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations; Restatement of the Law Third, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment; Restatement of the Law Third, Employment Law; Proposal to amend § 1-301 (Choice of Law) of Article 1 of the Uniform Commercial Code; Principles of the Law of Software Contracts.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 20th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

American Law Institute - Washington, DC

The 85th Annual Meetingof the American Law Institute is taking place in Washington, DC, May 19-21, 2008. On the agenda: Capital Punishment Status Report; Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation; Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations; Restatement of the Law Third, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment; Restatement of the Law Third, Employment Law; Proposal to amend § 1-301 (Choice of Law) of Article 1 of the Uniform Commercial Code; Principles of the Law of Software Contracts.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 20th, 2008 | Civil Procedure, Law and Cyberspace, Labor and Employment Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES, Criminal Law, Contract Law | no comments

May 21, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago International Law

William Burke-White (UPenn Law), Peace vs. Justice or Peace & Justice: States, Rebels, and the International Criminal Court

Duke

Donald T. Hornstein (UNC Law)

Stanford

Alison Morantz (Stanford Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 20th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Criminal Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Administrative Law Under George W. Bush, Future of Admin. Law - Durham, NC

The Duke Law Journal is delighted to announce the topic of the 2009 Duke Law Journal Symposium. It will focus on administrative law under the George W. Bush administration and the future of administrative law. The symposium will look retrospectively at the characteristics and accomplishments of the administrative state under the Bush Administration and prospectively at the direction the next President will or should take the administrative state. The symposium expects to include general articles about the larger themes and trends in administrative law as well as articles focusing on specific administrative law fields.

For more information, please contact the Duke Law Journal Symposium Editor, Elissa Flynn, at Elissa.Flynn[at]law.duke.edu or the Duke Law Journal Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Chemerinsky, at Jeffrey.Chemerinsky[at]law.duke.edu.

The symposium has been scheduled for March 20, 2009. “Cass Sunstein, John Yoo, Adrien Vermeule, Cynthia Farina, Catherine Sharkey and Judge Harry Edwards have all agreed to come and contribute.”

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 20th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

Law and Society - Montreal

The Law and Society Association is holding its Annual Meeting jointly with the Canadian Law and Society Association in Montreal May 29-June 1, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 20th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

Law and Society - Montreal

The Law and Society Association is holding its Annual Meeting jointly with the Canadian Law and Society Association in Montreal May 29-June 1, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 20th, 2008 | Law and Society, CONFERENCES | no comments

Supreme Court Preview - Williamsburg, VA

The Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law presents its 21st Annual upreme Court Preview Sept. 26-27, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 20th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

Supreme Court Preview - Williamsburg, VA

The Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law presents its 21st Annual upreme Court Preview Sept. 26-27, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 20th, 2008 | Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

IP, Biotech, and Agricultural Sciences - Johnston, IA

Drake University Law School’s Intellectual Property Law Center hosts the Inaugural Summer Institute in Intellectual Property, Biotechnology and Agricultural Sciences, May 19-20, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 19th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

May 20, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law & Politics

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

Texas

John Golden (Texas Law), The Supreme Court as “Prime Percolator”: A Prescription for Appellate Review of Questions in Patent Law

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 19th, 2008 | EVENTS, Law and Politics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property | no comments

Computers, Freedom, and Privacy - New Haven

The Technology Policy ‘08 conference, Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, will be held May 20-23, 2008, in New Haven, CT.

It is sponsored by Google, AOL, Yale Law and Media Project (LAMP), Yale Information Society Project (ISP), and the Association for Computing Machinery.

The Call for presentations, tutorials, and workshops has different options. Most have a deadline of March 21, 2008. The deadline for Birds of a Feather Session proposals is April 21, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 4th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

Rhetoric - Eugene

The University of Oregon hosts “The Promise of Reason: The New Rhetoric After 50 Years,” May 17-20, 2008, in Eugene.

Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca published La Nouvelle Rhétorique: Traité de l’Argumentation in 1958, a work that has since come to represent the revival of rhetoric and its reintegration with philosophy in the twentieth century. The influence of this work is felt in rhetoric, philosophy, jurisprudence, communication studies, critical theory, and the newer disciplines of argumentation and informal reasoning.

The deadline for paper proposals is Sept. 21, 2007.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 3rd, 2007 | EVENTS | no comments