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Amer. Political Science Ass’n - Boston

The 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association will take place Aug. 28-31, 2008, in Boston. The theme is “Categories and the Politics of Global Inequalities”. There are dozens of law-related offerings.

A half-day course addresses The Political Scientist as Pre-Law Advisor - morning at Suffolk University Law School or afternoon at Boston University Law School.

Here are events sponsored by the Law and Courts Division, the Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence Division, the Conference Group on Jurisprudence and Public Law, and the Law and Political Processes Study Group.

26   Law and Courts

•  26-1 New Methods for Studying the Law and Courts
•  26-2 The Political Economy of International Courts
•  26-3 New Directions in Institutional Analysis of the Courts
•  26-4 Roundtable: The 2008 Elections and Judicial Selection
•  26-5 Decision Making on State Courts
•  26-6 Court-Congress Relations
•  26-7 Gender and the Courts
•  26-8 Public Opinion and the Courts
•  26-9 Strategy and Coalition Formation on the Supreme Court
•  26-10 Judicial Review of Administrative Action
•  26-11 Research on the U.S. Courts of Appeals
•  26-12 Judicial Selection
•  26-13 Legal Doctrine and Judicial Decision Making
•  26-14 Supreme Court Membership: Continuity and Change
•  26-15 Court Agenda Setting
•  26-16 Parties and Interests in the Courts
•  26-17 The Judiciary in American Politics
•  26-18 Comparative Courts
•  26-19 New Directions in State Court Research
•  Law and Courts Organized Section Business Meeting
•  Law and Courts Organized Section Reception

27   Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence

•  27-1 Terms of Inclusion: Gender, Status Relations, and Constitutional Designs for Equality
•  27-2 Race, Constitutional Agency, and Full Citizenship
•  27-3 Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Susan Burgess’ THE FOUNDING FATHERS, POP CULTURE, AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: WHO’S YOUR DADDY?
•  27-4 Rights, Citizenship, and Institutional Struggles in the “War on Terror”
•  27-5 Identity, Law, and Power in Cross National Contexts
•  27-6 Law and Institutions in Time
•  27-7 The Anatomy of Constitutional Crises
•  27-8 What If We Had a New Constitutional Convention in the United States?
• 27-9 Author Meets Readers Roundtable: Paul Frymer’s BLACK AND BLUE: AFRICAN AMERICANS, THE LABOR MOVEMENT, AND THE DECLINE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
•  27-10 Legal Power and Inequality Around the World
•  27-11 Varying Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage
•  27-12 Author’s Roundtable: Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy

Conference Group on Jurisprudence and Public Law

•  Panel 1 Roundtable: Dogmas in Politics and Political Science: Dennett’s and Harris Book on the Role of God in Policy Making and the Study of Political Science

Law and Political Processes Study Group

•  Panel 1 Roundtable: Debating the Rules for Presidential Elections: Primaries and the Electoral College

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 14th, 2008 | Empirical Legal Studies, Law and Politics, Courts, Comparative Law, Legal Education, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments