| December 8, 2008 |
Once Upon a Legal Time, Chapter Two: Applied Storytelling in Law - Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, July 22-24, 2009. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 8, 2008. Jump to full post
Once Upon a Legal Time, Chapter Two: Applied Storytelling in Law - Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, July 22-24, 2009. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 8, 2008. Jump to full post
| July 23, 2008 | to | July 24, 2008 |
| July 22, 2009 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Once Upon a Legal Time, Chapter Two: Applied Storytelling in Law - Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, July 22-24, 2009. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 8, 2008. Jump to full post
Once Upon a Legal Time, Chapter Two: Applied Storytelling in Law - Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, July 22-24, 2009. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 8, 2008. Jump to full post
| October 14, 2008 | to | October 17, 2008 |
The Legal Writing Institute lists the following conference, but I haven’t been able to find anything further:
“Ideology and the Rule of Law.” The International Institute for Legal Writing and Reasoning will be sponsoring a conference scheduled for October 14-17, 2008, in New York City. The purpose of the conference is to provide an opportunity for judicial officers, academics, and practitioners to examine the cultural and philosophical aspects of the law in an international and multi-cultural setting. Participants will include judges, tribunal members, attorneys, academics, and legal officers from a number of legal systems and nations.
The Legal Writing Institute lists the following conference, but I haven’t been able to find anything further:
“Ideology and the Rule of Law.” The International Institute for Legal Writing and Reasoning will be sponsoring a conference scheduled for October 14-17, 2008, in New York City. The purpose of the conference is to provide an opportunity for judicial officers, academics, and practitioners to examine the cultural and philosophical aspects of the law in an international and multi-cultural setting. Participants will include judges, tribunal members, attorneys, academics, and legal officers from a number of legal systems and nations.
Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Rubloff Building, 375 E. Chicago Avenue
8:30-10:10 Session A - Insurance/Finance (Parillo Court Room-Rubloff 155)
Panel Chair: Ezra Friedman
Thomas Brennan, When Does a Summation Index Add Up?
Lee Anne Fennell, Risk Reversals
Robert J. Rhee, Procedural Election: Towards Private Risk Allocation in Litigation Through the Election of the Standard of Proof and Fee Shifting Rules
Peter H. Huang, How To Democratize Financial Planning So That Everyone Can Enjoy Their Highest Sustainable Standard of Living and Life Satisfaction
8:30-10:10 Session B - Securities (RB 175)
Panel Chair: Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa, Securities Regulation and Market Crisis: Financial Interpretation, Trading and Networks
Cindy R. Alexander, Yoon-Ho Alex Lee, The Dynamics of SEC Rulemaking: Evidence on the Informational Environment around SOX Rules
Arthur Laby, Behavioral Finance and the Prohibition on Insider Trading
Dale B. Thompson, Regulation of Hedge Funds: Lessons from Market Failures, Business Organizations, and Environmental Policy
8:30-10:10 Session C - Political Economy (RB 180)
Panel Chair: Peter DiCola
Margaret Brinig, Nicole Stelle Garnett, The Effect of Catholic School Closings on Neighborhoods and Families
Charlotte Crane, Burdens or Bounties: Federal Excises on Tobacco and Sugar Processing in the Early Republic
Larry Ribstein, Bruce Kobayashi, Jurisdictional Competition for LLCs
Peter DiCola, Why Didn’t Radio Companies Get Even Bigger After the Telecommunications Act of 1996
10:30-11:45 Session A - Employment Law (Parillo Court Room-Rubloff 155)
Panel Chair: Ezra Friedman
Franita Tolson, The Boundaries of Litigating Unconscious Discrimination: Firm-Based Remedies in Response to a Hostile Judiciary
Lesley Wexler, Jonah Gelbach, Jonathan Klick, Passive Discrimination: Compensation and Conditions of Employment as Mechanisms of Segregation
Scott A. Moss, Peter H. Huang, Judges’ Behavioral Problems: What Behavioral Economics and Happiness Research Say Employment Law Gets Wrong
10:30-11:45 Session B - Corporate Tax (RB 175)
Panel Chair: Charlotte Crane
Leandra Lederman, W(h)ither Business Purpose and Economic Substance?
Claire Hill, Kristin Hickman , The Illegitimacy of Tax Shelter Regulation
Bradley T. Borden, Residual-Risk Model for Classifying Tax Entities
10:30-11:45 Session C - Issues in Civil Liability (RB 180)
Panel Chair: TBD
Jay Weiser, Ronald Neath, Enforcement Intensity and Community Association Unit Value: An Empirical Study
Christopher Drahozal, Stephen J. Ware, Arbitration and Litigation as Competitors in the Pre-Dispute Market for Binding Dispute Resolution
12:45 Session A - Criminal (Parillo Courtroom-RB155)
Panel Chair: Max Schanzenbach
Thomas J. Miles, Disparities in Federal Prosecutors Applications for Wire Tap Warrants
Manu Raghav, Why Do Budgets Received by State Prosecutors vary across Districts in the United States?
12:45 Session B - Corporate Law II (RB 175)
Panel Chair: Peter DiCola
Antony Page, Material Adverse Change Clauses: Explanations and Practice
Emanuela Carbonara, Francesco Parisi, Matteo Alvisi and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Complementing Substitutes
Gerrit De Geest, Margo Schlanger, Should Multitask Agents Be Immune from Tort Liability?
Sharon Hannes, Compensating for Executive Compensation: The Case for Gatekeeper Incentive Pay
12:45 Session C - Consumer Protection (RB 180)
Panel Chair: Jeffrey Stake
Ezra Friedman, Competition and Unconscionability
Rafael Pardo, An Empirical Examination of Access to Chapter 7 Relief by Pro Se Debtors
Robert A. Katz, The Artifice of the Deal, or How to Transfer Noncommodified Human Tissue Without Actually Selling It
Eric Goldman, Economics of Reputational Information
| October 2, 2008 | to | October 4, 2008 |
The Thirteenth Annual LatCrit Conference — Representation and Republican Governance: Critical Interrogation of Electoral Systems and the Exercise of the Franchise — will take place at Seattle University School of Law Oct. 2-4, 2008.
The Sixth Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop, sponsored jointly with the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), begins at 9:00 a.m. Thursday, October 2 (the day before the conference program kicks off).
The LatCrit XIII symposium will be published by the conference co-sponsors, the Seattle University Law Review and the Seattle Journal for Social Justice.
The registration deadline is Sept. 15, 2008. (Actually, later registration is possible, but it costs more.)
| October 3, 2008 | to | October 4, 2008 |
Tulane University Law School hosts the 6th Annual Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium Oct. 3-4, 2008. The call for papers deadline is Aug. 15, 2008. Jump to full post
| October 2, 2008 | to | October 4, 2008 |
The 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Comparative Law will be at U.C. Hastings College of the Law Oct. 2-4, 2008.
| October 3, 2008 | to | October 4, 2008 |
The Midwest Law and Economics Association will hold its annual meeting Oct. 3-4, 2008, at Northwestern University School of Law. This year’s Meeting is sponsored by the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law.
To submit a presentation, please send an abstract or paper to searlecenter[at]law.northwestern.edu. At previous MLEA meetings, scholars have presented papers on a diverse assortment of legal topics such as securities regulation, tort law, family law, environmental law, and constitutional law. The deadline for submission will be July 15th, 2008. Jump to full post
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