| April 17, 2009 | to | April 18, 2009 |
The Journal of Private International Law will hold its third major conference at New York University on April 17-18, 2009.
There are three specific conference panels planned over the course of the afternoon of April 17th and the full day on April 18th. They are
International Commercial Law
US and European Conflicts Methodologies: Is It Time for a U.S. Restatement?
Transnational Litigation and Arbitration
Update March 6: Details are here.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 7th, 2008
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The Journal of Private International Law will hold its third major conference at New York University on April 17-18, 2009.
There are three specific conference panels planned over the course of the afternoon of April 17th and the full day on April 18th. They are
- International Commercial Law
- US and European Conflicts Methodologies: Is It Time for a U.S. Restatement?
- Transnational Litigation and Arbitration
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 7th, 2008
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On November 7, 2008, the University of California, Davis School of Law inaugurates the Fenwick & West Lecture Series in Technology, Entrepreneurship, Science, and Law (TESLaw) with a symposium on patent law developments and their probable effect on innovation, policy and the economic landscape. Symposium topics will focus on patent reform in Congress, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the courts, with a closing panel discussion on the confluence of these reforms. The symposium also will explore the application of the reforms to the major sectors of the technology industry: information technology and life sciences.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 5th, 2008
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| November 7, 2008 | to | November 8, 2008 |
The Yale Journal of Law and Feminism at the Yale Law School presents a symposium celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, and the twentieth anniversary of the Journal, on Friday, November 7-Saturday, November 8, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 9th, 2008
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SMU Dedman School of Law presents The Rise of Transnational Networks Nov. 7, 2008.
In the last few decades, judges, legislators, prosecutors, and agency officials have increasingly been coordinating policy and decision-making across borders through informal networks. Such coordination has often occurred without formal legal sanction and is especially prominent in areas of cross-border regulation, including banking, antitrust, environmental protection, and securities law. But it also occurs in more politically charged areas, such as constitutional law, national security, law enforcement, and human rights. This conference will review the record of transnational networks and the promise they hold for deeper and more effective international cooperation. Under what conditions are transnational networks likely to arise and how do they function? What are their advantages over traditional diplomacy and international organizations, and in what circumstances are networks most likely to be successful? What are some of the main obstacles to their legitimacy and effectiveness, and how can these obstacles be overcome?
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 23rd, 2008
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American University Washington College of Law presents How Legal Rhetoric Shapes the Law II—The Language of Violence and Torture Nov. 7, 2008.
It will begin in the morning with a keynote address by Peter Brooks (Yale and Princeton). Professor Brooks is a scholar of narrative theory, co-edited “Law Stories” with Paul Gewirtz a few years ago, and recently has written two provocative pieces: “Narrative Transactions—Does the Law Need a Narratology?” (18 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 1) and an opinion piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “The Ethics of Reading” (Feb. 8, 2008), in which he took on the analysis in the infamous “torture memo.” He will speak on “The Ethics of Reading” to kick off a day of discussing how language can be used, interpreted, manipulated to justify violence, and, perhaps, also to combat it. In the early afternoon, we will have four panelists discussing various uses of language in relation to violence, torture and human rights. Finally, and this is an innovation, we will have a workshop for legal writing teachers to discuss and work on ways to introduce these ideas in the legal writing classroom
For more information on the program, a detailed agenda and for registration fees, please contact Office of Special Events & Continuing Legal Education, 202.274.4075 - Phone; secle [at] wcl.american.edu
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 9th, 2008
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| November 6, 2008 | to | November 7, 2008 |
On November 6-7, 2008, the Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute at Georgetown University Law Center and Stanford Law School’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program will host the 11th Annual Conference on Litigating Takings and Related Legal Challenges to Land Use and Environmental Regulation.
The conference, to be held at Stanford Law School, will examine how the Takings Clause and related legal doctrines may undermine the public’s ability to address emerging environmental, public health, and growth management challenges. A particular focus of this year’s conference will be the potential takings implications of public policy initiatives designed to mitigate and adapt to global warming. The conference will also address recent legal developments in takings law and related fields, including the latest legal and policy fall out from the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in Lingle v. Chevron USA and Kelo v. City of New London. Another featured topic will be future prospects for property rights ballot measures along the lines of Propositions 98 and 99 in California and other states.
Conference faculty will include a mix of leading academic scholars and expert practitioners. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Stanford Environmental Law Journal.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 20th, 2008
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| November 6, 2008 | to | November 8, 2008 |
Emory Law School’s Feminism and Legal Theory Project presents Transcending the Boundaries of Law: Feminism and Legal Theory’s 25th anniversary conference November 6-8, 2008.
It is hard to believe that the FLT project begins its 25th year in 2008! To celebrate we are planning a major interdisciplinary conference on November 6-8, 2008 involving world renowned feminist scholars who presented papers at FLT events early in their careers, as well as their former students and many others who have made a significant impact to feminist theory throughout the first quarter century of the project. We have also secured Routledge as the publisher for an anthology of the papers from the conference entitled Transcending the Boundaries of Law. Routledge published the first ever anthology on feminist theory, At the Boundaries of Law, which was edited by Martha [Fineman].
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 20th, 2008
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| November 7, 2008 | to | November 8, 2008 |
Lancaster University Law School presents From the Utopianism of Human Rights to the Primacy of the Political Nov. 7-8, 2008. The call for papers deadline is Sept. 30, 2008.
Everywhere it seems that human rights are being overwhelmed by political expediency and brute power. Indeed, the efficacy of human rights, and the ability of the human rights movement and human rights law to deliver over the long-term, is being challenged. While some commentators argue that human rights are merely the pliant weapons of first world nations and neo-liberalism, others point up the ways that a noble cause is easily perverted by lofty aspiration.What is, and should be, the relationship between human rights and politics? Does international and humanitarian activism have any practical and political credibility in the twenty-first century?
This conference will bring together academics, judges, practitioners, policy makers and activists from a wide range of fields and disciplines, offering a rare opportunity to confront and reflect upon one of the most relevant and challenging concerns of our age.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 25th, 2008
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| November 7, 2008 | to | November 8, 2008 |
In November, the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), along with the 20th anniversary of the Journal, with a symposium [Nov. 7-8, 2008] that brings together the women and men who have been involved in every critical phase of the decades-long campaign for sex equality in the workplace. The event will bring together distinguished advocates and scholars from across the country to share their insights into the PDA and the future of workplace equality with students and faculty at the Yale Law School. Judge Marsha Berzon will be our Keynote speaker, and Sue Ross and Wendy Williams will be among the participants.
The symposium is being planned in coordination with Professors Wiliam Eskridge, Judith Resnik. The Journal of Law and Feminism will publish an issue devoted to the PDA and our twentieth anniversary, including pieces written by conference participants and by members of the Journal.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 8th, 2008
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| November 6, 2008 | to | November 7, 2008 |
The 9th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation will be hosted by the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL), Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS) Nov. 6-7, 2008. The conference title is “Environmental Taxation and Challenges of the Urban Environment: Role of Taxation and other Market-based Instruments – Exchange of Experiences between Developed and Developing Countries.”
Other partners include the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS; the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants in Singapore (ACCA), the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, the International Tax and Investment Centre (ITIC) in Washington DC, and the Environmental Tax Policy Institute, Vermont Law School, and the Cleveland State University in USA; and Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
The call for papers deadline is May 31, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 14th, 2008
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