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Fourth Annual Big Ten Aspiring Scholars Conference

Fourth Annual Big Ten Aspiring Scholars Conference on August 2-4, 2009, at the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, Illinois.  The conference features works-in-progress breakout sessions and interaction with panels of experts, including recently-tenured professors, promotion and tenure committee chairs, and appointment committee chairs.  All tenure-track law professors, visiting assistant professors, fellows, and prospective law professors are welcome.  For more information, contact Professor Christine Hurt, achurt|@|illinois.edu.

Posted by on January 20th, 2009 | CONFERENCES, JUNIOR SCHOLARS | no comments

January 21st Colloquia/Workshops

January 21, 2009

Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender

       Martha Nussbaum (Chicago Law), Protecting Intimacy: Sex Clubs, Public Sex,  Risky Choices

Connecticut

       Noah Novogrodksy (Connecticut Law), The Duty of Treatment: Human Rights and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic

Miami

       Terence J. Anderson (Miami Law), Generalizations and Evidential Reasoning

Northwestern Law and Political Economy

       Daniel Diermeier (Northwestern Business), Parties, Coalition, and the Internal Organization of Legislatures

NYU Legal History

       David Golove and Daniel Hulsebosch (NYU Law), On and Equal Footing: Constitution-Making and the Law of Nations in Early America

Southwestern

      Joyce Sterling (Denver Law)

St. Louis

       Sam Jordan (St. Louis Law) and Andy Hessick (Arizona State Law)

Toronto Tax Law

       David I. Walker (Boston University), Are Tax and Accounting Rules Discriminating Against Discounted Employee Stock Options Justified?

USC Law History and Cultute

       Ajay Mehrota (Indiana Law), Lawyers, Guns & Public Monies: The U.S. Treasury, World War One, and the Administration of the Modern Fiscal State

Posted by on January 20th, 2009 | Civil Rights Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, Law and Economics, Law and Gender, Law and Politics, Law and Sexuality, Legal History, Tax Law | no comments

January 20th Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law and Economics

       David Dana (Northwestern Law), Valuing Foreign Civilizations and Foreign Lives: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Climate Change, and the (Possibly Overstated) Meaning of American Borders

Florida State

       Michael Dimono (Widener Law), Community Caretaking and Fourth Amendment Reasonableness

Marquette

       Michael Waxman (Marquette Law)

Vanderbilt

       Keith Chen (Yale Managment), Behavioral Biases and the Market Behavior of Non-Human Primates

Posted by on January 20th, 2009 | Business Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics | no comments