The 2011 Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Policy Summit, Housing, Human Capital, and Inequality, will take place June 9–10, 2011. The agenda is posted here.
Keynote speakers are Janet Yellen, Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and Paul Tough, author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America. Panels are:
- The Growth of Inequalities in the U.S.
- Subsidies for Low-Income Housing
- The Impace of Foreclosures on Households
- Assets and Educational Outcomes: New Research from the Field
- Cities in Transition: What Are the Components of Stable Communities and What Policies Will Get Us There?
- Securing Greater Financial Stability
- Labor Mobility and Housing
- Schools, Neighborhoods, and Inequality
- Changes in Community Development: Innovative Approaches and Assessing What Works
- Workforce Development and the Formerly Incarcerated
- Investing in CDFIs: A Winning Return
- Asset Building in Low- and Moderate-Income Communities
- Housing Mobility Programs and Neighborhood Effects
- Low-Income Home Ownership
- Lending and Loan Performance in the Aftermath of a Crisis
- Covering the Educational Continuum in LMI Communities: From Cradle to College
- Greater University Circle Initiative Mobile Workshop
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 15th, 2011
| Business Law, CONFERENCES, Criminal Law, Education Law, Labor and Employment Law, Poverty Law, Property Law |
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| May 17, 2011 | to | May 21, 2011 |
The Sixth Annual Conference on Catholic Legal Thought will convene at the University of Oklahoma College of Law May 17-19, 2011. More information on the Mirror of Justice blog here; schedule available here. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 15th, 2011
| EVENTS |
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The Sixth Annual Conference on Catholic Legal Thought will convene at the University of Oklahoma College of Law May 17-19, 2011. More information on the Mirror of Justice blog here; schedule available here. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 15th, 2011
| CONFERENCES, Law and Religion |
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John Marshall Law School hosts the 2011 Global Legal Skills Conference May 5-7, 2011.
The Global Skills Conference is a gathering of law professors and international legal experts who discuss cutting-edge issues in international legal education. Specific topics include legal research, creating appropriate materials and assignments for ESL and international students, cross-cultural and intercultural issues, classroom teaching, case method and problem solving, clinical legal education, academic support, international legal exchanges, legal English, legal Spanish, and legal French, as well as other global legal skills.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 15th, 2011
| EVENTS |
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John Marshall Law School hosts the 2011 Global Legal Skills Conference May 5-7, 2011.
The Global Skills Conference is a gathering of law professors and international legal experts who discuss cutting-edge issues in international legal education. Specific topics include legal research, creating appropriate materials and assignments for ESL and international students, cross-cultural and intercultural issues, classroom teaching, case method and problem solving, clinical legal education, academic support, international legal exchanges, legal English, legal Spanish, and legal French, as well as other global legal skills.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 15th, 2011
| Comparative Law, CONFERENCES, International Law, Legal Education, Legal Research & Writing |
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The Northwestern University Law Review has begun symposium selection for a live symposium to be held at Northwestern University School of Law in the fall of 2011 or spring of 2012. That symposium will be published in the 107th volume of the journal. We encourage interested parties to submit symposium topics beginning on January 1, 2011.
If you would like to submit a topic for our consideration, please prepare a proposal of no more than five pages, outlining the following information:
* Topic
* Why the topic is timely
* Why the topic is important
* How the topic advances legal scholarship
* Proposed list of participants
* Proposed panels (topic and the list of participants for each panel)
* Possible funding
* Any additional information that might help us in evaluating your proposal
You should submit your proposal to Lindsay Dunbar (l-dunbar2012 [at] nlaw.northwestern.edu), the Review’s Special Sections Editor. Feel free to contact Lindsay should you have any questions about the proposal. To allow for ample time to secure symposium participants, we plan to select the topic by May 2011.
We are looking forward to working with you on selecting the most engaging topic for our 2011–2012 symposium.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 15th, 2011
| ***, CALLS FOR PAPERS |
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Northwestern University and the Northwestern University Law Review are honored to host a conference on the Legacy of Justice Stevens on May 12, 2011. The keynote event will be a moderated conversation with Justice Stevens. Panels will address Justice Stevens on executive power; Justice Stevens on religion; Justice Stevens’s trajectory on the Court; and Justice Stevens’s methods of interpretation. Only members of the Northwestern community may attend the event. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 15th, 2011
| EVENTS |
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Northwestern University and the Northwestern University Law Review are honored to host a conference on the Legacy of Justice Stevens on May 12, 2011. The keynote event will be a moderated conversation with Justice Stevens. Panels will address Justice Stevens on executive power; Justice Stevens on religion; Justice Stevens’s trajectory on the Court; and Justice Stevens’s methods of interpretation. Only members of the Northwestern community may attend the event. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 15th, 2011
| CONFERENCES, Constitutional Law, Courts, Law and Religion |
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