| September 30, 2011 |
The Sea Grant Law and Policy Journal (National Sea Grant Law Center, University of Mississippi) and Connecticut Sea Grant present Legal Solutions to Coastal Climate Change Adaptation in Connecticut Feb. 10, 2012, at the University of Connecticut School of Law. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Sept. 30, 2011. mw
| February 10, 2012 |
The Sea Grant Law and Policy Journal (National Sea Grant Law Center, University of Mississippi) and Connecticut Sea Grant present Legal Solutions to Coastal Climate Change Adaptation in Connecticut Feb. 10, 2012, at the University of Connecticut School of Law. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Sept. 30, 2011. mw
The Sea Grant Law and Policy Journal (National Sea Grant Law Center, University of Mississippi) and Connecticut Sea Grant present Legal Solutions to Coastal Climate Change Adaptation in Connecticut Feb. 10, 2012, at the University of Connecticut School of Law. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Sept. 30, 2011. mw
| September 1, 2011 |
The Chair of Comparative Law, School of Law University of Lucerne (UNILU) presents International Workshop on Global Trends in Law and Religion in the 21st Century Nov. 18-19, 2011. The call for papers deadline is Sept. 1, 2011. Full post here. mw
| November 18, 2011 | to | November 19, 2011 |
The Chair of Comparative Law, School of Law University of Lucerne (UNILU) presents International Workshop on Global Trends in Law and Religion in the 21st Century Nov. 18-19, 2011. The call for papers deadline is Sept. 1, 2011. Full post here. mw
The Chair of Comparative Law, School of Law University of Lucerne (UNILU) presents International Workshop on Global Trends in Law and Religion in the 21st Century Nov. 18-19, 2011. The call for papers deadline is Sept. 1, 2011. Jump to full post
| November 1, 2011 |
The Global Business Law Review, a publication of Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, is seeking papers for presentation at our Third Annual Symposium tentatively scheduled for March 30, 2012. This year’s symposium topic is International Legal Responses to Corporate Corruption.
We will explore the effects and implications of the FCPA, the U.K. Bribery Act and other efforts to combat corruption from domestic, international and comparative perspectives. Each speaker’s paper will appear in the fall 2012 edition of The Global Business Law Review. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2011. There are stipends available to speakers to help offset travel expenses to Cleveland. Submissions may be sent to gblr.symp [at] law.csuohio.edu.
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| March 30, 2012 |
The Global Business Law Review, a publication of Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, is seeking papers for presentation at our Third Annual Symposium tentatively scheduled for March 30, 2012. This year’s symposium topic is International Legal Responses to Corporate Corruption.
We will explore the effects and implications of the FCPA, the U.K. Bribery Act and other efforts to combat corruption from domestic, international and comparative perspectives. Each speaker’s paper will appear in the fall 2012 edition of The Global Business Law Review. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2011. There are stipends available to speakers to help offset travel expenses to Cleveland. Submissions may be sent to gblr.symp [at] law.csuohio.edu.
mw
The Global Business Law Review, a publication of Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, is seeking papers for presentation at our Third Annual Symposium tentatively scheduled for March 30, 2012. This year’s symposium topic is International Legal Responses to Corporate Corruption.
We will explore the effects and implications of the FCPA, the U.K. Bribery Act and other efforts to combat corruption from domestic, international and comparative perspectives. Each speaker’s paper will appear in the fall 2012 edition of The Global Business Law Review. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2011. There are stipends available to speakers to help offset travel expenses to Cleveland. Submissions may be sent to gblr.symp [at] law.csuohio.edu.
mw
| September 15, 2011 |
The Maine Law Review, in consultation with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, is pleased to announce plans for a spring 2012 live symposium on the law of post-conviction review, and an invitation for article proposals to be considered for publication in the spring edition of the Law Review. The submission deadline is Sept. 15, 2011. Update (Aug. 19, 2011): The symposium will take place Feb. 4, 2012. Jump to full post
The Maine Law Review, in consultation with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, is pleased to announce plans for a spring 2012 live symposium on the law of post-conviction review, and an invitation for article proposals to be considered for publication in the spring edition of the Law Review. The submission deadline is Sept. 15, 2011. Update (Aug. 19, 2011): The symposium will take place Feb. 4, 2012. Jump to full post
At Concurring Opinions, a guest blogger who just finished his term as articles editor for the University of Chicago Law Review invites readers to ask him the editors’ perspective on the law review submissions process. David Schraub, Ask an Articles Editor!, Concurring Opinions, Aug. 5, 2011. Topics raised so far:
Prof. Schraub will be writing posts in response to these questions next week. mw
The Supreme Court and Legal Scholarship
Petherbridge, Lee and Schwartz, David L., An Empirical Assessment of the Supreme Court’s Use of Legal Scholarship (July 12, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1884462
Derogating legal scholarship has become something of a sport for leading figures in the federal judiciary. Perhaps the chief antagonist in recent years has been none other than the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John G. Roberts Jr. His most recent salvo includes the claim that because law review articles are not of interest to the bench, he has trouble remembering the last law review article he read. This claim, and others by the Chief Justice, may represent the end of an uneasy détente concerning the topic of the utility of legal scholarship to the bench and bar. At a minimum, Justice Roberts’s recent comments represent a vigorous invitation to a discussion, which this article accepts. To that discussion we contribute an empirical study that is based on an original and unprecedented body of data derived from every Supreme Court decision over the last sixty-one years. This article presents several surprising results and makes two major novel contributions. The first is evidence describing the amount and patterns of the Supreme Court’s use of legal scholarship over the last sixty-one years. The second, and perhaps most striking contribution of this article, is empirical evidence on the nature and quality of the Court’s use of scholarship. This article provides the first report, as far as we can determine, of evidence that the Supreme Court not only often uses legal scholarship, it also disproportionately uses scholarship when cases are either more important or more difficult to decide. It thus presents results strongly counterintuitive to claims that scholarship is useless or irrelevant to judges and practitioners. The article also discusses areas for future work.
Kenneth Jost, the Supreme Court editor of CQ Press, blogs: Roberts’ Ill-Informed Attack on Legal Scholarship, Jost on Justice, July 19, 2011.
Jonathan H. Adler writes a post and others comment: Chief Justice Roberts and Current Legal Scholarship, Volokh Conspiracy, July 23, 2011.
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