Legal Scholarship Blog

Law-Related Calls for Papers, Conferences, and Workshops
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May 16, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Washington

Miro Cerar (University of Ljubljana), Law & Politics

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 16th, 2008 | Law and Politics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS | no comments

May 15, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Fordham

Abbe Smith (Georgetown Law)

Harvard Religion & Society

Jytte Klausen (Brandeis Politics), Why Religion has Become More Salient in Europe: Four Working Hypotheses about Secularization and Religiosity in Contemporary Politics

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 15th, 2008 | Law and Politics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Religion, Uncategorized | no comments

May 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago International Law

Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law), Reassessing Linkages between Sovereign Wealth Funds and Western Banks

Stanford Internet & Society

Rufus Pollock (Cambridge), Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 13th, 2008 | Law and Economics, International Law, Business Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES | no comments

May 13, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Loyola

Stephanie Stern (Loyola Law)

Pittsburgh

Event regarding the arrest of Dr. Binayak Sen.  For information go to http://www.cnbc.com/id/24243747

Texas

Bernard Black (Texas Law)

UCLA Law, Economics, & Organizations

Andrew Metrick (UPenn Business), The Economics of Private Equity Funds

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 12th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, Civil Rights Law, Uncategorized | no comments

May 12, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law & Philosophy

Charles Larmore (Brown Philosophy)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 11th, 2008 | Law and Philosophy, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS | no comments

May 9, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Crime & Punishment

J.J. Prescott (Michigan Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 8th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Criminal Law | no comments

May 8, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender

Rachel Jean-Baptiste (Chicago History), Settling Out of Court, Marriage, and Divorce in Post-colonial Gabon

Fordham

Yifat Holzman-Gazit (Stanford Law), The Effect of Form and Content on Public Approval Investigatory Commissions: Findings from Israel

Washington

Peter Nicolas (Washington Law), Taking State Law Seriously: A Re-Assessment of Our Obsession with All Things Federal

Yale Law & Economics

Todd Henderson (Chicago Law), Rule 10b5-2 Trading Plan Disclosure Choice

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 7th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, Securities Law, Family Law, Uncategorized | no comments

May 7, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago International Law

John McGinnis (Northwestern Law), Democracy and International Human Rights Law

Harvard Internet & Society

James Grimmelmann (New York Law School), Discussing Copyright

UCLA Williams Institute

Gary J. Gates (UCLA Law), Is Gay the New Straight?

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 6th, 2008 | Law and Cyberspace, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Sexuality, International Law, Intellectual Property | no comments

May 6, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law & Politics

Rachel Barkow (NYU Law), Institutional Design and the Policing of Prosecutors: Lessons from Administrative Law

Chicago Kent Legal History

Bruce Smith (Illinois Law

Fordham

Annette Gordon-Reed (Rutgers History)

Harvard Internet & Society

David Ardia, Sam Bayard, Tuna Chatterjee (Members of Citizen Media Law Project), Discussion of the project’s first year

Minnesota Law & History

Ruth Mazo Karras (Minnesota History), Telling the Truth About Sex in Late Medieval Paris

Texas

Jens Dammann (Texas Law), Of Courts and Corporations

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 5th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Sexuality, Comparative Law, Business Law, Administrative Law, Legal History, Uncategorized | no comments

May 5, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Harvard

Jeannie Suk (Harvard Law), At Home in the Law

Yale Corporate Law

Kris. F. Heinzelman (Cravath, Swaine & Moore), Private Equity Firms that Don’t Want to do Deals: How Defaulting on your Mortgage Turned the Private Equity Industry Upside Down

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 4th, 2008 | Law and Gender, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Family Law, Business Law | no comments

May 2, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Crime & Punishment

Sherod Thaxton

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 1st, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Uncategorized | no comments

May 1, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Linda McClain (Boston University), Why is Equality So Hard?: Men, Women, and Social Cooperation

Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender

Viviana Zelizer (Princeton Sociology), Intimacy in Economic Organization

Fordham

Angela Riley (Southwestern Law)

Harvard

David Rosenberg (Harvard Law), A New Sampling Method to Reduce the Cost of Resolving Differing Claims Against a Defendant

Minnesota Faculty Works

Barry Friedman (NYU Law), Judicial Activism and Popular Opinion

Yale Legal Theory

David Wilkins (Harvard Law), Paper

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 30th, 2008 | Law and Gender, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, Civil Rights Law, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized | no comments

April 30, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago International Law

Emilie Hafner-Burton (Princeton), Democratization and Human Rights Regimes

Chicago-Kent

Devon W. Carbado (UCLA Law)

Connecticut

Susan Schmeiser (Connecticut Law)

UCLA Williams Institute

Douglas NeJaime (UCLA Law), Regulating the Sexuality of Minors

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 29th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Sexuality, International Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 29, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Harvard Internet & Society

Chris Conley (Harvard Law Grad, 2007), Transparency and Digital Surveillance

Notre Dame

Linda McClain (Boston University Law), Marriage Pluralism in the United States: Multiple Jurisdictions and the Demands of Equal Citizenship

Texas

Ian Ferrell (Texas Law), Gilbert & Sullivan and Scalia: The Philosophical Basis of the Eigth Amendment’s Proportionality Principle

UC Berkeley Law & Economics

Henrik Lando (Copenhagen Business), Optimal Standards of Negligence when One Party is Uninformed 

Washington

David Binder (UCLA Law) & Albert Moore (UCLA Law), Demystifying the First-Year Classroom

Yale Corporate Law

Raghuram G. Rajan (Chicago Business), Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 28th, 2008 | Law and Economics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Cyberspace, Tort Law, Legal Education, Business Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 28, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Bar Ilan

Sagit Leviner (Bar Ilan Law), A New Era of Tax Enforcement - From “Big Stick” to Responsive Regulation

Columbia Law & Economics

Bill Wilhelm (Virginia Law)

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Margaret Gilbert (Connecticut Philosophy), Scanlon on Promissory Obligation & A Theory of Political Obligation Chapter 2 & 7

Harvard

Frank Michelman (Harvard Law), Socioeconomic Rights in Constitutional Law: Explaining America Away

UC Berkeley

Richard Abel (UCLA Law), The Defense of Legality in post-9/11 America

UC Berkeley Law & Economics

Hon. Guido Calabresi (U.S. Court of Appeals), Toward a Unified Theory of Torts 

USC Law, Economics, & Organization

Kevin Quinn (Harvard Government), Viewpoint Diversity and Media Consolidation: An Empirical Study of National Newspapers

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 27th, 2008 | Empirical Legal Studies, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Philosophy, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Tort Law, Uncategorized | no comments