The University of Memphis Law Review will hold a symposium on the Department of the Treasury’s Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure Feb. 20, 2009. The editors ask that papers be submitted by Nov. 1, 2008 (although they will consider later papers case by case). Jump to full post
Rachel Barkow (NYU Law), Institutional Design and the Policing of Prosecutors: Lessons from Administrative Law
David Ardia, Sam Bayard, Tuna Chatterjee (Members of Citizen Media Law Project), Discussion of the project’s first year
Ruth Mazo Karras (Minnesota History), Telling the Truth About Sex in Late Medieval Paris
Jens Dammann (Texas Law), Of Courts and Corporations
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), The Story of Murphy: A New Front in the War Against the Income Tax
Note: Professor Caron will be blogging on this paper today here.
Scott Moss (Colorado Law), O Brave New World That Has Such Creatures Evidence: An Economic Analysis Of Courts’ Misguided Rules On Discovery Of Digital Evidence
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), A Special Case?: Corporations and Campaign Finance
Fernanda Nicola (American University Law), Invisible Cities: Markets, Distribution and Development in European Union Law
Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Law), The Province of Jurisprudence Revisited
Loyola
Minnesota Faculty Works
Ed McCaffery (USC Law), Towards a Unified Theory of Tax and Property
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
David Gamage (UC Berkeley Law), Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidanc: A Tentative Defense of “Double Taxation”
Diane Ring (Boston College Law), Sovereignty and International Tax
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar (Stanford Law), “Securing” the Bureaucracy: The Federal Security Agency and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 1939-1953
Sai Prakash (San Diego Law), The Seperation and Overlap of War and Military Powers
Joshua Cohen (Stanford Political Science), Politics, Power, and Public Reason
Washington
Amy Wildermuth (Utah Law), The Failed Mead Experiment - A Critical Review of the Skidmore Revival
Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions
Duke Law Journal hosts Admininistrative Law Symposium: Administrative Law, Preemption, and Federalism, Tues., April 15, 2008, 4-7 pm.
Efraim Benmelech (Harvard Economics), Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection
Georgetown Statutory Colloquium
Theodore Ruger (Penn Law), Gonzales v. Oregon and the Normative Constitution of American Health Care
Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown Law), The Endowment Effect: Implications of Recent Empirical Developments for Legal Theory & Exchange Asymmetries Incorrectly Interpreted as Evidence of Endowment Effect Theory and Prospect Theory
Eleanor Sharpston (Advocate General, European Court of Justice), ‘Freedom, Security, and Justice’ in the European Union: The Story so Far and (some of) the Challenges for the Future
Jody Kraus (Virginia Law), The Correspondence and Divergence in Contract and Promise
Frank Pasquale (Seton Hall Law), Taxing Tiering: Addressing Inequality in Health Care as Cross-Subsidization Declines
Rosemary C. Salomone (St. John’s Law), Official English: The Reality and the Rhetoric
Jerry L. Anderson (Drake Law), An Empirical Study of Attitudes Toward Zoning
Michael Conroy (Colibri Consulting), How Civil Society is Striking Back at Neoliberal Globalization: Tales from the ‘Certification Revolution’
Richard Perry (San Jose State University), On the Strange Career of the Cultural Defense
Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law) & Jide Nzelibe (Northwestern Law), Political Accountability Under Alternative Institutional Regimes
Fiona Harrison (California Institute of Technology), Three Big Questions about the Universe (and how Astrophysicists are trying to answer them)
William H. McDavid (Ret. General Counsel, J.P. Morgan Chase), Enron: The Aftermath
Natasha Martin (Seattle Law), Immunity for Hire: The Same Actor Factor as a Subterfuge to Equality in the Contemporary Workplace
Craig Anthony Arnold (Louisville Law), Land Use Regulation and the Democratic Process
Georgetown International Human Rights
Martin Flaherty (Fordham Law), Executive Authority, Fundamental Rights, and Global Separation of Powers
David Caron (UC Berkeley Law), Why International Courts and Tribunals Look and Act as They Do
Thomas Merrill (Columbia Law), The Rule of First Possession and the Rule of Accession
Syracuse
Eric A. Kades (William & Mary Law), A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain
Kristin Collins (BU Law), Let the Government become their Guardians: Administrative Law, Social Provision, and the Legal Construction of the Family in the Early Nineteenth Century
Mark Tushnet (Harvard Law), The Rights Revolution in the Twentieth Century
Jack Beermann (Boston University Law), Common Law and Statute Law in U.S. Federal Administrative Law
Randall Lesaffer (Tilburg Law), Just and Legal War, Just and Legal Peace, in Early Modern Europe
Charles Lawrence (Georgetown Law), Unconscious Racism Revisited: Reflections on the Origins and Impact of “The Id, the Ego and Equal Protection”
Curtis Bradley (Duke Law), The Story of Ex Parte Milligan: Military Trials, Enemy Combatants, and Congressional Authorization
Gregg Ivers (American Public Affairs), Religious Organizations as Legal Advocates: Comparing Canada and the U.S.
Michael Heise (Cornell Law), Plaintiphobia in State Courts? An Empirical Study of State Court Trials on Appeal
Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law), Good White People
William Lahey (Dalhousie Law), Inter-Professional Practice and the Law: Understanding and Overcoming the Barriers
Stephen R. Perry (Penn Law), Political Authority and Political Obligation
Yale Workplace Theory & Policy
Jack Dennerlein (Harvard Public Health), The Epidemic of Musculoskeletal Disorder in the Modern Workplace. Readings 1 & 2
The Duke Law Journal is delighted to announce the topic of the 2009 Duke Law Journal Symposium. It will focus on administrative law under the George W. Bush administration and the future of administrative law. The symposium will look retrospectively at the characteristics and accomplishments of the administrative state under the Bush Administration and prospectively at the direction the next President will or should take the administrative state. The symposium expects to include general articles about the larger themes and trends in administrative law as well as articles focusing on specific administrative law fields.
For more information, please contact the Duke Law Journal Symposium Editor, Elissa Flynn, at Elissa.Flynn[at]law.duke.edu or the Duke Law Journal Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Chemerinsky, at Jeffrey.Chemerinsky[at]law.duke.edu.
Update (May 20, 2008): The symposium has been scheduled for March 20, 2009. “Cass Sunstein, John Yoo, Adrien Vermeule, Cynthia Farina, Catherine Sharkey and Judge Harry Edwards have all agreed to come and contribute.”
Georgetown International Human Rights
Paolo Carozza (Notre Dame Law), The ‘Art’ of Democracy and the ‘Taste For Local Freedom’: International Human Rights and the American Constitutional Difference
Notre Dame
Barbara Stark (Hofstra Law), International Law
Eric Biber (UC Berkeley Law), Too Many Things to Do: How to Deal with the Dysfunctions of Multiple-Goal Agencies
Tonja Jacobi (Northwestern Law), Supermedians
Josef Drexl (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law)
Alastair Norcross (Rice Philosophy), Consequentialism and Commitment
Lisa Schultz Bressman (Vanderbilt Law), Administrative Law
Gary Bass (Princeton Politics), Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
Ambassador Luigi R. Einaudi (Secretary General, Organization of American States), The Ideal and Practice of Democratic Legitimacy in Latin America
Betsey Stevenson (Penn Business), Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
John Gardner (Oxford), H.L.A. Hart’s Punishment and Responsibility: Forty Years On
Michael Dorf (Columbia law), Dynamic Incorporation of Foreign Law
Alexandra D. Lahav (UConn Law), Advocacy at Unfair Hearings
Malcolm Feeley (UC Berkeley Law) & Edward Rubin (Vanderbilt Law), Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise
Ethan Kaplan (UC Berkeley Economics) & Arindrajit Dube (UC Berkeley Wage and Employment) & Suresh Naidu (UC Berkeley Ph.D.), Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information
Arleen Leibowitz (UCLA Public Policy), The Road to Health is Paved With Poor Incentives
USC Law, Economics and Organization
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), Guarding the Guardians: The Law & Economics of Judicial Councils
Paul Grossman (Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker), Imaginative Responses to Real World Litigation Problems
Boston College Tax Policy Workshop
Nancy Staudt (Northwestern Law), If Major Wars Affect (Judicial Fiscal Policy, How & Why?
Sadiq Reza (Boston Law), Islam’s Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure in Islamic Legal Doctrine and Practice
Colin Picker (Missouri-Kansas Law), International Law as a Mixed Jurisdiction
CUNY
Rebecca Bratspies (CUNY Law), The Need for Trust in Regulatory Systems
Jeffrey N. Gordon (Columbia Law), The Berle-Means Corporation in the 21st Century
Peter Byrne (Georgetown Law), Hallowed Ground: The Gettysburg Battlefield in Historic Preservation Law
NYU Colloquium on Tax Policy & Public Finance
Daniel Shaviro (NYU Law), The Optimal Relationship Between Taxable Income and Financial Accounting Income
Ellen Pryor (SMU Law), Coordinatng the Restatement (Third) of Torts
Geoffrey Miller (NYU Law), Arbitration’s Summer Soldiers: An Empirical Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Nonconsumer Contracts
Tanya Washington (Georgia State Law), Throwing the Black Baby Out with the Bathwater: The (Un)Constitutionality of Same-Sex Adoption Bans
The Full Impact of Digital Media: Shifts of Control and the Future of Music
Judy J. Thomson (MIT Philosophy), Some Reflections on Hart on Honore, CAUSATION IN THE LAW
Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton Philosophy), Experiments in Ethics
Jane Campbell Moriarty (Akron Law), Experiences as a Visiting Professor
Chuck Whitehead (Boston Law), The Evolution of Debt: Agency Costs, Financial Innovation, and Corporate Governance
Raqaiijah A. Yearby (Loyola Law), You Can’t Win, You Can’t Break Even, and You Can’t Get Out of the Game: Discontinuing the Cycle of Racial Inequities in Health Care Forty-Four Years after the Passage of Title VI
Gillian Metzger (Columbia Law), Administrative Law as the New Federalism
Robert Thompson (Vanderbilt Law), Corporate Voting in the World of Financial Engineering
Margareth Etienne (Illinois Law), Uncorporating the Large Firm
Robert Tsai (Oregon Law), Reconsidering Gobitis: Lessons in Presidential Leadership
Alicia Davis Evans (Michigan Law), Are Investors’ Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Over Time? Some Preliminary Evidence
Allan Erbsen (Minnesota Law), Horizontal Federalism
NYU Colloquium on Tax Policy & Public Finance
Northwestern Advanced Topics in Taxation
Adam Rosenzweig (Washington Law in St. Louis), Taxation, Risk and Derivatives: Does an Income Tax Subsidize Hedge Funds?
Jenny S. Martinez (Stanford Law), Substance and Process in the War on Terror
Jeremy Rabkin (George Mason Law), Exit, Voice, Loyalty in International Organizations: Why Can’t the President Check the First Option
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Frank Bloch (Vanderbilt Law), The Future of Legal Education
Nita Farahany (Vanderbilt Law), Neuroscience in the Criminal Justice System
Aida Alaka (Washburn Law), The Phenomenology of Error in Student Legal Writing
Pat Kuszler (Washington Law), Genomics and Global Health: Promise or Peril
Erica Field (Harvard Economics), Prenuptial Agreements and the Emergence of Dowry in Bangladesh
Wendy Wagner (Texas Law), Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research
Michael Dorf (Columbia Law), Dynamic Incorporation of Foreign Law
Alexander Volokh (Georgetown Law), Choosing Interpretive Methods: A Positive Theory of Judges and Everyone Else
Ethan Yale (Georgetown Law), Investment Risk and the Tax Benefit of Deferred Compensation
Howard M. Erichson (Seton Hall), CAFA’s Impact on Class Action Lawyers
Mississippi
Arthur Laby (Rutgers-Camden), Insider Trading and False Promising
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Kevin Hassett (American Enterprise Institute), Taxes and Wages
R. Craig Green (Temple Law), An Intellectual History of Judicial Activism
David Weisbach (Chicago Law), A Welfarist Approach to Disabilities
Lonny Hoffman (Houston Law), The Judicialization of Litigation Reform
Moshe Halbertal (NYU Law), Self-Transcendence, Violence and the Political Order
Claire Huntington (Colorado-Boulder Law), Repairing Family Law
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Nita Farahany (Vanderbilt Law), Judging Genes: Implications of the Second Generation of Genetic Tests in the Courtroom
Lyn Goering (Washburn Law), Tailoring Deference to Variety: Judicial Deference to Administrative Interpretation
Lisa Kelly (Washington Law), Telling Children’s Stories: Legal Advocacy for Children and Youth
Stephen Darwall (Michigan Philosophy), Authority and Second-Personal Reasons for Acting
The Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Manchester School of Law hosts the annual Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference March 18-20, 2008. The call for papers deadline is Feb. 1, 2008.
Papers are called for in many streams: Administrative Law; Construction Law; Criminal Justice; Diversity and Judging; Education Law; Environmental Law; European Law; Family and Child Law; Gender, Sexuality and Law; Human Rights Practice; Information Technology, Law and Cyberspace; Intellectual Property; Labour Law; Law and Economics; Law and Literature; Law, Race, Religion and Human Rights; Legal Education; Maths, Statistics and Scientific Legal Methodologies; Medical Law and Ethics; Mental Health and Mental Capacity; Regulation, Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility; Regulation, Security and Justice; Sentencing and Punishment; Sexual Offences and Offending; Socio-legal Theory and Method; Sports Law; Transitional Justice; Victims in International Law.
To promote “dialogue across traditional subject specialisms,” the organizers also invite paper proposals under keywords: Governance; Poverty and welfare; Space (real and virtual); Vulnerability; Participation; Identities; Trust; Histories; Resistance; Change.
Matthew Groves (Monash Law), Judicial Review of Administrative Action in the High Court of Australia
We posted about this conference in August: Northwestern University School of Law’s Searle Center presents Cost-Benefit Analysis of Regulations: Lessons Learned, Future Challenges, Oct. 11-12, 2007.
Now papers and videos of the presentations are available here.
Howard F. Chang (Penn Law), Optimal Taxation, Working Women, and the Disadvantages of Immigration Restriction as a Policy to Improve Income Distribution
Jonathan Baron (Penn), How Intuitions Conflict with the Economic Theory of Deterrence
David Johnson (NYLS) & Beth Simone Noveck (NYLS) & Richard K. Shewin (NYLS), New “Best Practices” in Law Teaching
Carter Snead (Notre Dame Law), Neuroimaging and the “Complexity” of Capital Punishment
Melissa Waters (Washington & Lee Law), Diagonal Dialogue: What Skidmore Deference Can Teach Us About Giving ‘Respectful Consideration’ to International Court
The George Washington Law Review hosted a symposium on regulating reproductive technologies — Conflicting Interests in Reproductive Autonomy and Their Impact on New Technologies — Nov. 2, 20