Submissions from both junior and senior scholars are invited. Abstracts (up to 800 words) should be sent in .pdf or .doc format to administrativelaw|at|irpa.eu by March 31, 2012. Conference papers will be published in the NYU Jean Monnet Working Papers Series. The best contributions may also become part of a symposium dedicated to the “New Theories of Administrative Law,” to be published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I•CON). More information can be found here.

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The Forum’s objective is to encourage the work of young scholars by providing experience in the pursuit of scholarship and the nature of the scholarly exchange. Meetings are held each spring, alternating between Yale, Stanford, and Harvard.

Paper submissions for the Forum should be sent to Ms. Kaitlin Burroughs at Harvard Law School (1525 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138). Electronic submissions should be sent to kburroughs[at]law.harvard.edu. The deadline for submission is February 15, 2012. Please note on the cover letter which topic your paper falls under.

Inquiries concerning the Forum should be sent to Adriaan Lanni (adlanni[at]law.harvard.edu) or Gabriella Blum (gblum[at]law.harvard.edu) at Harvard Law School, Joseph Bankman at Stanford Law School (jbankman[at]stanford.edu), or Ian Ayres at Yale Law School (ian.ayres[at]yale.edu)

The focus of this year’s session will be public law and the humanities. The topics to be addressed are:
Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law
Employment Law, Social Welfare Policy, and Anti-Discrimination Law
Environmental Law
Family Law
Jurisprudence and Philosophy
Law and Humanities (including Law and Literature, Critical Legal Studies, and Gender Studies)
Legal History
Public International Law
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• the state budget crisis and the ability of state agencies to provide legally required services
• possible changes in state drug laws
• same-sex marriage
• the immigration debate and the California Dream Act

The submission deadline is Sept. 30, 2011.The full call for papers is on SSRN. mw

Administrative Conference Now Accepting Proposals

The Conference seeks proposals for projects that would comprehensively study the following topics (click on the topic name for complete project details and instructions on how to submit a proposal):

Paperwork Reduction Act:

This project would study the Paperwork Reduction Act and recommend potential improvements. The study should address the following topics (using empirical methods where appropriate):

* What are the costs and benefits of agency compliance with the PRA?
* Could the PRA’s useful purposes be served in a more targeted and efficient manner?
* How well does the PRA interact with new technologies?
* Does it require any updating to account for social media and other web-based agency activities?Should the PRA apply to voluntary collections of information?
* Should it apply to collection of information from special government employees?
* Are there any other ways in which the PRA should be improved?

Review of Regulatory Analysis Requirements:

The project would study regulatory analysis requirements and recommend potential improvements. While the Conference is not contemplating recommending that any of the required analyses be eliminated, it desires to study how the goals of the analysis requirements could be achieved more efficiently. The study should address the following topics (using empirical methods where appropriate):

* The study should assess the costs and benefits of the required analyses.
* The study should assess the accuracy of the required analyses, by examining a sample of such analyses retrospectively.
* The study should assess whether or not the analysis requirements have caused an ossification of the rulemaking process.
* The study should consider whether or not there is any duplication in the analysis requirements that could be eliminated or whether or not the requirements could otherwise be rationalized or streamlined while continuing to serve their valuable goals, and it should make an appropriate recommendation.
* The study should consider whether or not there would be a benefit to gathering all of the various analysis requirements in one place, and it should make an appropriate recommendation.

Submission Deadlines: Close of business on August 18, 2011.
Please send proposals to Jonathan R. Siegel, ACUS Director of Research and Policy, at jsiegel [at] acus.gov.

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Recent and old crises such as the dioxin scandal in Europe and hazardous toys in China as well as the transnationality of the financial crisis emphasize the intertwined character of risk perception and regulation in both economies, which still lacks adequate research.

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March 30, 2011, 12-?, Vanderbilt University Law School.

• Heather Hughes (American University), Enabling Investment in Environmental Sustainability. Commenter: Andrew Kaufman (Kirkland & Ellis LLP)

April 15, 2011, 9am – 1:30pm, Washington, DC.

• Jody Freeman and Andrew T. Guzman (Berkeley) (Harvard), Sea Walls Are Not Enough: Climate Change and U.S. Interests. Commenters: Jeffrey Hopkins (Rio Tinto), Daniel Lashof (Natural Resources Defense Council), Richard D. Morgenstern (Resources for the Future)
• Wendy E. Wagner (Texas), Administrative Law, Filter Failure, and Information Capture. Commenters: Howard Learner (Environmental Law and Policy Center), Thomas Milch (Arnold & Porter, LLP)
• Victor B. Flatt (North Carolina) and Paul M. Collins (North Texas) Environmental Enforcement in Dire Straits: ‘There is No Protection for Nothing and No Data For Free’. Commenters: John Cruden (DOJ), Eric Shaeffer (Environmental Integrity Project), LaJuana Wilcher (English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley, LLP)

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