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Bankruptcy and Distress Resolution - Ghent

The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and the Financial Law Institute of Ghent University will host an academic conference on Bankruptcy and Distress Resolution Dec. 12-13, 2008. The call for papers deadline (for full papers) is Aug. 15, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 22nd, 2008 | Bankruptcy Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

April 25, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Jessie Hill (Case Western Law), Of Christmas Trees and Corpus Christi: The Establishment Clause and Change in Meaning Over Time

Cincinnati

Haider Hamoudi (Pittsburgh Law), Realism in Islamic Jurisprudence

USC

Kim Buchanan (USC Law)

Virginia

Ed Morrison (Columbia Law), Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 25th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Religion, Law and Economics, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Connecticut

Adrienne Davis (Virginia Law), Slavery & Shadow Families: Re-Thinking Miscegenation Regulation Through the Lens of Case

Harvard Legal History

Cynthia Nicoletti (Harvard Law, Berger Fellow), The American Civil War as a Trial by Battle

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke Philosophy), A Hybrid Theory of Claim-Rights

Georgia

Anup Malani (Chicago Law)

Harvard

Vicki Jackson (Georgetown Law), Constitutional Cosmology: Convergence, Resistance, and Engagement

Northwestern Law & Economics

Oliver Hart (Harvard Economics), Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points

Rutgers-Camden

Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), Constitutional Law, International Law, Public Law

Seton Hall

Errol Mendes (Ottawa Common Law)

St. John’s

Jean Braucher (Arizona Law), The Supreme Court’s 5-4 Rejection of Textualist Interpretation of the Bankruptcy Code in Marrana v. Citizens Bank of Massachusetts

Stanford Internet & Society

James Fishkin (Stanford Communication), An Online Experiment in Democracy: Deliberative Polling for Democratic Reform

Temple

Salil Mehra (Temple Law)

UC Berkeley

Alison Morantz (Stanford Law), Rethinking the Great Compromise: What Happens When Large Companies Opt Out of Workers Compensation?

UCLA Faculty Mondays

Gia Lee (UCLA Law), Free Speech Deference

USC Law, Economics & Organization

Devah Pager (Princeton Sociology), Race at Work: A Field Experiment of Discrimination in Low-Wage Labor Markets

Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations

Nancy King (Vanderbilt Law)

Yale Corporate Law

Gary J. Wolfe (Seward & Kissel), Golden Ocean–Taking Supertankers from Junk Bonds to Restructuring Bankruptcy to (Someone Else’s) Profit, and Fighting Every Step of the Way

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 13th, 2008 | Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Economics, Legal History, Business Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 11, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Cincinnati

Ajay Mehrotra (Indiana Law), The Public Control of Corporate Power: The 1909 Corporate Tax, the Sixteenth Amendment, and the Legal Foundations of the Modern Fiscal State

Florida

Paul Butler (George Washington Law)

Georgetown International Human Rights

Balakrishnan Rajagopal (MIT), The Limits of Legalizing Social Rights

Ohio State

Mitu Gulati (Duke Law)

Texas

Brian Tamanaha (St. John’s Law), The Bogus Tale About the Legal Formalists

UCLA Faculty Fridays

Vicki Schultz (Yale Law)

USC

Gillian Lester (UC Berkeley Law)

Virginia

Adam Levitin (Georgetown Law), Mortgage Market Sensitivity to Bankruptcy Modification

Washington

Robert Aronson (Washington Law), Winning at All Costs: Ethics and Integrity in Law, Sports, and Film

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | Legal Ethics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Economics, Civil Rights Law, Business Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

March 27, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Rennard Strickland (Chapman Law), Keepers of the Springs: A Defense of the American Legal Profession

Alabama

A. E. Dick Howard (Virginia Law), The Changing Face of the Supreme Court: From the Warren Court to the Roberts Court

Boston College

Linda Beale (Wayne State), Tax Patents: At the Crossroads of Tax and Patent Law

Boston University

Kim Ferzan (Rutgers-Camden Law), Beyond the Special Part

Brooklyn

Anita Bernstein (Brooklyn Law), Asbestos and Gender

Chicago-Kent

Elinor Ostrom (Indiana-Bloomington Cognitive Science Program)

Columbia

Clayton Gillette (Columbia Law), Tacit Agreement, Investment, and Contract Design

Emory

Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Anti-Bankruptcy

Florida State

Margaret Blair (Vanderbilt Law), Assurance Services as a Substitute for Law in Global Commerce

Georgetown

William Forbath (Texas Law), History, Memory and “Transformative Law”: Treatment Action Campaign and the Politics of Rights in South Africa

Michigan Law & Economics

Rip Verkerke (Virginia Law), Legal Innocence and Information-Forcing Rules

Minnesota Faculty Works

Elizabeth Beaumont (Minnesota Political Science)

NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance

Andrea Louis Campbell (MIT Political Science), How Americans Think About Taxes: Public Opinion and the American Fiscal State

Penn Law & Economics

Colin Mayer (Oxford Business), Where Do Firms Incorporate: Deregulation and the Cost of Entry

Temple International Law

Sean Murphy (George Washington Law), The Jus Ad Bellum in View of New Security Threats

Texas

Matt Adler (Penn Law), Social Facts, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Rule of Recognition

Vanderbilt

Brian Tamanaha (St. John’s Law)

Washburn

Alex Glashausser (Washburn Law), The Misbegotten Modern Doctrine of Federal Question Jurisdiction

Yale Human Rights

Shameem Black (Yale English), Fiction in the Age of Transitional Justice

Yale Law & Economics

Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown Law), Do Insurer Reserving Practices Drive Liability Insurance Premium Cycles?: An Empirical Study at the Claim Level

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 27th, 2008 | Comparative Law, National Security Law, Law and Gender, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Insurance Law, Courts, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Economics, Jurisprudence, Intellectual Property, Contract Law, Health Law, Business Law, Constitutional Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized | no comments

March 5, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago-Kent

Margareth Etienne (Illinois Law)

Connecticut Tax

Linda Sugin (Fordham Law), Why Endowment Taxation is Unjust

Emory

Pauline Kim (Washington Law), Exploring Panel Effects: Deliberation and Strategy on the United States Courts of Appeals

NYU Legal History

Lloyd Bonfield (New York Law School), Lord Chief Justice King’s Reports - 1714-22: ‘Commercial Law’

SMU Law & Citizenship

Serena Mayeri (Penn Law)

Toronto Law & Economics

Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Financial Innovation and the New Chapter 11

UC Hastings

Giuseppe De Palo (Hamline Law), The Globalization of the ‘ADR Movement

USC Law, History and Culture

Megan Reid (USC Religion), Punishment and Appropriate Justice in Islamic Societies

Washington

Signe Brunstad (Washington Law) & Toshiko Takenaka (Washington Law), Cross-Border Cultural Teaching Experience: License Negotiation and Mock Trial with European Law Students

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 5th, 2008 | Law and Religion, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Bankruptcy Law, Courts, Law and Economics, Legal History, Tax Law, Legal Education, Commercial Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Uncategorized | no comments

March 3, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Columbia Law & Economics

Vikrant Vig (London Business), Securitization and Screening: Evidence from Subprime Mortgage Back Securities

Connecticut

Adrienne Davis (Virgina Law), Slavert & Shadow Families: Re-Thinking Miscegenation Regulation Through the Lens of Castle

Georgia

Randy Picker (Chicago Law)

Harvard

Ian Ayres (Yale Law), Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk

Harvard International Law

Robert Hornik (Penn Communication)

Marquette

Rob Vischer (St. Thomas (MN) Law)

Penn Law & Philosophy

Christopher Kutz (UC Berkeley Law), Against Political Luck

Queen’s Law

Sheryll Cashin (Georgetown Law), Race, Class and the American Dream

Rutgers-Camden

Rebecca Tushnet (Georgetown Law), Power Without Responsibility: Intermediaries and the First Amendment

St. John’s

Rebecca M. Bratspies (CUNY Law), The Need for Trust in Regulatory Systems

Suffolk

Sonia Katyal (Fordham Law), Intellectual Property

Temple

Anthony J. Sebok (Brooklyn Law), The Inauthentic Claim

Texas

Laura Beny (Michigan Law)

David Harvey (CUNY Anthropology), From Capital Surplus to Accumulation by Dispossession

UC Berkeley Bag Lunch

Elizabeth Chambliss (New York Law School), When Do Facts Persuade? Some Thoughts on the Market for ‘Empirical Legal Studies’

UCLA Mondays

Austen Parrish (Southwestern Law), Reclaiming International Law from Extraterritoriality

USC Law, Economics and Organization

Edward R. Morrison (Columbia Law), Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11

Washington University in St. Louis

Nestor Davidson (Colorado Law)

Yale Corporate Law

Eleazer Klein (Schulte Roth & Zabel), Current Issues in Private Placement: A Case Study

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 2nd, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Race, Law and Politics, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Philosophy, Law and Economics, International Law, Intellectual Property, Business Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | one comment

Consumer Rights Litigation - Washington, DC

The National Consumer Law Center presents its 16th Annual Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, Nov. 8-11, 2007, Washington, DC.

In addition to the main conference, there will be day-long “intensives” on particular topics:

  • Class Action Symposium;
  • Doing Well While Doing Good;
  • Stopping Foreclosures: Loan Workouts, Servicing Claims, and Bankruptcy Strategies;
  • Fighting Predatory Mortgage Lending through Litigation: An Introduction to the Evolving Marketplace and Legal Theories;
  • Attacking Debt Collectors’ Suits, Repossessions, and Arbitrations.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 5th, 2007 | Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, CONFERENCES, Property Law | no comments