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Westerfield Fellows Workshops - New Orleans

Loyola New Orleans’s Westerfield Fellows will hold two workshops, March 23, and 25:

  • Carter Dillard – Compelling state interests that limit the right to procreate
  • Derek Fincham – Social networking as an academic tool
  • Shontavia Johnson – The intersection of intellectual property and human rights
  • Carol Pauli – New media challenges to the law
  • JoAnne Sweeny – The creation of the United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act
  • Robert Weber – Basel II, Internal Capital Models, and New Governance

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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 19th, 2010 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Human Rights Law, Legal Education, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Business Law, Intellectual Property | no comments

Teaching Transactional Law - Atlanta

Emory University School of Law’s Center for Transactional Law and Practice will hold its second biennial conference on the teaching of transactional law and skills — Transactional Education: What’s Next? — June 4-5, 2010. Proposals are due by Friday, Feb. 1, 2010. mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 21st, 2010 | Clinics, Legal Research & Writing, Estate Planning, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, Business Law, Legal Education, CONFERENCES | no comments

Music Law - Gainesville, FL

The Music Law Conference at the University of Florida Levin College of Law is hosting its 8th annual conference on February 27, 2010.

The conference brings together musicians, lawyers, students, academics, policy makers and entertainment professionals for a weekend to network, learn, and share ideas. It is our goal that everyone, from the disgruntled ex-band member to the seasoned entertainment attorney, that attends the conference will leave with a new perspective on the music industry.

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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 21st, 2009 | Law and Humanities, Business Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES | no comments

Music Law - Gainesville, FL

The University of Florida Levin College of Law will host the 8th annual Music Law Conference on Feb. 27, 2010. The conference brings together musicians, lawyers, students, academics, policy makers and entertainment professionals for a weekend to network, learn, and share ideas. Topics will include: digital and retail markets, new forms of music distribution, international issues, ethical issues, protecting musicians’ rights, understanding both sides of the table, the art of business, and basic do-it-yourself ideas for new artists. For updates and additional information, see the UF Music Law Conference Blog. ajc

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 13th, 2009 | Law and Humanities, Business Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES | no comments

Financial Regulation and Supervision - Milan, Italy

Bocconi University, Tilburg University, and NYU present the 5th International Conference on Financial Regulation and Supervision (”Finlawmetrics”), June 24-25, 2010 in Milan. The topic will be “Central banking, regulation and supervision after the financial crisis.” The conference committee will consider through January 31 papers that shed light on the different causes of change in, and their consequences for, central banking, regulation and supervision. Keynote speakers are to include Arnoud Boot (University of Amsterdam) and Xavier Vives (IESE Business School). ajc

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 13th, 2009 | CALLS FOR PAPERS, Comparative Law, Commercial Law, International Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Governance and Markets - Ann Arbor, MI

The Stephen M. Ross School of Business announces the 18th Mitsui Finance Symposium at the University of Michigan, “Governance and Markets,” May 21-22, 2010.

The organizers invite paper submissions on issues pertaining to a variety of topics concerning corporate governance. There are prizes for the top three papers ($5,000, $2,500, and $2,500). The deadline is Jan. 15, 2010. The full call for papers is here. mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2009 | Securities Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Empirical Legal Studies - Los Angeles

The Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held at the USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles Nov. 20-21, 2009. The preliminary program is here.  Paper abstracts are available on SSRN.

Panel topics address a wide range of legal areas and institutions, including:

  • corporate governance (several panels), securities litigation, the financial crisis, tax, bankruptcy, business entities
  • law and politics (several panels), elections, lobbying
  • capital punishment, policing, criminal evidence, prisons
  • law and neuroscience,  behavioral law and economics
  • law schools, the legal profession
  • courts, jurors, victims and witnesses, attitudes and decisionmaking, settlement
  • civil rights, environmental law, property, torts, family law, medical malpractice,  contracts, administrative law, patent, international law

(These are all separate panels. I grouped them into the bullet points to make the list easier to browse.)  mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 23rd, 2009 | Empirical Legal Studies, Evidence Law, Law and Economics, Civil Rights Law, Tort Law, Law and Psychology, Civil Procedure, Legal Profession, Courts, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Politics, Securities Law, Administrative Law, Health Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES, Business Law, Family Law, Legal Education, International Law, Environmental Law, Tax Law, Property Law | no comments

Call for Papers Deadline Extended: Intelligent Information Privacy Management - Stanford, CA

CodeX: The Stanford Center of Computers and Law announces Intelligent Information Privacy Management Symposium, March 23-25, 2010. The call for papers deadline is Oct. 2, 2009. UPDATE (Sept. 29): the deadline has been extended to Oct. 23.

Issues papers should clearly describe an important privacy related issue in 2-4 pages. Position papers and technical papers can be up to 6 pages in length. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 29th, 2009 | Law and Cyberspace, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

European State Aid Law, Restructuring Banks and Airlines - London

Lexxion presents its autumn conference on European State Aid Law. The main conference is Nov. 27, 2009, at King`s College London. A workshop is planned on the previous day, Nov. 26, with focus on restructuring of banks and airlines; it will be at the Athenaeum.

Topics:
- The Restructuring of financial Institutions under Art. 87 (3) lit. b EC
- Procedure and judicial Protection in State Aid
- State Aid in special Sectors:
- Broadcasting (new Broadcasting Communication of 2 July 2009)
- Broadband (new Guidelines to be adopted)
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 29th, 2009 | Communications Law, Law and Cyberspace, Comparative Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Intelligent Information Privacy Management - Stanford, CA

CodeX: The Stanford Center of Computers and Law announces Intelligent Information Privacy Management Symposium, March 23-25, 2010. The call for papers deadline is Oct. 2, 2009. UPDATE (Sept. 29): the deadline has been extended to Oct. 23.

Issues papers should clearly describe an important privacy related issue in 2-4 pages. Position papers and technical papers can be up to 6 pages in length. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 26th, 2009 | Communications Law, Law and Cyberspace, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Sept. 1, 2009 Colloquia/Workshops

Notre Dame

Julian Velasco (Notre Dame Law), How Many Fiduciary Duties Are There In Corporate Law?

Posted by legalscholarshipblog on September 1st, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Business Law | no comments

International Business Litigation - Hamburg

The American Enterprise Institute and the Council on Public Policy present Transatlantic Law Forum: The Business of Law at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 3-4, 2009.

Business litigation in national and international courts is a business, and it is increasingly international. The judicial decisions and doctrines that govern the field are the subject of torrents of law review articles. But we know much less about the institutional aspects of business litigation–the organization of international courts and the strategies, incentives, and organization of corporate interests and their lawyers. How and to what extent do those interests attempt to shape the legal environment, and with what results? How do private corporate litigants fare in European and American courts–and what should we expect for future business litigation?

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 10th, 2009 | Courts, Comparative Law, International Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Conference: Investment Management Law - Hempstead, NY

Hofstra University School of Law’s Journal of International Business and Law presents a conference, Investment Management Law, on Friday, October 9, 2009.

This conference will focus on emerging issues in investment management law, including derivatives and leverage, fallout from the global financial crisis, enforcement and litigation trends, and the regulation of hedge funds. Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, will offer the keynote address.

For additional information, please visit the conference website.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 23rd, 2009 | Securities Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

May 29th Colloquia/Workshops

2009 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum 

Session 1: Corporate and Securities Law

       Michal Barzuza (Virginia Law), Lemon Signaling in Cross-Listing

       Katherine V. Litvak (Texas Law), The Effect of U.S. Securities Law on Foreign Companies: The Relationship Between Cross-Listing Premia U.S. Stock Prices, and U.S. Trading Volumes

       Usha Rodrigues (Georgia Law), Placebo Ethics

       James Spindler  (USC Law), Vicarious Liability for Bad Corporate Governance: Are We Wrong About 10b-5?

Session 2: Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution

       Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff (Washington University of St. Louis Law), Just Negotiation

       Brian T. Fitzpatrick (Vanderbilt Law), The End of Objector Blackmail

Session 3: Property

       Daniel B. Kelly (Harvard Law), Strategic Spillovers

       David Schleicher (George Mason Law), The City as a Law and Economic Subject

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 29th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Business Law, Property Law | no comments

April 27th Colloquia/Workshop

UC Berkeley CSLS

       Kinch Hoekstra (Berkeley Law), The History of Mixed Government and the Future of Absolutism

UC Berkeley Law and Economics

       Merritt B. Fox (Columbia Law), Fraud-on-the-Market Actions Against Foreign Issuers

      

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 27th, 2009 | Law and Politics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Business Law | no comments

March 26th Colloquia/Workshops

Alabama

       Matthew Kramer (Cambridge Law), Freedom and the Rule of Law

Boston College

       Neil  Buchanan (George Washington Law)

 Columbia

       Philip Hamburger (Columbia Law), Beyond Protection

Florida State

       Jayanth Krishnan (William Mitchell Law), (Un)wanted Outsiders: The Debate over Excluding American and British Law Firms from a Thriving Capital Market

Minnesota Faculty Works

       Richard Brooks (Yale Law), Groups and Individuals

Toronto Health Law

      Theodor R. Marmour (Yale Management), Reflections on Medicare Across the North American Border

Tulsa

       The Legal Scholarship of Richard Epstein

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 26th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Civil Rights Law, Business Law, Health Law | no comments

Digital Entrepreneurship - Morgantown, WV

The West Virginia Law Review and West Virginia University College of Law’s Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Law Program present Digital Entrepreneurship: The Incentives and Legal Risks March 27, 2009. The symposium will be available as a live webcast.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 18th, 2009 | Law and Cyberspace, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Call for Papers & Workshop on Interoperability - Paris, France

The Innovation & Regulation Chair at the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris and the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy (IJCLP) are pleased to announce their first joint call for interdisciplinary papers in occasion of the Workshop on Interoperability taking place on June 23-24, 2009 in Paris, France.

We invite students, scholars, policy-makers, technologists, practitioners and industry representatives to submit papers on interoperability related issues, analyzed from a legal, economic and/or technological perspective.

Deadline for writing competition: May 15th, 2009
Deadline for Journal publication: September 15th, 2009
Deadline for long abstracts (submissions not entered in writing competition): July 15, 2009 Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 16th, 2009 | Law and Technology, Law and Cyberspace, Antitrust Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Creativity, Law and Entrepreneurship Workshop - Madison, WI

The University of Wisconsin Institute for Legal Studies hosts Creativity, Law and Entrepreneurship Workshop April 24, 2009 (by invitation).

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 16th, 2009 | Legal Profession, Law and Society, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

February 16th Colloquia/Workshops

Columbia Legal Theory

       Lee Epstein (Northwestern Law)

Connecticut

       Mary Dudziak (USC Law), Law, War, and the History of Time

Georgia

       Christine Hurt (Illinois Law)

Rutgers

       Duncan Hollis (Temple Law), Unpacking the Compact Clause

St. Thomas

       Mitchell Gordon (St. Thomas Law), Don’t Copy Me Argentina: Constitutional Borrowing and Rhetorical Type

Syracuse

        Deborah Hellman (Maryland Law), When is Discrimination Wrong

Yale Workplace Theory and Policy Seminar

       Cynthia Estlund (NYU Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 16th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Business Law | no comments

Sovereign Wealth Funds, Hedge Funds and Private Equity Symposium - Villanova, PA

Villanova University School of Law presents the 2009 Norman J. Shachoy Law Review Symposium, The Rise of the New Shareholder: Sovereign Wealth Funds, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity, on Saturday, March 14, 2009. Speakers will explore how sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds have dramatically changed the landscape of U.S. and global capital markets.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 14th, 2009 | Law and Economics, Securities Law, Commercial Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Energy & the Environment: Empowering Consumers Conference - Hofstra Law School

The Energy & Environment Conference , held at Hofstra Law School, focuses on the rights and duties of consumers, the consequences of their energy consumption choices, and the implications of their environmental demands and responsibilities. The Conference examines some of the most important legal, factual, political and ethical considerations in the evolving role of the energy and environmental consumer. 

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 13th, 2009 | Commercial Law, Environmental Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

21st Annual Red Clay Conference - Does Going Green Equal Making Green? - Georgia

This The 21st Annual Red Clay Conference seeks to examine the consequences of environmentally friendly business practices and the interaction between issues of environmental and corporate law.  It will be held at the University of Georgia.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 13th, 2009 | Environmental Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Microfinance and the Law

The Journal of Law and Commerce, Law and Entrepreneurship Program, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law present Microfinance and the Law on Friday, February 13, 2009, from 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, PA.  To register, please visit here or send an e-mail to jlc|@|law.pitt.edu.

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 4th, 2009 | Poverty Law, Clinics, Commercial Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Financial Reg, Corp Governance, and Securities Litigation - NYC

The American Constitution Society and Columbia Law School host Financial Regulation, Corporate Governance, and Securities Litigation: What Does the Future Hold? — Feb. 11, 2009, 2-6 p.m.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 4th, 2009 | Securities Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Call for Papers: Carbon Finance, the Financial Crisis, and the Re-Regulation of Markets

Carbon & Climate Law Review is welcoming abstracts for a special issue on Carbon Finance, the Financial Crisis, and the Re-regulation of Markets, scheduled for publication in June 2009. It will be edited by Jacob Werksman and Christina Voigt. The deadline is Feb. 15, 2009. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 4th, 2009 | Securities Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Environmental Law, Business Law | no comments

February 3rd Colloquia/Workshops

Alabama

       Andrew Morriss (Illinois Law)

Chicago Law and Economics

       Betsey Stevenson (Penn. Business), Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

Columbia Legal Theory

       Robin West (Georgetown Law)

Emory

       Joseph Miller (Lewis and Clark Law), Hoisting Originality

Kansas

       Orin Kerr (George Washington Law), Applying the Fourth Amendment to Internet Communications: A General Approach

Marquette

       Julie Oseid (St. Thomas Law), War Stories: Mentoring New Lawyers Through Storytelling

Pennsylvania Law and Philosophy

       Bill Edmundson (Georgia State Law), Political Authority, Moral Powers, and the Intrinsic Value of Obedience

Temple International Law

       Elena Baylis (Pittsburgh Law), Bellweather Trials: From Mass Torts to Mass Atrocities

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 3rd, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, International Law, Business Law, Criminal Law | no comments

Risk Management & Corporate Governance - Chicago

The Center for Integrated Risk Management and Corporate Governance (Loyola University Chicago Graduate School of Business) presents the Annual Conference on Risk Management and Corporate Governance Oct. 1-2, 2009. The call for papers deadline is July 15, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 30th, 2009 | CALLS FOR PAPERS, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Origins & History of Shareholder Advocacy - New Haven

The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management is planning a conference on the origins and historical development of shareholder advocacy. The conference will take place in November 2009. The call for proposals deadline is Feb. 24, 2009. Details at SSRN.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 30th, 2009 | Legal History, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

January 29th Colloquia/Workshops

Brooklyn Law

       Edward J. Janger (Brooklyn Law), Virtual Territoriality

Chicago Constitutional Law

       Theodore Ruger (Penn Law)

Columbia

       Robert Ferguson (Columbia Law), Invading Panama: The Power of Circumstance in the Rule of Law

Florida State      

       Amy Farmer (Arkansas Law), Strategic Bidding Investment and Investment in Final Offer

Miami

       Caroline Mala Corbin (Miami Law), The First Amendment Right Against Compelled Listening

Minnesota

       Leo Katz (Penn. Law), Why the Law Spruns Win-Win Transactions

North Carolina

       Devon W. Carbado (UCLA Law), After Obama: Three Post-Racial Challanges

Northwestern Law and Economics

       Robert Marquez (Arizona State Business) Stockholder Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Firm Value

Southwestern

       Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow (Georgetown Law)

Stanford Law and Economics

        JJ Prescott (Michigan Law), Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior

Stanford Health Law     

       Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), A Limited Defense  of Clinical Placebo Deception

Toronto Heath Law

       Martin Hevia and Joanna Erdman (Toronto Law), Denied Access to Medical Care as a Violation of the Rights Against Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment: A Case Study on Anencephalic Pregnancy

Yale Law and Economics

       Betsey Stevenson (Penn Business), The Paradox of Declining Female Hapiness

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on January 29th, 2009 | Law and Economics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Cyberspace, Constitutional Law, Business Law, Criminal Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

After the Big Bang: Reshaping Central Banking - Milan

The Paolo Baffi Centre on Central Banking and Financial Regulation (Università Bocconi) and the Center on Central Banks and Financial Institutions (NYU) present Finlawmetrics 2009, the Fourth International Conference on Financial Regulation and Supervision, June 18-19. The conference them is After the Big Bang: Reshaping Central Banking, Regulation and Supervision.

The call for papers deadline was Dec. 18, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 26th, 2009 | Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Financial (In)Stability - Ann Arbor, MI

The Stephen M. Ross School of Business (University of Michigan) presents its 16th Mitsui Finance Symposium, “Financial (In)Stability,” June 5-6, 2009.

The call for papers deadline is Jan. 31, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 26th, 2009 | Securities Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

January 20th Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law and Economics

       David Dana (Northwestern Law), Valuing Foreign Civilizations and Foreign Lives: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Climate Change, and the (Possibly Overstated) Meaning of American Borders

Florida State

       Michael Dimono (Widener Law), Community Caretaking and Fourth Amendment Reasonableness

Marquette

       Michael Waxman (Marquette Law)

Vanderbilt

       Keith Chen (Yale Managment), Behavioral Biases and the Market Behavior of Non-Human Primates

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on January 20th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, Business Law | no comments

Call for Chapter Proposals - Ethical Issues in E-Business

Call for Chapter Proposals:

Ethical Issues in E-Business: Models and Frameworks, a book edited by Dr. Daniel E. Palmer, Kent State University, Trumbull Campus. This publication is part of the Advances in E-Business Research Book Series (AEBR) and will be published by IGI Global.

Proposals must be submitted by Feb. 15, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 5th, 2009 | Law and Cyberspace, Legal Ethics, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Business Law | no comments

Game::Business::Law - Law & Business of Video Games - Dallas

The SMU Dedman School of Law, the Guildhall at SMU, and the Center for American and International Law host Game::Business::Law - International Summit on the Law and Business of Video Games Jan. 14-15, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 2nd, 2009 | Law and Cyberspace, Business Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES | no comments

Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets - Sao Paulo

2nd International Conference on Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets will take place in Sao Paolo, Brazil, July 2-3, 2009. It is sponsored by COPPEAD, the Global Corporate Governance Forum, and Direito GV. The deadline for submissions is January 12th, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 2nd, 2009 | Comparative Law, Business Law | no comments

Corporate Governance - Copenhagen

The Center for Corporate Governance (Copenhagen Business School) presents a Workshop on Corporate Governance June 19-20, 2009. The call for papers deadline is April 1, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 2nd, 2009 | Comparative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

European State Aid Law and the Financial Crisis - London

The financial crisis still dominates the news - and supposedly will for a while. It affects - more or less - all areas. Therefore Lexxion Publishers organise a workshop to thoroughly discuss and work out European State Aid Law and the Financial Crisis. It is scheduled for 20 February 2009 (whole day) at King’s College London (KCL).

Further details may soon be found at www.lexxion.eu/conferences.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 21st, 2008 | Law and Politics, Comparative Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

The Economics and Law of the Entrepreneur - Chicago

The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth (Northwestern University School of Law) presents The Economics and Law of the Entrepreneur June 11-12, 2009. The call for papers deadline is March 15, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 11th, 2008 | Law and Economics, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

November 13th Colloquia/Workshops

Connecticut

       Steven Davidoff (Connecticut Law), The Failure of Private Equity

Florida State

       Michael Rappaport (San Diego Law), The Tradeoff Between Originalism and Precedent: A Consequentialist Analysis

Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics Workshop

       Zeke Emanuel (National Institute of Health), A New Theory for the Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources: The Complete Lives Framework

Harvard

       Randall Thomas (Vanderbilt Law)

Marquette

       Beth Lyon (Villanova Law), The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers: an Overlooked Opportunity to Educate America about ‘Brown-Collar’ Migration

Michigan Law and Economics

       Steve Choi (NYU Law), Motions for Lead Plaintiff in Securities Class Actions

Minnesota

       Clarisa Long (Columbia Law), Interest Groups and Institutions in Patent and Copyright

NYU Law and Society

       Ziba Mir-Hosseini (NYU Law), The Law and the Veil

Oregon Environmental and Natural Resource Law

       Dan Gavin (Oregon Geography), Abrupt Climate Change: Assessing its Impact on Forests and Wildfire from the Paleoecological Record

Santa Clara Social Justice Workshop

       Michele Jawando (People for the American Way Foundation), Shattering the Myth: An Examination of the New Politics of Voter Suppression

Yale Law Economics and Organization

       Edward Iacobucci (Toronto Law), Does Departing from Mandatory Corporate Law Increase Value

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 13th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Civil Procedure, Law and Society, Commercial Law, Environmental Law, International Law, Business Law | no comments

November 11th Colloquia/Workshops

Pennsylvania Law and Economics

       Hon. Randy J. Holland (Supreme Court of Deleware), Delaware Directors’ Fiduciary Duties: The Focus on Loyalty

Pittsburgh

       George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon), The Economist as Therapist:  Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Toronto Law and Literature

       Lorna Hutson (St. Andrews English), “‘Tis Probable and Palpable to Thinking”: Law and Likelihood in Shakespeare

Vanderbilt

       Jason Solomon (Georgia Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 11th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Literature, Business Law | no comments

November 10th Colloquia/Workshops

Alabama

       Jamal Greene (Columbia Law)

Georgetown International Theory

       Sabrina Safrin (Rutgers Law)

Harvard

       Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Virginia Law)

Loyola Tax Policy

       Daniel Shaviro (NYU Law), The Long-Term U.S. Fiscal Gap: Is the Main Problem Generational Inequity?

New York Law and Security

       Charles Zerner, Extraordinary Renditions: Mediating the Weaponized Insects of the United States’ Department of Defense

Temple

       Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), The Problems and Promise of Public Financing

UCLA Monday Colloquia

       Joel Handler (UCLA Law), The Rise and Spread of Workfare, Activation, Devolution, and Privatization, and the Changing Status of Citizenship

USC Communication Law and Policy

       Victor Fleisher (Illinois Law)

Vanderbilt

       Larry Hamermesh (Widener Law), Rationalizing Appraisal Standards in Compulsory Buyouts

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 10th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, National Security Law, Law and Society, Tax Law, Business Law | no comments

Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum - Stanford, CA

Stanford and Yale Law Schools announce the tenth session of the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to be held at Stanford Law School on May 29-30, 2009, and seek submissions for this meeting. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 9th, 2008 | JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Legal Ethics, Antitrust Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Civil Procedure, Legal Profession, Bankruptcy Law, Tort Law, Securities Law, Intellectual Property, Property Law, Business Law, Tax Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Contract Law | no comments

November 6th Colloquia/Workshops

Harvard

       Richard Lazarus (Georgetown Law)

Harvard Health Law Policy, Bitechnology & Bioethics Workshop

       I. Glenn Cohen (Harvard Law), Patients with Passports: Legal and Ethical Issues in Medical Tourism

Iowa

       Randy Bezanson (Iowa Law), Trespassory Art

Michigan Law and Economics

       Justin Wolfers (Pennsylvania Business), Underestimating Female CEOs

Minnesota Work In Progress

       Barry Feld (Minnesota Law) and Shelley Schaefer, The Right to Counsel in Juvenile Court: Law Reform, Judicious Non-Intervention, and Unintended Consequences

Northwestern Law and Economics 

       John Coates (Harvard Law), Reforming the Taxation and Regulation of Mutual Funds: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis

Vanderbilt

        Ruth Okediji (Minnesota Law), Beyond Fragmentation:  WIPO-WTO Relations and the Future of Global IP Norms

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Tax Law, Business Law, Criminal Law | no comments

October 30th Colloquia/Workshops

Brooklyn

       Michael Madison (Pittsburgh Law), Notes on a Geography of Knowledge

Emory

       Daryl Levinson (Harvard Law)

Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, Bioethics Workshop

       Mark A. Hall (Wake Forest Law), Government-Sponsored Reinsurance: Purpose and Performance

Harvard

       Philip Alston (NYU Law)

Iowa

       Thomas Gallanis (Minnesota Law)

Kentucky

      Cynthia Lee (George Washington Law), Allowing the “Gay Panic” Defense:  The Importance of Making Sexual Orientation Salient

Michigan Law and Economics

       Dan Klerman (USC), Legal Origin and Economic Growth

Minnesota Works in Progress

       Charles Silver (Texas Law), Managing Lead Attorneys’ Compensation in Multi-District Litigation

Northwestern Law and Economics

       Yaniv Geinstein (Cornell Finance), The Market for CEO Talent: Implications for CEO Compensation

Pennsylvania Law and Philosophy

       Dan Markovits (Yale Law), Solidarity at Arm’s Length

Santa Clara Social Justice

       Judy Nadler (Santa Clara), Campaigning Ethics and Financing

St. Thomas

       Brian Bix (Minnesota Law)

Wisconsin

       Yuanyuan Shen (Harvard Law), From Plan to Market: The Development of China’s Food Safety Law

Yale Law Economics & Organization

       Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton Economics), “Dodging Up” to College or “Dodging Down” to Jail 

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 30th, 2008 | Law and Politics, Courts, Civil Procedure, Law and Sexuality, Business Law, Law and Economics, Criminal Law | no comments

Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment - Montréal

Université de Montréal Centre de Recherche en Droit Public presents La responsabilité Feuillesociale des entreprises et l’environnement, Oct. 27-28, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 26th, 2008 | Environmental Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

October 20th Colloquia/Workshops

Boston College Legal History

       Anthony Taussig (London), English Legal Manuscripts - Building a Collection

Columbia Law and Economics

       Kathryn F. Spier (Harvard Law), Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities

Georgia State Practitioner in Residence

       Robert Keith

Loyola Tax Policy

       Steven BankKirk Stark (UCLA Law), War and Taxes

Northwestern Law and Political Economy 

        Eileen Braman (Indiana Political Science), No Eyes but Our Own: How Political Views Influence Normative Legal Reasoning Processes

UC Berkeley CSLS

       John Monahan (Virginia Law), Lawyers at Mid-Career: A 20-Year Longitudinal Study of Job and Life Satisfaction

USC Law and Philosophy

       Jules Coleman (Yale Law), Rethinking Legal Positivism

USC Communication Law and Policy

       Jeffrey Lax (Columbia Political Science)

Vanderbilt

       Henry Hansmann (Yale Law), Globalizing Commercial Litigation

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 20th, 2008 | Commercial Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Legal History, Legal Profession, Legal Education, International Law, Business Law, Tax Law, Jurisprudence, Contract Law | no comments

October 14th Colloquia/Workshops

UCLA Law Economics and Organization Workshop

       Abraham Wickelgren (Northwestern Law)

Vanderbilt

       Grant Hayden (Hofstra Law), Arrow’s Theorem and the Exclusive Shareholder Franchise

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 14th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Business Law | no comments

October 13th Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law and Philosophy

       Martha Nussbaum (Chicago Law)

Loyola Tax Policy

       Leonard Burman (Urban Institute), A Blueprint for Tax Reform and Health Reform

Miami

       Joseph Singer (Harvard Law), Normative Methods for Lawyers

New York Law and Security

       Barton Gellman (Washington Post), Angler: The Cheney Vice President

UC Berkeley CSLS Series

       Eric Feldman (Pennsylvania Law), Assuming the Risk: Tort Law, Policy and Politics on the Slippery Slopes

UCLA Monday Colloquia

       Christine Borgman (UCLA Information Science), Scholarship in the Digital Age

Vanderbilt

       James Spindler (USC Law), Vicarious Liability for Bad Corporate Governance: Are We Wrong About 10b-5

Virginia Legal History Workshop

       Reuel Schiller (UC Hastings Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 13th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Technology, Tort Law, Tax Law, Business Law, Health Law | no comments

October 9th Colloquia/Workshops

Florida State

Margaret Lemos (Cardozo Law), Judicial vs. Agency Administrative Interpritation of Title VII

Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics

Mike Scherer (Harvard Public Policy), Markets and Uncertainty in Pharmaceutical Development

Pittsburgh

Douglas Branson (Pitt Law) & Kenneth Lehn (Pitt Business), Markets in Crisis-Perspectives from Business and Law

Lilly Ledbetter (& Deborah Brake, Moderator), Gender Discrimination, the Supreme Court, and an Agenda for Equal Pay:  A Conversation with Lilly Ledbetter

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 9th, 2008 | Labor and Employment Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Administrative Law, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Business Law | no comments

Subprime Crisis: Moving Forward - Hartford, CT

The Connecticut Law Review’s fall symposium will be The Subprime Crisis: Moving Forward, Oct. 2008. (The journal’s website does not list a specific date.)

The standard subprime conference focuses on yesterday’s issues - i.e., definitions of subprime loans and why the subprime crisis happened. In this conference, in contrast, we will focus on the challenges that lie before us. It came as a shock to policymakers around the world that this seemingly obscure corner of the U.S. consumer credit market morphed into global contagion. Similarly, the United States is groping toward solutions to revive the credit markets and resolve millions of foreclosures. Necessarily, the symposium will be interdisciplinary in nature, involving the intersection of economics, finance, and law.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 5th, 2008 | Law and Economics, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

September 29th Colloquia/Workshops

Georgia State

       Lori Ringhand (Kentucky Law)

UCLA Monday Colloquium

       Lynn Vavreck (UCLS Political Science), The 2008 Primaries: Issues versus Traits

Vanderbilt

       Sean Griffith (Fordham Law), How the Merits Matter:  D&O Insurance and Securities Settlements

Washington University Of St. Louis

       Heidi Kitrosser (Minnesota Law), Accountability and Administrative Structure

      

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 29th, 2008 | Law and Politics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Securities Law, Business Law | no comments

September 25 Colloquia/Workshops

Harvard Health Law Policy Biotechnology, and Bioethics

       Henry Grabowski (Duke Economics), Priority Review Vouchers to Encourage Innovation for Neglected Diseases

Harvard

       Samuel Issacharoff (NYU Law)

Iowa

       Kim Krawiec (North Carolina Law)

Michigan Law and Economics

       John Pfaff (Fordham Law), The Myths and Realites of Correctional Severity: Evidence from the National Corrections Reporting Program

Minnesota Work in Progress

       Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota Law), The British Approach to Consumer Financial Disputes: A Model for Reform in Insurance Law and Beyond

Northwestern Law and Economics

       Jody S. Kraus (Virgina Law), Contract Design and the Structure of Contractual Intent

Oregon Enviromental and Natural Resource Law

       Alexander Murphy (Oregon Geography), The Geopolitical Implications of Climate Change

Penn Law and Economy

       Mark Roe (Harvard Law), Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Law: Resource Based Evidence

SMU

       Peter H. Schuck (Yale Law)

Vanderbilt

       Cally Jordan (Melbourne Law), Legal Origins Revisited: The Case of Corporate Governance

Yale Economics and Organization

      Amy Finkelstein (MIT Economics), Estimating Welfare in Inurance Markets Using Variation in Prices

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 25th, 2008 | Legal History, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Civil Rights Law, Securities Law, Business Law, Environmental Law, Contract Law | no comments

September 22 Colloquia/Workshops

Alabama

       Pauline Kim (Washington Law)

Emory

       Steve Schwarcz (Duke Law),  Complexity as a Catalyst of Market Failure: A Law and Engineering Inquiry

Loyola Tax Policy

       Howard Chang (Penn Law), Immigration Restrictions as Redistributive Taxation

New York Law and Security

       Peter Clarke

Northwestern Law and Political Economy

       Elizabeth Garrett (USC Law), Direct Democracy and Public Choice

UC Berkley CSLS Series

       Justin O’Brien (Australian National University), Barriers to Entry: Foreign Direct Investment and the Regulation of Sovereign Wealth

UCLA Monday Colloquia

       Kurt Lash (Loyola Law), Leaving the Chisholm Trail: The Eleventh Amendment and the Background Principle of Strict Construction


USC Law and Philosophy       

       Wil Waluchow (McMaster University), Four Concepts of Validity: Reflections on Inclusive and Exclusive Positivism

USC Communications Law and Policy        Paige Marta Skiba (Vanderbilt Law)Vanderbilt       Jesse Fried (Berkely Law), Do VCs Misbehave?  Some Evidence from Silicon Valley

Washington - St. Louis

       Jennifer Rothman (Loyola Law)

Virginia Legal History

       Felice Batlan (Chicago-Kent Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 22nd, 2008 | Immigration Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Tax Law, Business Law | no comments

September 19th Colloquia/Workshops

Iowa

       Lee Fennell (Chicago Law)

St. Thomas

       Tuan Samahon (UNLV Law)

Toronto Tax Law and Policy

       Charlotte Crane (Northwestern Law), Honoring Expectations about Taxes: Are Roth IRAs Different?

USC

       Ron Harris (Tel Aviv Law), Law, Finance and the First Corporations

Vanderbilt

       Kent Keihl (New Mexico Psychology), Brain Imaging of Criminal Psychopaths

Virginia

       Ethan Yale (Georgetown Law), A Better Way to Tax Corporate Distributions: Allow Basis Recovery on Ordinary Dividends

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 19th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Tax Law, Business Law | no comments

Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program - Entrepreneurship

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is pleased to announce the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program . . . . During the 2008-2009 academic year, the Kauffman Foundation will award up to 15 Dissertation Fellowship grants of $20,000 each to Ph.D., D.B.A. or other doctoral students for the support of dissertations in the area of entrepreneurship.This initiative will help launch a cohort of world-class scholars into this young and exciting field, thus laying a foundation for future scientific advancement. We hope that the findings generated by this effort will be translated into knowledge with immediate application for policy makers, educators, service providers and entrepreneurs.

The deadline for proposals is Oct. 1, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 5th, 2008 | JUNIOR SCHOLARS, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Business Law | no comments

September 5th Colloquia/Workshops

SMU Law and Citizenship

Gabriel (Jack) Chin (Arizona Law), Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President:  Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of a Citizenship

Texas

Derek Jinks, Larry Sager, Linda Mullenix, George Dix, John Robertson, Jordan Steiker (Texas Law), Review of 2007 SCOTUS Term

USC

James Spindler (USC Law), IPO Disclosure, Underwriting, Mechanics, and Share Price Behavior

Virginia

Daniel Crane (Yeshiva Law and Chicago Law), Intellectual Liability

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 4th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, Business Law, Intellectual Property | no comments

Call for Papers: Governance Issues in Accounting

The Accounting Research Journal solicits papers for a special issue on Governance Issues in Cccounting. The deadline is Nov. 30, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 4th, 2008 | CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, Business Law | no comments

Creativity, Law, and Entrepreneurship - Madison, WI

Professor Shubha Ghosh (University of Wisconsin School of Law) will host a workshop for scholars invited to present papers on the empirics of patent lawyering, the economics of creativity, intellectual property as governing the employment relationship, international migration, and global intellectual property, April 24, 2009.  Details pending.

Thanks: IP and IT Conferences.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 20th, 2008 | Law and Technology, Business Law, Intellectual Property | no comments

Financial Intermediation, Corp. Finance, Market Microstructure, Asset Pricing - Prague

The Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) announces the Fourth FIRS Finance Conference on issues related to financial intermediation, corporate finance, market microstructure, and asset pricing. The conference will be held May 27-29, 2009, in Prague.

Submissions are due Oct. 26, 2008. Authors will be notified by Feb. 9, 2009. Authors submitting papers should also indicate whether they are willing to act as discussants or program chairs. There is a $45 submission fee for submitting papers. The submission form is here.

Past conferences have been held in Capri, Italy, in Shanghai, China and in Anchorage, Alaska. The format resembles that of the Western Finance Association conferences, covering a broad range of topics in parallel sessions. The topics include banking, asset pricing, market microstructure, corporate finance, insurance, securitization and other intermediation related topics. Both theoretical and empirical papers will be presented. It is anticipated that most of the participants will be from universities, central banks, and international organizations. Participants will be responsible for covering their own expenses to attend the conference.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 20th, 2008 | Law and Economics, Commercial Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Subprime Mortgages, Credit Crisis, American Dream - Columbia, SC

The South Carolina Law Review presents 1.9 Kids and a Foreclosure: Subprime Mortgages, the Credit Crisis, and Restoring the American Dream Oct. 24, 2008.

The symposium will examine various issues and problems stemming from the sub-prime mortgage crisis. We will place a significant emphasis on analyzing solutions proposed by academic figures, political candidates, and regulatory bodies, seeking to determine the role of law in correcting the current financial turbulence and preventing future incidents. The Symposium will host a distinguished and diverse field of speakers with perspectives from law, economics, business, history, and the social sciences.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 22nd, 2008 | Law and Society, Business Law, CONFERENCES, Property Law | no comments

July 07, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Harvard

Howell Jackson (Harvard Law), Toward a New Regulatory Paradigm for the Trans-Atlantic Financial Market and Beyond: Legal and Economic Perspectives

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on July 7th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, Business Law | no comments

June 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Stanford

Anat Admati (Stanford Business) & Paul Pfleiderer (Stanford Business), Discussing Prediction Markets for Corporate Decision Making

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on June 10th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Business Law | no comments

Financial Regulatory Structure - Memphis, TN

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

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 5th, 2008 | Insurance Law, Administrative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Financial Service Regulation - San Diego

AALS Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services call for papers: Does Modern Financial Institution Regulation Work? Reflections on Deregulation and Internationalization of Supervisory Standards. Panel on Jan. 9, during AALS meeting (Jan. 6-10, 2008). Call for papers deadline is Aug. 1, 2008. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 2nd, 2008 | International Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

What Can Finance Teach Law (and vice versa) - San Diego

 AALS Section on Business Association call for papers: What, If Anything, Can Finance
Teach Law (and vice versa)?
The program is Jan. 10, 2009. The call for papers deadline is Aug. 15, 2008. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 2nd, 2008 | Law and Economics, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

American Law Institute - Washington, DC

The 85th Annual Meetingof the American Law Institute is taking place in Washington, DC, May 19-21, 2008. On the agenda: Capital Punishment Status Report; Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation; Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations; Restatement of the Law Third, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment; Restatement of the Law Third, Employment Law; Proposal to amend § 1-301 (Choice of Law) of Article 1 of the Uniform Commercial Code; Principles of the Law of Software Contracts.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 20th, 2008 | Civil Procedure, Law and Cyberspace, Labor and Employment Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES, Criminal Law, Contract Law | 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

U.S. Government Efforts to Suppress Terrorism Financing - Winston-Salem, NC

The Wake Forest Law Review held its twenty-first annual Business Law Symposium — U.S. Government Efforts to Suppress Terrorism Financing — on Friday, April 4, 2008, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 9th, 2008 | National Security Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES | 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

Call for Proposals - Measurement of Entrepreneurship & Innovation in U.S.

Proposals to Advance Measurement of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the United States, 2008 Kauffman Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Data - proposals due May 13, 2008.

The 2007 Kauffman Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Data brought together over 100 researchers and data providers to examine thirty-eight new and recently updated data sets. While the availability of these data sets is exciting and promising for research, substantial gaps exist in our knowledge bout innovation and entrepreneurship remain. One path for advancing our current understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation is to enhance existing data collection efforts through such means as adding questions, revising existing ones, and modifying methodologies.

The Kauffman Foundation will host the 2008 Kauffman Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Data in order to provide a forum for proposing and discussing changes in data collection efforts. As with the 2007 event, researchers, data providers, and policy analysts will be invited. The Symposium will be held in November 2008 in Washington, DC.

In preparation for the Symposium, the Kauffman Foundation seeks to commission a series of short papers proposing incremental changes in existing U.S.-based data efforts that would significantly advance the study of entrepreneurship and innovation over the next five years.</blockquote>Full call for proposals is here.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 1st, 2008 | Empirical Legal Studies, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Economics and the Law of the Entrepreneur - Chicago

Northwestern Law’s Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth presents Economics and Law of the Entrepreneur June 18-19, 2008. The conference is organized in cooperation with the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS). JEMS will publish a special issue on the economics of the entrepreneur. “The goal of this Research Symposium is to provide a forum where economists and legal scholars can gather together with Northwestern’s own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high quality research relevant to the economics and law of the entrepreneur.”

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 1st, 2008 | Law and Economics, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Entrepreneurship in a Global Economy - Springfield, MA

Western New England College School of Law Law and Business Center for Advancing Entrepreneurship will host its Third Annual Conference on Entrepreneurship and Community Economic Development, Entrepreneurship in a Global Economy, October 17, 2008. Panels will be: Environmental Justice; Globalization, Immigration, and Effects on Entrepreneurship; Finance and Entrepreneurship; Looking Ahead: Political Outcomes & Entrepreneurial Policy.

The call for papers deadline was April 15, but final papers aren’t due until Aug. 15. Who knows? You might be able to submit a proposal even though I’m late posting this.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 1st, 2008 | Immigration Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Environmental Law, Business Law | 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 21, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law & Philosophy

Robert Pape (Chicago Political Science)

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Christopher Morris (Maryland Law), Natural Rights and Political Legitimacy & P 1-2 Declaration of Independence & Anarchy, State, and Utopia & State Legitimacy and Social Order

Harvard

Eric Zolt (UCLA Law), Inequality, Collective Action, and Taxing and Spending Patterns of State and Local Governments

Northwestern Law & Economics

Alan O. Sykes (Stanford Law), Transnational Forum Shopping as a Trade and Investment Issue

San Diego

Ariela Gross (USC Law)

Temple

Greg Mandel (Temple Law), Left Brain vs. Right Brain: Conflicting Conceptions of Creativity in Intellectual Property Law

Texas

Jean Comaroff (Chicago Anthropology), Nations with/out Borders: Neoliberalism and the Problem of Belong in Africa, and Beyond

UC Berkeley

Lauren Edelman (UC Berkeley Law) & Linda Krieger (UC Berkeley Law) & Scott Eliason (Minnesota Sociology) & Catherine Albiston (UC Berkeley Law) & Virginia Mellema (EEOC), When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Employment Structures

UC Hastings

Adam Scales (Washington & Lee Law), Insurance in the Aftermath of Katrina

UCLA Faculty Mondays

Joshua Foa Dienstag (UCLA Political Science), The Promise of Pessimism

Virginia Law & Economics

Christine Jolls (Yale Law), Mandated Medical Leave in the Workplace

Yale Corporate Law

Reinier Kraakman (Harvard Law), Exit, Voice, and Liability: Legal Dimensions of Organizational Structure

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 20th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Comparative Law, Insurance Law, Local Government Law, Law and Philosophy, Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, Intellectual Property, Health Law, Business Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston College Tax Policy

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.

Boston University

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

Elizabeth Emens (Columbia Law), Intimate Discrimination

Columbia

Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), A Special Case?: Corporations and Campaign Finance

Fordham

Jeanne C. Fromer (Fordham Law)

Georgetown

Fernanda Nicola (American University Law), Invisible Cities: Markets, Distribution and Development in European Union Law

Harvard

Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Law), The Province of Jurisprudence Revisited

Loyola

Naomi Mezey (Georgetown Law)

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”

Northwestern Tax

Diane Ring (Boston College Law), Sovereignty and International Tax

SMU

Susan Klein (Texas Law)

Southwestern

Mariano-Florentino Cuellar (Stanford Law), “Securing” the Bureaucracy: The Federal Security Agency and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 1939-1953

Suffolk

Ran Hirschl (Toronto Law)

Texas

Sai Prakash (San Diego Law), The Seperation and Overlap of War and Military Powers

UCLA Legal Theory

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

Yale Legal Theory

Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 17th, 2008 | Comparative Law, National Security Law, Law and Race, Evidence Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Law and Technology, Civil Procedure, Law and Economics, Legal History, Family Law, Business Law, Property Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, International Law, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized | no comments

April 16, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago International Law

Kathryn Sikkink (Minnesota Law), Do Human Rights Trials Make a Difference?

Chicago-Kent

Felice Batlan (Chicago-Kent Law), The Imperial SEC? Historicizing the Internationalization of the Securities Markets

CUNY

Dinesh Khosla (CUNY Law), A Case Study in Social Entrepreneurship

Emory

Katherine Stone (UCLA Law)

NYU Legal History

Michael Hoeflich (Kansas Law), Selling the Law in Antebellum America: The Sale & Distribution of Law Books, 1780-1870

St. Thomas (Mn)

Matt Bodie (St. Louis Law), The False Promise of One Share, One Vote

SMU Law & Citizenship

Keith Aoki (UC Davis Law)

UC Hastings

Tony Sebok (Cardozo Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 16th, 2008 | Law and Economics, Law and Society, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Courts, Legal History, Securities Law, Business Law, International Law, Legal Education, 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

April 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Arti K. Rai (Duke Law), The Supreme Court (Re)Discovers Patents: Implications for the Biopharmaceutical Industry

Boston University

Robert Hillman (Cornell Law)

Columbia

Elizabeth Emens (Columbia Law), Intimate Discrimination: The State’s Role in the Accidents of Sex and Love

Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender

Noah Zatz (UCLA Law), What Is a Working Family?: Revisiting the Class parity Analysis of Welfare Work Requirements & What Welfare Requires from Work

Florida State

Rick Geddes (Cornell Human Ecology)

Georgetown

Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law), Transnational Labor Citizenship

Georgia State

Dr. Ellen Bassee

Harvard

Laurence Helfer (Vanderbilt Law), Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community

Michigan Law & Economics

Guy Rub (Michigan Law, Student Fellow), The Efficiency of Contracts that Reallocate Entitlements in Creative Work: A Skeptical View

Minnesota Faculty Works

Jessica Litman (Michigan Law), Rethinking Copyright

Missouri

Catherine Smith (Denver Law)

NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance

Alan Auerbach (UC Berkeley Law), Long-Term Objectives for Government Debt

Suffolk

Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law), Comparative Corporate Law and Emerging Markets

Temple International Law

Jutta Brunnee (Toronto Law), Interactional International Law: Reflections on Obligations

UCLA Legal Theory

Sarah Song (UC Berkeley Law), Three Models of Civic Solidarity

Yale Human Rights

Ralph Steinhardt (George Washington Law), Corporate Complicity and the Alien Tort Statute

Yale Law & Economics

C. Fritz Foley (Harvard Business), Welfare Payments and Crime

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 10th, 2008 | Law and Economics, Tort Law, Commercial Law, Labor and Employment Law, Comparative Law, Law and Technology, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Tax Law, Intellectual Property, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Health Law, Family Law, Business Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 3, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

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

Boston College Legal History

Paul Halliday (Virginia History), The Liberty of the Subject: Conceiving Habeas Corpus in England and Empire

Columbia

Nestor Davidson (Colorado Law), Standardization and Pluralism in Property Law

Fordham

Tsilly Dagan (Bar-Ilan Law), Taxing the Non-Market Economy

Georgetown

Elizabeth Warren (Harvard Law), Making Credit Safer

Harvard

Jessica Stern (Harvard Law), Producing Terror: Organization Dynamics of Survival

Harvard Legal History

Dalia Tsuk Mitchell (George Washington Law), Corporate Directors: Trustees, Representatives, Agents

Loyola

Sonia Katyal (Fordham Law)

Michigan Law & Economics

Fernando Gomez (Barcelona Law), Insurance and Tort: Coordination Systems and Imperfect Liability Rules

Minnesota Faculty Works

Geoffrey Miller (NYU Law), Law Economics and Narrative in the Hebrew Bible

NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance

Jonathan Barry Forman (Oklahoma Law), Making America Work & 2008 Tax Considerations in a Universal Pension System

Northwestern Tax

David Duff (Toronto Law), Rethinking the Concept of Income in Tax Law & Policy

Seattle

Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge Economics), Bad Samaritans — The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

SMU

Sionaidh Douglas-Scott (King’s College Law), The EU and Terrorism

Stanford Law & Economics

Yair Listokin (Yale Law), Does Shareholder Voting Maximize Stock Market Value?

Stetson

Jason Gillmer (Texas Wesleyan Law), Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery Times

Texas

Calvin Johnson (Texas Law), Consumption Tax for Extraordinary Returns

Washington

Ilhyung Lee (Missouri Law), Korean Parties and Korean Panelists in UDRP Decisions (and the ‘Bad Faith’ Dilemma)

Yale Legal Theory

Robert Frank (Cornell Management), The Status of Moral Emotions in Consequentialist Moral Reasoning

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 3rd, 2008 | Comparative Law, National Security Law, Law and Religion, Evidence Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Technology, Insurance Law, Law and Economics, Legal History, Business Law, CONFERENCES, Property Law, Tax Law, Commercial Law, Tort Law, Securities Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 2, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Jane Larson (Wisconsin Law), Regulating Sex: Multiple Paradigms for Thinking About Sexual Freedom and Autonomy

Chicago-Kent

Jeffrey G. Sherman (Chicago-Kent Law)

CUNY

Wendy Bach (CUNY Law)

Emory

Anne Dailey (UConn Law), Imagination and Choice

NYU Legal History

Bernard Freamon (Seton Hall Law), The Abolition of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade and the Vicissitudes of Empire

SMU Law & Citizenship

Michael Kirsch (Notre Dame Law), Taxing Citizens in a Global Economy

Texas

Alejandro Moreno (Texas Medicine), Implementation of the Istanbul Protocol - A Summary Report of the Efforts to Eliminate Torture and Ill-Treatment in Mexico

Toronto Law & Economics

Edward Rock (Penn Law), The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting

UC Hastings

Reza Dibadj (USF Law)

UCLA Williams Institute

Adam Romero (The Williams Institute), When Family Falls

USC Law, History & Culture

Josephine McDonagh (King’s College), On Settling and Being Unsettled: Motion and Emotion in Dickens’s Bleak House

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 2nd, 2008 | Comparative Law, Law and Gender, Law and Sexuality, Law and Humanities, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Literature, Law and Economics, Business Law, Family Law, Tax Law, Legal History, Uncategorized | no comments

Williams Act (Corp. Takeovers) - Washington, D.C.

The Williams Act 40 Years On, May 21 - May 22, 2008.

In cooperation with the Securities & Exchange Commission, Georgetown Law has planned a day and a half of lively presentations and discussion about the current state of both U.S. and global regulation of corporate takeovers and M&A activity. The speakers and panelists will include senior SEC officials, academics, financial journalists, regulators, practitioners, bankers, and judges, including Delaware Vice- Chancellors Leo Strine and Steve Lamb.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 31st, 2008 | Securities Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

March 31, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law & Philosophy

Stephen Schulhofer (NYU Law)

Connecticut

Ulrich Haltern (Humboltd), Law and the Identity of Europe

Florida

Michael B. Lang (Chapman Law), What Every Tax Lawyer Should Know About Patented Tax Strategies

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Steve Darwall (Michigan Law), The Nature and Value of Rights & The Second-Person Standpoint: Respect, Morality, and Accountability Chapter 1 & 2

Georgia

David B. Mustard (Georgia Business) & Thomas A. Eaton (Georgia Law)

Harvard

Mary Bilder (Boston Law), James Madison, Law Student

Harvard International Law

Margaret Levi (Washington Political Science)

Marquette

Anita Krishnakumar (St. John’s Law), Early Reflections on the Roberts Court and Statutory Interpretation

Northwestern Law & Economics

Roberta Romano (Yale Law), Does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Have a Future?

Ohio State University

Deborah L. Brake (Pittsburgh Law), The Invisible Pregnant Athlete and the Promise of Title IX

Queen’s Law

Victor Tadros (Warwick Law), Wrongs and Crimes

Rutgers-Camden

Ralph Porcher (Institute of Advanced Study), The Hand of Midas: When Concepts Turn Legal or Deflating the Hart-Dworkin-Debate

Seton Hall

Reinier Kraakman (Harvard Law)

Stanford Law, Science, & Technology

Mark Forman

St. John’s

Michael M. O’Hear (Marquette Law), Lovely Rita?: Procedural Justice and Federal Sentencing

Temple

Donald Harris (Temple Law)

Texas

Michael Perino (St. John’s Law)

UC Berkeley

Alexandra Kalev (Arizona Sociology), Cracking the Glass Cages? Restructuring and Ascriptive Inequality at Work

UC Hastings

Yafir Holzman-Gazit (Israel Management Law), Land Expropriation in Israel

UCLA Faculty Mondays

Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA Economics), Scylla and Charybdis? Some Historical Reflections on the Two Basic Problems of Corporate Governance

USC Law, Economics, and Organization

Josh Lerner (Harvard Business), Inducement Prizes and Innovation

Virginia Law & Economics

Stephen Choi (NYU Law), Director Elections and the Influence of Proxy Advisors

Washington University in St. Louis

Anuj Desai (Wisconsin Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 31st, 2008 | Comparative Law, Law and Gender, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Philosophy, Courts, Law and Economics, Legal History, Property Law, Business Law, Tax Law, International 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 26, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago-Kent

Elinor Ostrom (Indiana-Bloomington Cognitive Science Program)

Columbia Law & Economics

Marco Ottaviani (Northwestern Management), (Mis)selling Through Agents

CUNY

Elaine Chiu (St. John’s Law)

Drake

Honorable Richard Goldstone (Fordham Law), The South African Constitution: The Recognition of Social and Economic Rights

Emory

Martha Grace Duncan (Emory Law), The Beauty and Humor of Criminal Law

Florida

Stephanie Coontz (Evergreen State)

Michigan Tax Policy

David Duff (Toronto Law), Rethinking the Concept of Income in Tax Law and Policy

NYU Legal History

Lauren Benton (NYU History), Acquiring Sovereignty Under the Law of Nations: Forman Origins and Atlantic Interpretations

St. Thomas (MN)

Charles Reid (St. Thomas (MN) Law)

Stetson

Paul Butler (George Washington Law), Should Progressives Be Prosecutors

UC Hastings

David Wilkins (Harvard Law), Toward A Joint Venture Model of the Attorney/Client Relationship Between Corporations and Their Outside Counsel

Villanova

Daria Roithmayr (USC Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 26th, 2008 | Law and Economics, Legal Ethics, Comparative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Legal History, International Law, Criminal Law, Business Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized | no comments

March 24, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Paul Kahn (Yale Law), Evil and Blame & Out of Eden

Georgetown Statutory Colloquium

Bradford Clark (George Washington Law), Process-Based Federalism Readings 1 & 2

Georgia

Camille A. Nelson (Saint Louis Law)

Rutgers-Camden

Howard Gillette (Rutgers-Camden History), Civitas in the Design of Housing for the Poor

Seton Hall

Michael Gerhardt (UNC Law)

St. John’s

Melanie Leslie (Cardozo Law), Strengthening Fiduciary Norms in Nonprofit Corporations

Suffolk

Beth Lyon (Villanova Law), Migrant Works and Clinical Pedagogy

Temple

Amy Sinden (Temple Law)

Texas

Adair Morse (Chicago Business)

Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley Law), War on! Why a “War on Cancer” should replace our “War on Crime” (and Terror)

Yale Corporate Law

Gandolfo V. DiBlasi (Sullivan & Cromwell), Certified Public Scapegoat: Enron, Arthur Andersen & David Duncan

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 24th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Law and Philosophy, Poverty Law, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Criminal Law, Health Law, Business Law, Uncategorized | no comments

March 21, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Case Western Reserve Law

David Lyons (Boston University Law), Race and the Rule of Law

Cincinnati

Nancy Rapoport (UNLV Law), New Lessons From Enron 

Duke Global Law

Eric A. Feldman (Penn Law), Suing Doctors in Japan: Structure, Culture, and the Rise of Malpractice Litigation

Florida

Alexandra B. Klass (Minnesota Law), State Innovation and Preemption: Lessons from Environmental Law 

Georgia International Law

Paul Schiff Berman (UConn Law), Global Legal Pluralism

UCLA Faculty Fridays

Carol Steiker (Harvard Law), Tempering or Tampering: Mercy and the Administration of Criminal Justice

Virginia

Neil Duxbury (Virginia Law), Golden Rule Reasoning, Moral Dilemmas and Law

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 20th, 2008 | Comparative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Philosophy, Law and Race, International Law, Health Law, Business Law, Environmental Law, Criminal Law | no comments

NYLS Faculty Presentation Day - New York

New York Law School presents its fourth biennial Faculty Presentation Day on April 2.

Faculty and students present their work—making the effort to offer serious and subtle ideas in an accessible and enjoyable format—and our whole community takes part in the discussions these presentations generate.
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This event is open to all members of the New York Law School community and to our colleagues on the bench, at the bar, and in academia. There is no charge for attendance and complimentary breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be served.

The New York Law Review will publish a symposium issue based on the presentations. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 17th, 2008 | Legal Research & Writing, Comparative Law, Estate Planning, Law and Technology, Legal History, Legal Education, Business Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

March 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Judith Lictenberg (Georgetown Philosophy), Basic Rights and Are There Any Basic Rights

Georgia International Law

Gregory Shaffer (Loyola Law), A Structural Theory of WTO Dispute Settlement: Why Institutional Choice Lies at the Center of the GMO Case

Harvard

Amanda Tyler (George Washington Law), The Suspension Clause as an Emergency Power

Harvard International Law

Deborah Prentice (Princeton Psychology)

Harvard Internet & Society

Peter Suber (Earlham Philosophy), What Can Universities Do to Promote Open Access

Catherine Candee (University of California), Whose Knowledge is it? UC takes on IP

Queen’s Law

Laura Underkuffler (Duke Law), Captured by Evil: The Idea of Corruption in Law

Seton Hall

Michael Granne (Seton Hall Law)

Temple

Claire A. Hill (Minnesota Law), Why didn’t subprime investors demand (more of) a lemons premium?

Texas

Mark Weinstein (USC Business)

Toledo

Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration

UC Berkeley

Laura Gomez (New Mexico Law), Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race

UC Berkeley Law & Economics

Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley Economics), Superstar CEO’s

UCLA Faculty Mondays

Sandra Ikuta (Judge, Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit), What Law Professors Should Know About Preparing Students for Clerking Recommending Students as Clerks, and the new Chief Judge of the 9th Circuit

Virginia Law & Economics

Ronen Avraham (Northwestern Law), Should Courts Ignore Ex-post Information When Determining Contract Damages? A Re-evaluation of Contract Remedies

Washington University in St. Louis

Gia Lee (UCLA Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 17th, 2008 | Law and Psychology, Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Philosophy, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Business Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, Legal Education, Uncategorized | no comments

March 12, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Brant Lee (Akron Law), Whiteness as Brand Management

Chicago-Kent Legal History

Mark Graber (Maryland Politics), John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil

CUNY

Michael Jacobson (Vera Institute of Justice)

Michigan Tax Policy

Mitchell Kane (Virginia Law), Bootstraps, Poverty Traps, and Poverty Pits: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance

NYU Legal History

Christopher Beauchamp (Samuel Golieb Fellow, NYU Law), Technology’s Trials: Patents in the United States Courts, 1860-1910

Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law

William Rossi (Oregon English) & Molly Westling (Oregon English), Reading, Rhetoric, and Climate

Stetson

David Wilkins (Harvard Law), Toward a Joint Venture Model of Attorney/Client Relationship Between Corporations and their Outside Counsel

Toronto Tax Lax & Policy

Jacques Sasseville (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), Tax Treaties: Better the Devil We Know?

UCLA Williams Institute

Devon Carbado (UCLA Law), Acting White: What’s Sexual Orientation Got to Do With it?

USC Law, History, and Culture

Nan Goodman (Colorado English), Banishment and Jurisdictional Indentity in Seventeenth-Century New England

Washington

Mary Whisner (Washington Law Library), The Buzz about Blawgs

Wei Zhang (Peking Management), Politics of Medical Disputes in China

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 12th, 2008 | Law and Sexuality, Comparative Law, Law and Race, Law Librarianship, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Technology, Legal Ethics, Legal History, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Business Law, Tax Law, Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

March 11, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago-Kent

Josef Drexl (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law)

Georgetown

Adam Samaha (Chicago Law), Originalism’s Expiration Date

Loyola

Robert Miller (Villanova Law), Deal Risk and The Economics of Materials

Notre Dame

Rick Garnett (Notre Dame Law), The ‘Hands-Off’ Approach to Religious Doctrine: What are We Talking About

Ohio State

Samuel R. Bagenstos (Washington University in St. Louis Law)

Suffolk

Peer Zumbansen (York Law), Comparative Corporate Governance

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 10th, 2008 | Comparative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Gender, Law and Religion, Business Law, Law and Economics, Uncategorized | no comments

March 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago-Kent

Josef Drexl (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law)

Chicago Law & Philosophy

Alan Wertheimer (Vermont Political Science)

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Alastair Norcross (Rice Philosophy), Consequentialism and Commitment

Georgetown Statutory

Lisa Schultz Bressman (Vanderbilt Law), Administrative Law

Harvard

Gary Bass (Princeton Politics), Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

Harvard International Law

Jonathan Baron (Penn Psychology)

Michigan International Law

Ambassador Luigi R. Einaudi (Secretary General, Organization of American States), The Ideal and Practice of Democratic Legitimacy in Latin America

Northwestern Law & Economics

Betsey Stevenson (Penn Business), Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

Queen’s Law

John Gardner (Oxford), H.L.A. Hart’s Punishment and Responsibility: Forty Years On

Rutgers-Camden

Michael Dorf (Columbia law), Dynamic Incorporation of Foreign Law

Seton Hall

Brett Frischmann (Loyola-Chicago Law)

Stanford Internet & Society

Jim Bessen (Boston University Law), Patent Failure

St. John’s

Alexandra D. Lahav (UConn Law), Advocacy at Unfair Hearings

UC Berkeley

Malcolm Feeley (UC Berkeley Law) & Edward Rubin (Vanderbilt Law), Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise

UC Berkeley Law & Economics

Ethan Kaplan (UC Berkeley Economics) & Arindrajit Dube (UC Berkeley Wage and Employment) & Suresh Naidu (UC Berkeley Ph.D.), Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information

UCLA Mondays

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

Yale Corporate Law

Paul Grossman (Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker), Imaginative Responses to Real World Litigation Problems

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 9th, 2008 | Comparative Law, Law and Society, Law and Sexuality, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Philosophy, Law and Technology, Law and Economics, Administrative Law, Health Law, Criminal Law, Education Law, Business Law, International Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Legal, Security, Privacy in IT and Int’l Law & Trade - Prague

The Third International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in IT (LSPI) together with the Second International Law and Trade Conference (ILTC) will take place September 3-5, 2008, in Prague, Czech Republic. The meetings are sponsored by the International Association of IT Lawyers in cooperation with University of Economics in Prague.

Call for papers deadlines: peer-reviewed papers - Aug. 1, 2008; non-academic presentation abstracts - Aug. 15, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 9th, 2008 | Law and Cyberspace, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

International Conf on Business, Law and Technology - Long Island

The International Association of IT Lawyers and Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center present The Second International Conference on Business, Law and Technology (IBLT) June 17-19, 2008 at Touro (Central Islip, NY). The call for papers deadline is May 5, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 9th, 2008 | Law and Cyberspace, Law and Technology, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Business Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

March 6, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Laura Beny (Michigan Law), Private Regulation of Insider Trading in the Shadow of Lax Public Enforcement (and a Strong Neighbor)–Evidence from Canadian Firms

Chicago Constitutional Law

George Fisher (Stanford Law), Married to Alcohol: The Drug War’s Moral Roots

Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender

Jane Dailey (Chicago History), White Supremacy Is in Peril: Race, Marriage and Sovereignty in the New World Order

Columbia

Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default

Fordham

Linda Sugin (Fordham Law)

Harvard

Ayelet Shachar (Toronto Law), The Global Race for Talent

Iowa

Chancellor Chandler (Delware Court of Chancery)

Loyola-L.A.

Brian Galle (Florida State Law), Tax Fairness

Michigan Law & Economics

Robert Daines (Stanford Law), Rating the Ratings: How Good are the Commercial Governance Ratings?

Minnesota Faculty Works

Alexandra B. Klass (Minnesota Law) & Elizabeth Wilson (Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs), Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration: A Consideration of Tort and Property Law

Northwestern Tax

Michael Knoll (Penn Law), The Tax Advantage of ‘Sweat Equity’: What it is and its Relationship to the Carried Interest Controversy

NYU Tax Policy and Public Finance

Mihir Desai (Harvard Business), Foreign-Direct Investment and Domestic Economic Activity

St. Thomas (MN)

Ed Adams (Minnesota Law)

Temple International Law

Robert Ahdieh (Emory Law), Standardization 2.0: A New Version of the Game

Texas

Peter Smith (George Washington Law), Originalism’s Living Constitutionalism

Toronto Health Law

Chidi Oguamanam (Dalhousie Law), The Future of Personalized Medicine and Personalizing the Medicine of the Future: In Search of Insights from Complementary and Alternative Medicine

UCLA Legal Theory

Jessica Litman (Michigan Law), Rethinking Copyright

Yale Human Rights

Shareen Hertel (UConn Political Science), Rights in Conflict: Insights from Transnational Labor and Economic Rights

Yale Law & Economics

Michael Woodford (Columbia Economics), Principles and Public Policy Decisions: The Case of Monetary Policy

Yale Workplace Theory & Policy

Jacob Hacker (Yale Political Science), The Politics of Risk Privatization in U.S. Social Policy

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 5th, 2008 | Law and Race, Law and Economics, Tort Law, Comparative Law, Law and Humanities, Law and Technology, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Environmental Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Property Law, Business Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized | no comments

March 4, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law & Politics

Nathaniel Persily (Columbia Law), Vote Fraud in the Eye of the Beholder: The Role of Public Opinion in the Challenge to Voter Identification Requirements

Chicago-Kent

Graeme W. Austin (Arizona Law), What is Copyright? A Constitutional Question, Apparently

Chicago-Kent Legal History

Allison Tirres (DePaul Law), The Railroad, the Courthouse, and the Making of New Legal Borderlands

Harvard Internet & Society

Jim Bessen (Boston University Law), Patent Failure

Lewis & Clark

Craig Johnston (Lewis & Clark Law)

Minnesota Law & History

Yaffa Epstein, From Emission to Pollution: Business Interests and the Regulation of Smoke Emission in the Twin Cities, 1890-1910

St. Thomas (MN)

Francesco Parisi (Minnesota Law)

Texas

Barbara Harlow (Texas English), Tortured Thoughts: The Example Set by Ruth Frst from her Interrogation in 1963 to her Assassination in 1982

Washington

Wei Song (China Law Institute), From Invention to Innovation: Laws and Regulations of Technology Transfer in China

Yale Legal History

Mark Graber (Maryland Law), Maintaining Judicial Review: The Debate Over Section 25 Revisited

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 4th, 2008 | Comparative Law, Law and Society, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Technology, Law and Politics, Legal History, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property, Business Law, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, 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

February 28, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston College Tax Policy Workshop

Nancy Staudt (Northwestern Law), If Major Wars Affect (Judicial Fiscal Policy, How & Why?

Boston University

Sadiq Reza (Boston Law), Islam’s Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure in Islamic Legal Doctrine and Practice

Brooklyn

Colin Picker (Missouri-Kansas Law), International Law as a Mixed Jurisdiction

CUNY

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

Florida

Gary Melton (Clemson)

Fordham

Jeffrey N. Gordon (Columbia Law), The Berle-Means Corporation in the 21st Century

Georgetown

Peter Byrne (Georgetown Law), Hallowed Ground: The Gettysburg Battlefield in Historic Preservation Law

Iowa

Jean Braucher (Arizona Law)

Minnesota Faculty Works

David Kennedy (Harvard Law)

NYU Colloquium on Tax Policy & Public Finance

Daniel Shaviro (NYU Law), The Optimal Relationship Between Taxable Income and Financial Accounting Income

SMU

Ellen Pryor (SMU Law), Coordinatng the Restatement (Third) of Torts

Stanford Law & Economics

Geoffrey Miller (NYU Law), Arbitration’s Summer Soldiers: An Empirical Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Nonconsumer Contracts

Stetson

Tanya Washington (Georgia State Law), Throwing the Black Baby Out with the Bathwater: The (Un)Constitutionality of Same-Sex Adoption Bans

UC Hastings

The Full Impact of Digital Media: Shifts of Control and the Future of Music

UCLA Legal Theory

Judy J. Thomson (MIT Philosophy), Some Reflections on Hart on Honore, CAUSATION IN THE LAW

Vanderbilt

Daniel Hamilton (Chicago-Kent Law)

Yale Legal Theory

Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton Philosophy), Experiments in Ethics

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 28th, 2008 | Law and Society, Law and Economics, Tort Law, Law and Religion, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Philosophy, Law and Technology, Administrative Law, International Law, Intellectual Property, Property Law, Contract Law, Business Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized | no comments

February 27, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago-Kent

Gary T. Johnson (Chicago History Museum), Chicago Lawyers in Chicago History

Connecticut

Kaaryn Gustafson (UConn Law)

Emory

Bill Henderson (Indiana Law), The Elastic Tournament: A Second Transformation of the Big Law Firm

Florida

Gary Melton (Clemson)

Georgia State

Jeffrey W. Morris (Dayton Law)

NYU Legal History

Richard B. Bernstein (New York Law School), The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law

Rob Illig (Oregon Law), Environmental Entrepreneurship

Villanova

Jeanne Schroeder (Cardozo Law)

Yale Workplace Theory & Policy Seminar

Dalton Conley (NYU Sociology), Family Background and Race Over the Life Course

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 27th, 2008 |