May 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law), Reassessing Linkages between Sovereign Wealth Funds and Western Banks
Rufus Pollock (Cambridge), Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright
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.
May 6, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Rachel Barkow (NYU Law), Institutional Design and the Policing of Prosecutors: Lessons from Administrative Law
David Ardia, Sam Bayard, Tuna Chatterjee (Members of Citizen Media Law Project), Discussion of the project’s first year
Ruth Mazo Karras (Minnesota History), Telling the Truth About Sex in Late Medieval Paris
Jens Dammann (Texas Law), Of Courts and Corporations
May 5, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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
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.
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.”
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.
April 29, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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
Ian Ferrell (Texas Law), Gilbert & Sullivan and Scalia: The Philosophical Basis of the Eigth Amendment’s Proportionality Principle
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
Raghuram G. Rajan (Chicago Business), Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States
April 21, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Christopher Morris (Maryland Law), Natural Rights and Political Legitimacy & P 1-2 Declaration of Independence & Anarchy, State, and Utopia & State Legitimacy and Social Order
Eric Zolt (UCLA Law), Inequality, Collective Action, and Taxing and Spending Patterns of State and Local Governments
Alan O. Sykes (Stanford Law), Transnational Forum Shopping as a Trade and Investment Issue
Greg Mandel (Temple Law), Left Brain vs. Right Brain: Conflicting Conceptions of Creativity in Intellectual Property Law
Jean Comaroff (Chicago Anthropology), Nations with/out Borders: Neoliberalism and the Problem of Belong in Africa, and Beyond
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
Joshua Foa Dienstag (UCLA Political Science), The Promise of Pessimism
Christine Jolls (Yale Law), Mandated Medical Leave in the Workplace
Reinier Kraakman (Harvard Law), Exit, Voice, and Liability: Legal Dimensions of Organizational Structure
April 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), The Story of Murphy: A New Front in the War Against the Income Tax
Note: Professor Caron will be blogging on this paper today here.
Scott Moss (Colorado Law), O Brave New World That Has Such Creatures Evidence: An Economic Analysis Of Courts’ Misguided Rules On Discovery Of Digital Evidence
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), A Special Case?: Corporations and Campaign Finance
Fernanda Nicola (American University Law), Invisible Cities: Markets, Distribution and Development in European Union Law
Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Law), The Province of Jurisprudence Revisited
Loyola
Minnesota Faculty Works
Ed McCaffery (USC Law), Towards a Unified Theory of Tax and Property
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
David Gamage (UC Berkeley Law), Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidanc: A Tentative Defense of “Double Taxation”
Diane Ring (Boston College Law), Sovereignty and International Tax
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar (Stanford Law), “Securing” the Bureaucracy: The Federal Security Agency and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 1939-1953
Sai Prakash (San Diego Law), The Seperation and Overlap of War and Military Powers
Joshua Cohen (Stanford Political Science), Politics, Power, and Public Reason
Washington
Amy Wildermuth (Utah Law), The Failed Mead Experiment - A Critical Review of the Skidmore Revival
Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions
April 16, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Kathryn Sikkink (Minnesota Law), Do Human Rights Trials Make a Difference?
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
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
UC Hastings
April 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Adrienne Davis (Virginia Law), Slavery & Shadow Families: Re-Thinking Miscegenation Regulation Through the Lens of Case
Cynthia Nicoletti (Harvard Law, Berger Fellow), The American Civil War as a Trial by Battle
Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke Philosophy), A Hybrid Theory of Claim-Rights
Vicki Jackson (Georgetown Law), Constitutional Cosmology: Convergence, Resistance, and Engagement
Oliver Hart (Harvard Economics), Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points
Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), Constitutional Law, International Law, Public Law
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
James Fishkin (Stanford Communication), An Online Experiment in Democracy: Deliberative Polling for Democratic Reform
Alison Morantz (Stanford Law), Rethinking the Great Compromise: What Happens When Large Companies Opt Out of Workers Compensation?
USC Law, Economics & Organization
Devah Pager (Princeton Sociology), Race at Work: A Field Experiment of Discrimination in Low-Wage Labor Markets
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
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
April 11, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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
Georgetown International Human Rights
Balakrishnan Rajagopal (MIT), The Limits of Legalizing Social Rights
Brian Tamanaha (St. John’s Law), The Bogus Tale About the Legal Formalists
Adam Levitin (Georgetown Law), Mortgage Market Sensitivity to Bankruptcy Modification
Robert Aronson (Washington Law), Winning at All Costs: Ethics and Integrity in Law, Sports, and Film
April 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Arti K. Rai (Duke Law), The Supreme Court (Re)Discovers Patents: Implications for the Biopharmaceutical Industry
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
Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law), Transnational Labor Citizenship
Dr. Ellen Bassee
Laurence Helfer (Vanderbilt Law), Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community
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
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Alan Auerbach (UC Berkeley Law), Long-Term Objectives for Government Debt
Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law), Comparative Corporate Law and Emerging Markets
Jutta Brunnee (Toronto Law), Interactional International Law: Reflections on Obligations
Sarah Song (UC Berkeley Law), Three Models of Civic Solidarity
Ralph Steinhardt (George Washington Law), Corporate Complicity and the Alien Tort Statute
C. Fritz Foley (Harvard Business), Welfare Payments and Crime
April 3, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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
Paul Halliday (Virginia History), The Liberty of the Subject: Conceiving Habeas Corpus in England and Empire
Nestor Davidson (Colorado Law), Standardization and Pluralism in Property Law
Jessica Stern (Harvard Law), Producing Terror: Organization Dynamics of Survival
Dalia Tsuk Mitchell (George Washington Law), Corporate Directors: Trustees, Representatives, Agents
Loyola
Fernando Gomez (Barcelona Law), Insurance and Tort: Coordination Systems and Imperfect Liability Rules
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
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
Sionaidh Douglas-Scott (King’s College Law), The EU and Terrorism
Yair Listokin (Yale Law), Does Shareholder Voting Maximize Stock Market Value?
Jason Gillmer (Texas Wesleyan Law), Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery Times
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)
Robert Frank (Cornell Management), The Status of Moral Emotions in Consequentialist Moral Reasoning
April 2, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jane Larson (Wisconsin Law), Regulating Sex: Multiple Paradigms for Thinking About Sexual Freedom and Autonomy
CUNY
Bernard Freamon (Seton Hall Law), The Abolition of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade and the Vicissitudes of Empire
Michael Kirsch (Notre Dame Law), Taxing Citizens in a Global Economy
Alejandro Moreno (Texas Medicine), Implementation of the Istanbul Protocol - A Summary Report of the Efforts to Eliminate Torture and Ill-Treatment in Mexico
Edward Rock (Penn Law), The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting
UC Hastings
Adam Romero (The Williams Institute), When Family Falls
Josephine McDonagh (King’s College), On Settling and Being Unsettled: Motion and Emotion in Dickens’s Bleak House
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.
March 31, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Florida
Michael B. Lang (Chapman Law), What Every Tax Lawyer Should Know About Patented Tax Strategies
Steve Darwall (Michigan Law), The Nature and Value of Rights & The Second-Person Standpoint: Respect, Morality, and Accountability Chapter 1 & 2
David B. Mustard (Georgia Business) & Thomas A. Eaton (Georgia Law)
Anita Krishnakumar (St. John’s Law), Early Reflections on the Roberts Court and Statutory Interpretation
Roberta Romano (Yale Law), Does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Have a Future?
Deborah L. Brake (Pittsburgh Law), The Invisible Pregnant Athlete and the Promise of Title IX
Ralph Porcher (Institute of Advanced Study), The Hand of Midas: When Concepts Turn Legal or Deflating the Hart-Dworkin-Debate
Stanford Law, Science, & Technology
Michael M. O’Hear (Marquette Law), Lovely Rita?: Procedural Justice and Federal Sentencing
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
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
Stephen Choi (NYU Law), Director Elections and the Influence of Proxy Advisors
Washington University in St. Louis
March 27, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Rennard Strickland (Chapman Law), Keepers of the Springs: A Defense of the American Legal Profession
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
Kim Ferzan (Rutgers-Camden Law), Beyond the Special Part
Elinor Ostrom (Indiana-Bloomington Cognitive Science Program)
Clayton Gillette (Columbia Law), Tacit Agreement, Investment, and Contract Design
Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Anti-Bankruptcy
Margaret Blair (Vanderbilt Law), Assurance Services as a Substitute for Law in Global Commerce
William Forbath (Texas Law), History, Memory and “Transformative Law”: Treatment Action Campaign and the Politics of Rights in South Africa
Rip Verkerke (Virginia Law), Legal Innocence and Information-Forcing Rules