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 |
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New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law and Policy presents D Is for Digitize, Oct. 8-10, 2009.
The conference will discuss Google’s plan to digitize books and the class action settlement now awaiting court approval. It will feature a lineup of academics and practitioners who will examine the settlement through the lenses of copyright, civil procedure, antitrust, information policy, literary culture, and the publishing industry.
The conference is timed to coincide with the rescheduled fairness hearing in the Google Book Search case, to be held on Wednesday, October 7, just five blocks away from the Law School. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 29th, 2009
| Civil Procedure, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Humanities, Law and Literature, Intellectual Property, Antitrust Law, CONFERENCES |
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The 2009 Kansas Law Review Symposium, “Aggregate Justice: Perspectives Ten Years After Amchem and Ortiz,” will take place Oct. 30, 2009. The Symposium will examine developments in aggregate litigation over the last decade and into the future, using Amchem Prods. Inc. v. Windsor, 521 U.S. 591 (1997), and Ortiz v. Fibreboard Corp., 527 U.S. 815 (1999), as a springboard for this exploration.
The Symposium will feature a number of well-known speakers in the field of aggregate litigation: Elizabeth Chamblee Burch (Florida State); Howard M. Erichson (Fordham); Steven S. Gensler (Oklahoma); Laura J. Hines (Kansas); Linda S. Mullenix (Texas); Tom Willging (Federal Judicial Center); Patrick Woolley (Texas).
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 16th, 2009
| Civil Procedure, CONFERENCES |
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Call for Articles and Essays: Recent Developments in New York Law
Proposals due October 1, 2009.
The editors of Pace Law Review invite proposals from scholars, researchers, practitioners, and professionals for contributions to our second annual issue addressing recent developments in New York law to be published in Spring 2010.
This issue will explore a wide range of recent developments in the laws of New York State, including but not limited to areas of criminal law, civil litigation, family law, property law, constitutional law, tax law, bankruptcy law, and municipal law. Authors may also discuss proposed changes to New York law, at the state or local level.
Please submit proposals of no more than 500 words by attachment to plr [at] law.pace.edu by October 1, 2009. All proposals should include the intended author’s name, title, institutional affiliation, contact information, and should relate to an area of New York State law. Authors are also welcome, but not required, to submit a CV. We expect to make publication offers by October 8. We encourage clear, concise, and accessible writing that will be of use to lawmakers, attorneys, and students.
Completed manuscripts will be due November 24, 2009.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 27th, 2009
| Civil Procedure, Bankruptcy Law, Local Government Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, Tax Law, Property Law |
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The Campbell Law Review invites papers and proposals for its upcoming Electronic Discovery Symposium. This conference will be held at Campbell’s new state-of-the-art facility located in Raleigh, North Carolina on January 22, 2010. The Symposium will address timely, relevant, and challenging issues related to e-discovery. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to: ethical considerations pertaining to e-discovery and meta-data, the implications of significant e-discovery case law or legislation, proposals for the reform of current e-discovery rules, pre-litigation management systems, critical aspects of the e-discovery process, and the role of e-discovery in international litigation.
Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the symposium and then published in the Campbell Law Review’s upcoming Electronic Discovery Symposium Issue. The Law Review will fund travel for all symposium presenters, including airfare to and accommodations in Raleigh, meals, and miscellaneous travel expenses. The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2009.
To submit developed proposals or articles, please contact Mallory Williams at mewilliams0821 [at] email.campbell.edu or Stephanie Owens at slowens1129 [at] email.campbell.edu.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 3rd, 2009
| Law and Cyberspace, Civil Procedure, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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The Michigan State University College of Law is pleased to announce that the Second Annual Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop will take place on its campus October 22–23, 2009. The inaugural workshop, held in April 2008 at the American University Washington College of Law, was a resounding success attended by junior scholars from 30 law schools, resulting in publications in numerous preeminent journals. We aim to continue this tradition.
The workshop pairs junior and senior, federal-courts scholars in a day-long, works-in-progress workshop. Senior scholars who have confirmed their attendance for this year’s workshop are Susan Bandes (DePaul University School of Law), Martha Field (Harvard Law School), Martin Redish (Northwestern University School of Law), and David Shapiro (Harvard Law School).
Workshop Agenda
Drafts of papers will be distributed to participants prior to the workshop, which begins with dinner on Thursday, October 22. On Friday, October 23, following breakfast, two panels of junior scholars, composed of three to four persons each, will present papers in the morning. After lunch, two panels of junior scholars will present papers in the afternoon. Each panel will be assigned a senior scholar who will provide commentary on the paper and lead the group discussion.
Invitees
The workshop is open to non-tenured, or newly tenured, academics who teach Federal Courts (or an equivalent course) or whose scholarly agenda encompasses topics ordinarily associated with such a course. Those who do not currently hold a faculty appointment but expect that they will during the 2010-2011 academic year are also welcome. There is no registration fee for this conference.
RSVP
Those who plan to attend the workshop are asked to RSVP by July 31, 2009 to Sally Rice at Michigan State University College of Law (events@law.msu.edu). Please indicate whether you will attend the dinner on October 22.
Persons wishing to present a paper are asked to e-mail an abstract by June 29, 2009 to Lou Mulligan (mulligan@law.msu.edu). A committee of past participants will select papers no later than July 3, 2009.
Michigan State College of Law is pleased to provide all participants with meals while attending the workshop and has secured a block of rooms at a discounted rate.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 15th, 2009
| Courts, Civil Procedure, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, CALLS FOR PAPERS |
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The Fordham Law Review presents Against Settlement: Twenty-Five Years Later April 3, 2009.
In 1984, Owen Fiss provocatively argued that the ADR movement overvalued settlement, that adjudication serves a purpose greater than dispute resolution, and that “[c]ivil litigation is an instrument for using state power to bring a recalcitrant reality closer to our chosen ideals.” Against Settlement, 93 Yale L.J. 1073 (1984). What do we make of his arguments twenty-five years later? In the intervening years, the dispute resolution field has matured, public interest lawyering has changed, aggregate litigation has grown with comprehensive resolution as an expected endgame, and global perspectives on litigation have become more prominent, shedding new light on the arguments Fiss raised.
The Fordham Law Review has assembled a remarkable group – many of the nation’s leading voices in ADR, complex litigation, and public interest lawyering – for a one-day symposium to reconsider questions of settlement and adjudication in civil litigation.
The symposium is co-sponsored by the Fordham Conflict Resolution and ADR Program.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 6th, 2009
| Civil Procedure, Alternative Dispute Resolution, CONFERENCES |
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The University of Washington School Law presents a symposium honoring Judge Betty Binns Fletcher of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Judicial Circuit on March 6, 2009. Judge Fletcher “broke the glass ceiling for women in Washington when she became the first woman from Washington to join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Court, the first woman president of the Seattle Bar Association, and the first woman on the Washington Bar Association Board of Governors.” Panel topics for the symposium include the environment, anti-discrimination law, law and equality, constitutional law and federal courts.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 5th, 2009
| Law and Gender, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights Law, Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES |
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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 |
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The Journal of Court Innovation is soliciting articles concerning the future of commercial litigation and e-discovery. Articles can concern the federal or any state justice system and there is no page length requirement.
Articles will be published in conjunction with the New York State Judicial Institute Colloquium on the Future of Commercial Litigation: Developing a Cost-Efficient Judicial Process for the Electronic Age. The colloquium will be held at the New York State Judicial Institute (84 North Broadway, White Plains, New York 10603) on December 1, 2008. Chief Justice Judith Kaye will open the event and will be followed by distinguished members of the judiciary, the bar and the educational academy.
The Journal of Court Innovation is a peer reviewed journal that is a combined effort between the New York State Judicial Institute (White Plains, NY), the Center for Court Innovation (New York) and Pace Law School (White Plains, NY). The journal’s mission is to promote innovation among the 50 state court systems and seeks to “bridge the worlds of theory and practice.” It is targeted to court administrators, judges, lawyers, scholars, non-profit executives, legislative and executive branch officials and other professionals interested on improving court systems and the administration of justice.
If you are interested in submitting a paper for consideration please contact Prof. Leslie Yalof Garfield at lgarfield[at]law.pace.edu. Final drafts should be submitted by December 30, 2008 for consideration in this edition
We also welcome articles on any topics that consider court innovation for publication in future editions.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 10th, 2008
| Civil Procedure, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, CONFERENCES |
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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 |
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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 |
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The U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform holds its 9th Annual Legal Reform Summit Oct. 29, 2008.
This year’s summit will cover a variety of timely topics, including:
- The Congressional landscape for legal reform post-election;
- The public’s stake in preserving pre-dispute arbitration provisions in contracts;
- Parameters of federal preemption;
- The challenge of discovery abuse in federal and state court;
- Foreign activities of the U.S. plaintiffs’ bar; and,
- The role of criminal law in promoting compliance and rational enforcement.
The Hon. Carlos M. Gutierrez, United States Secretary of Commerce, will deliver the morning keynote address on the U.S. legal environment’s impact on foreign investment. Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, will deliver the luncheon keynote address on the future of legal reform.
Three new pieces of research will be released at the summit, including:
- A whitepaper on the proper role of criminal law as it relates to corporate conduct authored by former Enron prosecutor Andrew Weissmann;
- The findings of ILR’s discovery survey;
- A practitioner’s handbook on federal preemption.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 26th, 2008
| Courts, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, CONFERENCES |
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FORTHCOMING ANDREAS LOWENFELD / CONFLICT OF LAWS / TRANSNATIONAL LITIGATION CONFERENCE
Please mark your calendars and save the dates—April 16-18th, 2009—for two special events at New York University School of Law. On April 16th, a day-long conference in tribute to the career of Professor Andreas Lowenfeld will feature judges, scholars, and practitioners whose own work has been influenced by Professor Lowenfeld. Among the invited speakers are Judge Thomas Buergenthal of the International Court of Justice, Justice Lawrence Collins (of the English Court of Appeal), Professor Jose Alvarez, Professor Robert Howse, Professor Eleanor Fox, Professor George Bermann, Professor Mario Giovanoli, Professor Catherine Kessedjian, former ALI President Michael Traynor and arbitration experts Gary Born and Albert van den Berg. Additional invitations are in progress.
On April 17-18, 2009, New York University will be hosting the bi-annual conference of the Journal of Private International Law – the first English language journal devoted exclusively to Private International Law. The first two conferences of the Journal were held in Scotland and England respectively, and this conference will be the first on this side of the Atlantic.
These two events offer a unique opportunity to bring together judges, scholars, and practitioners in the field of private international law. Topics of the conference will include such issues as 1) ethical aspects of doing cross-border business 2) autonomous interpretations of treaties such as the CISG 3) anti-suit injunctions in arbitration and litigation and 4) the desirability of having a new Restatement Third in Conflict of Laws in light of the European initiatives of the Rome I and II Regulations. A special feature of the conference this year will be a pre-conference event on the morning of April 17th where a “call for papers” will feature the scholarship of young academics and Phd students from around the world. The full conference will begin on the afternoon of the 17th with a panel on commercial law issues; on the 18th there will be two panels – one that considers the desirability of a Third Restatement on Conflict of Laws and a second that features developments in the area of transnational litigation and arbitration. On the evening of the 17th there will be a dinner for all conference attendees.
The Journal is still in the process of formulating the panels and inviting speakers and commentators, though we already have a number of committed participants, including Professor Ronald Brand, Professor Marco Torsello, Professor Ingeborg Schwenzer, Dean Symeon Symeonides, Professor Katharina Boele-Woelki, Professor Francisco J. Garcimartin Alferez,Professor Paul Beaumont, Professor Franco Ferrari, and Justice Lawrence Collins (Court of Appeal, England). Additional invitations will be made in the weeks ahead.
Further details about the conference will be forthcoming along with information about hotel accommodations in New York. For the moment, we just want you to save the date for this very special set of events.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 13th, 2008
| Civil Procedure, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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Suffolk University Law School presents Successful Strategies for Jury Trials: The 4th Thomas F. Lambert, Jr. Conference, Oct. 24, 2008. The panels will include state and federal judges, distinguished trial lawyers, and two of the leading academics in jury research, Professor Valerie Hans of the Cornell Law School, and Neil Vidmar of the Duke Law School.
Cosponsors are:
The Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy
The Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys
The Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 2nd, 2008
| Courts, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law, CONFERENCES |
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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 |
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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 |
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