July 23, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Brad Mank (Cincinnati Law), Standing and Statistical Persons: Should Large Public Interest Organizations Have Greater Standing Rights Than Individuals?
Shareholder Suits - Vienna
The European Company and Financial Law Review (ECFR) hosts the Third ECFR Symposium, Shareholder Suits. It will take place in Vienna on Friday, October 10, 2008. Jump to full post
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.
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
Advanced Issues in Electronic Discovery - Baltimore
The University of Baltimore Law Review held its 2008 spring symposium, Advanced Issues in Electronic Discovery: The Impact of the First Year of the Federal Rules and the Adoption of the Maryland Rules, on March 13. A few of the presentations are available for download.
Securities Class Actions - Naples, FL
The Continuing Evolution of Securities Class Actions, the 14th annual ILEP conference, will be held April 10-11, 2008, in Naples, FL. It is sponsored by the Institute for Law and Economic Policy and the University of Wisconsin Law School.
February 29, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Dayna Brown Matthew (Colorado Law), Race, Religion and Informed Consent — Lessons from Social Science
Russell A. Miller (Washington & Lee Law), Comparative Law in the Era of Global Terrorism: A Case Study for Germany’s Militant Democracy
Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt Law), Adam Smith and the Search for an Ideal Tax System
Lonny Hoffman (Houston Law), Burn Up the Chaff with Unquenchable Fire: Constructing a Sustainable Theory of Judicial Regulatory Power Over Pleading Norms
Tonya Putnam (Columbia Political Science), Beyond Presumption?: Explaining Extraterritorial Variation over Civil Claims
Brian Levack (Texas History), The Prosecution of Sexual Crimes in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law) & Robin Lenhardt (Fordham Law), Rethinking Work and Citizenship
Norman Spaulding (Stanford Law), Professional Independence in the Office of the Attorney General
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Owen D. Jones (Vanderbilt Law), Harm and Punishment: An fMRI Experiment
Karl F. Jorda (Franklin Pierce Law), Patent/Trade Secret Complementariness: An Unsuspected Synergism
February 22, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jay Tidmarsh (Notre Dame Law), The Primacy of Procedure
Amalia D. Kessler (Stanford Law), The Adversarial Principle of U.S. procedure - Why Did Antebellum America not Adopt European Conciliation Courts?
Ingrid Wuerth (Vanderbilt Law), The Original Meaning of the Captures Clause
Marjorie A. Silver (Touro Law), Supporting Lawyers: Supervising Attorneys’ Personal Skills
Notre Dame
Mark McKenna (Notre Dame), Intellectual Property
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Paige Marta Skiba (Vanderbilt Law), Payday Lending
George Geis (Alabama Law), The Space Between Markets and Hierarchies
Conflicts of Laws - Family Law - Salt Lake City
The BYU Law Review held a symposium on Feb. 1, 2008: Contemporary Conflicts of Laws Issues in Family Law.
Pattern Jury Instructions - Columbus, OH
The National Conference on Pattern Jury Instructions — sponsored by the National Center for State Courts, the Supreme Court of Ohio, and the Ohio Judicial Conference — will meet in Columbus, April 17-18, 2008.
February 8, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Robert Miller (Villanova Law), Directors as Advisors: The Role of Corporate Directors at Shareholder Meetings
Debra Lyn Bassett (Alabama Law), The Revolution of 1938 and its Discontents: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Today
Loyola LA
Steve Munzer (UCLA Law), Commons and Community in Biotechnological Assets
Ricardo Bascuas (Miami Law), Federal Sentencing: The American Inquisition
Notre Dame
Michael Moreland (Villanova Law), Torts
Alan Brudner (Toronto Law), Subjective Fault for Crime: A Reinterpretation
Daniel Hamilton (Chicago-Kent), Emancipation and Contract Law: Litigating Human Property after the Civil War
Eric Claeys (George Mason Law), Jefferson Meets Coase: The Harm-Benefit Distinction in Tort Law and Economics and Natural Property Rights
Devah Pager (Princeton), Race at Work: Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets
Sophie Sparrow (Franklin Pierce Law Center), Workshop: Using Grading Rubrics to Improve Teaching, Learning and Grading
European Choice of Law Revolution - Durham, NC
The Duke University Center for International & Comparative Law and the Tulane Law Review and cosponsoring The New European Choice-of-Law Revolution: Lessons for the United States? at Duke.
(A notice of this conference was posted here a few months ago, but there wasn’t much information available then. I’m reposting to include the link to the full conference program and other information.)
Empirical Studies of Civil Liability - Chicago
The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law is soliciting papers for a Research Symposium on Empirical Studies of Civil Liability at Northwestern University School of Law, Oct. 9-10, 2008. The call for papers deadline is Jan. 15, 2008.
Update (May 1, 2008): confirmed speakers are listed here.
Call for Papers: Science and the Courts
The University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal invites original scholarly articles for a special issue on Science and the Courts to be published in 2008. The submission deadline is March 1, 2008.
Fed Courts Workshop for Junior Scholars - Washington, DC
American University Washington College of Law is hosting a workshop for junior federal courts faculty on April 4, 2008. Details after the jump. Jump to full post
Comparative Procedural Law - London
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law presents Procedural Justice: Comparative Aspects, Dec. 1, 2007, in London.
Consumer Rights Litigation - Washington, DC
The National Consumer Law Center presents its 16th Annual Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, Nov. 8-11, 2007, Washington, DC.
In addition to the main conference, there will be day-long “intensives” on particular topics:
- Class Action Symposium;
- Doing Well While Doing Good;
- Stopping Foreclosures: Loan Workouts, Servicing Claims, and Bankruptcy Strategies;
- Fighting Predatory Mortgage Lending through Litigation: An Introduction to the Evolving Marketplace and Legal Theories;
- Attacking Debt Collectors’ Suits, Repossessions, and Arbitrations.
Transparency in the Civil Justice System - Los Angeles
The RAND Institute for Civil Justice and UCLA School of Law present Transparency in the Civil Justice System, Nov. 2, 2007, at UCLA.
Globalization of Class Actions - Oxford
Stanford Law School and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University, are cosponsoring The Globalization of Class Actions, Dec. 13-14, 2007, in Oxford.
October 23, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Louis Kaplow (Harvard Law), Taxation of Transfers
Steve Kanter (Lewis & Clark Law), Bong Hits 4 Jesus as a Cautionary Tale of Two Cities
Joy Gordon (Fairfield), The Economic Sanctions on Cuba and the Problem of Extraterritoriality
Edward A. Purcell (New York Law School), The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005: The Old and New in Federal Jurisdictional Reform
NYU Law, Economics, and Politics
J. Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law), The Industrial Organizations of the Japanese Bar: Levels and Determinants of Attorney Income
Bernard Black (Texas Law), Empty Voting and Other Decoupling Strategies //: Importance, Responses, and Extensions
UC Berkeley Law, Business and the Economy
William Falik (Westpark Associates), How to Succeed in the California Land Use Wars - Sixteen Years and 1,600 Acres
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