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Law-Related Calls for Papers, Conferences, and Workshops
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July 23, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Cincinnati

Brad Mank (Cincinnati Law), Standing and Statistical Persons: Should Large Public Interest Organizations Have Greater Standing Rights Than Individuals?

Duke

Ernest Young (Duke Law)

Stanford

Dan Hulsebosch (St. Louis University)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on July 23rd, 2008 | Civil Procedure, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized | no comments

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

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 10th, 2008 | Civil Procedure, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Comparative Law, Securities 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

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

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.

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 23rd, 2008 | Law and Technology, Civil Procedure | no comments

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 10th, 2008 | Civil Procedure, Securities Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

February 29, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Crime & Punishment

Sheldon Lyke (Chicago Sociology)

Cincinnati

Dayna Brown Matthew (Colorado Law), Race, Religion and Informed Consent — Lessons from Social Science

Duke

Heather Gerken (Yale Law)

Duke Global Law

Russell A. Miller (Washington & Lee Law), Comparative Law in the Era of Global Terrorism: A Case Study for Germany’s Militant Democracy

Florida

Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt Law), Adam Smith and the Search for an Ideal Tax System

Florida State

Lonny Hoffman (Houston Law), Burn Up the Chaff with Unquenchable Fire: Constructing a Sustainable Theory of Judicial Regulatory Power Over Pleading Norms

Georgia International Law

Tonya Putnam (Columbia Political Science), Beyond Presumption?: Explaining Extraterritorial Variation over Civil Claims

Iowa

Jennifer Mnookin (UCLA Law)

Texas

Brian Levack (Texas History), The Prosecution of Sexual Crimes in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland

UCLA Faculty Fridays

Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law) & Robin Lenhardt (Fordham Law), Rethinking Work and Citizenship

USC

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

Washburn

Karl F. Jorda (Franklin Pierce Law), Patent/Trade Secret Complementariness: An Unsuspected Synergism

 

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 29th, 2008 | Law and Sexuality, Comparative Law, Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Immigration Law, Law and Technology, Civil Procedure, Law and Religion, Labor and Employment Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, Tax Law, Jurisprudence, Law and Economics, Legal History, Uncategorized | no comments

February 22, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Alabama

Margareth Etienne (Illinois Law)

Cincinnati

Jay Tidmarsh (Notre Dame Law), The Primacy of Procedure

Duke Global Law

Amalia D. Kessler (Stanford Law), The Adversarial Principle of U.S. procedure - Why Did Antebellum America not Adopt European Conciliation Courts?

Georgia International Law

Ingrid Wuerth (Vanderbilt Law), The Original Meaning of the Captures Clause

Iowa

Vanita Gupta (ACLU)

New York Clinical Theory

Marjorie A. Silver (Touro Law), Supporting Lawyers: Supervising Attorneys’ Personal Skills

Notre Dame

Mark McKenna (Notre Dame), Intellectual Property

Texas

Matt Spitzer (USC Law)

UCLA Faculty Fridays

Michael Dorff (Southwestern Law)

USC

Arthur Ripstein (Toronto Law), Roads to Freedom

Vanderbilt

Mitra Sharafi (Wisconsin Law)

Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations

Paige Marta Skiba (Vanderbilt Law), Payday Lending

Villanova

Joel Nichols (St. Thomas Law)

Virginia

George Geis (Alabama Law), The Space Between Markets and Hierarchies

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 22nd, 2008 | Comparative Law, Law and Economics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Civil Procedure, Courts, Clinics, Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Business Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, Uncategorized | no comments

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 20th, 2008 | Civil Procedure, Family Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 8th, 2008 | Courts, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

February 8, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Crime & Punishment

Andrew Dilts (Chicago Political Science Ph.D. Candidate)

Cincinnati

Robert Miller (Villanova Law), Directors as Advisors: The Role of Corporate Directors at Shareholder Meetings

Florida

Debra Lyn Bassett (Alabama Law), The Revolution of 1938 and its Discontents: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Today

Georgia International Law

Beth Simmons (Harvard Government), Theories of Commitment

Iowa

Hari Osofsky (Oregon Law)

Loyola LA

Steve Munzer (UCLA Law), Commons and Community in Biotechnological Assets

Minnesota

Ricardo Bascuas (Miami Law), Federal Sentencing: The American Inquisition

Notre Dame

Michael Moreland (Villanova Law), Torts

Queen’s Law

Alan Brudner (Toronto Law), Subjective Fault for Crime: A Reinterpretation

San Diego

Lisa Ramsey (San Diego Law)

Texas

Daniel Hamilton (Chicago-Kent), Emancipation and Contract Law: Litigating Human Property after the Civil War

Toronto Legal Theory

A.J. Julius (UCLA Philosophy), A Lonelier Contractualism

USC

Eric Claeys (George Mason Law), Jefferson Meets Coase: The Harm-Benefit Distinction in Tort Law and Economics and Natural Property Rights

Villanova

Joanna Grossman (Hofstra Law)

Virginia

Devah Pager (Princeton), Race at Work: Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets

Washburn

Sophie Sparrow (Franklin Pierce Law Center), Workshop: Using Grading Rubrics to Improve Teaching, Learning and Grading

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 8th, 2008 | Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Courts, Civil Procedure, Tort Law, Commercial Law, Property Law, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Health Law, Business Law, Uncategorized | no comments

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.)

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 17th, 2008 | Civil Procedure, Comparative Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 9th, 2007 | Civil Procedure, Empirical Legal Studies, Tort Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES | no comments

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 21st, 2007 | Law and Science, Civil Procedure, Evidence Law, Empirical Legal Studies, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Criminal Law | no comments

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

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 15th, 2007 | Courts, Civil Procedure, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES | no comments

Comparative Procedural Law - London

The British Institute of International and Comparative Law presents Procedural Justice: Comparative Aspects, Dec. 1, 2007, in London.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007 | Civil Procedure, Comparative Law, Criminal Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Consumer Rights Litigation - Washington, DC

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

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

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

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

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 1st, 2007 | Civil Procedure, Law and Society, CONFERENCES | no comments

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 1st, 2007 | Civil Procedure, International Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

October 23, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law and Economics

Louis Kaplow (Harvard Law), Taxation of Transfers

Georgetown

Louis Michael Seidman (Georgetown Law), Property and Speech

Harvard Internet and Society

Aaron Swartz (Open Library Project)

Lewis and Clark

Steve Kanter (Lewis & Clark Law), Bong Hits 4 Jesus as a Cautionary Tale of Two Cities

Marquette

Joy Gordon (Fairfield), The Economic Sanctions on Cuba and the Problem of Extraterritoriality

New York Law School

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

Southwestern

Paul Bateman (Southwestern Law)

Texas

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

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 23rd, 2007 | Law and Economics, Comparative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Civil Procedure, International Law, Environmental Law, Property Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments