Valparaiso University School of Law will hold the 25th Annual Monsanto Lecture/Conference on Tort Law and Jurisprudence Feb. 18, 2011. The conference theme is Civil Litigation as a Tool for Regulating Climate Change. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 1, 2010. Jump to full post
The Drake Law Review and the American Judicature Society are pleased to announce the eighth annual American Judicature Society-Drake Law Review symposium issue, Jury-Rigged: The Increasingly Precarious State of Common Jury Practices in the United States Judicial System. The deadline for proposals is Dec. 3, 2010. Jump to full post
The Twentieth British Legal History Conference will be held in Cambridge Wed. July 13 to Sat. July 16, 2011. The conference theme will be “Law and Legal Process.” The call for papers deadline is Aug. 31, 2010.
The Akron Law Review announces a forthcoming written symposium, “Erie Under Advisement. The Doctrine After Shady Grove.” The deadline for submitting manuscripts is Oct. 15, 2010. Jump to full post
The AALS Section on Remedies will hold a program entitled “Rebirth of the Irreparable Injury Rule,” Sat. Jan. 8, 2011 (during the AALS 2011 Annual Meeting in San Francisco). The section seeks 2-3 presenters for this program. Abstracts are due by Aug. 23, 2010. Jump to full post
The 2010 AALS Mid-Year Meeting, in New York, offers three workshops:
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The University of Denver Sturm College of Law hosts the Colorado Access to Justice Commission‘s conference, Moving Forward for Equal Justice, April 23-24, 2010. mw
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:
(These are all separate panels. I grouped them into the bullet points to make the list easier to browse.) mw
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Steven Davidoff (Connecticut Law), The Failure of Private Equity
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
Randall Thomas (Vanderbilt Law)
Beth Lyon (Villanova Law), The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers: an Overlooked Opportunity to Educate America about ‘Brown-Collar’ Migration
Steve Choi (NYU Law), Motions for Lead Plaintiff in Securities Class Actions
Clarisa Long (Columbia Law), Interest Groups and Institutions in Patent and Copyright
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
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.
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
Michael Madison (Pittsburgh Law), Notes on a Geography of Knowledge
Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, Bioethics Workshop
Mark A. Hall (Wake Forest Law), Government-Sponsored Reinsurance: Purpose and Performance
Thomas Gallanis (Minnesota Law)
Kentucky
Cynthia Lee (George Washington Law), Allowing the “Gay Panic” Defense: The Importance of Making Sexual Orientation Salient
Dan Klerman (USC), Legal Origin and Economic Growth
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
Judy Nadler (Santa Clara), Campaigning Ethics and Financing
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
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.
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