The Federal Trade Commission and the Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic at the University of Washington School of Law are hosting a Town Hall meeting today, July 24, 2008, to explore the growth of contactless payment systems and their implications for consumer protection policy. This Town Hall, titled “Pay on the Go: Consumers and Contactless Payment,” follows up on the FTC‘s November 2006 hearings, “Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade,” which examined key technological and business developments that will shape consumers‘ experiences over the next ten years. It’s available via webcast.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 24th, 2008
| Law and Cyberspace, Commercial Law, CONFERENCES |
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On February 20, 2009, the Journal of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems (TLCP) at the University of Iowa College of Law, in conjunction with the University of Iowa Center for International Finance & Development (UICIFD), will hold a symposium on Financial Markets and Systemic Risk: The Global Repercussions of the U.S. Subprime Mortgage Meltdown. The purposes of the one-day symposium are three-fold. First, the symposium will seek to identify the causes and origins of the current international financial crisis. Second, it will assess the regulatory responses in the U.S. and abroad, as well as cooperatives responses among the various regional and international organizations. Finally, it will explore ways in which future financial crises of similar ilk can be prevented.
The TLCP and UICIFD invite interested persons to submit abstracts of papers relating to the themes of the symposium’s three panels to TLCP Editor in Chief, Minji Kim at Minji-Kim [at] uiowa.edu. The papers will be published in the TLCP in the winter of 2009, and the journal will arrange for funding to cover transportation and lodging for the symposium’s participants.
The full call for papers is here. “The deadline for submission of the abstracts is Monday, July 21, 2008. However, we encourage interested panelists to submit their abstracts as soon as possible.”
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 24th, 2008
| Securities Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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The 16th Commonwealth Law Conference will be April 5-9, 2009, in Hong Kong. The conference theme is The Dynamics of Law in a Rapidly Changing World. The four main streams of the conference are:
- Constitutional Issues, Human Rights & the Rule of Law
- Corporate/ Commercial Law
- Judges, the Legal Profession and the Community
- Contemporary Legal Issues
It is sponsored by the Commonwealth Lawyers Association and the Law Society of Hong Kong.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 9th, 2008
| Comparative Law, Commercial Law, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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Akron
Arti K. Rai (Duke Law), The Supreme Court (Re)Discovers Patents: Implications for the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Boston University
Robert Hillman (Cornell Law)
Columbia
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
Florida State
Rick Geddes (Cornell Human Ecology)
Georgetown
Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law), Transnational Labor Citizenship
Georgia State
Dr. Ellen Bassee
Harvard
Laurence Helfer (Vanderbilt Law), Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community
Michigan Law & Economics
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
Missouri
Catherine Smith (Denver Law)
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Alan Auerbach (UC Berkeley Law), Long-Term Objectives for Government Debt
Suffolk
Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law), Comparative Corporate Law and Emerging Markets
Temple International Law
Jutta Brunnee (Toronto Law), Interactional International Law: Reflections on Obligations
UCLA Legal Theory
Sarah Song (UC Berkeley Law), Three Models of Civic Solidarity
Yale Human Rights
Ralph Steinhardt (George Washington Law), Corporate Complicity and the Alien Tort Statute
Yale Law & Economics
C. Fritz Foley (Harvard Business), Welfare Payments and Crime
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 10th, 2008
| Law and Economics, Tort Law, Commercial Law, Labor and Employment Law, Comparative Law, Law and Technology, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Tax Law, Intellectual Property, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Health Law, Family Law, Business Law, Uncategorized |
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Alabama
Jim Krier (Michigan Law)
Chicago Law & Philosophy
John Hagan (Northwestern Sociology)
Columbia Law & Economics
Efraim Benmelech (Harvard Economics), Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection
Georgetown Law & Philosophy
Leif Wenar (Sheffield Philosophy), The Analysis of Rights
Georgetown Statutory Colloquium
Theodore Ruger (Penn Law), Gonzales v. Oregon and the Normative Constitution of American Health Care
Georgia
David Arthur Skeel (Penn Law)
Harvard
Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown Law), The Endowment Effect: Implications of Recent Empirical Developments for Legal Theory & Exchange Asymmetries Incorrectly Interpreted as Evidence of Endowment Effect Theory and Prospect Theory
Harvard International Law
Paul Slovic (Oregon Psychology)
Michigan International Law
Eleanor Sharpston (Advocate General, European Court of Justice), ‘Freedom, Security, and Justice’ in the European Union: The Story so Far and (some of) the Challenges for the Future
Penn Law & Philosophy
Jody Kraus (Virginia Law), The Correspondence and Divergence in Contract and Promise
Rutgers-Camden
Frank Pasquale (Seton Hall Law), Taxing Tiering: Addressing Inequality in Health Care as Cross-Subsidization Declines
Seton Hall
Stephanie Ben-Ishai (York Law)
St. John’s
Rosemary C. Salomone (St. John’s Law), Official English: The Reality and the Rhetoric
Stetson
Jerry L. Anderson (Drake Law), An Empirical Study of Attitudes Toward Zoning
Texas
Albert Choi (Virginia Law)
Michael Conroy (Colibri Consulting), How Civil Society is Striking Back at Neoliberal Globalization: Tales from the ‘Certification Revolution’
UC Berkeley
Richard Perry (San Jose State University), On the Strange Career of the Cultural Defense
UC Berkeley Law & Economics
Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law) & Jide Nzelibe (Northwestern Law), Political Accountability Under Alternative Institutional Regimes
UCLA Faculty Mondays
Fiona Harrison (California Institute of Technology), Three Big Questions about the Universe (and how Astrophysicists are trying to answer them)
Yale Corporate Law
William H. McDavid (Ret. General Counsel, J.P. Morgan Chase), Enron: The Aftermath
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 7th, 2008
| Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, Law and Humanities, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Courts, Legal History, Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Property Law, International Law, Commercial Law, Administrative Law, Uncategorized |
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Cincinnati
Natasha Martin (Seattle Law), Immunity for Hire: The Same Actor Factor as a Subterfuge to Equality in the Contemporary Workplace
Duke
Christine Jolls (Yale Law)
Florida
Craig Anthony Arnold (Louisville Law), Land Use Regulation and the Democratic Process
Georgetown International Human Rights
Martin Flaherty (Fordham Law), Executive Authority, Fundamental Rights, and Global Separation of Powers
Georgia International Law
David Caron (UC Berkeley Law), Why International Courts and Tribunals Look and Act as They Do
Harvard International Law
John Mikhail (Georgetown Law)
Iowa
Thomas Merrill (Columbia Law), The Rule of First Possession and the Rule of Accession
Missouri
Heidi Kitrosser (Minnesota Law)
Syracuse
Eric A. Kades (William & Mary Law), A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain
Texas
Kristin Collins (BU Law), Let the Government become their Guardians: Administrative Law, Social Provision, and the Legal Construction of the Family in the Early Nineteenth Century
UCLA Faculty Friday
Mark Tushnet (Harvard Law), The Rights Revolution in the Twentieth Century
Virginia
Gia Lee (UCLA Law), Free Speech Deference
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 4th, 2008
| Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, Law and Humanities, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Courts, Legal History, Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Property Law, International Law, Commercial Law, Administrative Law, Uncategorized |
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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
Boston College Legal History
Paul Halliday (Virginia History), The Liberty of the Subject: Conceiving Habeas Corpus in England and Empire
Columbia
Nestor Davidson (Colorado Law), Standardization and Pluralism in Property Law
Fordham
Tsilly Dagan (Bar-Ilan Law), Taxing the Non-Market Economy
Georgetown
Elizabeth Warren (Harvard Law), Making Credit Safer
Harvard
Jessica Stern (Harvard Law), Producing Terror: Organization Dynamics of Survival
Harvard Legal History
Dalia Tsuk Mitchell (George Washington Law), Corporate Directors: Trustees, Representatives, Agents
Loyola
Sonia Katyal (Fordham Law)
Michigan Law & Economics
Fernando Gomez (Barcelona Law), Insurance and Tort: Coordination Systems and Imperfect Liability Rules
Minnesota Faculty Works
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
Northwestern Tax
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
SMU
Sionaidh Douglas-Scott (King’s College Law), The EU and Terrorism
Stanford Law & Economics
Yair Listokin (Yale Law), Does Shareholder Voting Maximize Stock Market Value?
Stetson
Jason Gillmer (Texas Wesleyan Law), Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery Times
Texas
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)
Yale Legal Theory
Robert Frank (Cornell Management), The Status of Moral Emotions in Consequentialist Moral Reasoning
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 3rd, 2008
| Comparative Law, National Security Law, Law and Religion, Evidence Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Technology, Insurance Law, Law and Economics, Legal History, Business Law, CONFERENCES, Property Law, Tax Law, Commercial Law, Tort Law, Securities Law, Uncategorized |
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Chicago-Kent
M. Elizabeth Magill (Virginia Law)
Connecticut
Elizabeth Trujillo (Suffolk Law), Deconstructing the Public/Private Overlaps in Foeign Investment and Trade Regimes
Georgetown
Muneer Ahmed (American University), Guantanamo is about the Body
Harvard Internet & Society
Allison Fine
Lewis & Clark
Rachel Godsil (Seton Hall Law), Protecting Status: The Mortgage Crisis, Eminent Domain, and the Ethic of Homeownership
Loyola
Gaicinto Dela Caneaea (Rome Law)
Texas
Emily Kadens (Texas Law), Merchants, Kings, and the Codification of Commercial Law
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 1st, 2008
| National Security Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, Commercial Law, Property Law, International Law, Uncategorized |
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The Connecticut Law Review will host a symposium, The Subprime Crisis: Moving Forward, at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
The standard subprime conference focuses on yesterday’s issues - i.e., definitions of subprime loans and why the subprime crisis happened. In this conference, in contrast, we will focus on the challenges that lie before us. It came as a shock to policymakers around the world that this seemingly obscure corner of the U.S. consumer credit market morphed into global contagion. Similarly, the United States is groping toward solutions to revive the credit markets and resolve millions of foreclosures. Necessarily, the symposium will be interdisciplinary in nature, involving the intersection of economics, finance, and law.
Symposium editors are John Herrington (john.herrington[at]huskymail.uconn.edu) and Kathryn Foley (kfoley5385[at]gmail.com).
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 17th, 2008
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, CONFERENCES, Property Law |
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Florida
Steve R. Johnson (UNLV Law), The Who and What of Anti-Abuse Rules: The Debate over Codifying the Economic Substance Doctrine
Iowa
Keith Aoki (UC Davis Law)
Missouri
Molly Wilson (Saint Louis Law)
Queen’s Law
Laurence Ashworth (Queen’s Business), Advertising Deception, Correction, and Defensive Consumers
Rosemary Coombe (York University), A Broken Record: Music as a Subject of Cultural Rights
San Diego
Mat McCubbins (San Diego Law)
Stetson
Andrew Taslitz (Howard Law), Wrongly Accused Redux: How Race Contributes to Convicting the Innocent - the Informants Example
UCLA Fridays
Eric Posner (Chicago Law), Professionals or Politicians: The Uncertain Empirical Case for an Elected Rather than Appointed Judiciary
Washburn
Michael Hunter Schwartz (Washburn Law), Instructional Design-Based Law School Teaching Methodologies
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 7th, 2008
| Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Courts, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Criminal Law, Legal Education, Commercial Law, Uncategorized |
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Chicago-Kent
Margareth Etienne (Illinois Law)
Connecticut Tax
Linda Sugin (Fordham Law), Why Endowment Taxation is Unjust
Emory
Pauline Kim (Washington Law), Exploring Panel Effects: Deliberation and Strategy on the United States Courts of Appeals
NYU Legal History
Lloyd Bonfield (New York Law School), Lord Chief Justice King’s Reports - 1714-22: ‘Commercial Law’
SMU Law & Citizenship
Serena Mayeri (Penn Law)
Toronto Law & Economics
Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Financial Innovation and the New Chapter 11
UC Hastings
Giuseppe De Palo (Hamline Law), The Globalization of the ‘ADR Movement
USC Law, History and Culture
Megan Reid (USC Religion), Punishment and Appropriate Justice in Islamic Societies
Washington
Signe Brunstad (Washington Law) & Toshiko Takenaka (Washington Law), Cross-Border Cultural Teaching Experience: License Negotiation and Mock Trial with European Law Students
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 5th, 2008
| Law and Religion, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Bankruptcy Law, Courts, Law and Economics, Legal History, Tax Law, Legal Education, Commercial Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Uncategorized |
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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 |
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Chicago Law & Philosophy
Janice Nadler (Northwestern Law)
Duke International & Comparative Law
Jurgen Basedow (Max Planck Institute), The Reform of European Antitrust Law
Georgetown Law & Philosophy
John Mikhail (Georgetown Law), Bentham’s Theory of Fictions and Critique of Natural Rights
Georgia
Douglas H. Yarn (Georgia State Law)
Penn Law & Philosophy
John Gardner (Oxford Law), Introduction to the Second Edition of H.L.A. Hart’s Punishment and Responsibility
Rutgers-Camden
Damon Smith (Rutgers-Camden Law), Reconceptualizing Urban Redevelopment: Participatory Planning and Procedural Protections
San Diego
Ken Bamberger (UC Berkeley Law)
Seton Hall
Janai Nelson (St. John’s Law)
Stanford Internet & Society
Judith Donath (MIT), Virtual Design and Trustworthy Signals
St. John’s
Sherry F. Colb (Columbia Law), Why is Torture “Different” and How “Different” is it?
Temple
Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke Law), Protecting Financial Markets: Lessons from the Subprime Mortgage Meltdown
UC Berkeley
Cindy Skach (Harvard Government), The Constitution of Peoples: Outlaw Religion and the Public Sphere
UC Berkeley Law & Economics
Robert Litan (Kauffman Foundation), Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
Yale Corporate Law
Michael R. Eisenson (Charlesbank Capital Partners), An Insider’s Perspective on Private Equity Investing
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 10th, 2008
| Law and Religion, Law and Economics, Comparative Law, Law and Humanities, Law and Philosophy, Antitrust Law, Civil Rights Law, CONFERENCES, Property Law, Intellectual Property, Business Law, Commercial Law, Uncategorized |
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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 |
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Boston
Stacey Dogan (Boston Law), Functionality Reconsidered
Boston College Legal History
Warren Billings (New Orleans History), Just Laws for the Happy Guiding and Governing of the People There Inhabiting: Laws in the Colonial South
Florida State
John Mayo (Georgetown Business), The Influence of Firms on Government
Fordham
Tracy Higgins (Fordham Law), Regulatory Feminism
Georgetown
Chris Elmendorf (UC Davis), Undue Burdens on Voter Participation (Is the Right to Vote Like the Right to an Abortion?)
Hastings
Reva Siegel (Yale Law), The Rights’ Reasons: Constitutional Conflict and the Spread of Woman-Protective Anti-Abortion Argument
Michigan Law & Economics
Jon Klick (Florida State), The Effect of Contractual Regulation: The Case of Franchising
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Chris Sanchirico (Penn Law), The Tax Advantage to Paying Private Equity Funds Managers with Profit Shares: What is it? Why is it Bad?
Northwestern Tax
Dennis Ventry (American University Law), Whistleblowers and Qui Tam for Tax
Stetson
Marcia McCormick (Cumberland Law), The Truth is Out There: Refitting EEOC for the Twenty-First Century
SMU
William Birdthistle (Chicago-Kent Law), Exchange Traded Funds
Temple International Law
Melissa Waters (Washington & Lee Law), Veri, Vidi, Amici: Law Professors as Transnational Norm Entrepreneurs Before the U.S. Supreme Court
Texas
Dick Fallon (Harvard Law), Constitutional Precedent Viewed Through the Lens of Hartian Jurisprudence
Toronto Health Law
Aeyal Gross (Tel Aviv Law), Health Between a Right and a Commodity: A Comparative Analysis of the Israeli Experience
Vanderbilt
Lars Noah (Florida)
Yale Law & Economics
Tom Miles (Chicago Law), Strategic Judging under the Voting Rights Act & Judicial Decisionmaking and the Transformation of Voting Rights Doctrine
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 7th, 2008
| Law and Economics, Legal History, Law and Gender, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Government Law, Commercial Law, International Law, Health Law, Contract Law, Business Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized |
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Akron
Richard Aynes (Akron Law) & Malina Coleman (Akron Law), Mark Graber, Dred Scott, and Dealing with Evil
Connecticut
Ruth Mason (UConn Law), Made in America for European Tax: The Consistency Test
Michigan Tax Policy
Chris Sanchirico (Penn Law), The Tax Advantage to Paying Private Equity Fund Managers with Profit Shares: What is it? Why is it Bad?
NYU Legal History
Lauren Benton (NYU History), Island Chains: Military Law and Convict Transportation, 1780-1840
Toledo
Kenneth Kilbert (Toledo Law), Contribution Under RCRA’s Imminent Hazard Provisions
Yale Workplace Theory & Policy
Nelson Lichtenstein (UC Santa Barbara History), Wal-Mart as the Template for 21st Century Capitalism: The Rise of Retailing as the Lynchpin of the Global Economy
Geography and Gender: The Origins and Reproduction of Wal-Mart’s Managerial Culture
Supply-Chains, Workers’ Chains and the New World of Retail Supremacy
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 6th, 2008
| Legal History, Law and Economics, Law and Gender, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Commercial Law, Environmental Law, Business Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized |
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