The University of Wisconsin Institute for Legal Studies hosts The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law Oct. 24-26, 2008. This interdisciplinary conference “will bring together leading academics, authors and intellectuals to examine the Weimar period in European history, culture, and law and to trace the continuity of Weimar thinkers and their impact on the continued viability of liberal democracy in today’s world.”
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 13th, 2008
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August 4-7, 2008, the Istanbul Legal Skills Conference will bring together professors from the United States and European Union to discuss legal writing skills with Turkish lawyers and law students. The conference is sponsored by Bahcesehir University’s Institute for Global Understanding in Law and the Legal Writing Institute.
For more information, contact Tracy McGaugh at tmcgaugh[at]tourolaw.edu.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 12th, 2008
| Comparative Law, Legal Research & Writing, Legal Education, CONFERENCES |
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The Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture (specifically the Clarke International Consortium on Law and Social Justice in Emerging Markets) at Cornell University Law School presents Law in Context: New & Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law Conference June 8-10, 2008.
“Law in Context” will bring together Chinese legal scholars whose areas of expertise range from economic law to law and sociology to international financial law; a Tel Aviv University law professor whose research includes evidence and negotiation theory; and nine CLS professors who will present new research and serve as discussants. “Law in Context” panel presentations will investigate topics as diverse as social movements and legal knowledge, and corrective justice and legal decision making.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 7th, 2008
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Chicago Law & Politics
Rachel Barkow (NYU Law), Institutional Design and the Policing of Prosecutors: Lessons from Administrative Law
Chicago Kent Legal History
Bruce Smith (Illinois Law)
Fordham
Annette Gordon-Reed (Rutgers History)
Harvard Internet & Society
David Ardia, Sam Bayard, Tuna Chatterjee (Members of Citizen Media Law Project), Discussion of the project’s first year
Minnesota Law & History
Ruth Mazo Karras (Minnesota History), Telling the Truth About Sex in Late Medieval Paris
Texas
Jens Dammann (Texas Law), Of Courts and Corporations
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 5th, 2008
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The School of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge announce a joint conference: Effective Judicial Review: A Cornerstone for Good Governance, Dec. 10-12, 2008.
This Conference provides an exciting opportunity to discuss key issues relating to judicial review across a number of jurisdictions. Speakers include judges, government officials, practitioners and academics from various jurisdictions. A full list of the speakers on the conference website.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 24th, 2008
| Courts, Comparative Law, CONFERENCES |
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Akron
Stephen Harp (Akron History), Au Naturel: National Decency Laws and Local Tolerance of Public Nudity in Twentieth-Century France
Chicago International Law
Alan Sykes (Stanford Law), Currency Manipulation and World Trade
Chicago-Kent
Peggie Smith (Iowa Law), Home Sweet Home? Workplace Casualties of Consumer-Directed Home Care for the Elderly
Connecticut Tax
Yoshihiro Masui (Tokyo Law), Japan as a Tax Treaty Partner
NYU Legal History
James Whitman (Yale Law), The Verdict of Battle
UC Hastings
Benjamin Spencer (Washington & Lee Law)
USC Law, History and Culture
Carolyn Sale (Alberta English), The King is a Thing: The King’s Prerogative and the Treasure of the Realm in Plowden’s Report of the ‘Case of Mines’ and Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Villanova
Tayyab Mahmud (John Marshall Law)
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 23rd, 2008
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Chicago Law & Philosophy
Robert Pape (Chicago Political Science)
Georgetown Law & Philosophy
Christopher Morris (Maryland Law), Natural Rights and Political Legitimacy & P 1-2 Declaration of Independence & Anarchy, State, and Utopia & State Legitimacy and Social Order
Harvard
Eric Zolt (UCLA Law), Inequality, Collective Action, and Taxing and Spending Patterns of State and Local Governments
Northwestern Law & Economics
Alan O. Sykes (Stanford Law), Transnational Forum Shopping as a Trade and Investment Issue
San Diego
Ariela Gross (USC Law)
Temple
Greg Mandel (Temple Law), Left Brain vs. Right Brain: Conflicting Conceptions of Creativity in Intellectual Property Law
Texas
Jean Comaroff (Chicago Anthropology), Nations with/out Borders: Neoliberalism and the Problem of Belong in Africa, and Beyond
UC Berkeley
Lauren Edelman (UC Berkeley Law) & Linda Krieger (UC Berkeley Law) & Scott Eliason (Minnesota Sociology) & Catherine Albiston (UC Berkeley Law) & Virginia Mellema (EEOC), When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Employment Structures
UC Hastings
Adam Scales (Washington & Lee Law), Insurance in the Aftermath of Katrina
UCLA Faculty Mondays
Joshua Foa Dienstag (UCLA Political Science), The Promise of Pessimism
Virginia Law & Economics
Christine Jolls (Yale Law), Mandated Medical Leave in the Workplace
Yale Corporate Law
Reinier Kraakman (Harvard Law), Exit, Voice, and Liability: Legal Dimensions of Organizational Structure
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 20th, 2008
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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
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The 9th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation will be hosted by the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL), Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS) Nov. 6-7, 2008. The conference title is “Environmental Taxation and Challenges of the Urban Environment: Role of Taxation and other Market-based Instruments – Exchange of Experiences between Developed and Developing Countries.”
Other partners include the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS; the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants in Singapore (ACCA), the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, the International Tax and Investment Centre (ITIC) in Washington DC, and the Environmental Tax Policy Institute, Vermont Law School, and the Cleveland State University in USA; and Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
The call for papers deadline is May 31, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 14th, 2008
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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
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Chicago Law & Politics
John Witt (Columbia Law), Form and Substance in the Law of Counterinsurgency Damages
Chicago-Kent
Cynthia Estlund (NYU Law)
Chicago-Kent Legal History
Serena Mayeri (Penn Law)
Connecticut Tax
Joshua Blank (NYU Law), What’s Wrong With Shaming Corporate Tax Abuse
Duke International & Comparative Law
Angelos Pangratis (European Union), The Future of E.U.-U.S. Relations
Fordham
William Eskridge, Jr. (Fordham Law), Vetogates, Chevron, Preemption
Georgetown
Gregg Bloche (Georgetown Law), The Emergent Logic of Health Care
Harvard Internet & Society
Steve Ward (Oxford Internet Institute)
Loyola
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), The Life Span of Written Constitutions
Minnesota Law & History
Tom Romero II (Hamline Law), Creating and Containing the Multiracial Hetereotopia: Kelo, Parents, and the Spatialization of Color(blindness) in the Berman-Brown Postmetroplis
St. Thomas (Mn)
Charles Reid (St. Thomas (Mn) Law)
Toronto Law & Literature
Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa English), Give Me a Precedent: Past, Present and Future in Victorian Fiction and Law
UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations
Stephen Choi (NYU Law), Empirical Evidence on Securities Arbitration
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 8th, 2008
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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
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Akron
Jane Larson (Wisconsin Law), Regulating Sex: Multiple Paradigms for Thinking About Sexual Freedom and Autonomy
Chicago-Kent
Jeffrey G. Sherman (Chicago-Kent Law)
CUNY
Wendy Bach (CUNY Law)
Emory
Anne Dailey (UConn Law), Imagination and Choice
NYU Legal History
Bernard Freamon (Seton Hall Law), The Abolition of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade and the Vicissitudes of Empire
SMU Law & Citizenship
Michael Kirsch (Notre Dame Law), Taxing Citizens in a Global Economy
Texas
Alejandro Moreno (Texas Medicine), Implementation of the Istanbul Protocol - A Summary Report of the Efforts to Eliminate Torture and Ill-Treatment in Mexico
Toronto Law & Economics
Edward Rock (Penn Law), The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting
UC Hastings
Reza Dibadj (USF Law)
UCLA Williams Institute
Adam Romero (The Williams Institute), When Family Falls
USC Law, History & Culture
Josephine McDonagh (King’s College), On Settling and Being Unsettled: Motion and Emotion in Dickens’s Bleak House
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 2nd, 2008
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Chicago Law & Philosophy
Stephen Schulhofer (NYU Law)
Connecticut
Ulrich Haltern (Humboltd), Law and the Identity of Europe
Florida
Michael B. Lang (Chapman Law), What Every Tax Lawyer Should Know About Patented Tax Strategies
Georgetown Law & Philosophy
Steve Darwall (Michigan Law), The Nature and Value of Rights & The Second-Person Standpoint: Respect, Morality, and Accountability Chapter 1 & 2
Georgia
David B. Mustard (Georgia Business) & Thomas A. Eaton (Georgia Law)
Harvard
Mary Bilder (Boston Law), James Madison, Law Student
Harvard International Law
Margaret Levi (Washington Political Science)
Marquette
Anita Krishnakumar (St. John’s Law), Early Reflections on the Roberts Court and Statutory Interpretation
Northwestern Law & Economics
Roberta Romano (Yale Law), Does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Have a Future?
Ohio State University
Deborah L. Brake (Pittsburgh Law), The Invisible Pregnant Athlete and the Promise of Title IX
Queen’s Law
Victor Tadros (Warwick Law), Wrongs and Crimes
Rutgers-Camden
Ralph Porcher (Institute of Advanced Study), The Hand of Midas: When Concepts Turn Legal or Deflating the Hart-Dworkin-Debate
Seton Hall
Reinier Kraakman (Harvard Law)
Stanford Law, Science, & Technology
Mark Forman
St. John’s
Michael M. O’Hear (Marquette Law), Lovely Rita?: Procedural Justice and Federal Sentencing
Temple
Donald Harris (Temple Law)
Texas
Michael Perino (St. John’s Law)
UC Berkeley
Alexandra Kalev (Arizona Sociology), Cracking the Glass Cages? Restructuring and Ascriptive Inequality at Work
UC Hastings
Yafir Holzman-Gazit (Israel Management Law), Land Expropriation in Israel
UCLA Faculty Mondays
Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA Economics), Scylla and Charybdis? Some Historical Reflections on the Two Basic Problems of Corporate Governance
USC Law, Economics, and Organization
Josh Lerner (Harvard Business), Inducement Prizes and Innovation
Virginia Law & Economics
Stephen Choi (NYU Law), Director Elections and the Influence of Proxy Advisors
Washington University in St. Louis
Anuj Desai (Wisconsin Law)
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 31st, 2008
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Akron
Rennard Strickland (Chapman Law), Keepers of the Springs: A Defense of the American Legal Profession
Alabama
A. E. Dick Howard (Virginia Law), The Changing Face of the Supreme Court: From the Warren Court to the Roberts Court
Boston College
Linda Beale (Wayne State), Tax Patents: At the Crossroads of Tax and Patent Law
Boston University
Kim Ferzan (Rutgers-Camden Law), Beyond the Special Part
Brooklyn
Anita Bernstein (Brooklyn Law), Asbestos and Gender
Chicago-Kent
Elinor Ostrom (Indiana-Bloomington Cognitive Science Program)
Columbia
Clayton Gillette (Columbia Law), Tacit Agreement, Investment, and Contract Design
Emory
Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Anti-Bankruptcy
Florida State
Margaret Blair (Vanderbilt Law), Assurance Services as a Substitute for Law in Global Commerce
Georgetown
William Forbath (Texas Law), History, Memory and “Transformative Law”: Treatment Action Campaign and the Politics of Rights in South Africa
Michigan Law & Economics
Rip Verkerke (Virginia Law), Legal Innocence and Information-Forcing Rules
Minnesota Faculty Works
Elizabeth Beaumont (Minnesota Political Science)
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Andrea Louis Campbell (MIT Political Science), How Americans Think About Taxes: Public Opinion and the American Fiscal State
Penn Law & Economics
Colin Mayer (Oxford Business), Where Do Firms Incorporate: Deregulation and the Cost of Entry
Temple International Law
Sean Murphy (George Washington Law), The Jus Ad Bellum in View of New Security Threats
Texas
Matt Adler (Penn Law), Social Facts, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Rule of Recognition
Vanderbilt
Brian Tamanaha (St. John’s Law)
Washburn
Alex Glashausser (Washburn Law), The Misbegotten Modern Doctrine of Federal Question Jurisdiction
Yale Human Rights
Shameem Black (Yale English), Fiction in the Age of Transitional Justice
Yale Law & Economics
Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown Law), Do Insurer Reserving Practices Drive Liability Insurance Premium Cycles?: An Empirical Study at the Claim Level
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 27th, 2008
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