Entries will be accepted through July 1, 2008, for the 2008 Chicago-Kent College of Law / Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize.
Established in 2007 at Chicago-Kent College of Law by alumnus Roy C. Palmer and his wife, Susan M. Palmer, the prize honors a work of scholarship that explores the tension between civil liberties and national security in contemporary American society. The $10,000 prize is designed to encourage and reward public debate among scholars on current issues affecting the rights of individuals and the responsibilities of governments throughout the world.
Articles or books submitted to the competition must be in draft form or have been published within the six months prior to the July 1 deadline. As a condition of accepting the award, the winner will present his or her work at Chicago-Kent. Eligible books and articles should be submitted to Tasha Kincade, assistant to Dean Harold J. Krent, at tkincade[at]kentlaw.edu or 565 West Adams Street, Chicago, IL 60661-3691.
The 2007 prize was awarded to constitutional scholars David D. Cole and Jules L. Lobel for their book Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (The New Press). The award-winning book is a critical analysis of the civil liberties and geopolitical implications of the Bush administration’s “war on terror” and self-described “paradigm of prevention” with respect to terrorism.
Roy Palmer, a lawyer and real estate developer, is a 1962 honors graduate of Chicago-Kent and a member of its board of overseers. He and his wife, Susan, active in numerous civic, social and philanthropic organizations, are the recipients of the 1997 Outstanding Individual Philanthropist Award of the National Society of Fundraising Executives. In 2006, the Palmers pledged a $1 million gift to the law school earmarked to support the expansion of Chicago-Kent’s campus, located in a rapidly developing area of downtown Chicago.
Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. Chicago-Kent has a proud tradition of advancing and influencing legal thought through public programs, endowed lecture series, and faculty scholarship.
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The Pacific Legal Foundation’s Program for Judicial Awareness will award $10,000 to one junior faculty member for an original contribution to legal scholarship on the following question.
The Fifth Amendment mandates that government may not take private property for public use without payment of just compensation. Some legal commentators have argued that the law of governmental takings should be balanced by a theory of “givings,” such that compensation for the taking of property should be offset by the amount of value attributable to the existence of general governmental programs and services. Explain why the “givings” rationale is inconsistent with the purpose and function of the Takings Clause.
The deadline for submissions is May 30, 2008. Details about the competition are here.
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| Local Government Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Constitutional Law, Property Law |
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Harvard Internet & Society
Chris Conley (Harvard Law Grad, 2007), Transparency and Digital Surveillance
Notre Dame
Linda McClain (Boston University Law), Marriage Pluralism in the United States: Multiple Jurisdictions and the Demands of Equal Citizenship
Texas
Ian Ferrell (Texas Law), Gilbert & Sullivan and Scalia: The Philosophical Basis of the Eigth Amendment’s Proportionality Principle
UC Berkeley Law & Economics
Henrik Lando (Copenhagen Business), Optimal Standards of Negligence when One Party is Uninformed
Washington
David Binder (UCLA Law) & Albert Moore (UCLA Law), Demystifying the First-Year Classroom
Yale Corporate Law
Raghuram G. Rajan (Chicago Business), Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 28th, 2008
| Law and Economics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Cyberspace, Tort Law, Legal Education, Business Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized |
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Bar Ilan
Sagit Leviner (Bar Ilan Law), A New Era of Tax Enforcement - From “Big Stick” to Responsive Regulation
Columbia Law & Economics
Bill Wilhelm (Virginia Law)
Georgetown Law & Philosophy
Margaret Gilbert (Connecticut Philosophy), Scanlon on Promissory Obligation & A Theory of Political Obligation Chapter 2 & 7
Harvard
Frank Michelman (Harvard Law), Socioeconomic Rights in Constitutional Law: Explaining America Away
UC Berkeley
Richard Abel (UCLA Law), The Defense of Legality in post-9/11 America
UC Berkeley Law & Economics
Hon. Guido Calabresi (U.S. Court of Appeals), Toward a Unified Theory of Torts
USC Law, Economics, & Organization
Kevin Quinn (Harvard Government), Viewpoint Diversity and Media Consolidation: An Empirical Study of National Newspapers
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 27th, 2008
| Empirical Legal Studies, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Philosophy, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Tort Law, Uncategorized |
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Boston University
Jim Fleming (Boston University Law), Traditionalism and Backlash in Constitutional Argument
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Laura Rosenbury (Washington University in St. Louis Law), Beyond Intimacy
Columbia
Claire Priest (Columbia Law), Understanding the End of Entail: Information, Institutions, and Slavery in the American Revolutionary Period
Connecticut
Madhavi Sunder (UC Davis), The New Enlightenment: How Muslim Women are Bringing Religion Out of the Dark Ages
Georgetown
Eric Feldman (Penn Law)
Harvard
Sharon Dolovich (UCLA Law), Defining Eighth Amendment Deliberate Indifference
Minnesota Faculty Works
Heidi Kitrosser (Minnesota Law), The Reality Based Constitution
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Jason Furman (The Brookings Institution), Reforming the Tax Treatment of Health Care: Right Ways and Wrong Ways
San Diego
Cynthia Estlund (NYU Law)
SMU
Rose Villazor (SMU Law), Birthright Citizenship in the U.S. Territories
Temple International Law
Rachel Brewster (Harvard Law), Renegotiation and Reinterpretation of Treaties
Yale Human Rights
Ruti Teitel (New York Law School), Humanity’s Law
Yale Law & Economics
Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard Economics), Taking the Long Way Around: Real Consequences of Transport Corruption
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 24th, 2008
| Law and Religion, Law and Race, Law and Humanities, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, Legal History, Health Law, Family Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized |
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Chicago Law & Politics
Daniel Farber (UC Berkeley Law), Modeling Climate Change and Its Impacts: Law, Policy and Science
Chicago-Kent
Robin West (Georgetown Law)
Georgetown
Bradley Wendel (Cornell Law), Wendel Government Lawyers
Harvard Internet & Society
Tracey Mitrano (Cornell, Director of IT Policy), Building a Global University
Lewis & Clark
Steve Johansen (Lewis & Clark) & Anne Villella (Lewis & Clark)
Minnesota Law & History
Linda K. Kerber (Iowa History), Stateless in America
Notre Dame
Father John Coughlin (Notre Dame Law)
Texas
Stephen Elkin (Maryland Behavioral and Social Sciences), The Theory of Republican Constitution
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 22nd, 2008
| Law and Politics, Law and Cyberspace, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Legal History, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Uncategorized |
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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
| 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 |
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Connecticut
Adrienne Davis (Virginia Law), Slavery & Shadow Families: Re-Thinking Miscegenation Regulation Through the Lens of Case
Harvard Legal History
Cynthia Nicoletti (Harvard Law, Berger Fellow), The American Civil War as a Trial by Battle
Georgetown Law & Philosophy
Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke Philosophy), A Hybrid Theory of Claim-Rights
Georgia
Anup Malani (Chicago Law)
Harvard
Vicki Jackson (Georgetown Law), Constitutional Cosmology: Convergence, Resistance, and Engagement
Northwestern Law & Economics
Oliver Hart (Harvard Economics), Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points
Rutgers-Camden
Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), Constitutional Law, International Law, Public Law
Seton Hall
Errol Mendes (Ottawa Common Law)
St. John’s
Jean Braucher (Arizona Law), The Supreme Court’s 5-4 Rejection of Textualist Interpretation of the Bankruptcy Code in Marrana v. Citizens Bank of Massachusetts
Stanford Internet & Society
James Fishkin (Stanford Communication), An Online Experiment in Democracy: Deliberative Polling for Democratic Reform
Temple
Salil Mehra (Temple Law)
UC Berkeley
Alison Morantz (Stanford Law), Rethinking the Great Compromise: What Happens When Large Companies Opt Out of Workers Compensation?
UCLA Faculty Mondays
Gia Lee (UCLA Law), Free Speech Deference
USC Law, Economics & Organization
Devah Pager (Princeton Sociology), Race at Work: A Field Experiment of Discrimination in Low-Wage Labor Markets
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Nancy King (Vanderbilt Law)
Yale Corporate Law
Gary J. Wolfe (Seward & Kissel), Golden Ocean–Taking Supertankers from Junk Bonds to Restructuring Bankruptcy to (Someone Else’s) Profit, and Fighting Every Step of the Way
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 13th, 2008
| Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Economics, Legal History, Business Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized |
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Cincinnati
Ajay Mehrotra (Indiana Law), The Public Control of Corporate Power: The 1909 Corporate Tax, the Sixteenth Amendment, and the Legal Foundations of the Modern Fiscal State
Florida
Paul Butler (George Washington Law)
Georgetown International Human Rights
Balakrishnan Rajagopal (MIT), The Limits of Legalizing Social Rights
Ohio State
Mitu Gulati (Duke Law)
Texas
Brian Tamanaha (St. John’s Law), The Bogus Tale About the Legal Formalists
UCLA Faculty Fridays
Vicki Schultz (Yale Law)
USC
Gillian Lester (UC Berkeley Law)
Virginia
Adam Levitin (Georgetown Law), Mortgage Market Sensitivity to Bankruptcy Modification
Washington
Robert Aronson (Washington Law), Winning at All Costs: Ethics and Integrity in Law, Sports, and Film
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008
| Legal Ethics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Economics, Civil Rights Law, Business Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized |
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Chicago International Law
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), International Delegation Through Treaties: The Nth Power
Chicago-Kent
Michal Gal (Haifa Law)
Connecticut
David Garland (NYU Sociology), Peculiar Institution: Capital Punishment and American Society
Michigan Tax Policy
David Gamage (UC Berkeley Law), Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidance: A Tentative Defense of “Double Taxation”
NYU Legal History
Sophia Lee (NYU Law, Golieb Fellow), Hotspots in a Cold War: The NAACP’s Postwar Workplace Constitutionalism, 1948-1964 & Chapter 4 - Almost Revolutionary: Administrative Constitutionalism, Labor Politics & Workplace Civil Rights, 1935-1978
Oregon Environment and Natural Resources Law
Kathy Cashman (Oregon Geology), Geologic Perspectives on Paleoclimate
Toronto Tax Law & Policy
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), Murphy vs. IRS: Another Front in the War Against the Income Tax
UC Hastings
Hadar Aviram (UC Hastings Law)
Villanova
Frank Valdes (Miami Law)
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 9th, 2008
| Legal History, Labor and Employment Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Science, International Law, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property, Criminal Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized |
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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
| Comparative Law, National Security Law, Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Technology, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Politics, Law and Literature, Law and Economics, Tax Law, Health Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, Legal History, Securities 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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Chicago-Kent Civil Liberties
Tony Sebok (Cardozo Law)
Georgetown International Human Rights
David Luban (Georgetown Law), Lawfare and Legal Ethics in Guantanamo
Georgia International Law
Frederic Megret (McGill Law), Civil Disobedience in Defense of International Law: What Should International Law Have to Say?
Iowa
Lawrence Waggoner (Michigan Law)
New York Law School Clinical Theory
David A. Binder (UCLA Law) & Albert J. Moore (UCLA Law), Demystifying The First Year: Why Professors Continually Ask Questions
San Diego
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law)
Toronto Legal Theory
David Velleman (NYU Philosophy)
USC
Ran Hirschl (Toronto Law) & Ayelet Shachar (Toronto Law)
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Richard Nagareda (Vanderbilt Law)
Virginia
Matthew Sag (DePaul Law), Copyright and Copy-Reliant Technologies
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 28th, 2008
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Technology, Legal Education, International Law, Intellectual Property, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized |
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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
| Comparative Law, National Security Law, Law and Gender, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Insurance Law, Courts, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Economics, Jurisprudence, Intellectual Property, Contract Law, Health Law, Business Law, Constitutional Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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National Security Law Junior Faculty Workshop (Winston-Salem, NC, May 23, 2008):
Wake Forest University School of Law and the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School announce a workshop for military and civilian junior faculty working in the area of national security law (broadly understood to include the full range of constitutional, statutory, and international law concepts implicated by national security issues). Our aim is to provide an informal setting for participants to present and discuss works-in-progress, for civilian and JAG faculty to get to know one another, and for civilian faculty to receive instruction from JAG faculty concerning current issues in the law of war.
The call for papers deadline is April 4, 2008.
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