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California’s Fiscal Constitution - San Francisco

Yesterday (Feb. 25, 2010), the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly presented its annual symposium, Waking from the California Dream: The Past, Present, and Future of California’s Fiscal Constitution. mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 26th, 2010 | Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum - New Haven

The 11th Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum will take place at Yale June 18-19, 2010.  The topics will cover public law and the humanities:

• Administrative Law
• Constitutional Law - historical foundations
• Constitutional Law - theoretical foundations
• Criminal Law and Literature, Critical Legal Studies
• Environmental Law
• Family Law
• Jurisprudence and Philosophy
• Labor Law and Social Welfare Policy
• Law and Humanities (including Law and Gender Studies)
• Public International Law

The deadline for submissions is March 19, 2010. mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 9th, 2009 | Law and Gender, Labor and Employment Law, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Humanities, Poverty Law, Law and Philosophy, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Family Law, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Environmental Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Call for Papers: First Amendment

The Rutgers Law Record (Rutgers School of Law - Newark) seeks submissions for its First Amendment Law Issue. The tentative submissions deadline is Feb. 20, 2010.

The Law Record seeks to facilitate quick dissemination of the legal community’s initial impressions of ground breaking legal issues with innovative articles and cutting edge viewpoints. To accomplish this goal we publish online symposiums consisting of op-ed length articles written by practitioners, judges, and academics. In addition, we actively promote each addition by publicizing our issues with relevant professional associations. We aim for our authors’ articles to be read by potential clients, peers and colleagues.

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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 8th, 2009 | CALLS FOR PAPERS, Constitutional Law | no comments

Pace International Law Review 2009 Symposium - White Plains, NY

The Pace International Law Review will host this year’s symposium entitled “Comparative Constitutional Law: National Security Across the Globe” on November 13, 2009. The conference will discuss legal issues faced by various nations which must balance constitutional and civil rights with national security needs. jv

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 26th, 2009 | Comparative Law, National Security Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Families, Fundamentalism, and the First Amendment - Williamsburg, VA

The Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William & Mary Law School will hold the symposium, “Families, Fundamentalism, and the First Amendment.”  The conference will take place on November 6, 2009 at William & Mary Law School. jv

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 26th, 2009 | Law and Gender, Law and Society, Constitutional Law, Family Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Oct. 16, 2009 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston College

Fabio Arcila (Touro), The Death Of Suspicion

This paper is not publicly available.

Loyola

David Duff (British Columbia), Carbon Taxation in Theory and Practice

This paper is not publicly available.

Minnesota

Christopher Capozzola (MIT) A Tale of Two Treasons: Adjudicating War Crimes and Collaboration in Manila, 1945

This paper is not publicly available.

Missouri

Robert Gatter, St. Louis University

Queen’s University

Dennis Klimchuk (Western Ontario), The Rule of Private, Common Law

This paper is not publicly available.

UCLA

Dan Kahan (Yale),Culture, Cognition, and Consent: Who Perceives What, and Why, in ‘Acquaintance Rape’ Cases

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 16th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, Tax Law | no comments

Oct. 15, 2009 Colloquia/Workshops

Loyola

Mark Kende (Drake), Constitutional Rights in Two Worlds: South Africa and the United States 

NYU

David A. Matsa,(Kellogg School of Management),

Growing Out of Trouble? Managerial Responses to Risk of Corporate Liability

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 15th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law | no comments

Oct. 8, 2009 Colloquia/Workshops

Toledo

Rebecca Zietlow (Toledo), Originalism and the Reconstruction Congress.

This paper is not publicly available.

Drake

Taunya Lovell Banks (Maryland), Thurgood Marshall on the Bench: ‘Race Man’ and ‘Pragmatic Feminist’

FSU

Brian Bix (University of Minnesota), Contract Enforcement and the Harm Principle

This paper is not publicly available.

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 8th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law | no comments

IALS Conference on Constitutional Law - Washington, DC

The International Association of Law Schools just held IALS Conference on Constitutional Law at American University Sept. 11-12, 2009. Working papers are available here, grouped into Comparative Constitutional Law; Religion, State and Constitution; Gender and Constitution; Constitutional Adjudication and Democracy; Distributive Justice; Contemporary Challenges to Executive Power; and Miscellaneous.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 16th, 2009 | Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Sep. 15, 2009 Colloquia/Workshops

Norte Dame Law School

 Professor Bradford Clark (George Washington University Law School) The Eleventh Amendment and the Nature of the Union.

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 15th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law | no comments

Future of the First Amendment - Salem, OR

The Willamette Center for Religion, Law and Democracy and the Willamette Law Review present a The Future of the First Amendment Oct. 16, 2009. Erwin Chemerinsky (UC Irvine) will be the keynote speaker.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 10th, 2009 | Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Property Rights - Williamsburg, VA

William and Mary Law School’s Property Rights Project and Institute of Bill of Rights Law present the annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Oct. 16-17, 2009. Topics will include “The Psychology of Property Rights”; “The Contract Clause Reconsidered: Guarantor of Economic Property Rights?”; “Richard E. Pipes’s Scholarship”; “Inverse Condemnation: Comparing Regulatory Takings with Condemnation Blight”; and “Does the Kelo Backlash Have Legs?”

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 9th, 2009 | Law and Psychology, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES, Property Law | no comments

Families, Fundamentalism, and the First Amendment - Williamsburg, VA

William and Mary Law School’s Institute of Bill of Rights Law hosts Families, Fundamentalism, & the First Amendment Nov. 6-7, 2009. Papers will be published in the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 9th, 2009 | Law and Religion, Constitutional Law, Family Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Supreme Court Preview - Williamsburg

William and Mary Law School’s Institute of Bill of Rights Law hosts its Supreme Court Preview Oct. 2-3, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 9th, 2009 | Courts, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Call for Papers: Developments in NY Law

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 27th, 2009 | Civil Procedure, Bankruptcy Law, Local Government Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, Tax Law, Property Law | no comments

East Asian Law and Society Conference - Hong Kong

CRN East Asian Law and Society (Law and Society Association) and Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong present the Inaugural East Asian Law and Society Conference, Changing Socio-Legal Landscapes in East Asia: Common Trends and Local Variations. The conference takes place Feb. 5-6, 2010, at the University of Hong Kong.
organized with this vision.

The organizers  invite proposals for papers and panels that are related to the conference theme (Changing Socio-Legal Landscapes in East Asia: Common Trends and Local Variations) or fall within any of the following streams on East Asian law and society:

* Legal Education and Training
* Legal and Quasi-legal Professions
* Dispute Resolution and Civil Litigation
* Lay Participation and Other Forms of Democratic Justice
* Gender in Law
* Criminal Justice
* Constitutional Law.

The deadline for proposals and papers is Sept. 30, 2009. All paper or panel proposals must be in English and sent by email to: Professor Hiroshi Fukurai (University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.), hfukurai [at] ucsc.edu. Submission details here.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 12th, 2009 | Law and Gender, Comparative Law, Courts, Legal Profession, Law and Society, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Legal Education, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES | no comments

Lincoln’s Constitution Seminar - New York, NY

The Institute for Consitutional History — hosted by George Washington University Law School and by the New York Historical Society — announces a semester-length seminar on Lincoln’s Constitution.

Designed for graduate students and junior faculty in history, political science, law and related disciplines, the seminar will be taught by the distinguished scholars Akhil Reed Amar (Yale College and Yale Law School) and James Oakes (CUNY Graduate Center). Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 3rd, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Legal History, Constitutional Law | no comments

Call for Papers: University of St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy

The University of St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy will be accepting papers for its fall and spring issues. The fall issue will pertain to “Intelligent Design and the Constitution” and the spring issue will pertain to “The Armenian Genocide”.

The editors encourage papers on a wide and broad range of directions within these two designated areas. Papers for the fall issue on Intelligent Design and the Constitution are due October 25, 2009. Papers for the spring issue on the Armenian Genocide are due March 14, 2010.

Please forward papers to the editors at jmsandy@stthomas.edu for consideration.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 23rd, 2009 | Law and Politics, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Constitutional Law | no comments

Symposium and Call for Papers - Comparative Constitutional Law

Pace International Law Review will hold a symposium, Comparative Constitutional Law: National Security Across the Globe, on November 13th, 2009. The editors invite proposals for articles, essays and book reviews from scholars, researchers, practitioners, and professionals for contributions to be considered for presentation at the symposium and subsequent publication on the newly developed and comprehensive International Law Website.

Authors are encouraged to submit clear, concise, and accessible proposals for articles, essays and book reviews that will interest lawmakers, attorneys, and students. The proposals should address issues pertinent to the interrelationship between national security concerns and constitutional law of a particular nation or nations. Article proposals that provide a comparative analysis of issues and concerns faced by various nations are preferred. The proposals should be as thorough as possible and may include suggestions for other panelists who are experts in the proposed topic.

Book review proposals should also include (a) the title and publication date of the book proposed for review; (b) a description of the importance of the book to the general topic; and (c) any other information relevant to the book or proposed review (e.g., the reviewer’s expertise or any relationship with the author).

Please submit proposals of no more than 500 words to pilr@law.pace.edu by July 30, 2009. All proposals should include the intended author’s name, title, institutional affiliation and contact information.  Authors are also welcome, but not required, to submit a CV.  The editors expect to make offers to the selected guest speakers in August, 2009. Please note that all proposals will be considered for publication even if Pace International Law Review finds that the proposal is not suitable or pertinent to this year’s symposium. Complete manuscripts for work that will not be presented at the Symposium will be due by August 31, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 23rd, 2009 | Comparative Law, National Security Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Call for Papers - Supreme Court Preview issue of Charleston L. Rev.

The Charleston Law Review, the flagship law review of the Charleston School of Law, invites submissions for its Supreme Court Preview issue. We welcome an article or essay addressing a case before the Court in its October 2009 Term, or in the alternative, addressing an aspect of the Court itself such as recent voting trends, case load, an analysis of a particular Justice, or any other topic related to the Supreme Court.

Last year, our Supreme Court Preview included a diverse spectrum of works ranging from articles that examined cases argued in the Court’s October 2008 Term to articles that analyzed current voting trends among the Court. For example, in Crime Labs and Prison Guards: A Comment on Melendez-Diaz and Its Potential Impact on Capital Sentencing Proceedings, John Blume and Emily Paavola argued that the Court’s decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts could resolve conflicting authority on what constitutes testimonial hearsay under Crawford v. Washington and could have a dramatic impact on the criminal justice system, particularly capital sentencing proceedings. Alternatively, in The Roberts Court and Criminal Justice at the Dawn of the 2008 Term, Professors Christopher E. Smith, Michael A. McCall, and Madhavi M. McCall introduced empirical decision-making patterns from the initial three terms of the Roberts Court in an attempt to ascertain how the Court would likely determine three Fourth Amendment cases in the Court’s October 2008 Term.

The Supreme Court Preview is published to coincide with the opening of the October Term 2009, and we therefore ask that work be submitted no later than August 1, 2009. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning July 1, 2009. Please direct submissions and any questions about our Supreme Court Preview to Ben Garner, Editor in Chief, via email at bgarner [at] charlestonlaw.edu or via telephone at (434) 941-9831.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 22nd, 2009 | Courts, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Constitutional Law | no comments

April 23rd Colloquia/Workshops

Brooklyn Law

       Nelson Tebbe (Brooklyn Law), Constitutional Borrowing

Columbia

       Henry Monaghan (Columbia Law), Supremacy Clause Fundamentalism

Southwestern

       Dennis  M. Patterson (Rutgers-Camden Law)

Toledo

       Robert Starssfeld (Case Law), How the Cleveland Bar Became Segregated: 1870-1930

Washington University in St. Louis

       Lior Strahilevitz (Chicago Law), The Right to Abandon

Yale Legal Theory

       John Mikhail (Georgetown Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 23rd, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law | no comments

April 22nd Colloquia/Workshops

Harvard Health Law

       Alexander Capron (USC Law), The Circulatory-Respiratory Determination of Death in Organ Donation

NYU Legal History

       Ariela Dubler (Columbia Law), Sexing Skinner: Marriage, Procreation and the Legal Family

SMU

       Charles Weisselberg (UC Berkeley Law)

St. Louis

       Michael Perry (Emory Law), Protecting Constitutionally Entrenched Human Rights: What Role for the Courts?

Stetson

       David T. Ritchie (Mercer Law), Legal Writing: Gateway to the Legal Discourse Community

Washington

       Lawrence Repeta (Washington Law), Human rights in Japan and the efforts of Japan’s NGOS before the UN Human Rights Committee

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 22nd, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Legal Research & Writing, Legal History, Constitutional Law, Health Law | no comments

April 20th Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law and Philosophy

       Cynthia Skach (Oxford Politics)

Columbia Law and Economics

       Margret Meyer (Oxford)

Georgia

       Juliet M. Moringiello (Widener Law)

Rutgers (Camden)

       Michael Carrier (Rutgers Camden Law)

UC Berkeley CSLS

       Jacob Hacker (Berkeley Poli. Sci.), Yes, We Can? The New Push for American Health Security

UCLA

       Eugene Volokh (UCLA Law), Facilitative Constitutional Rights

Wisconsin

       Jannine Bell (Indiana University), Hate Speech and Hate Crime

Yale Workplace Theory and Policy

       Ben Sachs (Harvard Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 20th, 2009 | Law and Philosophy, Law and Economics, Constitutional Law, Health Law | no comments

Tinker Turns 40: Freedom of Expression at School - Washington, DC

The Program on Law and Government of the Washington College of Law, the American University Law Review and the Marshall‐Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project present a conference, Tinker Turns 40: Freedom of Expression at School and Its Meaning for American Democracy.  The conference will be held on April 16, 2009 at American University Washington College of Law.

This event will mark the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District with panel discussions exploring the legacy of Tinker for First Amendment rights, not only in schools but in American society.

There is no attendance charge for this event, but registration is required. To register, please go to www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration.

For further information about this event, please contact: Office of Special Events & Continuing
Legal Education, American University Washington College of Law, 202.274.4075 or
secle@wcl.american.edu.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2009 | Constitutional Law, Education Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

April 9th Colloquia/Workshops

Columbia

       Merritt Fox (Columbia Law), Fraud-on-the-Market Class Actions Against Foreign Issuers

Florida State

       Fernando Teson (Florida State), The Liberal Constitution and Foreign Affairs

Lewis and Clark

       Jules Lobel (Pittsburgh Law), The Constitution Abroad: Extraterritorial Constitutional Restraints on Governmental Action After Boumediene

Pacific McGeorge

      Quince Hopkins, (Florida Coastal Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 9th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Constitutional Law | no comments

Call for Papers - Supreme Court Preview issue of Charleston L. Rev.

The Charleston Law Review, the flagship law review of the Charleston School of Law, invites submissions for its Supreme Court Preview issue. We welcome an article or essay addressing a case before the Court in its October 2009 Term, or in the alternative, addressing an aspect of the Court itself such as recent voting trends, case load, an analysis of a particular Justice, or any other topic related to the Supreme Court.

Last year, our Supreme Court Preview included a diverse spectrum of works ranging from articles that examined cases argued in the Court’s October 2008 Term to articles that analyzed current voting trends among the Court. For example, in Crime Labs and Prison Guards: A Comment on Melendez-Diaz and Its Potential Impact on Capital Sentencing Proceedings, John Blume and Emily Paavola argued that the Court’s decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts could resolve conflicting authority on what constitutes testimonial hearsay under Crawford v. Washington and could have a dramatic impact on the criminal justice system, particularly capital sentencing proceedings. Alternatively, in The Roberts Court and Criminal Justice at the Dawn of the 2008 Term, Professors Christopher E. Smith, Michael A. McCall, and Madhavi M. McCall introduced empirical decision-making patterns from the initial three terms of the Roberts Court in an attempt to ascertain how the Court would likely determine three Fourth Amendment cases in the Court’s October 2008 Term.

The Supreme Court Preview is published to coincide with the opening of the October Term 2009, and we therefore ask that work be submitted no later than August 1, 2009. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning July 1, 2009. Please direct submissions and any questions about our Supreme Court Preview to Ben Garner, Editor in Chief, via email at bgarner [at] charlestonlaw.edu or via telephone at (434) 941-9831.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 6th, 2009 | Courts, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Constitutional Law | no comments

April 2nd Colloquia/Workshops

Minnesota

       David L. Faigman (UC Hastings), Frames of Reference: Can Constitutionality Really Be Measured One Case at a Time?

Penn Law and Economics

       Antoinette Schoar (MIT Managment), CEO Careers and Style

Temple

       Lisa Bressman (Vanderbilt Law)

UC Irvine Center for Psychology and Law & Newkirk Center for Science and Society

      Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), Emerging Neurotechnologies:  Manipulating Experiences, Dampening Memories, and Customizing Punishment

Yale Law and Econmics

       Polk Wagner (Penn Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 2nd, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, Constitutional Law | no comments

Global Perspectives on Religion, the State, and Constitutionalism - Des Moines, IA

Drake University Law School’s Constitutional Law Center presents its 2009 Symposium, Global Perspectives on Religion, the State, and Constitutionalism, April 4, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 18th, 2009 | Comparative Law, Law and Religion, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Fourteenth Annual LatCrit Conference - Washington, D.C.

American University Washington College of Law hosts the Fourteenth Annual LatCrit (Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory, Inc.) Conference on October 1-4, 2009. The theme of this year’s conference is Outsiders Inside: Critical Outside Theory and Praxis in the Policymaking of the New American Regime. The Seventh Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop, sponsored jointly with the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), will take place concurrently with the conference.

The LatCrit XIV Host Committee invites the submission of proposals for panels and papers propounding prescriptive critiques of discrete areas of law, policy and regulation of specific relevance to outsider communities, including (but by no means limited to) economic justice, international and comparative law, criminal law and the death penalty, civil rights and constitutional law (including gender and LGBT equality, reproductive and disability rights), immigration, political and electoral (dis)enfranchisement, communications policy and intellectual property, healthcare, education, employment, tax policy, and the environment.

Please submit panel and paper proposals through the online process at the LatCrit website no later than April 27, 2009. For full information and submission protocols, please refer to the call for papers and panels.

Thanks to Professor Ezra Rosser of Poverty Law Prof Blog for this information.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 16th, 2009 | Law and Sexuality, Immigration Law, Human Rights Law, Law and Race, Law and Gender, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights Law, Law and Society, CONFERENCES | no comments

March 10th Colloquia/Workshops

Columbia

       Philip Hamburger (Columbia Law), Evading the First Amendment: Censorship by Consent   

New York Law Tuesdays

       Ruti Teitel (New York Law)

UCLA Law, Economics and Organizations

       Keith Hylton (Boston University Law), The Economics of Injunctive and Reverse Settlements

      

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 10th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, Constitutional Law | no comments

Russian Constitution - Washington, DC

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars presents The Russian Constitution at Fifteen: Assessments and Current Challenges to Russia’s Legal Development March 19, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 6th, 2009 | Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Symposium on Justice Stevens - Davis, CA

UC Davis Law Review hosts a symposium on Justice John Paul Stevens today, March 6, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 6th, 2009 | National Security Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Jurisprudence of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Boston

New England Law Review hosts a symposium on the jurisprudence of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg March 12, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 5th, 2009 | Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Symposium Honoring Judge Betty Binns Fletcher - Seattle

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 5th, 2009 | Law and Gender, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights Law, Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

February 19th Colloquia/Workshops

Columbia

       Franco Ferrari (Columbia Law), Homeward Trend and Lex Forism Despite Uniform Sales Law

Drake Constitutional Law

       Phoebe Haddon (Temple Law), Can the U.S. Supreme Court’s Keyes Desegregation Decision Unlock Opportunities to Rethink Brown in the 21st Century

Minnesota Faculty Works in Progress

       Gregory S. Alexander (Cornell Law), The Social Obligation Norm in American Property Law

Northwestern Law and Economics

       Albert Choi (Virginia Law), Shrink Wraps: Who Should Bear the Cost of Communicating Mass-Market Contract Terms

NYU Tax Policy

      Yoram Margalioth (Tel Aviv Law), Employing Statistical Stigma as a Welfare Ordeal

SMU Tax Policy

       Gregg D. Polsky (Florida State Law) & Brant J. Hellwig (South Carolina Law), Taxing Structured Settlements

Stetson

       Tim Terrell (Emory Law), The Challenge of Legal Writing Training in Law School and Law Practice

UCLA Tax Policy and Public Finance

       Neil Buchanan (George Washington Law), What Do We Owe Future Generations?

USC Law History and Culture

       Steven Pincus (Yale History), Revolution in Political Economy

Wake Forest

       Craig Boise (Case Western Law), Breaking Open Offshore Piggybanks:  Redux

Washington

       Jon Eddy (Washington Law), Current Trends in Legal Education in Afghanistan

Yale Legal Theory

        Daryl Levinson (Harvard Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 19th, 2009 | Law and Economics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Legal History, Constitutional Law, Property Law, Contract Law | no comments

February 10th Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law and Politics

       Anne Joseph O’Connell (UC Berkeley Law), Vacant Offices in the Administrative State

Lewis and Clark

       Judge Pierre N. Leval (U.S. Court of Appeals Second Circuit), Did Campbell Fix Fair Use

Marquette

       Jessica Slavin (Marquette Law), Talking Back to IRAC: Legal Writing Beyond the Paradigm

New York Tuesdays

       Ed Purcell (New York Law)

Pittsburgh

       Timothy Armstrong (Cincinnati Law), Can Authors Shrink the Public Domain?  Preliminary Thoughts on the Terminability of Free Software Licenses, Creative Comons Licenses, and Other Grants for the Benefit of the Public

Vanderbilt

       Mitchell Berman (Texas Law), Reflective Equilibrium and Constitutional Method: The Case of John McCain and the Natural Born Citizenship Clause

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 10th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Society, Constitutional Law | no comments

Second Amendment After Heller - San Francisco

The Hastings Law Journal will host The Second Amendment After Heller on February 13, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 4th, 2009 | Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Presidential Power in Historical Perspective - Philadelphia

The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law and the Penn Program on Regulation present Presidential Power in Historical Perspective: Reflections on Calabresi and Yoo’s The Unitary Executive Feb. 6-7, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 30th, 2009 | Law and Politics, Legal History, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Slavery, Abolition, and Human Rights Conference - Chicago, IL

Slavery, Abolition, and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Thirteenth Amendment will be held on April 17-18, 2009 at the University of Chicago Law School hosted by the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law and the University of Chicago. The conference explores the past and present significance of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery and provided constitutional authority for eradicating its badges and incidents and, ultimately, for invalidating Jim Crow’s legacies and myriad forms of involuntary labor.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 29th, 2009 | Law and Humanities, Law and Philosophy, Law and Literature, Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

January 29th Colloquia/Workshops

Brooklyn Law

       Edward J. Janger (Brooklyn Law), Virtual Territoriality

Chicago Constitutional Law

       Theodore Ruger (Penn Law)

Columbia

       Robert Ferguson (Columbia Law), Invading Panama: The Power of Circumstance in the Rule of Law

Florida State      

       Amy Farmer (Arkansas Law), Strategic Bidding Investment and Investment in Final Offer

Miami

       Caroline Mala Corbin (Miami Law), The First Amendment Right Against Compelled Listening

Minnesota

       Leo Katz (Penn. Law), Why the Law Spruns Win-Win Transactions

North Carolina

       Devon W. Carbado (UCLA Law), After Obama: Three Post-Racial Challanges

Northwestern Law and Economics

       Robert Marquez (Arizona State Business) Stockholder Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Firm Value

Southwestern

       Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow (Georgetown Law)

Stanford Law and Economics

        JJ Prescott (Michigan Law), Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior

Stanford Health Law     

       Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), A Limited Defense  of Clinical Placebo Deception

Toronto Heath Law

       Martin Hevia and Joanna Erdman (Toronto Law), Denied Access to Medical Care as a Violation of the Rights Against Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment: A Case Study on Anencephalic Pregnancy

Yale Law and Economics

       Betsey Stevenson (Penn Business), The Paradox of Declining Female Hapiness

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on January 29th, 2009 | Law and Economics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Cyberspace, Constitutional Law, Business Law, Criminal Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Access to the Courts in the Roberts Era - Cleveland, OH

The Case Western Reserve Law Review Symposium, Access to the Courts in the Roberts Era, will take place on January 30, 2009. The symposium will explore the access individuals have had to the courts since the appointment of Chief Justice Roberts to the United States Supreme Court, as well as the future of access issues in what has been called the “Roberts Era.”

Keynote speaker Gene Nichol will address emerging trends concerning access to the courts and standing rights. Symposium panelists, who are among the country’s leading experts in the field, will examine a wide array of issues critical to an accessible judiciary system.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 4th, 2008 | Courts, Law and Politics, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

December 2nd Colloquia/Workshops

Arizona State

       Steve Smith (San Diego Law), Secularism v. Separation of Church and State

NYU Law, Economics, and Politics

       Bina Agarwal (University of Delhi), Bargaining, Gender Equality, and Legal Change

Northwestern Law and Economics 

       Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Financial Innovation and the New Chapter 11

SMU 

       Angela Onwuachi Willig (Iowa Law), Cracking the Egg: Which Came First Stigma or Affirmative Action?

Toronto Law and Literature 

       Guyora Binder (Buffalo Law), Representing Value: The Meaning of Institutions 

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on December 2nd, 2008 | Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Gender, Law and Literature, Civil Rights Law, Law and Economics, Constitutional Law | no comments

November 21st Colloquia/Workshops

Georgetown

       Hugo Mialon (Emory Economics)

New York Law Clinical Theory

       Kris Franklin (New York Law), Sim City: Putting Simulation-Based Clinics in Context

Toronto Legal Theory

       John Oberdiek (Rutgers Law), Choice, Value, and the Perfection of Distributive Justice

USC Law 

       Richard Pildes (NYU Law), Groups and the Design of Democratic Institutions

Virginia Law

       Guy-Uriel Charles (Minnesota Law) The Voting Rights Act and Noisy Statutory Interpretation

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 21st, 2008 | Government Law, Law and Technology, Law and Politics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Civil Rights Law, Jurisprudence, Clinics, Constitutional Law | no comments

The Role of the Congress in the 21st Century - Boston, MA

Boston University School of Law will hold a conference on The Most Disparaged Branch: The Role of Congress in the 21st Century on November 14-15, 2008. This is the third in a series of conferences at BU that began with The Role of the Judge in the 21st Century and continued with The Role of the President in the 21st Century. They keynote address on November 14 will be presented by Jeremy Waldron, and Lawrence Lessig will give a lunch address on November 15.

For further information or to RSVP, please contact Andrea Larsen at 617.353.8011 or alarsen@bu.edu.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 5th, 2008 | Law and Politics, Government Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

October 27th Colloquia/Workshops

Harvard

       Grainne de Burca (Fordham Law)

Loyola Tax Policy

       Patricia Cain (Santa Clara Law), Taxing Families Fairly: Next Steps

NYU Law and Security

       Deborah Pearlstein (Princeton), Form and Function in the National Security Constitution

Pace

       Alfred Ward (Pace Psychology)

Temple

       Orin S. Kerr (George Washington Law), Applying the Fourth Amendment to Internet Communications: A General Approach

UC Berkeley CSLS

       Traci Burch (Northwesten Poli. Sci.), Trading Democracy for Justice? The Spillover Effects of Imprisonment on Neighborhood Voter Registration in Atlanta

UCLA Monday Colloqium

       Gene Block (UCLA Chancellor)

USC Communications Law and Policy

       Eli Ward (Denver Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 27th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Law and Cyberspace, National Security Law, Civil Rights Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law | no comments

U.S. Chamber - Legal Reform Summit - Washington, DC

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 26th, 2008 | Courts, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

October 24th Colloquia/Workshops

Cincinnati

       Jessie Hill (Case Western Law), Of Christmas Trees and Corpus Christie: The Establishment Clause and Change of Meaning over Time

Georgetown Law and Economics

       Jonathan Nash (Emory Law)

Kansas

       David Stras (Minnesota Law), Pierce Butler: A Supreme Technician

New York South Africa Reading Group

       Brian Ray (Cleveland Marshall College of Law), Understanding Engagement as an Enforcement Mechanism for Socioeconomic Rights

Toronto Law and Literature

       Judith Resnik (Yale Law), Representing Justice: An Iconography of Norms

Virginia

        John Donohue (Yale Law), Can You Believe Econometric Evaluations of Law, Policy, and Medicine?

      

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 24th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Philosophy, Empirical Legal Studies, Law and Economics, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law | no comments

October 9th Colloquia/Workshops

Florida State

Margaret Lemos (Cardozo Law), Judicial vs. Agency Administrative Interpritation of Title VII

Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics

Mike Scherer (Harvard Public Policy), Markets and Uncertainty in Pharmaceutical Development

Pittsburgh

Douglas Branson (Pitt Law) & Kenneth Lehn (Pitt Business), Markets in Crisis-Perspectives from Business and Law

Lilly Ledbetter (& Deborah Brake, Moderator), Gender Discrimination, the Supreme Court, and an Agenda for Equal Pay:  A Conversation with Lilly Ledbetter

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 9th, 2008 | Labor and Employment Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Administrative Law, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Business Law | no comments

The Fourteenth Amendment: The 140th Anniversary Symposium - Akron, OH

The Center for Constitutional Law at the University of Akron School of Law presents The Fourteenth Amendment: The 140th Anniversary Symposium on October 23-24, 2008. The Akron Law Review is co-sponsor of the Symposium and will publish the proceedings in a future issue of the Review.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 9th, 2008 | Legal History, Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

State Constitutional Reform in the New South - Charleston, SC

The Charleston Law Review and the Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leadership at Furman University will host State Constitutional Reform in the New South on January 15-16, 2009. Scheduled speakers include former United States Secretary of Education and former South Carolina Governor Richard W. Riley. This two-day symposium will be the inaugural event for an annual “Law and Policy” series sponsored by the Charleston Law Review and the Riley Institute.

We will be accepting presentation and panel proposals until December 10, 2009. Topics include State Constitutions as Protectionist Documents; Education as a Legal Right and Constitutional Barriers to Educational Excellence; Challenges and Opportunities: Examples of Real Reform in the New South; and the Administration of Justice and Judicial Reform. You may submit proposals on more than one topic. The Charleston Law Review will publish papers based on the presentations in Spring 2009.

Persons interested in presenting at the symposium should submit a CV and a 250-word abstract outlining the presentation to Katie Fowler, Charleston Law Review Editor-in-Chief, via email: kfowler [at] charlestonlaw.edu. Prospective panelists should indicate whether they would be interested in submitting a paper based on their presentation for publication in the Charleston Law Review. Contributions are welcome from scholars and practitioners in all disciplines.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 5th, 2008 | Courts, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Constitutional Law, Education Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

October 3rd Colloquia/Workshops

Buffalo Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy

       Same Sex Marriage and Federalism Workshop

St. Thomas

       Stephen F. Smith (Virginia Law)

USC

       Robin Kar (Loyola Law), Contractualism about Contract Law

Virginia

       Jedediah Purdy (Duke Law), Presidential Popular Constitutionalism

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 30th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Contract Law | no comments

September 24th Colloquia/Workshops

Connecticut

       Richard Abel (UCLA Law), Lawyers in the Dock: Learnings from New York Disciplinary Proceedings

Miami

      Scott Sunby (Miami Law), War and Peace in the Jury Room: The Deliberative Process of Capital Juries

NYU Legal History

       Christina Burnett (Columbia Law),A Clash of Constitutionalisms: The Conflict over the Platt Amendments 1900-1901

Pacific McGeorge

       Miriam Cherry (Pacific McGeorge Law), Virtual Work

USC Law History and Culture

       Hilary Schor (USC English, Law), Maidens Choosing”: George Eliot, Curiosity, and the Law

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 24th, 2008 | Legal Profession, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Literature, Constitutional Law | no comments

Call for Papers: Charleston Law Review Supreme Court Issue

The Charleston Law Review, the flagship journal of the Charleston School of Law, is currently accepting papers for its Supreme Court issue. This issue will address any topic before the Court in the October 2008 Term; in the alternative, the Charleston Law Review will accept submissions that address an aspect of the Court itself such as voting trends, case load, or an analysis of a particular Justice.Though we are a young school and journal, we have enjoyed the privilege of publishing some of our nation’s leading thinkers and have earned a reputation as being a professional publication that authors have enjoyed working with. In our second volume, for example, we garnered national recognition for publishing Senator and Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama and hosting a punitive damages symposium that featured leading thinkers such as Professor Anthony Sebok of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Professor Neil Vidmar of Duke Law School, Professor Keith Hylton of Boston University Law School, and Professor Mike Rustad of Suffolk University Law School. The symposium volume also included noted practitioners Ms. Elizabeth Cabraser and Mr. Victor Schwartz. In our general issues, we also published notable scholars such as Professor Walter Murphy of Princeton University and Professor John Yoo of University of California Berkeley Law School. Our first issue of Volume 3 featuresa foreword by Fourth Circuit Chief Judge Karen Williams.

The Supreme Court Preview will be published in late 2008, and we therefore ask that you submit your work by October 10th. For more information on this issue or the Charleston Law Review, please contact Editor-in-Chief Katie Fowler via email at kfowler [at]charlestonlaw.edu or via telephone at 803-309-5421.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 15th, 2008 | Courts, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Constitutional Law | no comments

September 12th Colloquia/Workshops

Kansas

       Johnny Rex Buckles (Houston Law), Does the Constitutional Norm of Separation of Church and State Justify the Denial of Tax Exemption to Churches that Engage in Partisan Political Speech?

St. Thomas

       Jay Krishnan (William Mitchell Law)

Toronto Legal Theory Workshops

       Brian Tamanaha (St. John’s Law), The Distorting Slant in Quantitative Studies of Judging

Vanderbilt Law & Economics/Applied Microeconomics Seminar Series

       Robert Pollak (Washington University Economics)

Vanderbilt International Legal Studies

       Roundtable on Foreign Affairs

Virginia

       Jacob Gersen (Chicago Law), The Unbundled Executive

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 12th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Religion, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law | no comments

September 11 Colloquia/Workshops

Brooklyn

       Stephen Siegel (Depaul Law), Injunction for Defamation, Juries, and the Clarifying Lens of 1868

Florida State

       Samuel Jordan (St. Louis Law), Irregular Panels

Iowa

       Judge Coughenour (USDC Westen District of Washington)

Lewis and Clark

       Neal Devins (William and Mary Law), Did Bush Hurt the Presidency?  The Nexus between Party Polarization and Presidential Power 

Michigan Law and Economics

      Max Schanzenbach (Northwestern Law), The Impact of Tort Reform on Private Health Insurance Coverage

Oregon Enviromental & Natural Resources Law

       Gabriel Eckstein (Oregon Law), Climate Change Implication for Negotiating International Transboundary Water Agreements

Santa Clara Center For Social Justice and Public Service

       Jocelyn Benson (Wayne State Law), Towards Full Participation: The History and Relevance of Language Assistance for English Learning Voters

Yale Economics & Organization

       Enrichetta Ravina (NYU Business), Love & Loans.  The Effect of Beauty and Personal Characteristics in Credit Markets

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 11th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Tort Law, Commercial Law, Environmental Law, Constitutional Law | no comments

September 10th Colloquia/Workshops

Emory

       Fred Tung (Emory Law)

Miami

       Patrick O. Gudridge (Miami Law), Formal Realism and Constitutional Law

New York University Legal History

      Kaius Tuori (University of Helsinki Law), Legal Realists and Indigenous Law: Llewellyn, Cohen, and Schiller

SMU Colloquium on Law & Citizenship

       Cristina Rodriguez (NYU Law), Reciprocity in an Age of Migration

Toronto Law and Economics

       Alicia Davis Evans (Michigan Law), Are Investors’ Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Over Time?  Some Preliminary Evidence

Vanderbilt

       Randall Kiser (DecisionSet)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 10th, 2008 | Immigration Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Legal History, Constitutional Law | no comments

September 8th Colloquia/Workshops

Columbia Legal Theory       

       Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), The Subjective Experience of Punishment

Florida State      

       Michael Zimmerman (Loyola-Chicago Law), A Pro-Employee Supreme Court? - The Retaliation Decisions

Loyola Tax Policy      

       George Yin (Virginia Law), Temporary Effect Legislation, Political, Accountability, and Fiscal Restraint

Miami

       Laura E. Gomez (New Mexico Law), What’s Race Got To Do With It?  Latinos and Media Coverage of the 2008 Democratic Primary

New York University Law and Security Colloquia

       Stephen Holmes and David Golove (NYU Law), The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice, the Courts, and the War on Terror

Stetson

       Daniel Sokol (Florida Law), Did the Chicago Antitrust Revolution Kill Anti-trust in the Legal Academy: A Comparison of Teaching and Law Scholarship in Antitrust, Tax and Intellectual Property

U.C. Berkeley CSLS Speaker Series

       Justin McCrary (U.C.. Berkeley Law), Economic Perspectives on Prison Expansion in the U.S. 1979-2000

UCLA Monday Colloquium 

       Richard D. Anderson Jr. (UCLA Political Science), Peacekeeping or Peacemaking?  Russians, Georgians, South Ossetia, and the World

USC Law And Philosophy 

       Christopher Kutz (U.C. Berkeley), The Repugnance of Secret Law

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 8th, 2008 | Antitrust Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Civil Rights Law, International Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law | no comments

September 5th Colloquia/Workshops

SMU Law and Citizenship

Gabriel (Jack) Chin (Arizona Law), Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President:  Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of a Citizenship

Texas

Derek Jinks, Larry Sager, Linda Mullenix, George Dix, John Robertson, Jordan Steiker (Texas Law), Review of 2007 SCOTUS Term

USC

James Spindler (USC Law), IPO Disclosure, Underwriting, Mechanics, and Share Price Behavior

Virginia

Daniel Crane (Yeshiva Law and Chicago Law), Intellectual Liability

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 4th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, Business Law, Intellectual Property | no comments

International Conference on Feminist Constitutionalism - Kingston, Ontario

Queen’s University Faculty of Law will host an International Conference on Feminist Constitutionalism Feb. 28 - March 1, 2009. The submission deadline for abstracts is Sept. 30, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 4th, 2008 | Law and Gender, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

September 4th Colloquia/Workshops

Brooklyn Law School

Adam J. Kolber (San Diego Law), The Subjective Experience of Punishment

Florida State Faculty Enrichment

Sarah Brosnan (Georgia State University Psychology), An Evolutionary Approach to the Endowment Effect

Harvard Faculty Workshops

David Kennedy (Brown University), The Mystery of Global Governance

Iowa

Kim Scheppele (Princeton Politics)

Marquette

Dan Markel (Florida State Law)

University of St. Thomas

Robert Delahunty (University of St. Thomas Law)

USC Center for Law History and Policy

Daphne Barak-Erez (Tel Aviv University Law), Symbolic Constitutionalism:  On Sacred Cows and Abominable Pigs

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 4th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Civil Rights Law, International Law, Constitutional Law | no comments

August 28, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Brooklyn

Minna J. Kotkin (Brooklyn Law), Diversity and Discrimination: A Look at Complex Bias

Florida State

Michael Gerhardt (North Carolina Law), The Constitutional Significance of the Forgotten Presidents

Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law

Roberta Mann (Oregon Law), Do Tax Breaks for Ethanol Reduce Global Warming

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on August 28th, 2008 | Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Legal History, Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, Tax Law | no comments

Litigating Takings & Other Challenges to Land Use & Envir. Reg. - Stanford, CA

On November 6-7, 2008, the Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute at Georgetown University Law Center and Stanford Law School’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program will host the 11th Annual Conference on Litigating Takings and Related Legal Challenges to Land Use and Environmental Regulation.

The conference, to be held at Stanford Law School, will examine how the Takings Clause and related legal doctrines may undermine the public’s ability to address emerging environmental, public health, and growth management challenges. A particular focus of this year’s conference will be the potential takings implications of public policy initiatives designed to mitigate and adapt to global warming. The conference will also address recent legal developments in takings law and related fields, including the latest legal and policy fall out from the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in Lingle v. Chevron USA and Kelo v. City of New London. Another featured topic will be future prospects for property rights ballot measures along the lines of Propositions 98 and 99 in California and other states.

Conference faculty will include a mix of leading academic scholars and expert practitioners. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Stanford Environmental Law Journal.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 20th, 2008 | Local Government Law, Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES, Property Law | no comments

Speech and Silence in American Law - Tuscaloosa, AL

As part of a series on Law, Knowledge & Imagination, the University of Alabama School of Law presents Speech and Silence in American Law, Feb. 27, 2009.

This symposium will study the relationship between speech and silence in American law. We will examine how the law values silence, focusing on the right not to speak, as well as the decision not to select a speaker, in both private and government discourse.

We will analyze compelled speech, in contexts ranging from the flag salute to the Solomon Amendment cases, as well as instances where individuals are forced to be identified with a particular message.

In the aftermath of 9/11, we were reminded that speech alone may be troubling or dangerous. For some, the continuing threat of terrorism requires new attitudes toward speech. Others believe we can strike a better balance between freedom and security.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 20th, 2008 | National Security Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Future of Federalism - Washington, DC

AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest
The Future of Federalism
Cosponsored by Federalist Society
Friday, September 12, 2008, 9 a.m.–3:15 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

The American system of federalism is at the heart of many disagreements over important constitutional and public policy issues. Changes in all three branches of government and recent Supreme Court decisions raise questions about the future scope of federal-state relationships: How should we balance state and federal rights? Should the courts take a more active role in limiting federal power, or should they instead leave the federal-state balance to the political process? Can we make better progress on these issues by allowing states to pursue their own policies independently? Or should the federal government take a more active role?

At this AEI event, cosponsored by the Chapman School of Law and the Federalist Society, scholars of differing points of view will address these questions and reflect on the future structure of American federalism. During the first panel, award-winning professor of courts and social policy Malcolm Feely, AEI’s Michael S. Greve, public and constitutional law professor Roderick Hills, and George Mason Law professor and coeditor of the Supreme Court Economic Review Ilya Somin will consider whether we should strive for a system in which states compete or cooperate with each other and with the federal government. Randy Barnett, author of Restoring the Lost Constitution, and constitutional law expert Jesse Choper will discuss the appropriate level of judicial review and the role of the judicial branch in adjudicating disputes over th e scope of federal and state power during the second panel. Panelists for the third discussion will examine the importance of federalism in two major public policy issues: health care and the environment. Judge William Pryor of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit will deliver a keynote address on the future of federalism.

There is no charge for the conference, but CLE credit will be available through the Federalist Society for $25.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 17th, 2008 | Courts, Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

August 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Harvard

Gerald Neuman (Harvard Law), The Extraterritorial Constitution after Boumediene v. Bush

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on August 14th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Constitutional Law | no comments

Call for Papers - IDF Law Review

The IDF Law Review, published by the Israel Defense Forces Military School of Law, aims to serve both as an academic and professional research tool, and as a mechanism for facilitating debate and innovative ideas in the fields of Military Law, the Laws of War, Operational Law, as well as Criminal, Constitutional and other International Law issues relating to military activities.

A copy of the 2007-2008 Call for Papers is below. Although the editors already have most of the articles for the 2007-2008 edition, they are still accepting articles that are at an advanced/publishable stage. Their publishing target is winter 2008.

They are also collecting articles for the 2009-2010 edition of the IDF Law Review, for which they are accepting contribution on a rolling basis (i.e. no deadline yet).

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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 16th, 2008 | National Security Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law | no comments

Amer. Political Science Ass’n - Boston

The 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association will take place Aug. 28-31, 2008, in Boston. The theme is “Categories and the Politics of Global Inequalities”. There are dozens of law-related offerings. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 14th, 2008 | Empirical Legal Studies, Law and Politics, Courts, Comparative Law, Legal Education, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Judicial Review - Hong Kong

The Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge and the School of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong will present a joint conference, Effective Judicial Review: A Cornerstone of Good Governance, Dec. 10-12, 2008, in Hong Kong.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 11th, 2008 | Courts, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Future of Federalism - Brisbane, Australia

The Law Council of Australia’s European Focus Group and the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law (CPICL), TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, are proud to announce the major International Conference: The Future of Federalism, Brisbane, July 10-12, 2008. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 11th, 2008 | Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Justice John Paul Stevens Symposium - Davis, CA

The UC Davis Law Review is pleased to announce that its 2009 Symposium will focus on Justice John Paul Stevens.  The Symposium will take place in March 2009, at UC Davis School of Law.

Nominated by President Ford in 1975, Justice Stevens is the longest serving justice on the Supreme Court.  Over his tenure, the Justice has critically influenced fundamental decisions on the Burger, Rehnquist, and Roberts Courts.  This Symposium will explore the Justice’s opinions and methodology.  Furthermore, the Symposium will explore the Justice’s biographical background to help elucidate the underlying rationale for his opinions and methodology.

Jamie Chon and David Vogel
UC Davis Law Review
Senior Symposium Editors

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 2nd, 2008 | Courts, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

May 28, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Cincinnati

Jacob Cogan (Cincinnati Law), Representation and Power in International Organization: The Current Constitutional Crisis

Stanford

Dorothy Roberts (Northwestern Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 27th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Supreme Court Preview - Williamsburg, VA

The Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law presents its 21st Annual upreme Court Preview Sept. 26-27, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 20th, 2008 | Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

May 20, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law & Politics

Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), Constitutional Law, International Law, Public Law

Texas

John Golden (Texas Law), The Supreme Court as “Prime Percolator”: A Prescription for Appellate Review of Questions in Patent Law

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on May 19th, 2008 | Law and Politics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property | no comments

Chicago-Kent College of Law Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 8th, 2008 | CALLS FOR PAPERS, Constitutional Law | no comments

Junior Faculty - Writing Competition re Takings and “Givings” - Pacific Legal Found.

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 4th, 2008 | Local Government Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Constitutional Law, Property Law | no comments

April 29, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

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 | no comments

April 28, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

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 | no comments

April 25, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Jessie Hill (Case Western Law), Of Christmas Trees and Corpus Christi: The Establishment Clause and Change in Meaning Over Time

Cincinnati

Haider Hamoudi (Pittsburgh Law), Realism in Islamic Jurisprudence

USC

Kim Buchanan (USC Law)

Virginia

Ed Morrison (Columbia Law), Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 25th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Religion, Law and Economics, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 24, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

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 | no comments

April 22, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

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 | 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

April 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

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 | no comments

April 11, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

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 | no comments

April 9, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

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 | no comments

April 8, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

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 | no comments

April 7, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

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 | no comments

April 4, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

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 | no comments

March 28, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

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 | no comments

March 27, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

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 | no comments

National Security Law Junior Faculty Workshop - Winston-Salem, NC

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 24th, 2008 | JUNIOR SCHOLARS, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, National Security Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Constitutional Law | no comments

March 20, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Jack Beermann (Boston University Law), Common Law and Statute Law in U.S. Federal Administrative Law

Connecticut

Randall Lesaffer (Tilburg Law), Just and Legal War, Just and Legal Peace, in Early Modern Europe

Florida State

Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley Law)

Georgetown

Charles Lawrence (Georgetown Law), Unconscious Racism Revisited: Reflections on the Origins and Impact of “The Id, the Ego and Equal Protection”

Harvard

Curtis Bradley (Duke Law), The Story of Ex Parte Milligan: Military Trials, Enemy Combatants, and Congressional Authorization

Harvard Religion & Society

Gregg Ivers (American Public Affairs), Religious Organizations as Legal Advocates: Comparing Canada and the U.S.

Michigan Law & Economics

Michael Heise (Cornell Law), Plaintiphobia in State Courts? An Empirical Study of State Court Trials on Appeal

SMU

Adrienne D. Davis (Washington University in St. Louis Law)

Texas

Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law), Good White People

Toronto Health Law

William Lahey (Dalhousie Law), Inter-Professional Practice and the Law: Understanding and Overcoming the Barriers

UCLA Legal Theory

Stephen R. Perry (Penn Law), Political Authority and Political Obligation

Yale Workplace Theory & Policy

Jack Dennerlein (Harvard Public Health), The Epidemic of Musculoskeletal Disorder in the Modern Workplace. Readings 1 & 2

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 20th, 2008 | Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Courts, Law and Religion, Labor and Employment Law, Health Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Legal History, Uncategorized | no comments

March 19, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Connecticut

Derek Jinks (Texas Law), Disaggregating War

Toledo

Rebecca E. Zietlow (Toledo Law), Congressional Enforcement of the Rights of Citizens

Toronto Law & Economics

Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), The Lifespan of Written Constitutions

UC Hastings

James Sloan (Glasgow Law), Belling the Cat in Darfur

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 18th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, National Security Law, International Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Law Without Borders: Current Legal Challenges Around the Globe - Philadelphia

The 2008 Temple Law Review Symposium, Law Without Borders: Current Legal Challenges Around the Globe took place March 1, 2008.

The Symposium will feature panels on four different areas of law, each studying a different facet of the dynamic between, and distinct challenges faced by, developing and developed countries. Panelists will discuss traditional knowledge as a form of intellectual property, economic reform and the Cape Town Convention, climate change litigation and water regulation, and comparative constitution building.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 18th, 2008 | International Law, Comparative Law, Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES | no comments

Federalism and Immigration - Tulsa

The University of Tulsa College of Law and the Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law presented What about Federalism?: States’ Rights and the New State Immigration Laws March 7, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 18th, 2008 | Immigration Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

NYLS Faculty Presentation Day - New York

New York Law School presents its fourth biennial Faculty Presentation Day on April 2.

Faculty and students present their work—making the effort to offer serious and subtle ideas in an accessible and enjoyable format—and our whole community takes part in the discussions these presentations generate.
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This event is open to all members of the New York Law School community and to our colleagues on the bench, at the bar, and in academia. There is no charge for attendance and complimentary breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be served.

The New York Law Review will publish a symposium issue based on the presentations. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 17th, 2008 | Legal Research & Writing, Comparative Law, Estate Planning, Law and Technology, Legal History, Legal Education, Business Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

March 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Judith Lictenberg (Georgetown Philosophy), Basic Rights and Are There Any Basic Rights

Georgia International Law

Gregory Shaffer (Loyola Law), A Structural Theory of WTO Dispute Settlement: Why Institutional Choice Lies at the Center of the GMO Case

Harvard

Amanda Tyler (George Washington Law), The Suspension Clause as an Emergency Power

Harvard International Law

Deborah Prentice (Princeton Psychology)

Harvard Internet & Society

Peter Suber (Earlham Philosophy), What Can Universities Do to Promote Open Access

Catherine Candee (University of California), Whose Knowledge is it? UC takes on IP

Queen’s Law

Laura Underkuffler (Duke Law), Captured by Evil: The Idea of Corruption in Law

Seton Hall

Michael Granne (Seton Hall Law)

Temple

Claire A. Hill (Minnesota Law), Why didn’t subprime investors demand (more of) a lemons premium?

Texas

Mark Weinstein (USC Business)

Toledo

Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration

UC Berkeley

Laura Gomez (New Mexico Law), Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race

UC Berkeley Law & Economics

Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley Economics), Superstar CEO’s

UCLA Faculty Mondays

Sandra Ikuta (Judge, Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit), What Law Professors Should Know About Preparing Students for Clerking Recommending Students as Clerks, and the new Chief Judge of the 9th Circuit

Virginia Law & Economics

Ronen Avraham (Northwestern Law), Should Courts Ignore Ex-post Information When Determining Contract Damages? A Re-evaluation of Contract Remedies

Washington University in St. Louis

Gia Lee (UCLA Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 17th, 2008 | Law and Psychology, Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Philosophy, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Business Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, Legal Education, Uncategorized | no comments

March 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Georgetown International Human Rights

Paolo Carozza (Notre Dame Law), The ‘Art’ of Democracy and the ‘Taste For Local Freedom’: International Human Rights and the American Constitutional Difference

Notre Dame

Barbara Stark (Hofstra Law), International Law

San Diego

Cary Coglianese (Penn Law)

UCLA Faculty Fridays

Eric Biber (UC Berkeley Law), Too Many Things to Do: How to Deal with the Dysfunctions of Multiple-Goal Agencies

Virginia

Tonja Jacobi (Northwestern Law), Supermedians

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 13th, 2008 | Law and Humanities, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Administrative Law, International Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

March 13, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Columbia

George Fletcher (Columbia Law), CORRECTING EVIL Tort Liability for Human Rights Abuses

Fordham

Jae Lee (Fordham Law), Recidivism as Omission: A Relational Account

Georgetown

Mary Anne Case (Chicago Law), Feminist Fundamentalism

Georgia State

James Fleming (Boston University Law), Are We All Originalists Now? I Hope Not!

Harvard

Jennifer Gerarda Brown (Quinnipiac Law), Peacemaking in the Culture War Between Gay Rights and Religious Liberty

Harvard Legal History

Hendrik Hartog (Princeton), Planning for Old Age

Michigan Law & Economics

Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law), Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Care Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan

Minnesota Faculty Works

Miranda McGowan (San Diego Law)

NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance

Ruth Mason (UConn Law), Made in America for European Taxation: The Internal Consistency Test

Northwestern Tax

Larry Zelenak (Duke Law), The Federal Retail Sales Tax that Wasn’t: An Actual History and an Alternative History

Stanford Law & Economics

Abraham Wickelgren (Northwestern Law) & Warren Schwartz (Georgetown Law), Credible Discovery, Settlement, and Negative Expected Value Suits

Toronto Health Law

Jill Horwitz (Michigan Law), What do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix

Vanderbilt

Sanford Levinson (Texas Law)

Yale Legal Theory

W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell Law), Government Lawyers in the Liberal State

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 12th, 2008 | Elder Law, Evidence Law, Comparative Law, Law and Sexuality, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Law and Technology, Insurance Law, Law and Gender, Law and Religion, Constitutional Law, Tax Law, Criminal Law, Tort Law, Legal History, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Uncategorized | no comments

March 12, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Brant Lee (Akron Law), Whiteness as Brand Management

Chicago-Kent Legal History

Mark Graber (Maryland Politics), John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil

CUNY

Michael Jacobson (Vera Institute of Justice)

Michigan Tax Policy

Mitchell Kane (Virginia Law), Bootstraps, Poverty Traps, and Poverty Pits: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance

NYU Legal History

Christopher Beauchamp (Samuel Golieb Fellow, NYU Law), Technology’s Trials: Patents in the United States Courts, 1860-1910

Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law

William Rossi (Oregon English) & Molly Westling (Oregon English), Reading, Rhetoric, and Climate

Stetson

David Wilkins (Harvard Law), Toward a Joint Venture Model of Attorney/Client Relationship Between Corporations and their Outside Counsel

Toronto Tax Lax & Policy

Jacques Sasseville (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), Tax Treaties: Better the Devil We Know?

UCLA Williams Institute

Devon Carbado (UCLA Law), Acting White: What’s Sexual Orientation Got to Do With it?

USC Law, History, and Culture

Nan Goodman (Colorado English), Banishment and Jurisdictional Indentity in Seventeenth-Century New England

Washington

Mary Whisner (Washington Law Library), The Buzz about Blawgs

Wei Zhang (Peking Management), Politics of Medical Disputes in China

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 12th, 2008 | Law and Sexuality, Comparative Law, Law and Race, Law Librarianship, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Technology, Legal Ethics, Legal History, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Business Law, Tax Law, Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

March 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago-Kent

Josef Drexl (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law)

Chicago Law & Philosophy

Alan Wertheimer (Vermont Political Science)

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Alastair Norcross (Rice Philosophy), Consequentialism and Commitment

Georgetown Statutory

Lisa Schultz Bressman (Vanderbilt Law), Administrative Law

Harvard

Gary Bass (Princeton Politics), Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

Harvard International Law

Jonathan Baron (Penn Psychology)

Michigan International Law

Ambassador Luigi R. Einaudi (Secretary General, Organization of American States), The Ideal and Practice of Democratic Legitimacy in Latin America

Northwestern Law & Economics

Betsey Stevenson (Penn Business), Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

Queen’s Law

John Gardner (Oxford), H.L.A. Hart’s Punishment and Responsibility: Forty Years On

Rutgers-Camden

Michael Dorf (Columbia law), Dynamic Incorporation of Foreign Law

Seton Hall

Brett Frischmann (Loyola-Chicago Law)

Stanford Internet & Society

Jim Bessen (Boston University Law), Patent Failure

St. John’s

Alexandra D. Lahav (UConn Law), Advocacy at Unfair Hearings

UC Berkeley

Malcolm Feeley (UC Berkeley Law) & Edward Rubin (Vanderbilt Law), Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise

UC Berkeley Law & Economics

Ethan Kaplan (UC Berkeley Economics) & Arindrajit Dube (UC Berkeley Wage and Employment) & Suresh Naidu (UC Berkeley Ph.D.), Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information

UCLA Mondays

Arleen Leibowitz (UCLA Public Policy), The Road to Health is Paved With Poor Incentives

USC Law, Economics and Organization

Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), Guarding the Guardians: The Law & Economics of Judicial Councils

Yale Corporate Law

Paul Grossman (Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker), Imaginative Responses to Real World Litigation Problems

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 9th, 2008 | Comparative Law, Law and Society, Law and Sexuality, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Philosophy, Law and Technology, Law and Economics, Administrative Law, Health Law, Criminal Law, Education Law, Business Law, International Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

March 6, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Laura Beny (Michigan Law), Private Regulation of Insider Trading in the Shadow of Lax Public Enforcement (and a Strong Neighbor)–Evidence from Canadian Firms

Chicago Constitutional Law

George Fisher (Stanford Law), Married to Alcohol: The Drug War’s Moral Roots

Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender

Jane Dailey (Chicago History), White Supremacy Is in Peril: Race, Marriage and Sovereignty in the New World Order

Columbia

Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default

Fordham

Linda Sugin (Fordham Law)

Harvard

Ayelet Shachar (Toronto Law), The Global Race for Talent

Iowa

Chancellor Chandler (Delware Court of Chancery)

Loyola-L.A.

Brian Galle (Florida State Law), Tax Fairness

Michigan Law & Economics

Robert Daines (Stanford Law), Rating the Ratings: How Good are the Commercial Governance Ratings?

Minnesota Faculty Works

Alexandra B. Klass (Minnesota Law) & Elizabeth Wilson (Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs), Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration: A Consideration of Tort and Property Law

Northwestern Tax

Michael Knoll (Penn Law), The Tax Advantage of ‘Sweat Equity’: What it is and its Relationship to the Carried Interest Controversy

NYU Tax Policy and Public Finance

Mihir Desai (Harvard Business), Foreign-Direct Investment and Domestic Economic Activity

St. Thomas (MN)

Ed Adams (Minnesota Law)

Temple International Law

Robert Ahdieh (Emory Law), Standardization 2.0: A New Version of the Game

Texas

Peter Smith (George Washington Law), Originalism’s Living Constitutionalism

Toronto Health Law

Chidi Oguamanam (Dalhousie Law), The Future of Personalized Medicine and Personalizing the Medicine of the Future: In Search of Insights from Complementary and Alternative Medicine

UCLA Legal Theory

Jessica Litman (Michigan Law), Rethinking Copyright

Yale Human Rights

Shareen Hertel (UConn Political Science), Rights in Conflict: Insights from Transnational Labor and Economic Rights

Yale Law & Economics

Michael Woodford (Columbia Economics), Principles and Public Policy Decisions: The Case of Monetary Policy

Yale Workplace Theory & Policy

Jacob Hacker (Yale Political Science), The Politics of Risk Privatization in U.S. Social Policy

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 5th, 2008 | Law and Race, Law and Economics, Tort Law, Comparative Law, Law and Humanities, Law and Technology, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Environmental Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Property Law, Business Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized | no comments

March 4, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law & Politics

Nathaniel Persily (Columbia Law), Vote Fraud in the Eye of the Beholder: The Role of Public Opinion in the Challenge to Voter Identification Requirements

Chicago-Kent

Graeme W. Austin (Arizona Law), What is Copyright? A Constitutional Question, Apparently

Chicago-Kent Legal History

Allison Tirres (DePaul Law), The Railroad, the Courthouse, and the Making of New Legal Borderlands

Harvard Internet & Society

Jim Bessen (Boston University Law), Patent Failure

Lewis & Clark

Craig Johnston (Lewis & Clark Law)

Minnesota Law & History

Yaffa Epstein, From Emission to Pollution: Business Interests and the Regulation of Smoke Emission in the Twin Cities, 1890-1910

St. Thomas (MN)

Francesco Parisi (Minnesota Law)

Texas

Barbara Harlow (Texas English), Tortured Thoughts: The Example Set by Ruth Frst from her Interrogation in 1963 to her Assassination in 1982

Washington

Wei Song (China Law Institute), From Invention to Innovation: Laws and Regulations of Technology Transfer in China

Yale Legal History

Mark Graber (Maryland Law), Maintaining Judicial Review: The Debate Over Section 25 Revisited

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 4th, 2008 | Comparative Law, Law and Society, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Technology, Law and Politics, Legal History, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property, Business Law, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized | no comments

The Forgotten Constitutional Amendments - Des Moines, IA

The Drake Constitutional Law Center is hosting its annual Symposium on The Forgotten Constitutional Amendments on Sat. April 5, 2008 from 8:30 am to 12:15 pm. The focus will be on the U.S. Constitution’s Ninth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment’s Privileges or Immunities Clause. Speakers will include Professor Dan Farber (Berkeley Law), Professor Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), Professor Michael Kent Curtis (Wake Forest Law), and others. For more information, contact Amy Russell at amy.russell[at]drake.edu.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 3rd, 2008 | Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

March 3, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Columbia Law & Economics

Vikrant Vig (London Business), Securitization and Screening: Evidence from Subprime Mortgage Back Securities

Connecticut

Adrienne Davis (Virgina Law), Slavert & Shadow Families: Re-Thinking Miscegenation Regulation Through the Lens of Castle

Georgia

Randy Picker (Chicago Law)

Harvard

Ian Ayres (Yale Law), Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk

Harvard International Law

Robert Hornik (Penn Communication)

Marquette

Rob Vischer (St. Thomas (MN) Law)

Penn Law & Philosophy

Christopher Kutz (UC Berkeley Law), Against Political Luck

Queen’s Law

Sheryll Cashin (Georgetown Law), Race, Class and the American Dream

Rutgers-Camden

Rebecca Tushnet (Georgetown Law), Power Without Responsibility: Intermediaries and the First Amendment