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
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
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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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
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
Fabio Arcila (Touro), The Death Of Suspicion
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David Duff (British Columbia), Carbon Taxation in Theory and Practice
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Christopher Capozzola (MIT) A Tale of Two Treasons: Adjudicating War Crimes and Collaboration in Manila, 1945
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Robert Gatter, St. Louis University
Dennis Klimchuk (Western Ontario), The Rule of Private, Common Law
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Dan Kahan (Yale),Culture, Cognition, and Consent: Who Perceives What, and Why, in ‘Acquaintance Rape’ Cases
Mark Kende (Drake), Constitutional Rights in Two Worlds: South Africa and the United States
David A. Matsa,(Kellogg School of Management),
Growing Out of Trouble? Managerial Responses to Risk of Corporate Liability
Rebecca Zietlow (Toledo), Originalism and the Reconstruction Congress.
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Taunya Lovell Banks (Maryland), Thurgood Marshall on the Bench: ‘Race Man’ and ‘Pragmatic Feminist’
Brian Bix (University of Minnesota), Contract Enforcement and the Harm Principle
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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.
Professor Bradford Clark (George Washington University Law School) The Eleventh Amendment and the Nature of the Union.
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.
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?”
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.
William and Mary Law School’s Institute of Bill of Rights Law hosts its Supreme Court Preview Oct. 2-3, 2009.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Nelson Tebbe (Brooklyn Law), Constitutional Borrowing
Henry Monaghan (Columbia Law), Supremacy Clause Fundamentalism
Dennis M. Patterson (Rutgers-Camden Law)
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
Alexander Capron (USC Law), The Circulatory-Respiratory Determination of Death in Organ Donation
Ariela Dubler (Columbia Law), Sexing Skinner: Marriage, Procreation and the Legal Family
Charles Weisselberg (UC Berkeley Law)
Michael Perry (Emory Law), Protecting Constitutionally Entrenched Human Rights: What Role for the Courts?
David T. Ritchie (Mercer Law), Legal Writing: Gateway to the Legal Discourse Community
Lawrence Repeta (Washington Law), Human rights in Japan and the efforts of Japan’s NGOS before the UN Human Rights Committee
Cynthia Skach (Oxford Politics)
Margret Meyer (Oxford)
Juliet M. Moringiello (Widener Law)
Michael Carrier (Rutgers Camden Law)
Jacob Hacker (Berkeley Poli. Sci.), Yes, We Can? The New Push for American Health Security
Eugene Volokh (UCLA Law), Facilitative Constitutional Rights
Jannine Bell (Indiana University), Hate Speech and Hate Crime
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.
Merritt Fox (Columbia Law), Fraud-on-the-Market Class Actions Against Foreign Issuers
Fernando Teson (Florida State), The Liberal Constitution and Foreign Affairs
Jules Lobel (Pittsburgh Law), The Constitution Abroad: Extraterritorial Constitutional Restraints on Governmental Action After Boumediene
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.
David L. Faigman (UC Hastings), Frames of Reference: Can Constitutionality Really Be Measured One Case at a Time?
Antoinette Schoar (MIT Managment), CEO Careers and Style
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
Drake University Law School’s Constitutional Law Center presents its 2009 Symposium, Global Perspectives on Religion, the State, and Constitutionalism, April 4, 2009.
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.
Philip Hamburger (Columbia Law), Evading the First Amendment: Censorship by Consent
UCLA Law, Economics and Organizations
Keith Hylton (Boston University Law), The Economics of Injunctive and Reverse Settlements
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.
UC Davis Law Review hosts a symposium on Justice John Paul Stevens today, March 6, 2009.
New England Law Review hosts a symposium on the jurisprudence of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg March 12, 2009.
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.
Franco Ferrari (Columbia Law), Homeward Trend and Lex Forism Despite Uniform Sales 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
Yoram Margalioth (Tel Aviv Law), Employing Statistical Stigma as a Welfare Ordeal
Gregg D. Polsky (Florida State Law) & Brant J. Hellwig (South Carolina Law), Taxing Structured Settlements
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?
Steven Pincus (Yale History), Revolution in Political Economy
Craig Boise (Case Western Law), Breaking Open Offshore Piggybanks: Redux
Jon Eddy (Washington Law), Current Trends in Legal Education in Afghanistan
Anne Joseph O’Connell (UC Berkeley Law), Vacant Offices in the Administrative State
Judge Pierre N. Leval (U.S. Court of Appeals Second Circuit), Did Campbell Fix Fair Use
Jessica Slavin (Marquette Law), Talking Back to IRAC: Legal Writing Beyond the Paradigm
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
Mitchell Berman (Texas Law), Reflective Equilibrium and Constitutional Method: The Case of John McCain and the Natural Born Citizenship Clause
The Hastings Law Journal will host The Second Amendment After Heller on February 13, 2009.
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.
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.
Edward J. Janger (Brooklyn Law), Virtual Territoriality
Robert Ferguson (Columbia Law), Invading Panama: The Power of Circumstance in the Rule of Law
Amy Farmer (Arkansas Law), Strategic Bidding Investment and Investment in Final Offer
Caroline Mala Corbin (Miami Law), The First Amendment Right Against Compelled Listening
Leo Katz (Penn. Law), Why the Law Spruns Win-Win Transactions
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
Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow (Georgetown Law)
JJ Prescott (Michigan Law), Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior
Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), A Limited Defense of Clinical Placebo Deception
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
Betsey Stevenson (Penn Business), The Paradox of Declining Female Hapiness
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.
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
Angela Onwuachi Willig (Iowa Law), Cracking the Egg: Which Came First Stigma or Affirmative Action?
Guyora Binder (Buffalo Law), Representing Value: The Meaning of Institutions
Kris Franklin (New York Law), Sim City: Putting Simulation-Based Clinics in Context
John Oberdiek (Rutgers Law), Choice, Value, and the Perfection of Distributive Justice
Richard Pildes (NYU Law), Groups and the Design of Democratic Institutions
Guy-Uriel Charles (Minnesota Law) The Voting Rights Act and Noisy Statutory Interpretation
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.
Grainne de Burca (Fordham Law)
Patricia Cain (Santa Clara Law), Taxing Families Fairly: Next Steps
Deborah Pearlstein (Princeton), Form and Function in the National Security Constitution
Orin S. Kerr (George Washington Law), Applying the Fourth Amendment to Internet Communications: A General Approach
Traci Burch (Northwesten Poli. Sci.), Trading Democracy for Justice? The Spillover Effects of Imprisonment on Neighborhood Voter Registration in Atlanta
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.
Jessie Hill (Case Western Law), Of Christmas Trees and Corpus Christie: The Establishment Clause and Change of Meaning over Time
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
Judith Resnik (Yale Law), Representing Justice: An Iconography of Norms
John Donohue (Yale Law), Can You Believe Econometric Evaluations of Law, Policy, and Medicine?
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
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
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.
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.
Buffalo Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
Same Sex Marriage and Federalism Workshop
Stephen F. Smith (Virginia Law)
Robin Kar (Loyola Law), Contractualism about Contract Law
Jedediah Purdy (Duke Law), Presidential Popular Constitutionalism
Richard Abel (UCLA Law), Lawyers in the Dock: Learnings from New York Disciplinary Proceedings
Scott Sunby (Miami Law), War and Peace in the Jury Room: The Deliberative Process of Capital Juries
Christina Burnett (Columbia Law),A Clash of Constitutionalisms: The Conflict over the Platt Amendments 1900-1901
Miriam Cherry (Pacific McGeorge Law), Virtual Work
Hilary Schor (USC English, Law), “Maidens Choosing”: George Eliot, Curiosity, and the Law
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.
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?
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)
Stephen Siegel (Depaul Law), Injunction for Defamation, Juries, and the Clarifying Lens of 1868
Samuel Jordan (St. Louis Law), Irregular Panels
Judge Coughenour (USDC Westen District of Washington)
Neal Devins (William and Mary Law), Did Bush Hurt the Presidency? The Nexus between Party Polarization and Presidential Power
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
Enrichetta Ravina (NYU Business), Love & Loans. The Effect of Beauty and Personal Characteristics in Credit Markets
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
Alicia Davis Evans (Michigan Law), Are Investors’ Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Over Time? Some Preliminary Evidence
Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), The Subjective Experience of Punishment
Michael Zimmerman (Loyola-Chicago Law), A Pro-Employee Supreme Court? - The Retaliation Decisions
George Yin (Virginia Law), Temporary Effect Legislation, Political, Accountability, and Fiscal Restraint
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
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
Richard D. Anderson Jr. (UCLA Political Science), Peacekeeping or Peacemaking? Russians, Georgians, South Ossetia, and the World
Christopher Kutz (U.C. Berkeley), The Repugnance of Secret Law
Gabriel (Jack) Chin (Arizona Law), Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of a Citizenship
Derek Jinks, Larry Sager, Linda Mullenix, George Dix, John Robertson, Jordan Steiker (Texas Law), Review of 2007 SCOTUS Term
James Spindler (USC Law), IPO Disclosure, Underwriting, Mechanics, and Share Price Behavior
Daniel Crane (Yeshiva Law and Chicago Law), Intellectual Liability
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.
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
David Kennedy (Brown University), The Mystery of Global Governance
USC Center for Law History and Policy
Daphne Barak-Erez (Tel Aviv University Law), Symbolic Constitutionalism: On Sacred Cows and Abominable Pigs
Minna J. Kotkin (Brooklyn Law), Diversity and Discrimination: A Look at Complex Bias
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
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.
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.
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.
Gerald Neuman (Harvard Law), The Extraterritorial Constitution after Boumediene v. Bush
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).
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
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.
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
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
Cincinnati
Jacob Cogan (Cincinnati Law), Representation and Power in International Organization: The Current Constitutional Crisis
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.
Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), Constitutional Law, International Law, Public Law
John Golden (Texas Law), The Supreme Court as “Prime Percolator”: A Prescription for Appellate Review of Questions in Patent Law
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.
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.
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
Ian Ferrell (Texas Law), Gilbert & Sullivan and Scalia: The Philosophical Basis of the Eigth Amendment’s Proportionality Principle
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
Raghuram G. Rajan (Chicago Business), Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States
Bar Ilan
Sagit Leviner (Bar Ilan Law), A New Era of Tax Enforcement - From “Big Stick” to Responsive Regulation
Margaret Gilbert (Connecticut Philosophy), Scanlon on Promissory Obligation & A Theory of Political Obligation Chapter 2 & 7
Frank Michelman (Harvard Law), Socioeconomic Rights in Constitutional Law: Explaining America Away
Richard Abel (UCLA Law), The Defense of Legality in post-9/11 America
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
Jessie Hill (Case Western Law), Of Christmas Trees and Corpus Christi: The Establishment Clause and Change in Meaning Over Time
Haider Hamoudi (Pittsburgh Law), Realism in Islamic Jurisprudence
Ed Morrison (Columbia Law), Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11
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
Claire Priest (Columbia Law), Understanding the End of Entail: Information, Institutions, and Slavery in the American Revolutionary Period
Madhavi Sunder (UC Davis), The New Enlightenment: How Muslim Women are Bringing Religion Out of the Dark Ages
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
Rose Villazor (SMU Law), Birthright Citizenship in the U.S. Territories
Rachel Brewster (Harvard Law), Renegotiation and Reinterpretation of Treaties
Ruti Teitel (New York Law School), Humanity’s Law
Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard Economics), Taking the Long Way Around: Real Consequences of Transport Corruption
Daniel Farber (UC Berkeley Law), Modeling Climate Change and Its Impacts: Law, Policy and Science
Tracey Mitrano (Cornell, Director of IT Policy), Building a Global University
Steve Johansen (Lewis & Clark) & Anne Villella (Lewis & Clark)
Notre Dame
Stephen Elkin (Maryland Behavioral and Social Sciences), The Theory of Republican Constitution
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.
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
Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), A Special Case?: Corporations and Campaign Finance
Fernanda Nicola (American University Law), Invisible Cities: Markets, Distribution and Development in European Union Law
Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Law), The Province of Jurisprudence Revisited
Loyola
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”
Diane Ring (Boston College Law), Sovereignty and International Tax
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar (Stanford Law), “Securing” the Bureaucracy: The Federal Security Agency and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 1939-1953
Sai Prakash (San Diego Law), The Seperation and Overlap of War and Military Powers
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
Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions
Adrienne Davis (Virginia Law), Slavery & Shadow Families: Re-Thinking Miscegenation Regulation Through the Lens of Case
Cynthia Nicoletti (Harvard Law, Berger Fellow), The American Civil War as a Trial by Battle
Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke Philosophy), A Hybrid Theory of Claim-Rights
Vicki Jackson (Georgetown Law), Constitutional Cosmology: Convergence, Resistance, and Engagement
Oliver Hart (Harvard Economics), Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points
Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), Constitutional Law, International Law, Public Law
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
James Fishkin (Stanford Communication), An Online Experiment in Democracy: Deliberative Polling for Democratic Reform
Alison Morantz (Stanford Law), Rethinking the Great Compromise: What Happens When Large Companies Opt Out of Workers Compensation?
USC Law, Economics & Organization
Devah Pager (Princeton Sociology), Race at Work: A Field Experiment of Discrimination in Low-Wage Labor Markets
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
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
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
Georgetown International Human Rights
Balakrishnan Rajagopal (MIT), The Limits of Legalizing Social Rights
Brian Tamanaha (St. John’s Law), The Bogus Tale About the Legal Formalists
Adam Levitin (Georgetown Law), Mortgage Market Sensitivity to Bankruptcy Modification
Robert Aronson (Washington Law), Winning at All Costs: Ethics and Integrity in Law, Sports, and Film
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), International Delegation Through Treaties: The Nth Power
David Garland (NYU Sociology), Peculiar Institution: Capital Punishment and American Society
David Gamage (UC Berkeley Law), Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidance: A Tentative Defense of “Double Taxation”
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
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), Murphy vs. IRS: Another Front in the War Against the Income Tax
UC Hastings
John Witt (Columbia Law), Form and Substance in the Law of Counterinsurgency Damages
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
William Eskridge, Jr. (Fordham Law), Vetogates, Chevron, Preemption
Gregg Bloche (Georgetown Law), The Emergent Logic of Health Care
Loyola
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), The Life Span of Written Constitutions
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)
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
Efraim Benmelech (Harvard Economics), Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection
Georgetown Statutory Colloquium
Theodore Ruger (Penn Law), Gonzales v. Oregon and the Normative Constitution of American Health Care
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
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
Jody Kraus (Virginia Law), The Correspondence and Divergence in Contract and Promise
Frank Pasquale (Seton Hall Law), Taxing Tiering: Addressing Inequality in Health Care as Cross-Subsidization Declines
Rosemary C. Salomone (St. John’s Law), Official English: The Reality and the Rhetoric
Jerry L. Anderson (Drake Law), An Empirical Study of Attitudes Toward Zoning
Michael Conroy (Colibri Consulting), How Civil Society is Striking Back at Neoliberal Globalization: Tales from the ‘Certification Revolution’
Richard Perry (San Jose State University), On the Strange Career of the Cultural Defense
Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law) & Jide Nzelibe (Northwestern Law), Political Accountability Under Alternative Institutional Regimes
Fiona Harrison (California Institute of Technology), Three Big Questions about the Universe (and how Astrophysicists are trying to answer them)
William H. McDavid (Ret. General Counsel, J.P. Morgan Chase), Enron: The Aftermath
Natasha Martin (Seattle Law), Immunity for Hire: The Same Actor Factor as a Subterfuge to Equality in the Contemporary Workplace
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
David Caron (UC Berkeley Law), Why International Courts and Tribunals Look and Act as They Do
Thomas Merrill (Columbia Law), The Rule of First Possession and the Rule of Accession
Syracuse
Eric A. Kades (William & Mary Law), A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain
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
Mark Tushnet (Harvard Law), The Rights Revolution in the Twentieth Century
Georgetown International Human Rights
David Luban (Georgetown Law), Lawfare and Legal Ethics in Guantanamo
Frederic Megret (McGill Law), Civil Disobedience in Defense of International Law: What Should International Law Have to Say?
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
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Matthew Sag (DePaul Law), Copyright and Copy-Reliant Technologies
Rennard Strickland (Chapman Law), Keepers of the Springs: A Defense of the American Legal Profession
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
Kim Ferzan (Rutgers-Camden Law), Beyond the Special Part
Elinor Ostrom (Indiana-Bloomington Cognitive Science Program)
Clayton Gillette (Columbia Law), Tacit Agreement, Investment, and Contract Design
Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Anti-Bankruptcy
Margaret Blair (Vanderbilt Law), Assurance Services as a Substitute for Law in Global Commerce
William Forbath (Texas Law), History, Memory and “Transformative Law”: Treatment Action Campaign and the Politics of Rights in South Africa
Rip Verkerke (Virginia Law), Legal Innocence and Information-Forcing Rules
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Andrea Louis Campbell (MIT Political Science), How Americans Think About Taxes: Public Opinion and the American Fiscal State
Colin Mayer (Oxford Business), Where Do Firms Incorporate: Deregulation and the Cost of Entry
Sean Murphy (George Washington Law), The Jus Ad Bellum in View of New Security Threats
Matt Adler (Penn Law), Social Facts, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Rule of Recognition
Alex Glashausser (Washburn Law), The Misbegotten Modern Doctrine of Federal Question Jurisdiction
Shameem Black (Yale English), Fiction in the Age of Transitional Justice
Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown Law), Do Insurer Reserving Practices Drive Liability Insurance Premium Cycles?: An Empirical Study at the Claim Level
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.
Jack Beermann (Boston University Law), Common Law and Statute Law in U.S. Federal Administrative Law
Randall Lesaffer (Tilburg Law), Just and Legal War, Just and Legal Peace, in Early Modern Europe
Charles Lawrence (Georgetown Law), Unconscious Racism Revisited: Reflections on the Origins and Impact of “The Id, the Ego and Equal Protection”
Curtis Bradley (Duke Law), The Story of Ex Parte Milligan: Military Trials, Enemy Combatants, and Congressional Authorization
Gregg Ivers (American Public Affairs), Religious Organizations as Legal Advocates: Comparing Canada and the U.S.
Michael Heise (Cornell Law), Plaintiphobia in State Courts? An Empirical Study of State Court Trials on Appeal
Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law), Good White People
William Lahey (Dalhousie Law), Inter-Professional Practice and the Law: Understanding and Overcoming the Barriers
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
Toledo
Rebecca E. Zietlow (Toledo Law), Congressional Enforcement of the Rights of Citizens
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), The Lifespan of Written Constitutions
James Sloan (Glasgow Law), Belling the Cat in Darfur
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.
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.
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
Judith Lictenberg (Georgetown Philosophy), Basic Rights and Are There Any Basic Rights
Gregory Shaffer (Loyola Law), A Structural Theory of WTO Dispute Settlement: Why Institutional Choice Lies at the Center of the GMO Case
Amanda Tyler (George Washington Law), The Suspension Clause as an Emergency Power
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
Laura Underkuffler (Duke Law), Captured by Evil: The Idea of Corruption in Law
Claire A. Hill (Minnesota Law), Why didn’t subprime investors demand (more of) a lemons premium?
Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration
Laura Gomez (New Mexico Law), Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race
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
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
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
Eric Biber (UC Berkeley Law), Too Many Things to Do: How to Deal with the Dysfunctions of Multiple-Goal Agencies
Tonja Jacobi (Northwestern Law), Supermedians
George Fletcher (Columbia Law), CORRECTING EVIL Tort Liability for Human Rights Abuses
Jae Lee (Fordham Law), Recidivism as Omission: A Relational Account
James Fleming (Boston University Law), Are We All Originalists Now? I Hope Not!
Jennifer Gerarda Brown (Quinnipiac Law), Peacemaking in the Culture War Between Gay Rights and Religious Liberty
Hendrik Hartog (Princeton), Planning for Old Age
Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law), Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Care Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Ruth Mason (UConn Law), Made in America for European Taxation: The Internal Consistency Test
Larry Zelenak (Duke Law), The Federal Retail Sales Tax that Wasn’t: An Actual History and an Alternative History
Abraham Wickelgren (Northwestern Law) & Warren Schwartz (Georgetown Law), Credible Discovery, Settlement, and Negative Expected Value Suits
Jill Horwitz (Michigan Law), What do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix
W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell Law), Government Lawyers in the Liberal State
Mark Graber (Maryland Politics), John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
CUNY
Mitchell Kane (Virginia Law), Bootstraps, Poverty Traps, and Poverty Pits: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance
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
David Wilkins (Harvard Law), Toward a Joint Venture Model of Attorney/Client Relationship Between Corporations and their Outside Counsel
Jacques Sasseville (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), Tax Treaties: Better the Devil We Know?
Devon Carbado (UCLA Law), Acting White: What’s Sexual Orientation Got to Do With it?
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
Josef Drexl (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law)
Alastair Norcross (Rice Philosophy), Consequentialism and Commitment
Lisa Schultz Bressman (Vanderbilt Law), Administrative Law
Gary Bass (Princeton Politics), Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
Ambassador Luigi R. Einaudi (Secretary General, Organization of American States), The Ideal and Practice of Democratic Legitimacy in Latin America
Betsey Stevenson (Penn Business), Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
John Gardner (Oxford), H.L.A. Hart’s Punishment and Responsibility: Forty Years On
Michael Dorf (Columbia law), Dynamic Incorporation of Foreign Law
Alexandra D. Lahav (UConn Law), Advocacy at Unfair Hearings
Malcolm Feeley (UC Berkeley Law) & Edward Rubin (Vanderbilt Law), Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise
Ethan Kaplan (UC Berkeley Economics) & Arindrajit Dube (UC Berkeley Wage and Employment) & Suresh Naidu (UC Berkeley Ph.D.), Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information
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
Paul Grossman (Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker), Imaginative Responses to Real World Litigation Problems
Laura Beny (Michigan Law), Private Regulation of Insider Trading in the Shadow of Lax Public Enforcement (and a Strong Neighbor)–Evidence from Canadian Firms
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
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default
Ayelet Shachar (Toronto Law), The Global Race for Talent
Robert Daines (Stanford Law), Rating the Ratings: How Good are the Commercial Governance Ratings?
Alexandra B. Klass (Minnesota Law) & Elizabeth Wilson (Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs), Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration: A Consideration of Tort and Property Law
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)
Robert Ahdieh (Emory Law), Standardization 2.0: A New Version of the Game
Peter Smith (George Washington Law), Originalism’s Living Constitutionalism
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
Shareen Hertel (UConn Political Science), Rights in Conflict: Insights from Transnational Labor and Economic Rights
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
Nathaniel Persily (Columbia Law), Vote Fraud in the Eye of the Beholder: The Role of Public Opinion in the Challenge to Voter Identification Requirements
Graeme W. Austin (Arizona Law), What is Copyright? A Constitutional Question, Apparently
Allison Tirres (DePaul Law), The Railroad, the Courthouse, and the Making of New Legal Borderlands
Yaffa Epstein, From Emission to Pollution: Business Interests and the Regulation of Smoke Emission in the Twin Cities, 1890-1910
St. Thomas (MN)
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
Mark Graber (Maryland Law), Maintaining Judicial Review: The Debate Over Section 25 Revisited
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.
Vikrant Vig (London Business), Securitization and Screening: Evidence from Subprime Mortgage Back Securities
Adrienne Davis (Virgina Law), Slavert & Shadow Families: Re-Thinking Miscegenation Regulation Through the Lens of Castle
Ian Ayres (Yale Law), Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk
Sheryll Cashin (Georgetown Law), Race, Class and the American Dream
Rebecca Tushnet (Georgetown Law), Power Without Responsibility: Intermediaries and the First Amendment