June 12, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Kathryn Spier (Harvard Law), Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities
American Law Institute - Washington, DC
The 85th Annual Meetingof the American Law Institute is taking place in Washington, DC, May 19-21, 2008. On the agenda: Capital Punishment Status Report; Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation; Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations; Restatement of the Law Third, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment; Restatement of the Law Third, Employment Law; Proposal to amend § 1-301 (Choice of Law) of Article 1 of the Uniform Commercial Code; Principles of the Law of Software Contracts.
April 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Arti K. Rai (Duke Law), The Supreme Court (Re)Discovers Patents: Implications for the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Elizabeth Emens (Columbia Law), Intimate Discrimination: The State’s Role in the Accidents of Sex and Love
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Noah Zatz (UCLA Law), What Is a Working Family?: Revisiting the Class parity Analysis of Welfare Work Requirements & What Welfare Requires from Work
Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law), Transnational Labor Citizenship
Dr. Ellen Bassee
Laurence Helfer (Vanderbilt Law), Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community
Guy Rub (Michigan Law, Student Fellow), The Efficiency of Contracts that Reallocate Entitlements in Creative Work: A Skeptical View
Minnesota Faculty Works
Jessica Litman (Michigan Law), Rethinking Copyright
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Alan Auerbach (UC Berkeley Law), Long-Term Objectives for Government Debt
Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law), Comparative Corporate Law and Emerging Markets
Jutta Brunnee (Toronto Law), Interactional International Law: Reflections on Obligations
Sarah Song (UC Berkeley Law), Three Models of Civic Solidarity
Ralph Steinhardt (George Washington Law), Corporate Complicity and the Alien Tort Statute
C. Fritz Foley (Harvard Business), Welfare Payments and Crime
March 27, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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
Teaching Contracts - Madison
Contracts Law scholars gathered at the University of Wisconsin Law School on February 15 and 16, 2008, for a Contracts Workshop to discuss current teaching and scholarship in the field.
February 28, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Boston College Tax Policy Workshop
Nancy Staudt (Northwestern Law), If Major Wars Affect (Judicial Fiscal Policy, How & Why?
Sadiq Reza (Boston Law), Islam’s Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure in Islamic Legal Doctrine and Practice
Colin Picker (Missouri-Kansas Law), International Law as a Mixed Jurisdiction
CUNY
Rebecca Bratspies (CUNY Law), The Need for Trust in Regulatory Systems
Jeffrey N. Gordon (Columbia Law), The Berle-Means Corporation in the 21st Century
Peter Byrne (Georgetown Law), Hallowed Ground: The Gettysburg Battlefield in Historic Preservation Law
NYU Colloquium on Tax Policy & Public Finance
Daniel Shaviro (NYU Law), The Optimal Relationship Between Taxable Income and Financial Accounting Income
Ellen Pryor (SMU Law), Coordinatng the Restatement (Third) of Torts
Geoffrey Miller (NYU Law), Arbitration’s Summer Soldiers: An Empirical Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Nonconsumer Contracts
Tanya Washington (Georgia State Law), Throwing the Black Baby Out with the Bathwater: The (Un)Constitutionality of Same-Sex Adoption Bans
The Full Impact of Digital Media: Shifts of Control and the Future of Music
Judy J. Thomson (MIT Philosophy), Some Reflections on Hart on Honore, CAUSATION IN THE LAW
Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton Philosophy), Experiments in Ethics
February 25, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
John Conley (North Carolina Law), The Corporate Social Responsibility Movement as an Ethnographic Problem
David Brink (UCSD Philosophy), Mill’s Ambivalence About Rights
Paul Miller (Washington Law), Good Intentions and Eugenics: Avoiding Genetic Genocide
Greg Mitchell (Virginia Law), Second Thoughts
Richard Craswell (Stanford Law), When is a Willful Breach Willful?
Richard Hyland (Rutgers-Camden Law), A Flexible Methodology for Comparative Law
Kim Alexander (California Voter Foundation), Digital Democracy –a Look Back, a Look Ahead
Kenneth C. Kettering (New York Law School), Securitization and Its Discontents
Benjamin L. Liebman (Columbia Law), A Populist Threat to China’s Courts?
Noga Morag-Levine (Michigan State Law), Civil Law, Common Law, and the Origins of Anglo-American Skepticism towards the Precautionary Principle
Andy Daughety (Vanderbilt Economics), Mass Torts and the Incentives for Suit, Settlement, and Trial
Rick Hasen (Loyola-LA Law), The Untimely Death of Bush v. Gore
Randall K.C. Kau (XE Capital Management), The Winding Path from Tax Law to Hedge Fund Land
February 8, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Robert Miller (Villanova Law), Directors as Advisors: The Role of Corporate Directors at Shareholder Meetings
Debra Lyn Bassett (Alabama Law), The Revolution of 1938 and its Discontents: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Today
Loyola LA
Steve Munzer (UCLA Law), Commons and Community in Biotechnological Assets
Ricardo Bascuas (Miami Law), Federal Sentencing: The American Inquisition
Notre Dame
Michael Moreland (Villanova Law), Torts
Alan Brudner (Toronto Law), Subjective Fault for Crime: A Reinterpretation
Daniel Hamilton (Chicago-Kent), Emancipation and Contract Law: Litigating Human Property after the Civil War
Eric Claeys (George Mason Law), Jefferson Meets Coase: The Harm-Benefit Distinction in Tort Law and Economics and Natural Property Rights
Devah Pager (Princeton), Race at Work: Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets
Sophie Sparrow (Franklin Pierce Law Center), Workshop: Using Grading Rubrics to Improve Teaching, Learning and Grading
February 7, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Stacey Dogan (Boston Law), Functionality Reconsidered
Warren Billings (New Orleans History), Just Laws for the Happy Guiding and Governing of the People There Inhabiting: Laws in the Colonial South
John Mayo (Georgetown Business), The Influence of Firms on Government
Chris Elmendorf (UC Davis), Undue Burdens on Voter Participation (Is the Right to Vote Like the Right to an Abortion?)
Reva Siegel (Yale Law), The Rights’ Reasons: Constitutional Conflict and the Spread of Woman-Protective Anti-Abortion Argument
Jon Klick (Florida State), The Effect of Contractual Regulation: The Case of Franchising
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Chris Sanchirico (Penn Law), The Tax Advantage to Paying Private Equity Funds Managers with Profit Shares: What is it? Why is it Bad?
Dennis Ventry (American University Law), Whistleblowers and Qui Tam for Tax
Marcia McCormick (Cumberland Law), The Truth is Out There: Refitting EEOC for the Twenty-First Century
William Birdthistle (Chicago-Kent Law), Exchange Traded Funds
Melissa Waters (Washington & Lee Law), Veri, Vidi, Amici: Law Professors as Transnational Norm Entrepreneurs Before the U.S. Supreme Court
Dick Fallon (Harvard Law), Constitutional Precedent Viewed Through the Lens of Hartian Jurisprudence
Aeyal Gross (Tel Aviv Law), Health Between a Right and a Commodity: A Comparative Analysis of the Israeli Experience
Tom Miles (Chicago Law), Strategic Judging under the Voting Rights Act & Judicial Decisionmaking and the Transformation of Voting Rights Doctrine
February 4, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Herbert Hovenkamp (Iowa Law), Innovation and the Domain of Competition Policy
Timothy Kaufman-Osborn (Whitman Politics), Perfecting Death: Abolitionism and the Challenge of Lethal Injection
Omri Ben-Shahar (Michigan Law), How to Repair Unconscionable Contracts
Eric Helland (Claremont-McKenna), The Impact of the Securities Litigation on the Directors’ Labor Market
Knud Haakonssen (Sussex History), Protestant Natural Law and the Question of Rights: The Case of Francis Hutcheson I & II
Leemore S. Dafny (Northwestern Management), Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?
Cristina Rodriguez (NYU Law), Significance of the Local in Immigration Regulation
St. Thomas (MN)
Nancy Ehrenreich (Denver Law), Feminist Theory and Reproductive Rights
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default
Yair Listokin (Yale Law), Does Shareholder Voting Maximize Stock Market Value?
Chief Justice Myron Steele (Supreme Court of Delaware), Delaware, North Dakota, and Federalism
November 16, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Tom Eisele (Cincinnati Law), Participating in Disillusion and Renewel
Duke International and Comparative Law
Lawrence Rosen (Princeton Anthropology), The Cultural Defense Plea in the U.S. and the U.K.
Steven Bank (UCLA Law), War and Taxes: Is There an American Tradition of Wartime Fiscal Sacrifice?
Pittsburgh
Marjorie Cohn (Thomas Jefferson Law) & Michael Lewis (Ohio Northern Law), Debating the Status of Detainees in the “War on Terror”
Antonio Orti Vallejo (Granada Law)
Mark Greenberg (UCLA Law), The Standard Picture and its Discontents
Lior Stahilevitz (Chicago Law), Reputation Nation: Law in an Era of Ubiquitous Personal Information
Holning Lau (Hofstra Law), Formalism: From Racial Integration to Same Sex Marriage
Jody Kraus (Virginia Law) and Robert Scott (Columbia Law), Contract Design and Contractual Intent
November 15, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
David Walker (Boston Law), Book/Tax Conformity and Equity Compensation
Gerald Leonard (Boston Law), Rethinking Dred Scott
Robert C. Hockett (Cornell), Winning Trade-Liberalization More Stakeholders by Making More Stockholders: A Global Stock-Ownership Plan
Jesse Fried (UC Berkeley), Deviations from Contractual Priority in the Sale of VC-Backed Firms
Edward McCaffery (USC Law), An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Consumption Taxes
Erin O’Hara (Vanderbilt Law), The Law Market
Stephen Shute (Birmingham Law), Self-Control in the Modern Provocation Defense
NYU Legal, Political and Social Philosophy
John Dunn (Cambridge Political Science), Capitalist Democracy: Elective Affinity or Beguiling Illusion? and Disambiguating Democracy
Pittsburgh
Jonathan Macey (Yale Law), The Problem of Corporate Governance
Nathan Oman (William & Mary Law), The Thirteenth Amendment and Specific Performance
Jane Winn (Washington Law), Globalization and the Reinvention of Contract Law
Dean Lueck (Arizona Economics), The Rectangular Survery versus Metes and Bounds: Systematic and Unsystematic Land Demarcation
November 13, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Bernadette Atuahene (Chicago-Kent Law), The Legitimacy Equilibrium in Property Law
Duke International and Comparative Law
Joseph Lookofsky (Copenhagen Law), Desperately Seeking Subsidiarity: Danish Private Law in Scandinavian, European & Global Context
Amanda Leiter (Georgetown Law), Inaccurate Precision: The Dangers of Quantitative Standing Inquiry
Jethro K. Lieberman (New York Law School), Tribeca Square Press: What Shall We Publish
Jonathan Klick (Florida State Law), The Effect of Contract Regulation: The Case of Franchising
Robert Bartlett (Georgia Law), Reexamining the Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on Firms’ Going-Private Decisions
Robert Adler (Utah Law), The Implications of Climate Change for Water Law
UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations
Suzanne Scotchmer (UC Berkeley Economics), Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
October 18, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Kris Collins (Boston Law), “Let the Government become their Guardians”: Welfare Policy, Administrative Law, and the Legal Construction of the Family in the Early Nineteenth Century
Frank Partnoy (San Diego Law), Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance
Alec Stone Sweet (Yale Law), Proportionality Balancing and Global Constitutionalism
Joseph Bankman (Stanford Law), Mr. Smith Gets an Education
Gabriel J. Chin (Arizona Law), Unexplainable on Grounds of Race: Doubts About Yick Wo
Keith N. Hylton (Boston Law), Due Process and Punitive Damages: An Economic Approach
Charles Lane, The Day Freedom Died (Chap. 5) (Chap. 9) (Chap. 11)
Northwestern Law and Economics
Lily Batchelder (NYU Law), The Superiority of an Inheritance Tax over an Estate Tax and No Wealth Transfer Tax
NYU Legal, Political and Social Philosophy
Lisa Austin (Toronto Law), Privacy and Private Law: the Dilemma of Justification
Frank Rudy Cooper (Suffolk Law), Who’s the Man? Police Masculinity and Terry v. Ohio
Larry D. Johnson (Assistant Secretary-General For Legal Affairs in United Nations), Advancing International Justice: The Varieties of UN-Sponsored Criminal Tribunals
Gregory Klass (Georgetown Law), Intent to Contract
Kevin Johnson (UC Davis Law), Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration Law
Oren Bar-Gill (NYU Law), The Prisoner’s (Plea Bargain) Dilemma
Washington
Kurt Lash (Loyola L.A. Law), The Original Meaning of an Omission: The Tenth Amendment, Popular Sovereignty and “Expressly” Delegated Power
October 16, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Stefano DellaVigna (Cal-Berkeley Economics), Detecting Illegal Arms Trade
Heidi Li Feldman (Georgetown Law), On Certain Social Practices: Lies, Deception, and Disclosure
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler (NYU Law), Are “Pay Now, Terms Later” Contracts Worse for Buyers? Evidence from Software License Agreements
Mark Umbreit (Minnesota Social Work), Restorative Justice and Human Rights: From the Impact of Capital Punishment on Healing of Family Survivors to Truth & Reconciliation Process in Liberia
Linda Jellum (Mercer Law), Which is to be Master: The Judiciary or the Legislature?
October 9, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Benjamin A. Olken (Harvard Society of Fellows), The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh
Steven Shavell (Harvard Law), Moral Duty to Obey the Law
Drew Clark (Center for Public Integrity), Media Tracker, FCC Watch, and the Politics of Telecom, Media and Technology