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UNIDROIT, International Commercial Contracts – Washington, DC

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:48:11 +0000

Georgetown Law presents a symposium on UNIDROIT’s Principles of International Commercial Contracts Oct. 28, 2011. The event is free, but registration is strongly encouraged. mw

The New Private Law – Cambridge, MA

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:31:53 +0000

The Harvard Law Review presents The New Private Law Oct. 21, 2011. Panels address property, remedies, copyright, and torts. mw

Contract as Promise on iTunes

uwlegalscholarship — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:55:15 +0000

The proceedings of the symposium held on March 25, 2011, at Suffolk University Law School, Contract as Promise at 30: The Future of Contract Theory, are now available for free download from iTunes.If you click on the link below, the Suffolk page will open in iTunesU. Click on the icon for Continuing Legal Education, and you’ll get a list of interesting podcasts for download, including the four panels, introduction, and closing session of the symposium.

http://itunes.apple.com/institution/suffolk-university/id388450120

The twelve minute segment contains Prof. Fried’s opening remarks.

The other segments are:

How Moral Can a Contract Be?
- Barbara Fried (Stanford), “What’s Morality Got to Do With It? The Limits of Non-consequentialism in Contract Theory”
- Randy Barnett (Georgetown), “Contract is Not Promise; Contract is Consent”
- Jean Braucher (Arizona), “The Sacred and the Profane Contract Machine: The Complex Morality of Contract Law in Action”
- Gregory Klass (Georgetown), “Promises, Etc.”
- Commenter: T.M. Scanlon (Harvard)
Ethics and Economics of Promising
- Richard Craswell (Stanford), “Promises, Prices, and Pluralism”
- Avery W. Katz (Columbia), “Virtue Ethics and Efficient Breach”
- Daniel Markovits/Alan Schwartz (Yale), “The Expectation Remedy and the Promissory Basis of Contract”
- George Triantis (Harvard), “Promissory Autonomy, Imperfect Courts, and the Immorality of the Expectation Damages Default”
- Commenter: Seana Shiffrin (UCLA)
Promise Theory, Extended, Applied, and Critiqued
- Juliet Kostritsky (Case Western), “The Promise Principle and Contract Interpretation”
- Lisa Bernstein (Chicago), “Merchant Contract as Promise”
- John C.P. Goldberg (Harvard)/CurtisBridgeman (Florida State), “Contract, Tort, and Promise”
- Rachel Arnow-Richman (Denver) “A Contract Theory of Employment”
- Commenter: Carol Chomsky (Minnesota)
The Future of Contract Theory
- Henry E. Smith (Harvard), “The Equitable Dimension of Contract”
- Roy Kreitner (Tel Aviv), “On the New Pluralism in Contract Theory”
- Nathan Oman (William & Mary), “Promise and Private Law”
- Commenter: Robert Scott (Columbia)
The remaining segment is Prof. Fried’s response/reaction at the end of the day.

Announcement from Jeffrey M. Lipshaw, Suffolk. mw

Law of Obligations – London, Ontario

uwlegalscholarship — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:16:48 +0000

The Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario hosts the Sixth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations July 18-20, 2012. The theme of the conference is Challenging Orthodoxy. The deadline for submitting abstracts is May 13, 2011.

The Obligations series of conferences originated at the University of Melbourne in 2002, and has since become one of the leading private law conferences in the common law world. The conferences have been held at the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland, and the National University of Singapore. Mostly recently, the Obligations V Conference was held at the University of Oxford. 2012 will mark the first time that the conference will be held in North America.

Scholars working in the fields of contract, tort, unjust enrichment, equity or private law theory are invited to submit proposals for papers addressing the conference theme. The theme is intended to encourage scholars to question some of the common law’s established rules and approaches and to propose novel solutions to old problems. . . . Junior scholars and those currently engaged in graduate degrees in law are encouraged to apply.

Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay – Madison, WI

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:46:06 +0000

The University of Wisconsin Institute for Legal Studies presents Empirical and Lyrical: Revisiting the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay Oct. 21-22, 2011. mw

Contracts – Gulfport, FL

uwlegalscholarship — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:59:37 +0000

Stetson University College of Law and Texas Wesleyan School of Law are co-sponsoring the 6th Annual International Conference on Contracts, February 18–19, 2011, at Stetson’s beautiful campus in Gulfport, Florida. Similar to prior contracts conferences held at UNLV, McGeorge, South Texas, Texas Wesleyan, and Gloucester, England, this conference is designed to afford scholars and teachers at all experience levels an opportunity to present and discuss recently published papers, forthcoming papers, works in progress, and pedagogical innovations, and to network with colleagues from the United States and around the globe. Stewart Macaulay, Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, is the keynote speaker. A few places remain available for panelists and moderators at the conference. Proposals for presentations will be considered on a rolling basis until spaces are filled, but no later than January 15. For more information or to register online, visit www.law.stetson.edu/conferences/contracts. Contact person: Associate Dean James Fox fox@law.stetson.edu.

Contract as Promise at 30 – Boston, MA

uwlegalscholarship — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 23:02:40 +0000

The symposium Contract as Promise at 30: The Future of Contract Theory, to be held at the Suffolk University Law School on Friday, March 25, 2011, is now open for online registration. There is no charge for attendance, but the organizers do request that you register.

Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum – Stanford, CA

uwlegalscholarship — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:47:06 +0000

Stanford and Yale Law Schools announce the twelfth session of the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to be held at Stanford Law School on June 24-25, 2011, and seek submissions for this meeting. The focus of the twelfth session will be private law and dispute resolution. The topics to be addressed are: Bankruptcy, Torts, Taxation, Contracts, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, Corporate & Securities Law, Private International Law, Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Property, The Legal Profession. The call for papers deadline is March 17, 2011. The full call is available on SSRN.

Private and Public Law – Brisbane, Queensland

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:47:08 +0000

The TC Beirne School of Law at The University of Queensland hosts a private law conference on the theme “Private and Public Law – Intersections in Law and Method” July 21-22, 2011. The last date for submission of abstracts is March 31, 2011.

African Conference on International Commercial Law – Douala, Cameroon

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 01:28:32 +0000

University of Basel in Switzerland and the University of Buea in Cameroon, with the support of UNCITRAL (United Nation Commission on International Trade Law) and OHADA (Organisation for the Harmonised Business Law in Africa) are organising an international conference entitled “The 1st African Conference on International Commercial Law.” The Conference will be held in Douala, Cameroon, Jan. 13-14, 2011. The Conference will focus on topics related to international sales law, international arbitration and unification of general contract law.

Earlier post is here.