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 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
The School of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge announce a joint conference: Effective Judicial Review: A Cornerstone for Good Governance, Dec. 10-12, 2008.
This Conference provides an exciting opportunity to discuss key issues relating to judicial review across a number of jurisdictions. Speakers include judges, government officials, practitioners and academics from various jurisdictions. A full list of the speakers on the conference website.
Kathryn Sikkink (Minnesota Law), Do Human Rights Trials Make a Difference?
Felice Batlan (Chicago-Kent Law), The Imperial SEC? Historicizing the Internationalization of the Securities Markets
CUNY
Dinesh Khosla (CUNY Law), A Case Study in Social Entrepreneurship
Michael Hoeflich (Kansas Law), Selling the Law in Antebellum America: The Sale & Distribution of Law Books, 1780-1870
St. Thomas (Mn)
Matt Bodie (St. Louis Law), The False Promise of One Share, One Vote
UC Hastings
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
Florida
Michael B. Lang (Chapman Law), What Every Tax Lawyer Should Know About Patented Tax Strategies
Steve Darwall (Michigan Law), The Nature and Value of Rights & The Second-Person Standpoint: Respect, Morality, and Accountability Chapter 1 & 2
David B. Mustard (Georgia Business) & Thomas A. Eaton (Georgia Law)
Anita Krishnakumar (St. John’s Law), Early Reflections on the Roberts Court and Statutory Interpretation
Roberta Romano (Yale Law), Does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Have a Future?
Deborah L. Brake (Pittsburgh Law), The Invisible Pregnant Athlete and the Promise of Title IX
Ralph Porcher (Institute of Advanced Study), The Hand of Midas: When Concepts Turn Legal or Deflating the Hart-Dworkin-Debate
Stanford Law, Science, & Technology
Michael M. O’Hear (Marquette Law), Lovely Rita?: Procedural Justice and Federal Sentencing
Alexandra Kalev (Arizona Sociology), Cracking the Glass Cages? Restructuring and Ascriptive Inequality at Work
UC Hastings
Yafir Holzman-Gazit (Israel Management Law), Land Expropriation in Israel
Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA Economics), Scylla and Charybdis? Some Historical Reflections on the Two Basic Problems of Corporate Governance
USC Law, Economics, and Organization
Josh Lerner (Harvard Business), Inducement Prizes and Innovation
Stephen Choi (NYU Law), Director Elections and the Influence of Proxy Advisors
Washington University in St. Louis
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
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review will present its 2008 symposium, Judging the Selection Process: The Merits of the Election System for State Judges, on April 18.
Among other issues, we hope to explore the advantages and disadvantages of Arkansas’s election system for state judges, as well as examine recent movements in other states to change its method of selecting judges. Although judicial selection is a perennially hot topic, it has become increasingly debated as states adjust their judicial canons to conform with the Supreme Court’s 2002 ruling in Republican Party of Minnesota v. White (holding that the announce clause in Minnesota’s Code of Judicial Conduct, which prohibited judicial candidates from stating their views on disputed legal or political issues, violated the first amendment freedom of speech).
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
Steve R. Johnson (UNLV Law), The Who and What of Anti-Abuse Rules: The Debate over Codifying the Economic Substance Doctrine
Laurence Ashworth (Queen’s Business), Advertising Deception, Correction, and Defensive Consumers
Rosemary Coombe (York University), A Broken Record: Music as a Subject of Cultural Rights
Andrew Taslitz (Howard Law), Wrongly Accused Redux: How Race Contributes to Convicting the Innocent - the Informants Example
Eric Posner (Chicago Law), Professionals or Politicians: The Uncertain Empirical Case for an Elected Rather than Appointed Judiciary
Michael Hunter Schwartz (Washburn Law), Instructional Design-Based Law School Teaching Methodologies
Pauline Kim (Washington Law), Exploring Panel Effects: Deliberation and Strategy on the United States Courts of Appeals
Lloyd Bonfield (New York Law School), Lord Chief Justice King’s Reports - 1714-22: ‘Commercial Law’
Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Financial Innovation and the New Chapter 11
Giuseppe De Palo (Hamline Law), The Globalization of the ‘ADR Movement
Megan Reid (USC Religion), Punishment and Appropriate Justice in Islamic Societies
Washington
Signe Brunstad (Washington Law) & Toshiko Takenaka (Washington Law), Cross-Border Cultural Teaching Experience: License Negotiation and Mock Trial with European Law Students
Jay Tidmarsh (Notre Dame Law), The Primacy of Procedure
Amalia D. Kessler (Stanford Law), The Adversarial Principle of U.S. procedure - Why Did Antebellum America not Adopt European Conciliation Courts?
Ingrid Wuerth (Vanderbilt Law), The Original Meaning of the Captures Clause
Marjorie A. Silver (Touro Law), Supporting Lawyers: Supervising Attorneys’ Personal Skills
Notre Dame
Mark McKenna (Notre Dame), Intellectual Property
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Paige Marta Skiba (Vanderbilt Law), Payday Lending
George Geis (Alabama Law), The Space Between Markets and Hierarchies
The Widener Law Journal is commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the National Conference of State Trial Judges by publishing essays and articles discussing the changes that have affected trial judges over the last fifty years. Pieces will be published in the Spring 2009 issue of the Journal, in time for the August 2009 (July 30 - Aug. 4) American Bar Association meeting in Chicago, where the Conference and its members will be honored and the Journal’s work would be recognized. Jump to full post
Gregory S. Alexander (Cornell Law), Can Constitutions be Transformative? The Role of Background Traditions and Culture
Stephen H. Legomsky (Washington University Law), Learning to Live with Unequal Justice: Asylum and the Limits to Consistency
Nadia Bernaz (National University of Ireland at Galway), The Caribbean Court of Justice: One Court with Two Jurisdictions — A Unique Judicial Institution?
Notre Dame
Laura Dickinson (UConn Law), Civil Rights and Legal History
Ronald J. Allen (Northwestern Law), Juridical Proof and the Best Explanation
Christopher Slobogin (Florida Law), Dangerousness and Death Penalty
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Chris Brummer (Vanderbilt Law), The Public Markets and International Financial Centers
Saikrishna Prakash (San Diego Law), The Separation and Overlap of War and Military Powers
William A. Birdthistle (Chicago-Kent Law), The Fortunes and Foibles of Exchange-Traded Funds
Joanna Grisinger (Clemson History), Looking Inward: The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and Administrative Reform
Sharon Hannes (Tel Aviv Law), Compensating for Executive Compensation
David Hoffman (Temple Law), Docketology, District Courts, and Doctrine
Risa Goluboff (Virginia Law), The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (Intro), Chapter 9: Brown and the Remaking of Civil Rights
Loyola
Jackie Lipton (Case Western Law), The Rise of Publicity in Rubloff Reception
Ed Fallone (Marquette Law), The Borderless Consitution
Notre Dame
Judy Fox (Notre Dame Law), Foreclosures and Abandoned Homes in South Bend: A Search for Causes and Solutions
Daniel Berkowitz (Pittsburgh Economics) & Karen Clay (Carnegie Mellon Heinz School of Public Policy & Management), Legal Origins and the Evolution of Institutions: Evidence from American State Courts
Steve Friedland (Elon Law), Some Thoughts on Implementing the Carnegie Report — Curriculum, Assessment and Learning Environments
UCLA Law, Economics, & Organizations
Emmanuel Saez (UC Berkeley Economics), Optimal Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets
Joshua Getzler (Oxford Law), Changing Attitudes to Finance in English Law and Equity c. 1860-1920
The Commission on the American Jury Project holds the 2008 National Symposium on the American Jury System at Fordham University School of Law Oct. 16-17, 2008.
The National Conference on Pattern Jury Instructions — sponsored by the National Center for State Courts, the Supreme Court of Ohio, and the Ohio Judicial Conference — will meet in Columbus, April 17-18, 2008.
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