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Hosted by Professors Jason Yackee and Alexandra Huneeus
A light lunch will be provided starting at 11:45
CLE/EPR Credit Approved by the Wisconsin Board of Bar Examiners

No Fee — Same-day registration on site.

Timeline:
11:45  Buffet Lunch
12:05-12:10 Introduction of Speaker
12:10-12:40 Presentation
12:40-1:10 Questions and Discussion
1:10  Adjourn

Paper:  A draft paper can be downloaded at this site.

Speaker Bio:  Charles Geyh teaches and writes in the areas of judicial conduct, ethics, procedure, independence, accountability and administration. He is the author of When Courts and Congress Collide: The Struggle for Control of America’s Judicial System(University of Michigan Press 2006) and Disqualification: An Analysis Under Federal Law(2d ed. Federal Judicial Center 2011); coauthor of Judicial Conduct and Ethics (4th ed., Lexis Law Publishing 2007) (with Alfini, Lubet and Shaman); and editor of What’s Law Got to Do With it? What Judges Do, Why They Do It, and What’s at Stake (Stanford University Press 2011). His scholarship has appeared in over 60 books, articles, book chapters, reports and other publications.

Geyh has served a number of governments and governmental organizations. He has been a consultant to: the Parliamentary Development Project on Judicial Independence and Administration for the Supreme Rada of Ukraine; the United States Department of Justice in the corruption trial of Pennsylvania Judge Mark Ciavarella; the Administrative Office of California Courts Task Force on Judicial Campaign Practices; the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on the impeachment and removal of Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Rolf Larsen; and the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal. In addition, he has served as an expert witness in the United States House and Senate on the impeachment and removal of District Judge G. Thomas Porteous and as legislative liaison to the Federal Courts Study Committee.

Geyh has also assisted a range of other organizations on issues relating to the administration of justice. He has served the American Bar Association as director of and consultant to its Judicial Disqualification Project and as Reporter to four Commissions (the Joint Commission to Evaluate the Model Code of Judicial Conduct, the Commission on the 21st Century Judiciary, the Commission on the Public Financing of Judicial Campaigns, and the Commission on the Separation of Powers and Judicial Independence). He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Justice at Stake Campaign; as Reporter to the Constitution Project Task Force on the Distinction between Intimidation and Legitimate Criticism of Judges; as Director of the American Judicature Society’s Center for Judicial Independence; and as chair of the editorial committee for the jour! nal Judicature. He is a member of the American Law Institute, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

A recipient of the Leon Wallace Teaching Award and a two-time recipient of the IU Trustees’ Teaching Award, Geyh teaches courses on civil procedure, legal ethics, federal courts, and the relationship between courts and legislatures.

Following graduation from the University of Wisconsin Law School, Geyh clerked for Judge Thomas A. Clark of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He then worked as an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and served as counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. Professor Geyh began his teaching career in 1991 at the Widener University School of Law and joined the law faculty at Indiana in 1998.

If you have questions about this event, please contact Pam Hollenhorst, Associate Director, Institute for Legal Studies, at pshollen@wisc.edu.

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The courts were meant to play an integral role in keeping legislators and executive branch officials within the proper bounds of their authority, but judges today are often unwilling or feel unable to enforce constitutional limits on government power.

The Institute for Justice and the George Mason Law Review invite you to a symposium that seeks to move beyond the imprecise and unhelpful rhetoric of so-called judicial activism and simply ask whether judges are properly engaged in their role of interpreting and applying the constitution.

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Initial Preliminary Statements of Research Proposals, not to exceed one page, must be received by March 15, 2012, to receive full consideration for the 2012-13 funding cycle. SCJI will request a full proposal from selected authors by April 15, 2012. The 2011 SCJI Empirical Research Workshop will take place in June 2012.

SCJI will fully support certain accepted proposals by paying author(s) to lead the research efforts, providing in-house econometricians and legal experts as project staff, paying for necessary data (which includes employing large numbers of research assistants to find and code data that might otherwise by unavailable), and funding a comprehensive communications strategy for the final Public Policy Report.

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LJ Jackson’s review of civil costs and the ensuing legislative process to enact his recommendations highlights the importance of, and necessity for, academics and their research in the development of policy and law reform. The requirement in the 2014 REF exercise to demonstrate the impact of research provides a strong impetus for the relationship between research and law reform and policy to be explored and invigorated.

This conference aims to provide a unique opportunity to do that by bringing together academics, parliamentarians, civil servants, judges and other users of research.

Contributions are invited primarily from academics in the field of law – including doctrinal and theoretical research as well as socio-legal approaches – but also in political science, sociology and economics. In particular we welcome research papers which:

• identify needs for reform
• have contributed to law reform processes in the last 5 years or are likely to in the near future
• have influenced the development of precedent or other judicial decision making
• capture impacts of law reform
• have improved, or are intended to improve, the depth and quality of policy debate and legal argument
• capture how law making has changed or is changing.

Suggested topics/themes for parallel workshop sessions include:

• (Legal) Business Environment – e.g. EU and domestic laws regulating business transactions (EU contract law, AML), regulation of entities, cyberlaw
• Rights of the individual (and opposing rights)/legal person environment – e.g employment, family justice, human rights/civil liberties, access to justice, medico-legal, migration
• Criminal Justice – e.g. sentencing, victim perspectives, juries
• Rule of Law/Public Law
• International perspectives on law reform

(***examples are provided as a guide and are not intended to be exclusive)

113 Chancery Lane London WC2A 1PL Dx 56 Lon/Chancery Ln
T: 020 7242 1222 f: 020 7831 0344 www.lawsociety.org.uk

We invite submissions of abstracts for 20 minute papers on any aspect of law reform (broadly defined as the process of examining existing laws and advocating and implementing changes in a legal system but also including work which contributes to government legislative programmes and Bill processes, and judicial decision making).

Submission details:
Please email a Microsoft Word document containing your contact details, institution and position, along with a 700 word abstract to tara.chittenden@lawsociety.org.uk and nina.fletcher@lawsociety.org.uk and indicating the workshop subject stream the paper is most suited for.
Deadline for abstracts: 9 March 2012
Word limit: 700 words
Notification: 6 April 2012
Full manuscript: chosen authors are required to submit the full manuscript by September 14, 2012.

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The workshop is open to non-tenured and recently tenured academics who teach and write in Federal Courts, Civil Rights Litigation, and associated topics. Those who do not currently hold a faculty appointment but expect to do so beginning in fall 2012 are welcome. The program is also open to scholars wanting to attend, read, and comment on papers but not present. There is no registration fee.

Abstracts are due by Nov. 15, 2011. Details on PrawfsBlawg. mw