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Call for Papers: Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy - Housing, Elderly, Juvenile Justice

The Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy solicits articles on housing (deadline Aug. 1, 2008), the elderly (deadline Sept. 1, 2008), and juvenile justice (deadline Nov. 1, 2008). Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 24th, 2008 | Poverty Law, Elder Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Criminal Law, Property Law | no comments

April 23, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Stephen Harp (Akron History), Au Naturel: National Decency Laws and Local Tolerance of Public Nudity in Twentieth-Century France

Chicago International Law

Alan Sykes (Stanford Law), Currency Manipulation and World Trade

Chicago-Kent

Peggie Smith (Iowa Law), Home Sweet Home? Workplace Casualties of Consumer-Directed Home Care for the Elderly

Connecticut Tax

Yoshihiro Masui (Tokyo Law), Japan as a Tax Treaty Partner

NYU Legal History

James Whitman (Yale Law), The Verdict of Battle

UC Hastings

Benjamin Spencer (Washington & Lee Law)

USC Law, History and Culture

Carolyn Sale (Alberta English), The King is a Thing: The King’s Prerogative and the Treasure of the Realm in Plowden’s Report of the ‘Case of Mines’ and Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Villanova

Tayyab Mahmud (John Marshall Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 23rd, 2008 | Comparative Law, Elder Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Literature, Legal History, Tax Law, International Law, Uncategorized | no comments

March 13, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Columbia

George Fletcher (Columbia Law), CORRECTING EVIL Tort Liability for Human Rights Abuses

Fordham

Jae Lee (Fordham Law), Recidivism as Omission: A Relational Account

Georgetown

Mary Anne Case (Chicago Law), Feminist Fundamentalism

Georgia State

James Fleming (Boston University Law), Are We All Originalists Now? I Hope Not!

Harvard

Jennifer Gerarda Brown (Quinnipiac Law), Peacemaking in the Culture War Between Gay Rights and Religious Liberty

Harvard Legal History

Hendrik Hartog (Princeton), Planning for Old Age

Michigan Law & Economics

Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law), Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Care Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan

Minnesota Faculty Works

Miranda McGowan (San Diego Law)

NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance

Ruth Mason (UConn Law), Made in America for European Taxation: The Internal Consistency Test

Northwestern Tax

Larry Zelenak (Duke Law), The Federal Retail Sales Tax that Wasn’t: An Actual History and an Alternative History

Stanford Law & Economics

Abraham Wickelgren (Northwestern Law) & Warren Schwartz (Georgetown Law), Credible Discovery, Settlement, and Negative Expected Value Suits

Toronto Health Law

Jill Horwitz (Michigan Law), What do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix

Vanderbilt

Sanford Levinson (Texas Law)

Yale Legal Theory

W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell Law), Government Lawyers in the Liberal State

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 12th, 2008 | Elder Law, Evidence Law, Comparative Law, Law and Sexuality, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Law and Technology, Insurance Law, Law and Gender, Law and Religion, Constitutional Law, Tax Law, Criminal Law, Tort Law, Legal History, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Uncategorized | no comments

Long-Term Care - Milwaukee

The Marquette Elder’s Advisor hosts The Kindness of Strangers: Enhancing Lives Through Long Term Care March 28, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 6th, 2008 | Elder Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

September 17, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Florida State

Randy Abate (Florida Coastal Law), Automobile Emissions and Climate Change Impacts: Employing Public Nuisance Doctrine as Part of a “Global Warming Solution” in California

Hofstra

David Law (San Diego Law), Globalization and the Future of Constitutional Rights

Loyola Tax Policy

Lily Batchelder (NYU Law), The Superiority of an Inheritance Tax over an Estate Tax and No Wealth Transfer Tax

Northern Kentucky University

Thomas Eisele (Cincinnati Law), Wittgenstein Tests Holmes: On the Proposal to Separate Legal Concepts from Moral Concepts

Pittsburgh

Equal Protection in Education: Implications of the Seattle School District Case for School Integration and Racial Diversity

Moderator: Deborah Brake (Pitt Law)
Panelists: Lia Epperson (Santa Clara Law)
              Jane Schofield (Pitt Psychology)
              Eugene Lincoln (Pitt Education)

Rutgers (Camden)

Brian Tamahana (St. John’s Law), The Realism of the Formalist Age

Seton Hall

Carter Bishop (Suffolk Law)

Temple

Trevor W. Morrison (Cornell Law), Suspension and Extrajudicial Constitution

UC Berkeley Law, Business and the Economy

Howard Chao (O’Melveny & Myers), Why and How China is Pushing Deals Onshore

UCLA Faculty Mondays

John Hueston (Irell & Manella LLP), Beyond the Trial of Lay and Skilling: Lessons from Enron’s Corporate Governance Failures

UNLV

Sanford Levinson (Texas Law), The U.S. Constitution and the “Lessons of Experience”: Does What Made Sense in 1787 Serve Us Well in 2007?

Virginia Law and Economics

Alan Sykes (Stanford Law), Transnational Forum Shopping as a Trade and Investment Issue

Washington University in St. Louis

Dorothy Brown (Emory Law), Shades of the American Dream: Race, Class, and Homeownership Wealth

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 17th, 2007 | Law and Economics, Civil Rights Law, Law and Race, Elder Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Environmental Law, Education Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law | no comments

Elder Law - Arlington, VA

The AARP Foundation National Legal Training Project presents the 7th Annual National Aging & Law Conference: Safety Net for Older Americans: What Can Be Done to Protect It?, Oct. 11-13 (with a pre-conference workshop on Oct. 10), 2007, in Arlington, VA.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 4th, 2007 | Elder Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Elder Law (NAELA) - Memphis

The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys presents the 2007 NAELA Institute - It’s Now or Never, November 2-4 (with a presession day on Nov. 1), 2007, in Memphis, TN.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 4th, 2007 | Elder Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Elder Law - Vancouver, BC

The Canadian Centre for Elder Law Studies hosts “Moving Forward, Moving Beyond” November 8-10, 2007, in Vancouver, BC.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 4th, 2007 | Elder Law, CONFERENCES | no comments