The Fifth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability will be held at the University of Technology, Mauritius, Jan. 5-7, 2009.
The deadline for the current round of the call for papers is Oct. 9, 2008. There will be subsequent rounds.
Harvard Health Law Policy Biotechnology, and Bioethics
Henry Grabowski (Duke Economics), Priority Review Vouchers to Encourage Innovation for Neglected Diseases
Kim Krawiec (North Carolina Law)
John Pfaff (Fordham Law), The Myths and Realites of Correctional Severity: Evidence from the National Corrections Reporting Program
Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota Law), The British Approach to Consumer Financial Disputes: A Model for Reform in Insurance Law and Beyond
Northwestern Law and Economics
Jody S. Kraus (Virgina Law), Contract Design and the Structure of Contractual Intent
Oregon Enviromental and Natural Resource Law
Alexander Murphy (Oregon Geography), The Geopolitical Implications of Climate Change
Mark Roe (Harvard Law), Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Law: Resource Based Evidence
Cally Jordan (Melbourne Law), Legal Origins Revisited: The Case of Corporate Governance
Yale Economics and Organization
Amy Finkelstein (MIT Economics), Estimating Welfare in Inurance Markets Using Variation in Prices
The University of Calgary Faculty of Law (Alberta) and the Pacific McGeorge School of Law (Sacramento, California), together with their partners from the Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), present Critical Intersections for Energy & Water Law:
New Challenges and Opportunities May 15-16, 2009, in Calgary, Alberta. Papers and other proceedings will be published after the conference by the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law (edited at the University of Calgary) and the Pacific McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal. Jump to full post
Lonny Sheinkopf Hoffman (Houston Law)
David A. Weisbach (Chicago Law), Climate Change and Discounting the Future: A Guide for the Perplexed
Michael Knoll (Pennsylvania Law), International Competitiveness, Tax Incentives, and a New Argument for Tax Sparing: Preventing Double Taxation by Crediting Implicit Taxes
Eric Posner (Chicago Law), Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts
UC Berkeley CSLS Speaker Series
Andreas Abegg (Freiburg Law), The Contracting State and its Courts - A Comparative Historical Inquiry
Lynn Stout (UCLA Law), Is The Homo Economicus Model a Self -Fulfilling Prophecy
Washington University in St. Louis
Melissa Murray (UC Berkeley), The Space Between: The Intersection of Criminal Law and Family Law
The Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy continues to consider papers for symposium issues on Immigration and on The Environment. Both issues will be published early next spring.
The Journal welcomes articles and essays addressing any issues within the upcoming topic areas. The Journal seeks as rich a dialogue as possible on these important topics, and therefore encourages articles not only from law professors but also from legal practitioners, politicians, political scientists, clerics, and other sundry philosopher-kings. The Journal places a strong emphasis on articles and essays that are morally serious, passionately argued, and well written. Submissions may be as long as truly necessary (up to 30,000 words, text and footnotes), but should be as short as possible.
Submissions should be emailed to ndjlepp [at] nd.edu. Submissions will be reviewed for possible publication until December 15. Any questions should be directed to Noah J. Stanzione, the current Editor-in-Chief, at stanzione.1 [at] nd.edu.
Lewis & Clark Law School presents One Earth: Globalism & Animal Law Oct. 17-19, 2008.
The 27th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) will be February 26 to March 1, 2009. The organizers (students in Land Air Water at the University of Oregon School of Law) are soliciting panel suggestions. The priority deadline is Dec. 1, 2008; suggestions will be accepted until Jan. 15, 2009.
The Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation and the Bowerman Center for Environmental Law present the 2008/2009 JELL Symposium: LIVING ON A FINITE EARTH: Energy Law and Policy for a New Era Oct. 10, 2008.
Stephen Siegel (Depaul Law), Injunction for Defamation, Juries, and the Clarifying Lens of 1868
Samuel Jordan (St. Louis Law), Irregular Panels
Judge Coughenour (USDC Westen District of Washington)
Neal Devins (William and Mary Law), Did Bush Hurt the Presidency? The Nexus between Party Polarization and Presidential Power
Max Schanzenbach (Northwestern Law), The Impact of Tort Reform on Private Health Insurance Coverage
Oregon Enviromental & Natural Resources Law
Gabriel Eckstein (Oregon Law), Climate Change Implication for Negotiating International Transboundary Water Agreements
Santa Clara Center For Social Justice and Public Service
Jocelyn Benson (Wayne State Law), Towards Full Participation: The History and Relevance of Language Assistance for English Learning Voters
Enrichetta Ravina (NYU Business), Love & Loans. The Effect of Beauty and Personal Characteristics in Credit Markets
The Administrative Law Review (American University Washington College of Law) presents a symposium, The Changing Landscape of Federal Energy Law, Oct. 2, 2008.
The inaugural meeting of the Society for Environmental Law and Economics will be held on March 27 and 28, 2009, at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. See the call for papers on SSRN. The submission deadline is Sept. 30, 2008.
Minna J. Kotkin (Brooklyn Law), Diversity and Discrimination: A Look at Complex Bias
Michael Gerhardt (North Carolina Law), The Constitutional Significance of the Forgotten Presidents
Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law
Roberta Mann (Oregon Law), Do Tax Breaks for Ethanol Reduce Global Warming
On November 6-7, 2008, the Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute at Georgetown University Law Center and Stanford Law School’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program will host the 11th Annual Conference on Litigating Takings and Related Legal Challenges to Land Use and Environmental Regulation.
The conference, to be held at Stanford Law School, will examine how the Takings Clause and related legal doctrines may undermine the public’s ability to address emerging environmental, public health, and growth management challenges. A particular focus of this year’s conference will be the potential takings implications of public policy initiatives designed to mitigate and adapt to global warming. The conference will also address recent legal developments in takings law and related fields, including the latest legal and policy fall out from the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in Lingle v. Chevron USA and Kelo v. City of New London. Another featured topic will be future prospects for property rights ballot measures along the lines of Propositions 98 and 99 in California and other states.
Conference faculty will include a mix of leading academic scholars and expert practitioners. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Stanford Environmental Law Journal.
AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest
The Future of Federalism
Cosponsored by Federalist Society
Friday, September 12, 2008, 9 a.m.–3:15 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
The American system of federalism is at the heart of many disagreements over important constitutional and public policy issues. Changes in all three branches of government and recent Supreme Court decisions raise questions about the future scope of federal-state relationships: How should we balance state and federal rights? Should the courts take a more active role in limiting federal power, or should they instead leave the federal-state balance to the political process? Can we make better progress on these issues by allowing states to pursue their own policies independently? Or should the federal government take a more active role?
At this AEI event, cosponsored by the Chapman School of Law and the Federalist Society, scholars of differing points of view will address these questions and reflect on the future structure of American federalism. During the first panel, award-winning professor of courts and social policy Malcolm Feely, AEI’s Michael S. Greve, public and constitutional law professor Roderick Hills, and George Mason Law professor and coeditor of the Supreme Court Economic Review Ilya Somin will consider whether we should strive for a system in which states compete or cooperate with each other and with the federal government. Randy Barnett, author of Restoring the Lost Constitution, and constitutional law expert Jesse Choper will discuss the appropriate level of judicial review and the role of the judicial branch in adjudicating disputes over th e scope of federal and state power during the second panel. Panelists for the third discussion will examine the importance of federalism in two major public policy issues: health care and the environment. Judge William Pryor of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit will deliver a keynote address on the future of federalism.
There is no charge for the conference, but CLE credit will be available through the Federalist Society for $25.
We seek papers on food, culture, and the law, written from a variety of perspectives, appropriate for presentation at one or both of the following conferences: the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (Suffolk University Law School, Boston, April 3-4, 2009) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (details for the 2009 conference TBA on the ASFS website). Although we aim to use these panels as a partial foundation for creating the edited collection, we are also happy to consider abstracts and articles from potential contributors who are unable to attend either ASLCH or ASFS. Finished essays should be of a quality suitable for publication with an established university press and reasonably accessible to a multidisciplinary audience of scholars and students of the law, social sciences, and humanities, as well as interested readers outside the academy.
J. Amy Dillard
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Baltimore School of Law
1420 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
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The British Institute of International and Comparative Law presents The Eleventh Investment Treaty Forum Public Conference — THE ENERGY CHARTER TREATY: Energy security, investment protection and future developments. It will take place Sept. 18-19, 2008.
Lexxion (a legal publisher in Berlin) hosts the Berlin Climate Law Conference 2008 July 25, 2008. Even though the organizers officially “closed” the registration last Thursday there are still a few places available.
The conference is organised in cooperation with the 5th International Summer Academy “Energy and the Environment” of the University of Greifswald and will bring together experts from the legal discipline and other stakeholders for a discussion on the legal dimensions of climate change. It responds to the growing significance of the law as a necessary framework to operationalise climate policies and create predictability and stability in the rapidly growing carbon market.
The conference agenda will cover the Commission’s Climate Proposals of 23 January 2008 and specific issues regarding the reforming of the EU ETS, and we are expecting around 80 participants from all over the world - so far registrations have been made from many European countries as well as Brasil, China, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa etc.
The McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy (JSDLP) is presently accepting submissions for Volume 5:2. The issue of development, with its impact on environmental degradation and human rights, is of growing concern. This general issue of the JSDLP seeks to present and analyze legal and policy issues of critical importance for implementing sustainable development. Examples of suitable topics for submission include, but are not limited to: environmental and social safeguards in international trade and investment agreements; land use law and sustainable development; corporate social responsibility; trade and intellectual property rights in genetic organisms; environmental and social considerations in WTO dispute resolution; and natural resource conservation laws and best practices.
The full call for papers (in PDF) is here. The deadline is Nov. 1, 2008.
Vermont Law School Land Use Institute presents Food, Fuel & the Future of Agriculture: Conference on Sustainable Agriculture July 24-25, 2008.
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The Cambridge Centre for Landscape and People presents an international workshop, The Right to Landscape: Contesting Landscape and Human Rights, Dec. 8-10, 2008. The deadline for abstracts has passed.
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