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April 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston College Tax Policy

Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), The Story of Murphy:  A New Front in the War Against the Income Tax

Note:  Professor Caron will be blogging on this paper today here.

Boston University

Scott Moss (Colorado Law), O Brave New World That Has Such Creatures Evidence: An Economic Analysis Of Courts’ Misguided Rules On Discovery Of Digital Evidence

Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender

Elizabeth Emens (Columbia Law), Intimate Discrimination

Columbia

Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), A Special Case?: Corporations and Campaign Finance

Fordham

Jeanne C. Fromer (Fordham Law)

Georgetown

Fernanda Nicola (American University Law), Invisible Cities: Markets, Distribution and Development in European Union Law

Harvard

Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Law), The Province of Jurisprudence Revisited

Loyola

Naomi Mezey (Georgetown Law)

Minnesota Faculty Works

Ed McCaffery (USC Law), Towards a Unified Theory of Tax and Property

NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance

David Gamage (UC Berkeley Law), Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidanc: A Tentative Defense of “Double Taxation”

Northwestern Tax

Diane Ring (Boston College Law), Sovereignty and International Tax

SMU

Susan Klein (Texas Law)

Southwestern

Mariano-Florentino Cuellar (Stanford Law), “Securing” the Bureaucracy: The Federal Security Agency and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 1939-1953

Suffolk

Ran Hirschl (Toronto Law)

Texas

Sai Prakash (San Diego Law), The Seperation and Overlap of War and Military Powers

UCLA Legal Theory

Joshua Cohen (Stanford Political Science), Politics, Power, and Public Reason

Washington

Amy Wildermuth (Utah Law), The Failed Mead Experiment - A Critical Review of the Skidmore Revival

Yale Legal Theory

Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 17th, 2008 | Comparative Law, National Security Law, Law and Race, Evidence Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Law and Technology, Civil Procedure, Law and Economics, Legal History, Family Law, Business Law, Property Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, International Law, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized | no comments

Legal Doubt, Scientific Certainty - Alabama

Alabama Law School hosted Legal Doubt, Scientific Certainty: What Scientific Knowledge Does For and To the Law on April 11, 2008.

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | Law and Technology, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Evidence Law | no comments

April 3, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Scott Moss (Colorado Law), O Brave New World That Has Such Creatures Evidence: An Economic Analysis Of Courts’ Misguided Rules On Discovery Of Digital Evidence

Boston College Legal History

Paul Halliday (Virginia History), The Liberty of the Subject: Conceiving Habeas Corpus in England and Empire

Columbia

Nestor Davidson (Colorado Law), Standardization and Pluralism in Property Law

Fordham

Tsilly Dagan (Bar-Ilan Law), Taxing the Non-Market Economy

Georgetown

Elizabeth Warren (Harvard Law), Making Credit Safer

Harvard

Jessica Stern (Harvard Law), Producing Terror: Organization Dynamics of Survival

Harvard Legal History

Dalia Tsuk Mitchell (George Washington Law), Corporate Directors: Trustees, Representatives, Agents

Loyola

Sonia Katyal (Fordham Law)

Michigan Law & Economics

Fernando Gomez (Barcelona Law), Insurance and Tort: Coordination Systems and Imperfect Liability Rules

Minnesota Faculty Works

Geoffrey Miller (NYU Law), Law Economics and Narrative in the Hebrew Bible

NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance

Jonathan Barry Forman (Oklahoma Law), Making America Work & 2008 Tax Considerations in a Universal Pension System

Northwestern Tax

David Duff (Toronto Law), Rethinking the Concept of Income in Tax Law & Policy

Seattle

Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge Economics), Bad Samaritans — The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

SMU

Sionaidh Douglas-Scott (King’s College Law), The EU and Terrorism

Stanford Law & Economics

Yair Listokin (Yale Law), Does Shareholder Voting Maximize Stock Market Value?

Stetson

Jason Gillmer (Texas Wesleyan Law), Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery Times

Texas

Calvin Johnson (Texas Law), Consumption Tax for Extraordinary Returns

Washington

Ilhyung Lee (Missouri Law), Korean Parties and Korean Panelists in UDRP Decisions (and the ‘Bad Faith’ Dilemma)

Yale Legal Theory

Robert Frank (Cornell Management), The Status of Moral Emotions in Consequentialist Moral Reasoning

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 3rd, 2008 | Comparative Law, National Security Law, Law and Religion, Evidence Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Technology, Insurance Law, Law and Economics, Legal History, Business Law, CONFERENCES, Property Law, Tax Law, Commercial Law, Tort Law, Securities 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

January 31, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Wendy Wagner (Texas Law), Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research

Boston University

Mike Guttentag (UNLV Law), The Law Instinct

Chicago Constitutional Law

Barry Friedman (NYU Law), Untitled Manuscript

Columbia

Michael Dorf (Columbia Law), Dynamic Incorporation of Foreign Law

Emory

Alexander Volokh (Georgetown Law), Choosing Interpretive Methods: A Positive Theory of Judges and Everyone Else

Florida

Gavin Clarkson (Michigan Law)

Florida State

Ethan Yale (Georgetown Law), Investment Risk and the Tax Benefit of Deferred Compensation

Fordham

Howard M. Erichson (Seton Hall), CAFA’s Impact on Class Action Lawyers

McGeorge

Al Brophy (Alabama Law)

Michigan Law & Economics

Avi Bell (Fordham Law), Private Takings

Mississippi

Arthur Laby (Rutgers-Camden), Insider Trading and False Promising

NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance

Kevin Hassett (American Enterprise Institute), Taxes and Wages

Ohio State

R. Craig Green (Temple Law), An Intellectual History of Judicial Activism

Stanford Law & Economics

David Weisbach (Chicago Law), A Welfarist Approach to Disabilities

Stetston

Lonny Hoffman (Houston Law), The Judicialization of Litigation Reform

UCLA Legal Theory

Moshe Halbertal (NYU Law), Self-Transcendence, Violence and the Political Order

Vanderbilt

Claire Huntington (Colorado-Boulder Law), Repairing Family Law

Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations

Nita Farahany (Vanderbilt Law), Judging Genes: Implications of the Second Generation of Genetic Tests in the Courtroom

Washburn

Lyn Goering (Washburn Law), Tailoring Deference to Variety: Judicial Deference to Administrative Interpretation

Washington

Lisa Kelly (Washington Law), Telling Children’s Stories: Legal Advocacy for Children and Youth

Yale Legal Theory

Stephen Darwall (Michigan Philosophy), Authority and Second-Personal Reasons for Acting

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on January 31st, 2008 | Law and Society, Law and Economics, Evidence Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Technology, Tort Law, Securities Law, Tax Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Administrative Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Call for Papers: Science and the Courts

The University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal invites original scholarly articles for a special issue on Science and the Courts to be published in 2008. The submission deadline is March 1, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 21st, 2007 | Law and Science, Civil Procedure, Evidence Law, Empirical Legal Studies, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Criminal Law | no comments

American Jury - DeKalb, IL

Northern Illinois University Law Review hosts a symposium, the Modern American Jury, April 9, 2008, DeKalb, IL. Details are after the jump.

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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 7th, 2007 | Evidence Law, Civil Procedure, Empirical Legal Studies, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Criminal Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Teaching Evidence - Cleveland

The AALS Evidence Section is looking for proposals about teaching evidence using new technologies, to be presented at the AALS Mid-Year Meeting Conference entitled The Future of Evidence: How Science and Technology Are Changing Evidence Law, June 3-8, 2008, in Cleveland. The full request for proposals is after the jump. The deadline for proposals is Oct. 1, 2007. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 4th, 2007 | Evidence Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Legal Education, CONFERENCES | no comments

Where Truth Meets Fiction: A National Symposium on the Intersection of Forensic Science and Pop Culture

Where Truth Meets Fiction:  A National Symposium on the Intersection of Forensic Science and Pop Culture at Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 3-5, 2008.

Posted by legalscholarshipblog on August 14th, 2007 | Evidence Law, Criminal Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Association of American Law Schools Midyear Meeting

AALS Midyear Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio on June 1-6, 2008:

June 1-4:  Workshop for Law Librarians
June 3-6:  Conference on Constitutional Law
June 3-6:  Conference on Evidence

Posted by legalscholarshipblog on August 11th, 2007 | Law Librarianship, Evidence Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments