Digital Forensics - St. Paul, MN
The Association of Digital Forensics Security and Law (ADFSL) annual conference will be in St. Paul, MN, May 19-21, 2010. The call for papers deadline was Feb. 19. mw
Empirical Legal Studies - Los Angeles
The Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held at the USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles Nov. 20-21, 2009. The preliminary program is here. Paper abstracts are available on SSRN.
Panel topics address a wide range of legal areas and institutions, including:
- corporate governance (several panels), securities litigation, the financial crisis, tax, bankruptcy, business entities
- law and politics (several panels), elections, lobbying
- capital punishment, policing, criminal evidence, prisons
- law and neuroscience, behavioral law and economics
- law schools, the legal profession
- courts, jurors, victims and witnesses, attitudes and decisionmaking, settlement
- civil rights, environmental law, property, torts, family law, medical malpractice, contracts, administrative law, patent, international law
(These are all separate panels. I grouped them into the bullet points to make the list easier to browse.) mw
Call for Papers: The New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement
The New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement and the New England School of Law seek
submissions due December 21, 2010 concerning the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts involving changes in procedures for admitting forensic evidence in criminal trials. Jump to full post
July 31, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Scott Brewer (Harvard Law), Is Skepticism Material to the Law of Evidence
April 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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.
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
Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), A Special Case?: Corporations and Campaign Finance
Fernanda Nicola (American University Law), Invisible Cities: Markets, Distribution and Development in European Union Law
Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Law), The Province of Jurisprudence Revisited
Loyola
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”
Diane Ring (Boston College Law), Sovereignty and International Tax
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar (Stanford Law), “Securing” the Bureaucracy: The Federal Security Agency and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 1939-1953
Sai Prakash (San Diego Law), The Seperation and Overlap of War and Military Powers
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
Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions
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.
April 3, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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
Paul Halliday (Virginia History), The Liberty of the Subject: Conceiving Habeas Corpus in England and Empire
Nestor Davidson (Colorado Law), Standardization and Pluralism in Property Law
Jessica Stern (Harvard Law), Producing Terror: Organization Dynamics of Survival
Dalia Tsuk Mitchell (George Washington Law), Corporate Directors: Trustees, Representatives, Agents
Loyola
Fernando Gomez (Barcelona Law), Insurance and Tort: Coordination Systems and Imperfect Liability Rules
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
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
Sionaidh Douglas-Scott (King’s College Law), The EU and Terrorism
Yair Listokin (Yale Law), Does Shareholder Voting Maximize Stock Market Value?
Jason Gillmer (Texas Wesleyan Law), Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery Times
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)
Robert Frank (Cornell Management), The Status of Moral Emotions in Consequentialist Moral Reasoning
March 13, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
George Fletcher (Columbia Law), CORRECTING EVIL Tort Liability for Human Rights Abuses
Jae Lee (Fordham Law), Recidivism as Omission: A Relational Account
James Fleming (Boston University Law), Are We All Originalists Now? I Hope Not!
Jennifer Gerarda Brown (Quinnipiac Law), Peacemaking in the Culture War Between Gay Rights and Religious Liberty
Hendrik Hartog (Princeton), Planning for Old Age
Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law), Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Care Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Ruth Mason (UConn Law), Made in America for European Taxation: The Internal Consistency Test
Larry Zelenak (Duke Law), The Federal Retail Sales Tax that Wasn’t: An Actual History and an Alternative History
Abraham Wickelgren (Northwestern Law) & Warren Schwartz (Georgetown Law), Credible Discovery, Settlement, and Negative Expected Value Suits
Jill Horwitz (Michigan Law), What do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix
W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell Law), Government Lawyers in the Liberal State
January 31, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Wendy Wagner (Texas Law), Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research
Michael Dorf (Columbia Law), Dynamic Incorporation of Foreign Law
Alexander Volokh (Georgetown Law), Choosing Interpretive Methods: A Positive Theory of Judges and Everyone Else
Ethan Yale (Georgetown Law), Investment Risk and the Tax Benefit of Deferred Compensation
Howard M. Erichson (Seton Hall), CAFA’s Impact on Class Action Lawyers
Mississippi
Arthur Laby (Rutgers-Camden), Insider Trading and False Promising
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Kevin Hassett (American Enterprise Institute), Taxes and Wages
R. Craig Green (Temple Law), An Intellectual History of Judicial Activism
David Weisbach (Chicago Law), A Welfarist Approach to Disabilities
Lonny Hoffman (Houston Law), The Judicialization of Litigation Reform
Moshe Halbertal (NYU Law), Self-Transcendence, Violence and the Political Order
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
Lyn Goering (Washburn Law), Tailoring Deference to Variety: Judicial Deference to Administrative Interpretation
Lisa Kelly (Washington Law), Telling Children’s Stories: Legal Advocacy for Children and Youth
Stephen Darwall (Michigan Philosophy), Authority and Second-Personal Reasons for Acting
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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