The area of statistical reasoning applied to forensic science has undergone a rapid growth and development both theoretically but also in applied research, becoming a highly interdisciplinary field. This conference is the only forum where police officers, forensic scientists, jurists, scholars from related disciplines and statisticians meet to discuss the constraints, mechanisms and opportunities to provide statistical and inferential support to the decision making process either at level of the investigation or in court.

Short courses (July 18) cover Probabalistic Reasoning for Judges and Lawyers, Statistical Methods for DNA Evidence, and Bayesian Networks in Forensic Science. mw

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

Submissions selected for publication will appear in Volume 36, Issue 2, along with papers written by
symposium participants. On November 13, the Journal is presenting a symposium, “Confronting Forensic Evidence: Implications of Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts & Briscoe v. Virginia,” that will examine the impact of the contentious decision.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS/GUIDELINES

The issue will be published in May 2010. The deadline for submissions is Dec. 21, 2010.

Manuscripts should adhere to the following guidelines:

• Conform text and citations to the 18th edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation.

• Provide a cover letter including your name, school or affiliation, title of your manuscript, address, telephone number and e-mail address.

We encourage, but do not require, the provision of an abstract and conformity with the 15th editing of the Chicago Manual of Style or The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style. We prefer articles with fewer than 25,000 words (or roughly 50 law review pages), including footnotes. Longer articles will only be published in exceptional circumstances, and shorter essays are also welcomed.

The New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement reserves the right to edit all manuscripts and letters. Nonetheless, major changes in substantive manuscript content will not be made without the author’s permission. The permission is requested by the Journal.

Submissions should be e-mailed to journal@nesl.edu. For more information, call Editor-in-Chief Che Odom at (617) 422-7238 or e-mail journal@nesl.edu. jv

Scott Brewer (Harvard Law), Is Skepticism Material to the Law of Evidence

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

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

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