The Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law and the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security present Paving the High Road: Labor Standards and Procurement Policy in the Obama Era April 23, 2010. mw
Today (March 16, 2010) American University Washington College of Law is holding its Third Annual Freedom of Information Day Celebration, with a keynote address by John D. Podesta. This full-day program is presented by the Collaboration on Government Secrecy project. mw
The Journal of Legislation of Notre Dame Law School will hold its annual symposium on March 29th, 2010. The theme will be “Absolute Power: Legislative Solutions to Government Corruption.” The Journal invites paper submissions and seeks symposium participants. The deadline for papers is January 15th, 2010. Jump to full post
The World Response Conference on Global Outbreak will focus on worldwide public health on pandemic influenza and to contribute to the advancement of the global community thru the aspect of Prevention, Protection, Response, and Recovery. The conference will take place on November 12-13, 2009 in Las Vegas. jv
Kris Franklin (New York Law), Sim City: Putting Simulation-Based Clinics in Context
John Oberdiek (Rutgers Law), Choice, Value, and the Perfection of Distributive Justice
Richard Pildes (NYU Law), Groups and the Design of Democratic Institutions
Guy-Uriel Charles (Minnesota Law) The Voting Rights Act and Noisy Statutory Interpretation
Boston University School of Law will hold a conference on The Most Disparaged Branch: The Role of Congress in the 21st Century on November 14-15, 2008. This is the third in a series of conferences at BU that began with The Role of the Judge in the 21st Century and continued with The Role of the President in the 21st Century. They keynote address on November 14 will be presented by Jeremy Waldron, and Lawrence Lessig will give a lunch address on November 15.
For further information or to RSVP, please contact Andrea Larsen at 617.353.8011 or alarsen@bu.edu.
Nadelle Grossman (Marquette Law)
New York University Law, Economics, and Politics
Kevin Davis (NYU Law), Remedies of Corruption in Government Contracting
Curtis Bridgeman (Florida State), Enforcing Exchanges, Not Relationships: Acting Together and the Duty of Good Faith in Contract Law
Stacey Dogan (Boston Law), Functionality Reconsidered
Warren Billings (New Orleans History), Just Laws for the Happy Guiding and Governing of the People There Inhabiting: Laws in the Colonial South
John Mayo (Georgetown Business), The Influence of Firms on Government
Chris Elmendorf (UC Davis), Undue Burdens on Voter Participation (Is the Right to Vote Like the Right to an Abortion?)
Reva Siegel (Yale Law), The Rights’ Reasons: Constitutional Conflict and the Spread of Woman-Protective Anti-Abortion Argument
Jon Klick (Florida State), The Effect of Contractual Regulation: The Case of Franchising
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Chris Sanchirico (Penn Law), The Tax Advantage to Paying Private Equity Funds Managers with Profit Shares: What is it? Why is it Bad?
Dennis Ventry (American University Law), Whistleblowers and Qui Tam for Tax
Marcia McCormick (Cumberland Law), The Truth is Out There: Refitting EEOC for the Twenty-First Century
William Birdthistle (Chicago-Kent Law), Exchange Traded Funds
Melissa Waters (Washington & Lee Law), Veri, Vidi, Amici: Law Professors as Transnational Norm Entrepreneurs Before the U.S. Supreme Court
Dick Fallon (Harvard Law), Constitutional Precedent Viewed Through the Lens of Hartian Jurisprudence
Aeyal Gross (Tel Aviv Law), Health Between a Right and a Commodity: A Comparative Analysis of the Israeli Experience
Tom Miles (Chicago Law), Strategic Judging under the Voting Rights Act & Judicial Decisionmaking and the Transformation of Voting Rights Doctrine
Laura Dickinson (UConn Law), Outsourcing War and Peace
Nicolas Terry (St. Louis Law), Personal Health Records: Directing More Costs and Risks to Customers
William E. Nelson (NYU Law), Law and Religion in Massachusetts and Virginia: An Historical Comparison & Summary Judgment and the Progressive Constitution
Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law
Jon Palfreman (Oregon Journalism) & Carol Ann Bassett (Oregon Journalism), Cool Reporting about a Warming Planet
Kevin Maillard (Syracuse Law), The Ethics of Sovereignty
Michael Graetz (Yale Law), 100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States
Edward Greenspan (Greenspan, White), Stranger in a Surprisingly Strange Land: A Canadian Lawyer Defends Lord Conrad Black in U.S. Federal Court in Chicago
Calvin Massey (UC Hastings Law), Of Sovereignty, States, and Standing
The Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Manchester School of Law hosts the annual Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference March 18-20, 2008. The call for papers deadline is Feb. 1, 2008.
Papers are called for in many streams: Administrative Law; Construction Law; Criminal Justice; Diversity and Judging; Education Law; Environmental Law; European Law; Family and Child Law; Gender, Sexuality and Law; Human Rights Practice; Information Technology, Law and Cyberspace; Intellectual Property; Labour Law; Law and Economics; Law and Literature; Law, Race, Religion and Human Rights; Legal Education; Maths, Statistics and Scientific Legal Methodologies; Medical Law and Ethics; Mental Health and Mental Capacity; Regulation, Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility; Regulation, Security and Justice; Sentencing and Punishment; Sexual Offences and Offending; Socio-legal Theory and Method; Sports Law; Transitional Justice; Victims in International Law.
To promote “dialogue across traditional subject specialisms,” the organizers also invite paper proposals under keywords: Governance; Poverty and welfare; Space (real and virtual); Vulnerability; Participation; Identities; Trust; Histories; Resistance; Change.
Daniel E. Ho (Stanford Law), Congressional Agency Control: The Impact of Statutory Partisan Requirements on Regulation
Duke International and Comparative Law
Honorable Diane Wood (7th Circuit Fed. Ct. of Appeals), The Role of International Law in Federal Courts
Zachary Kramer (Arkansas Law), Heterosexuality and Title VII
Joanne Mariner (Human Rights Watch), The CIA’s Detention, Interrogation and Rendition Program
Jennifer Brown (Quinnipiac Law), Peacemaking in the Culture War Between Gay Rights and Religious Liberty
Christina Rodriguez (NYU Law), Immigration and Inevitability
Bernard Freamon (Seton Hall Law), Ancient Slavery and Modern Trafficking: Connections and Disconnections
Anthony E. Varona (American Law), Retheorizing the Internet
Vasuki Nesiah (International Center for Transitional Justice), Delimiting Accountability: Writing History out of Justice
Justice Jack Jacobs (Delaware Supreme Court), The Responsibilities of Directors in the New Millennium
UC Berkeley Law, Businss and the Economy
Dana Welch (Welch ADR), Ethics and the Business Lawyer
Gary Blasi (UCLA Law), The Assault on Skid Row: Low Roads and High Roads to Reducing Chronic Homelessness
Paul Robinson (UPenn Law), What Distributive Principles Should Guide Punishment?
Sasha Volokh (Georgetown Law), Choosing Interpretive Methods: A Positive Theory of Judges and Everyone Else
Northwestern University Law and Economics
Daniel E. Ho (Stanford Law), Congressional Agency Control: The Impact of Statutory Partisan Requirements on Regulations
Michael Hunter Schwartz (Washburn Law), Teaching and Learning Colloquium
NYU Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy
Loren Lomasky (Virginia Philosophy), Liberalism Beyond Borders
Walking the Line in the 21st Century Workplace: How to Balance Rights, Responsibilities & Interests
Jeffrey A. Gaba (SMU Law), Rifleshot Legislative Amendments: A Proposal to Correct Legislative Errors
Doug Branson (Pitt Law), No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and the Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom
Chad Oldfather (Marquette Law), A Consequentialist Analysis of Universal De Novo Review
NYU Law, Economics, and Politics
Maggie Penn (Harverd University-Government), The Possibility of Statehood
Susan A. Bandes (DePaul Law), Victims, “Closure,” and the Sociology of Emotion
Elena Baylis (Pitt Law), Early Adopters: Congolese Military Courts and the International Criminal Court Statute
Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law
Robert Nachtigall (UCSF), The Disposition Decision: How Post-IVF Couples Decide What to Do with Their Surplus Frozen Embryos
Dale A. Carpenter (Minnesota Law), Traditionalism and Gay Marriage
UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations
Ed McCaffery (USC Law), Explorations in the Theory of Optimal Consumption Taxes
Call for Papers
Research Symposium on Insurance Markets and Regulation
The Searle Center at Northwestern University School of Law
April 14-15, 2008
The State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, and Cornell University ILR sponsor: The High Road Runs Through the City: Advocating for Economic Justice at the Local Level, Sept. 27-28 2007 , Buffalo, NY.
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