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American Health Lawyers Association - Seattle

The American Health Lawyers Association holds its annual meeting June 28-30.  A program for in-house counsel will be offered June 27. mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 11th, 2010 | Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Privacy, Ethics, Biomedical Informatics - Salt Lake City

The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law for a multi-disciplinary symposium focusing on issues of law, ethics, and maintaining patient confidentiality in the electronic age. The symposium, Privacy and Ethics Meets Biomedical Informatics, begins at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 4 and runs all day on Friday, March 5. It is cosponsored by the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, the Division of Medical Ethics, and the Department of Biomedical Informatics. mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 11th, 2010 | Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference - Newark, NJ

Seton Hall University School of Law hosts the Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference Sept. 9-12, 2010. The conference theme is Our Country, Our World in a “Post-Racial” Era.

It will feature panels on the “war on terror,” urban revitalization, criminal law, health care, education, immigration, human trafficking, voting rights, international and comparative law, judicial nominations, environmental justice, and corporate responsibility, among others. It will also include a Junior Faculty and Development Workshop. A media plenary session will explore the meaning of a “post-racial” society and its relevance to legal scholarship and teaching.

Calls for papers or proposals:

mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 9th, 2010 | Immigration Law, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Law and Politics, Local Government Law, Poverty Law, National Security Law, Law and Race, Criminal Law, Health Law, Education Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES | no comments

Call for Papers: Health Care Reform, Access, Human Right

The West Virginia Law Review announces a call for articles and invites scholars, practitioners, and researchers to submit contributions for its upcoming issue focusing on health care. This issue will include articles from the Law Review’s Lecture Series, “Beyond Politics: A Discussion of Health Care in America,” a thoughtful discourse on the social disparities in access and outcomes engrained in our current health care system. For this issue, we are particularly interested in scholarship discussing the following topics:

• Health care reform;

• Health care access and outcome disparities, especially as they affect women and children, racial minorities, and the rural poor;

• Health care as a human right;

Articles will be selected by our Articles Selection Team and the Editor-in-Chief based on scholarly merit, originality, relevancy, and writing style. Articles should be thoroughly researched and contain appropriate footnotes in bluebook format. Please submit articles electronically to wvlrev [at] mail.wvu.edu by June 30, 2010. Any questions regarding the call for articles or article submissions generally should be sent to wvlrev [at] mail.wvu.edu. mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 11th, 2010 | Human Rights Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Health Law | no comments

International AIDS Conference - Vienna

The International AIDS Society holds the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) (”Rights Here, Right Now) in Vienna July 18-23, 2010. Details about the Policy, Law, Human Rights and Political Science track are here.

Abstracts are due Feb. 10, 2010. (There is a window for “late breaker” abstract submission April 20 - May 20, 2010.)    mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 28th, 2009 | Human Rights Law, Disability Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Future of the Family: Modern Challenges in Adoption Law - Columbus, OH

Capital University Law Review presents the 6th Annual Wells Conference, The Future of the Family: Modern Challenges in Adoption Law, March 11, 2010. Topics may include:

  • The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Families
  • The Impact of Assisted Reproduction on Families
  • Overcoming Barriers to the Creation of Families for Members of the GLBT Community.

mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 23rd, 2009 | Law and Sexuality, Poverty Law, Law and Gender, Family Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Future of Animal Law - Cambridge, MA

The Animal Legal Defense Fund’s “Future of Animal Law” conference will be held at Harvard Law School April 9-11, 2010. mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 23rd, 2009 | Animal Law, Agricultural Law, Jurisprudence, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Developing Food Law - New Haven

Yale Law School presents Developing Food Law April 16-17, 2010.

Food policy implicates a broad range of pressing humanitarian, public health, and environmental challenges. These challenges include, among many others: ending hunger, promoting rural economic development, protecting the safety of the food supply, reversing the obesity and diabetes epidemics, and averting catastrophic climate change. Addressing any and all of these challenges requires the development of healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems. The aim of Developing Food Law is to help participants bring about patterns of food production that honor the universal right to food, the health and well-being of communities, and the preciousness of natural resources. The conference will bring together leading policymakers, scholars, activists, students, and farmers to discuss strategies for achieving food systems guided by those values.

Developing Food Law will explore two distinct “tracks” for reform through two concurrently-run series of panels. The U.S Track will focus on interconnections among U.S. agricultural policy, public health, and the environment, while considering avenues for pushing food law in healthier and more sustainable directions. The International Track will examine reform strategies, both on local levels and in transnational fora, aimed at ensuring food access in the developing world. The conference keynote, issue lunches, and a concluding conversation will bring these two “tracks” together to reflect on common themes, such as the impact of technological innovation and the importance of a systemic approach to reform.

mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 9th, 2009 | Human Rights Law, International Law, Environmental Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

ReProducing Justice - Berkeley

The Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice (Berkeley Law) presents its fall symposium, ReProducing Justice, Nov. 12-13, 2009.

The regulation of bodies, sexualities, and reproduction by the state has traditionally been addressed through a “reproductive rights” lens. In practice, however, the reproductive rights movement, with its emphasis on individual “choice” and rights to specific practices such as abortion, has neglected the needs and demands of people of color, poor people, and those whose bodies are marked as inappropriate or incapable of reproducing or enjoying sexuality. Now, a new generation of lawyers and activists, under the new framework of “reproductive justice,” seek to eradicate the reproductive oppressions that have exploited the bodies, sexualities, and reproduction of our most marginalized individuals and communities for decades.The reproductive justice movement — a movement recognizing that power inequities inherent in our society’s institutions, environment, economics and culture affect people’s abilities to exercise self-determination in their reproductive lives — is burgeoning, yet legal scholarship, pedagogy, and advocacy lags behind. We are inviting you to participate in the conference and help us to galvanize a new generation of lawyers and legal scholars who are committed to uniting all those whose reproductive agency is endangered by enforcement of oppressive stereotypes and economic and cultural inequities. The conference will bring activists together with scholars from within law and outside law to address a host of interconnecting social justice and human rights issues that affect people’s bodies, sexuality, and reproduction.

The event is cosponsored by Law Students for Reproductive Justice (Boalt Chapter & National Office), Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice, Berkeley Law Critical Race Scholars Society, Law Students of African Descent, Women of Color Collective. mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 8th, 2009 | Poverty Law, Law and Sexuality, Law and Gender, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

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

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 23rd, 2009 | Empirical Legal Studies, Evidence Law, Law and Economics, Civil Rights Law, Tort Law, Law and Psychology, Civil Procedure, Legal Profession, Courts, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Politics, Securities Law, Administrative Law, Health Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES, Business Law, Family Law, Legal Education, International Law, Environmental Law, Tax Law, Property Law | no comments

World Response Conference on Global Outbreak 2009 - H1N1 Swine Flu and H5N1 Avian Flu - Las Vegas

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

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 7th, 2009 | Communications Law, Government Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

2009 Midwestern Law & Economics Association (MLEA) Annual Meeting - Notre Dame, IN

Notre Dame Law School will host the 2009 Midwestern Law & Economics Association (MLEA) annual meeting on October 9-10, 2009 at Eck Hall of Law. Topics to be covered at the conference include: torts and health care, criminal law and welfare economics, and intellectual property and competition law. jv

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 7th, 2009 | Tort Law, Law and Economics, Health Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES | no comments

Reproductive Health Fellowship - New York City

The Center for Reproductive Rights and Columbia Law School announce a two-year fellowship (CRR-CLS Fellowship) “designed to prepare recent law school graduates for legal academic careers, with a focus on reproductive health and human and human rights. Fellows will be affiliated with the Center and the Law School and will participate in the intellectual life of both programs.” The application deadline for the current cycle is Feb. 1, 2010. mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 1st, 2009 | Human Rights Law, Law and Sexuality, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Family Law, Health Law | no comments

Personalized Medicine - Phoenix, AZ

The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (Arizona State University) Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology, in partnership with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI), presents Personalized Medicine in the Clinic: Policy, Legal, and Ethical Implications March 8-9, 2010. mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 29th, 2009 | Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Eugenics and Disability: History and Legacy in Washington - Seattle

The University of Washington Disability Studies Program presents a public symposium, Eugenics and Disability: History and Legacy in Washington, Oct. 9, 2009.

In 1909, Washington became the second state to pass a law allowing for the forced sterilization of people with disabilities and other citizens in the name of improving society. Why was eugenics so widely popular during the early 20th century? What is the significance of the hidden and complex history of eugenics in 2009? This one-day symposium will provide a forum for dialogue about Washington’s eugenic past and its present-day implications for the lives of people in our communities. The roundtable format will feature local and national speakers, with ample time for audience discussion.

mw

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 28th, 2009 | Legal History, Civil Rights Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Sep 16, 2009 Colloquia/Workshops

Pacific McGeorge

Michael Perlin (New York Law School), The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Future of Institutional Mental Disability Law in the United States: The Dawn of A New Era.

This paper is not publicly available.

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 16th, 2009 | Disability Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Health Law | no comments

Health Law and the Elderly - Wilmington, DE

The Widener Law Review, in partnership with the Widener University School of Law Health Law Institute, Delaware Hospice, the Delaware End-of-Life Coalition, and others, announces its Symposium titled Health Law and the Elderly: Managing Risk at the End of Life, to be held March 26, 2010, on Widener’s Wilmington, Delaware campus.

Abstracts are due Sept. 30, 2009. Details are here.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 10th, 2009 | Elder Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Interdisciplinary Collaborative Educ - Law Schools & Health Professions - Atlanta

Georgia State University College of Law presents “Interdisciplinary Collaborative Education: Partnerships Between Law Schools and the Health Professions” Sept. 24-25, 2009

DISCOUNTED EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS Tuesday, September 1.

DISCOUNTED HOTEL RATE GUARANTEE ENDS Thursday, September 3.
After September 3, the discounted hotel rate will only be offered based on room availability.

For more information about the conference and to register, visit the conference website www.lawhealthconference.org. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 27th, 2009 | Clinics, Legal Education, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Fellowship in Health Law Policy, Biotech, Bioethics - Cambridge

Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics offers a post-doctoral fellowship to help emerging young scholars produce top-rate work in our shared fields.

The 2010-2012 post-graduate Academic Fellowship Program provides substantial full-time support for two years to candidates already holding a graduate degree in law or another allied field aiming to begin an academic career in the areas covered by the Center. The application period for the post-graduate Academic Fellowship Program will be from September 1, 2009, through November 15, 2009, and awardees will be notified on a rolling basis. For more information and the complete call for applications please consult www.law.harvard.edu/programs/petrie-flom.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 27th, 2009 | Law and Technology, Law and Science, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Health Law | no comments

Autism & Vaccines - Indianapolis

Indiana University School of Law — Indianapolis hosts the 7th Annual Conference on Health, Disability, and the Law, Autism and Vaccines, June 12, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 3rd, 2009 | Law and Psychology, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Food Policy & Health - Stanford, CA

The Stanford Law & Policy Review is planning a symposium on Food Policy & Health and seeks articles or short essays “on any subject relating to United States food policy and health.” Review of submissions will begin on June 15, 2009. For details, see this post at Agricultural Law.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 7th, 2009 | Agricultural Law, Administrative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Health Law | no comments

Climate Change and Human Rights - Seattle

The University of Washington School of Law presents Three Degrees: The Law of Climate Change and Human Rights Conference May 28-29, 2009. The Climate Project is a partner.

The Law of Climate Change and Human Rights Conference will bring legal practitioners and scholars from a range of disciplines together with an international body of relief organizations and peoples impacted most heavily by climate change, to discuss the application of human rights law to the impending climate crisis. Numerous scholars have suggested that human rights law may provide the most adequate and responsible remedy for climate-related impacts, and this conference will create an international forum to thoroughly test the available remedies, raise the legal issues associated with these remedies, and collaborate over necessary advancements in the law.Through the lens of a fictitious disaster scenario, The Law of Climate Change and Human Rights Conference will offer an opportunity for creative problem-solving and collaboration for lawyers engaged in the historically separate fields of environmental, human rights, refugee, and public health law, and scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy and geography. Panels will address topics such as the forced migration of climate refugees, the disproportionate impacts of climate change on the world’s poor, the national security implications of climate change, as well as reforms to the governance structure overseeing climate mitigation.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 24th, 2009 | Human Rights Law, Environmental Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

April 22nd Colloquia/Workshops

Harvard Health Law

       Alexander Capron (USC Law), The Circulatory-Respiratory Determination of Death in Organ Donation

NYU Legal History

       Ariela Dubler (Columbia Law), Sexing Skinner: Marriage, Procreation and the Legal Family

SMU

       Charles Weisselberg (UC Berkeley Law)

St. Louis

       Michael Perry (Emory Law), Protecting Constitutionally Entrenched Human Rights: What Role for the Courts?

Stetson

       David T. Ritchie (Mercer Law), Legal Writing: Gateway to the Legal Discourse Community

Washington

       Lawrence Repeta (Washington Law), Human rights in Japan and the efforts of Japan’s NGOS before the UN Human Rights Committee

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 22nd, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Legal Research & Writing, Legal History, Constitutional Law, Health Law | no comments

April 20th Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law and Philosophy

       Cynthia Skach (Oxford Politics)

Columbia Law and Economics

       Margret Meyer (Oxford)

Georgia

       Juliet M. Moringiello (Widener Law)

Rutgers (Camden)

       Michael Carrier (Rutgers Camden Law)

UC Berkeley CSLS

       Jacob Hacker (Berkeley Poli. Sci.), Yes, We Can? The New Push for American Health Security

UCLA

       Eugene Volokh (UCLA Law), Facilitative Constitutional Rights

Wisconsin

       Jannine Bell (Indiana University), Hate Speech and Hate Crime

Yale Workplace Theory and Policy

       Ben Sachs (Harvard Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 20th, 2009 | Law and Philosophy, Law and Economics, Constitutional Law, Health Law | no comments

April 15th Colloquia/Workshops

Connecticut

       Mario L. Barnes (Connecticut Law)

Harvard Health Law

       Allison Hoffman and Christopher Robertson (Harvard Law), Oil and Water: The Trouble with Individual Mandates. Fragmented Markets, and Health Reform and The Blind Expert: A Litigant-Driven Solution to Bias and Error

NYU Legal History

       David Tanenhaus (UNLC History), Gerald’s Story: Children, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice

Wisconsin 

       Roger Alford (Pepperdine Law), Arbitrating Human Rights

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 15th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Legal History, Health Law | no comments

April 8th Colloquia/Workshop

Harvard Health Law

       Kate Baicker (Health Economics), Expanding Public Health Insurance

Northwestern Law and Political Economy

       Vanessa Baird (Colorado Poli. Sci.) and Tonja Jacobi (Northwestern Law), How the Dissent Becomes the Majority: Using Federalism to Transform Coalitions in the U.S. Supreme Court

NYU Legal History

       Deborah Dinner (NYU Law), Debating Protective Legislation: The Origins of the Legal Sex/Gender Distinction, 1964-1974

St. Louis

       Kathy Cerminara (Nova Southeastern Law), Open-Access Hospice: Compassionate Reimbursement Rules in Medicare

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 8th, 2009 | Law and Politics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Gender, Legal History, Health Law | no comments

March 26th Colloquia/Workshops

Alabama

       Matthew Kramer (Cambridge Law), Freedom and the Rule of Law

Boston College

       Neil  Buchanan (George Washington Law)

 Columbia

       Philip Hamburger (Columbia Law), Beyond Protection

Florida State

       Jayanth Krishnan (William Mitchell Law), (Un)wanted Outsiders: The Debate over Excluding American and British Law Firms from a Thriving Capital Market

Minnesota Faculty Works

       Richard Brooks (Yale Law), Groups and Individuals

Toronto Health Law

      Theodor R. Marmour (Yale Management), Reflections on Medicare Across the North American Border

Tulsa

       The Legal Scholarship of Richard Epstein

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 26th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Civil Rights Law, Business Law, Health Law | no comments

March 18th Colloquia/Workshops

Arizona State

       Eric Barendt (University College London), Conflicts between right to Freedom of Speech and Privacy

Connecticut

       Christine Desan (Harvard Law), Beyond Commodification: Contract and the Credit-Based World of Modern Capitalism

Emory

       Ed Cheng (Brooklyn Law)

Florida State

       Lawrence A. Cunningham (George Washington Law), Reimagining Financial Regulations

Harvard Health Law

       Michael Chernew (Harvard Medical), The Financial Effects of a Value Based Insurance Design Program

St. Louis

       Allison Christians (Wisconsin Law), Networks, Norms, and National Tax Policy

Toronto Law and Economics

       Timur Kuran (Duke Economics)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 18th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, Civil Rights Law, Health Law, Contract Law | no comments

Call for Papers - DePaul University Journal of Health Care Law

The DePaul University Journal of Health Care Law, the legal publication for the DePaul University College Law’s Health Law Institute, is seeking submissions from students, professors, practitioners, and health care professionals for an upcoming issue on social justice issues in health care. Submissions should be e-mailed to depaul_hlj@yahoo.com no later than April 1, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 16th, 2009 | Law and Society, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Health Law | no comments

March 11th Colloquia/Workshops

Harvard Health Law

       Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA Economics), Understanding the Relationship between Education and Health

Hofstra Human Rights and International Law

      Hans Correll (United Nations)

Northwestern Law and Political Economy

       Betsy Sinclair (Chicago Poli. Sci). The Party Line Vote: Legislative Power,  Networks of Agreement, and Term Limits in California

NYU Legal History

       Michael Willrich (Brandeis History)

Toronto Tax Law and Policy

       Jacob Nussim (UCLA Law)

      

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 11th, 2009 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Legal History, International Law, Tax Law, Health Law | no comments

Medicine and the Criminal Process - Manchester, UK

The University of Manchester School of Law project on the Impact of the Criminal Process on Health Care Ethics and Practice will host Good, Bad or Indifferent: Medicine and the Criminal Process on Nov. 3-4, 2009.

Day 1 will focus on the prosecution of doctors; in the afternoon there will be workshops on Tainted Blood; The Role of the Criminal Process, The Role of the Coroner, Assisted Dying, Tourism and Covert Acceptance; and lastly a workshop on the Selling of Body Parts. Day 2 will focus on Ethical Conflicts in Criminal Courts.

The deadline for submissions is April 17, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 6th, 2009 | CALLS FOR PAPERS, Health Law, Criminal Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

March 4th Colloquia/Workshops

Emory

       Michelle Oberman (Santa Clara Law)

Harvard Health Law

      Anup Malani (Harvard Law),  Do advertisements affect the physiological efficacy of branded drugs?

Hofstra

       Clark Lombardi (Washington Law), Church and State in Nineteenth Century America

Northwestern Law and Political Economy

       William G. Howell (Chicago Poli. Sci.), War-Time Judgments of Presidential Power: Striking Down but Not Back

NYU Legal History

       Jefferson Decker (NYU Law), Governing from the Right: The Conservative Litigation Movement and the Reagan Revolution”

SMU

       Charles H. Brower (Mississippi Law)

St. Louis

      Robert Gatter (St. Louis Law), Constitutionalization of State Informed Consent Law

USC Law History and Culture

       Mary Bilder (Boston College Law), The Authenticity of Madison’s Notes     

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 4th, 2009 | Law and Politics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Religion, Legal History, Health Law | no comments

February 25th Colloquia/Workshops

Connecticut

       Daphne Barak-Erez (Tel Aviv Law), The Institutional Aspects of Comparative Law

Emory

      Susan Bandes (DePaul Law)

Florida State

       Hope Babcock (Georgetown Law)

Georgetown Law and Philosophy

       David Brink (U.C. San Diego Philosophy)

Harvard Health Law

       Ted Marmor (Yale Management), Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of Health Care

Hofstra

       Oren Bracha (Texas Law), The Ideology of Authorship, Revisited

NYU Legal History

       Michael Klarman (Harvard Law), Backlash: The Occasionally Perverse Consequences of Court Decisions”

SMU

       Lackland M. Bloom (SMU Law)

Stanford Environmental and Natural Resources Law

       Tim Quinn (Association of California Water Agencies), Water Supply Reliability in a World of Shortages

USC Law History And Culture

       Ronald Dworkin (NYU Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 25th, 2009 | Law and Politics, Law and Philosophy, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Comparative Law, Environmental Law, Law and Economics, Health Law | no comments

February 18th Colloquia/Workshops

Connecticut

       Justin Long (Connecticut Law), Against Certification

Emory

       Francesco Parisi (Minnesota Law)

Harvard Health Law

        Ben Roin (Harvard Law), The Perverse Incentives Created by the Patent Term for Drugs

Hofstra

       Darren Hutchinson (American University Law), Sexuality, Politics, and Doctrinal Evolution

Northwestern Law and Political Economy

       Daniel B. Rodrigues (Texas Law), Is Administrative Law Inevitable

NYU Legal History

       James Whitman (Yale Law), Western Legal Imperialism: Thinking About the Deep Historical Roots

St. Louis

       Amy Coney Barrett (Notre Dame Law)

USC Law History and Culture

       Amy Adler (NYU Law), Medusa: A Look at Women in First Amendment Law

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 18th, 2009 | Law and Sexuality, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Law and Gender, Law and Economics, Health Law, Legal History, Intellectual Property | no comments

February 11th Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender

       Kim Krawiec (UNC Law), Sunny Samaritans and Egomaniacs: Price Fixing in the Gamete Market

Connecticut

       Lawrence Solan (Brooklyn Law)

Emory

       Michael Vanderbergh (Vanderbilt Law), The Logic of Climate Change Governance: Boundaries and Leakage

Florida

       Michelle Jacobs (Florida Law), Virtual Education

Georgetown Law and Philosophy

       John Mikhail (Georgetown Law), Bentham’s Theory of Fictions and Critique of Natural Rights

Georgetown Statutory Colloquium

       William Eskridge (Yale Law), The Supreme Court’s Deference Continuum, an Empirical Study (from Chevron to Hamdan)

Harvard Health Law

       Joseph Doyle (MIT Management), Returns to Physician Human Capital: Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams

Harvard International Law

        Dr. William Schulz (Center for American Progress)

Hofstra

       Robert C. Post (Yale Law), Demcracy and Knowlege: Opinion and the First Amendment

Northwestern Law and Political Economy

       Richard Brooks (Yale Law), Groups and Individuals

NYU Legal History

       Felice Batlan (Chicago Kent Law), The Birth of Legal Aid:  Knightly Attorneys and Damsels in Distress

SMU

       Elizabeth G. Thornburg (SMU Law)

Southwestern

       Dr. Thomas Eilmansberger (Salzburg)

St. Louis

       Chris Dranozel (Kansas Law), Arbitration and Litigation as Competitors in the Pre-Dispute Market for Binding Dispute Resolution

Stanford Environmental and Natural Resources Law

       Brian Gray (Hastings Law), The Future of Environmental Protection for Aquatic Ecosystems

Toronto Law and Economics

       Michell Kane (NYU Law), Bootstraps and Poverty Traps:  Treaties as Novel Toos for Development Finance

Toronto Legal Theory

       Brian Simpson (Michigan Law), Lacey: A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 11th, 2009 | Law and Sexuality, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Philosophy, Law and Economics, Legal History, Environmental Law, International Law, Health Law | no comments

February 5th Colloquia/Workshops

Columbia

       Risa Goluboff (Columbia Law), Vagrancy, Crime Control, and Judicial Anxiety

Connecticut

       Jebediah Purdy (Duke Law), American Earth: The Public Language of Environmental Commitment

Drexel

       Alan Lerner (Penn. Law), From Socrates to Langdel, From Freud to Dewey: The Role of Emotion in Modern Legal Education

Florida State

       Kimberly Ferzan (Rutgers Law), Beyond the Special Part

Georgetown

       Richard Chused (Georgetown Law)

Minnesota

       Katherine Sikkink (Minnesota Law), Do Human Rights Trials Make a Difference

New York Law

       Brian Leiter (Chicago Law)

Toronto Health Law

       Constance MacIntosh (Dalhousie Law), Dirty Water, Dirty Hands: Public Health Deficits and Water Quality Debacles on First Nation Reserves

UCLA Legal Theory

       Sari Kisilevsky (UCLA Fellow), Hard Cases and Legal Validity

Yale Legal Theory

       Jill Hasday (Minnesota Law), Protecting Them from Themselves: Sex and Race Inequality as Shared Benefits

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 5th, 2009 | Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Gender, Civil Rights Law, Environmental Law, Health Law | no comments

Alcohol & Drug Addiction Research, Legal & Ethical Implications - Phoenix

The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University presents Hooked: Legal and Ethical Implications of Recent Advances in Alcohol and Drug Addiction Research. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, April 10, at the Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse, 401 W. Washington St., in downtown Phoenix. It is co-sponsored by the College’s Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology and the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at ASU.

The conference will offer a balanced, multidisciplinary set of leading national and local experts providing a range of current scientific, legal and ethical perspectives on addiction and how the problem is and should be addressed by the courts. In recent years, scientists have made substantial progress in understanding, diagnosing, predicting, treating and monitoring drug and alcohol addiction, especially pertaining to genetic and neuroscience evidence, which would be helpful to the courts.

The free conference is intended for judges, attorneys, scientists, mental health and addiction specialists, scholars and educators. In addition, free continuing legal education credits will be offered. The conference is the third in a series of biennial programs organized by the Center on subjects relating to the brain and the law. Previous topics were “Abnormal Brains,” in 2005, and “Brain Scanning,” in 2007. For more information, go to www.law.asu.edu/lst or contact Andrew Askland at (480) 965-2465, Andrew.Askland [at] asu.edu.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 30th, 2009 | Disability Law, Law and Psychology, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

January 29th Colloquia/Workshops

Brooklyn Law

       Edward J. Janger (Brooklyn Law), Virtual Territoriality

Chicago Constitutional Law

       Theodore Ruger (Penn Law)

Columbia

       Robert Ferguson (Columbia Law), Invading Panama: The Power of Circumstance in the Rule of Law

Florida State      

       Amy Farmer (Arkansas Law), Strategic Bidding Investment and Investment in Final Offer

Miami

       Caroline Mala Corbin (Miami Law), The First Amendment Right Against Compelled Listening

Minnesota

       Leo Katz (Penn. Law), Why the Law Spruns Win-Win Transactions

North Carolina

       Devon W. Carbado (UCLA Law), After Obama: Three Post-Racial Challanges

Northwestern Law and Economics

       Robert Marquez (Arizona State Business) Stockholder Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Firm Value

Southwestern

       Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow (Georgetown Law)

Stanford Law and Economics

        JJ Prescott (Michigan Law), Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior

Stanford Health Law     

       Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), A Limited Defense  of Clinical Placebo Deception

Toronto Heath Law

       Martin Hevia and Joanna Erdman (Toronto Law), Denied Access to Medical Care as a Violation of the Rights Against Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment: A Case Study on Anencephalic Pregnancy

Yale Law and Economics

       Betsey Stevenson (Penn Business), The Paradox of Declining Female Hapiness

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on January 29th, 2009 | Law and Economics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Cyberspace, Constitutional Law, Business Law, Criminal Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

January 22nd Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

       Rusty Park (Boston University Law)

Brooklyn

       Alexandra D. Lahav (Connecticut Law), Portraits of Resistance: How Lawyers Respond to Unjust Proceedings

Columbia Papers

       David Schizer & Thomas Merrill (Columbia Law), Advancing Energy Policy Goals in an Economic Downturn: A Proposed Petroleum Fuel Price Stabilization Plan

Georgetown

       Lawrence Mitchell (George Washington Law),  The Speculation Economy:  How Finance Triumphed Over Industry

Minnesota Faculty Works in Progress

       Catherine Sharkey (NYU Law), Agency Accountability: Federal Preemption’s Future

Northwestern Law and Economics

       Eric Posner (Chicago Law), The Rights of Migrants

NYU Law and Society

       Kim Lane (Princeton Law and Public Affairs), The Law is the way the State Talk to Itself

Ohio Northern

       Heather K. Gerken (Yale Law), Building the Election System We Deserve

Southwestern

       Joyce Sterling (Denver Law)

Toronto Health Law

       Mary Wiktorowicz (York Health Policy and Management), Mental health network governance and coordination: Comparative analysis across ten regions

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on January 22nd, 2009 | Legal Ethics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Environmental Law, Administrative Law, Health Law | no comments

Environmental, Health, and Safety Risks of Emerging Technologies - Chicago

The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth (Northwestern University School of Law) presents a research Roundtable, Environmental, Health, and Safety Risks of Emerging Technologies, April 23-24, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 11th, 2008 | Law and Technology, Environmental Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Law, Economics, and Technology Post-Graduate Fellowships at Michigan

Microsoft Fellowships in Law, Economics, and TechnologyThe University of Michigan Law School’s Center for Law and Economics is offering several post-graduate Fellowships in Law, Economics, and Technology. The Fellowships support research by individuals who finished graduate school (or are about to finish) and are writing on topics in the intersection between law, economics, and technology. Individuals who practiced in these areas and are interested in returning to academia are also encouraged to apply. The purpose of the fellowships is to foster research and interest in areas of Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, Internet and Cyberlaw, Health Care Law and Policy, and other areas related to information and technology, with emphasis on economics and empiricism as the disciplines of inquiry. The Fellows are expected to devote their time to their proposed course of research, to be in residence at the Law School in Ann Arbor, and to participate in the Law School’s law-and-economics activities. Fellowships are either for one or two semesters.

Deadline for Application Submission: February 1, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 10th, 2008 | Law and Technology, Law and Cyberspace, Communications Law, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Empirical Legal Studies, Health Law, Law and Economics, Intellectual Property | one comment

December 4th Colloquia/Workshops

Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics

       Emily Oster (Chicago Economics), Routes of Infection: Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Harvard

       Kirk Stark (UCLA Law)

Michigan Law and Economics

       Steve Shavell (Harvard Law), On the Design of the Appeals Process: The Optimal Use of Discretionary Review vs. Direct Appeal 

Pennsylvania Law and Philosophy

       Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth Philosophy), Can Neurological Evidence Help Courts Assess Criminal Responsibility? Lessons from Law and Neuroscience

Toronto Legal Theory

       Dwight Newman (Saskatchewan Law)

Yale Law, Economics and Organization

       David Haddock (Northwestern Law), Bad Public Goods—CAFE—The Corporate Average Fuel Economy Mandate

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on December 4th, 2008 | Law and Philosophy, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, International Law, Health Law | no comments

November 20th Colloquia/Workshops

Brooklyn

       Mark D. Rosen (Chicago Kent Law), From Exclusivity to Concurrency

Florida State

        Andrew Hanssen (Montana State Economics), Vertical Integration During the Hollywood Studio Era

Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, & Bioethics Workshop

       Scott Hamphill (Columbia Law), Aggregation, Antitrust, and Complex Collusion

Marquette

       David Opderbeck (Seton Hill Law), Patents, Trade Secrets, and Social Relations  

Michigan Law and Economics

       Jennifer Arlen (NYU Law), The Inefficiency of Contractual Liability for Medical Malpractice

Northwestern Law and Economics

       Michael Weisbach (Ohio State Finance), Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis

Toronto Health Law and Policy

       Jonathan Berger (AIDS Law Project), Institutions Matter: The Right to Health, the Regulation of Medicines and the South African Constitution

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 20th, 2008 | Law and Economics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Antitrust Law, Tax Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property | no comments

October 16th Colloaquia/Workshops

Brooklyn

       Vanessa A. Baird (Colorado-Boulder Political Science), Answering the Call of the Courts: How Justices and Litigants Set the Supreme Court Agenda

Emory

       Benjamin Spencer (Washington & Lee), Deconstructing Pleading Doctrine

Florida State

        Neil Kinkopf (Georgia State Law)

Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics Workshop

       Ashish Jha (Harvard Public Health), How does Pay for Performance Affect Hospitals that Care for the Poor

Lewis & Clark

       Lori Damrosch (Columbia Law), International Law and National Law

Michigan Law and Economics

       Bernard Black (Texas Law), The Effects of Pretrial Process Reform: Evidence from Texas Malpractice Cases

Minnesota Works In Progress

       Jeffery Kahn (SMU Law), International Travel, National Security, and the Constitution in War and Peace

New York University Law and Society

       Justin Richland (UC Irvine Criminology), Corrupting Conversations: Ethics and Metadiscourse in Federal Lobbying Reform Legislation

Northwestern Law and Economics

       Dean Lueck (Arizona Economics), The Demarcation of Land

Oregon Enviromental & Natural Resources Law 

       Brook Muller (Oregon Architecture), Developing Conservation

Santa Clara Social Justice

       Kathy Feng (California Common Cause)

Toronto Health Law Policy

       Vanessa Gruben (Ottawa Law), Privacy and the AHRA: Assisting in the Collection of Information for the Assisted Human Reproduction Agency of Canada

Yale Law, Economics and Organization

       Joel Slemrod (Michigan Economics), The Coase Theorem and Tax Law

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 16th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Civil Rights Law, International Law, Tax Law, Environmental Law, Health Law | no comments

October 13th Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law and Philosophy

       Martha Nussbaum (Chicago Law)

Loyola Tax Policy

       Leonard Burman (Urban Institute), A Blueprint for Tax Reform and Health Reform

Miami

       Joseph Singer (Harvard Law), Normative Methods for Lawyers

New York Law and Security

       Barton Gellman (Washington Post), Angler: The Cheney Vice President

UC Berkeley CSLS Series

       Eric Feldman (Pennsylvania Law), Assuming the Risk: Tort Law, Policy and Politics on the Slippery Slopes

UCLA Monday Colloquia

       Christine Borgman (UCLA Information Science), Scholarship in the Digital Age

Vanderbilt

       James Spindler (USC Law), Vicarious Liability for Bad Corporate Governance: Are We Wrong About 10b-5

Virginia Legal History Workshop

       Reuel Schiller (UC Hastings Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 13th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Technology, Tort Law, Tax Law, Business Law, Health Law | no comments

October 2nd Colloquia/Workshops

Harvard Health Law Policy , Biotechnology & Bioethics

       Anup Malani (Chicago Law), Clinical Trials, the Market for Observations and the Cost of Medical R& D

Minnesota

       Thomas Merrill (Yale Law), The Origins of the Appellate Review Model in Administrative Law

Toronto Health Law and Policy

       Gregg Bloche (Georgetown Law), The Emergent Logic in Health Law

Washington Asian Law Center

       Zhang Jing (Peking University)

 

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 2nd, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Administrative Law, Health Law | no comments

World Congress on Medical Law - Beijing

The World Association for Medical Law will host its 17th World Congress on Medical Law in Beijing, Oct. 18-21, 2008.

We expect 1000-1200 participants to the congress from all over the world. The theme of the congress is Legal Construction on Health Law and a Harmonious Society. The scientific program will focus on exploring various issues related to the science of health law.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 30th, 2008 | Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

September 18th Colloquia/Workshops

Drake

       Juan E. Mendez (International Center for Transitional Justice)

Florida State

       Michael O’Hear (Marquette Law), Explain Yourself: Procedural Reasonableness in Federal Sentencing After Rita v. United States

Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics

       Darius Lakdawalla (Rand Corporation), The Welfare Effects of Medical Malpractice Liability

Harvard

       Cynthia Estlund (NYU Law)

Michigan Law and Economics

       Matt Stephenson (Harvard Law), Political Accountability under Alternative Institutional Regimes

Minnesota Works in Progress

       Christopher Springman (Virginia Law), The Emergence of IP Norms in Stand-Up Comedy

New York University Law and Society

       Maneesha Deckha (Victoria Law), Racialized Animals and Animalized Cultures: Species, Intersectionality and Posthumanist Justice

Northwesten Law and Economics

       Justin McCrary (Berkeley Law), Crime, Punishment, and Myopia

Santa Clara Social Justice Workshop

       Joaquin Avila (Seattle University Law), Obstacles to Latina/o Political Empowerment and Solutions    

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 18th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Civil Rights Law, Health Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property | no comments

Birthing Rights Issues Writing Competitions (Law Students)

National Advocates for Pregnant Women announces two writing competitions for law students.

The first contest asks for a critical analysis of the absence of birthing rights issues from gender discrimination and feminist jurisprudence textbooks and curricula (in fact, none of the top three casebooks used in law school courses dedicated to gender and the law address the issue of childbirth or midwifery). The second contest asks students to develop legal theories that can be used to challenge policies banning pregnant women from having a vaginal birth after a prior caesarean section (VBAC). This topic will encourage students to address a growing problem that has received very little attention from the feminist legal community both in academia and within the leading women’s rights legal advocacy organizations.

Essays are due May 31, 2009.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 2nd, 2008 | Law and Gender, Health Law | no comments

Global Health - New Haven

Unite For Sight’s 6th Annual Global Health Conference — “Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation” — will be held at Yale University April 18-19, 2009. Abstracts for proposed presentations are due Sept. 15, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 1st, 2008 | Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Future of Federalism - Washington, DC

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 17th, 2008 | Courts, Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Food, Culture, and the Law - essay collection, 2 conferences

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
adillard[at]ubalt.edu Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 15th, 2008 | Law and Society, Comparative Law, Law and Humanities, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Intellectual Property, Health Law, Environmental Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Innovation in Life Sciences - London

The British Institute of International and Comparative Law presents Innovation in Life Sciences Sept. 25, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 7th, 2008 | Comparative Law, International Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES | no comments

Practical Issues in Health Law - Raleigh, NC

The Campbell Law Review is putting on a Symposium entitled Practical Issues in Health Law Jan. 31, 2009, at the Sheraton in Raleigh, NC.  

We will hear from lead commentators and practitioners in this field, and CLEs can be obtained. Further, we are seeking several articles on health law to fill our Symposium issue. If you are interested in either attending this Symposium as a speaker, an audience-member, or if you are interested in having an article on health law published, please contact the law review’s Editor-in-Chief, Matthew Quinn, at…

Campbell Law Review
Post Office Box 1165
Buies Creek, NC 27506
Office: (910) 893-1749
Mobile: (919) 770-0791
culawreview [at] email.campbell.edu
http://law.campbell.edu/pubs/lawrev.html

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 22nd, 2008 | CALLS FOR PAPERS, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

June 30, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Harvard

Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law), Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on June 30th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Health Law | no comments

Governance of New Technologies: Med, IT, IP - Edinburgh

SCRIPTed - A Journal of Law, Technology & Society presents Governance of New Technologies: The Transformation of Medicine, Information Technology and Intellectual Property, An International Interdisciplinary Conference, March 29-31, 2009, at the University of Edinburgh. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 1, 2008. Jump to full post

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 11th, 2008 | Communications Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Health Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES | no comments

Human Rights and Biomedicine - Rotterdam

The Erasmus University Rotterdam hosts an International Conference on Human Rights and Biomedicine Dec. 10-12, 2008.

The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (officially, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, 1997) stipulated the legal principles which are binding on the field of medicine and biology. Together with the European Convention on Human Rights, it is one of the leading treaty documents passed by the Council of Europe.
The Biomedicine Convention is the first international document formulating guiding principles on: equitable access to healthcare; informed consent; organ transplanting and the use of substances of human origin; medical research on human beings; the protection of the human embryo and fetus, and the use of medical information.

Since 1997, the member states of the Council of Europe started the process of ratification that commits them to make their laws compatible with the principles and requirements of this document. Since the Dutch government is expected to ratify the Convention, the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Erasmus University Medical Center organize an international conference starting at international Human Rights Day (10 December 2008).

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 10th, 2008 | International Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Fragmented Healthcare System - Cambridge, MA

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School presents its Annual Conference, Our Fragmented Healthcare System: Causes and Solutions [program in pdf], June 13-14, 2008 (Fri. June 13, 2-6 p.m., and Sat. June 14, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.).

Why is our healthcare system so fragmented in the care it gives patients? Why is this so even within a single hospital, where errors or miscommunications often seem to result from poor coordination among the myriad of professionals treating any one individual patient? The conference aims to address this broad question with a highly interdisciplinary approach.

This event is open to the general public and is offered free of charge, but RSVP by June 10th is required. Please email petrie-flom [at] law.harvard.edu or call (617) 496-4662 to register.

Reminder: please take the Legal Scholarship Blog survey.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 3rd, 2008 | Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Off-Label Uses of Approved Drugs - Washington, DC

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research presents Off-Label Uses of Approved Drugs: Medicine, Law, and Policy May 21, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 11th, 2008 | Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Ethical, Social, Legal Implications of Genomics - Cleveland

The Center for Genetic Research Ethics and Law at Case Western Reserve University and the National Institutes of Health are hosting Translating “ELSI”: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genomics May 1-3, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 27th, 2008 | Law and Science, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

April 24, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Jim Fleming (Boston University Law), Traditionalism and Backlash in Constitutional Argument

Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender

Laura Rosenbury (Washington University in St. Louis Law), Beyond Intimacy

Columbia

Claire Priest (Columbia Law), Understanding the End of Entail: Information, Institutions, and Slavery in the American Revolutionary Period

Connecticut

Madhavi Sunder (UC Davis), The New Enlightenment: How Muslim Women are Bringing Religion Out of the Dark Ages

Georgetown

Eric Feldman (Penn Law)

Harvard

Sharon Dolovich (UCLA Law), Defining Eighth Amendment Deliberate Indifference

Minnesota Faculty Works

Heidi Kitrosser (Minnesota Law), The Reality Based Constitution

NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance

Jason Furman (The Brookings Institution), Reforming the Tax Treatment of Health Care: Right Ways and Wrong Ways

San Diego

Cynthia Estlund (NYU Law)

SMU

Rose Villazor (SMU Law), Birthright Citizenship in the U.S. Territories

Temple International Law

Rachel Brewster (Harvard Law), Renegotiation and Reinterpretation of Treaties

Yale Human Rights

Ruti Teitel (New York Law School), Humanity’s Law

Yale Law & Economics

Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard Economics), Taking the Long Way Around: Real Consequences of Transport Corruption

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 24th, 2008 | Law and Religion, Law and Race, Law and Humanities, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, Legal History, Health Law, Family Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 21, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law & Philosophy

Robert Pape (Chicago Political Science)

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Christopher Morris (Maryland Law), Natural Rights and Political Legitimacy & P 1-2 Declaration of Independence & Anarchy, State, and Utopia & State Legitimacy and Social Order

Harvard

Eric Zolt (UCLA Law), Inequality, Collective Action, and Taxing and Spending Patterns of State and Local Governments

Northwestern Law & Economics

Alan O. Sykes (Stanford Law), Transnational Forum Shopping as a Trade and Investment Issue

San Diego

Ariela Gross (USC Law)

Temple

Greg Mandel (Temple Law), Left Brain vs. Right Brain: Conflicting Conceptions of Creativity in Intellectual Property Law

Texas

Jean Comaroff (Chicago Anthropology), Nations with/out Borders: Neoliberalism and the Problem of Belong in Africa, and Beyond

UC Berkeley

Lauren Edelman (UC Berkeley Law) & Linda Krieger (UC Berkeley Law) & Scott Eliason (Minnesota Sociology) & Catherine Albiston (UC Berkeley Law) & Virginia Mellema (EEOC), When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Employment Structures

UC Hastings

Adam Scales (Washington & Lee Law), Insurance in the Aftermath of Katrina

UCLA Faculty Mondays

Joshua Foa Dienstag (UCLA Political Science), The Promise of Pessimism

Virginia Law & Economics

Christine Jolls (Yale Law), Mandated Medical Leave in the Workplace

Yale Corporate Law

Reinier Kraakman (Harvard Law), Exit, Voice, and Liability: Legal Dimensions of Organizational Structure

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 20th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Comparative Law, Insurance Law, Local Government Law, Law and Philosophy, Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, Intellectual Property, Health Law, Business Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Transgender Lives: The Intersection of Health and Law - Farmington, CT

The second annual Transgender Lives: The Intersection of Health and Law Conference will be held on Saturday, April 19, 2008, at the UConn Health Center. “This all day conference is geared towards Service Providers, Medical and Legal Professionals, Trans and Gender non-conforming community, allies and all those interested in the Health and Law isues facing the Trans and gender non-conforming communities.”

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 14th, 2008 | Law and Sexuality, Law and Gender, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Disability, Reproduction, and Parenting - St. Louis

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law Policy and the Center for Health Law Studies presented the 20th Annual Saint Louis University Health Law Symposium, Disability, Reproduction and Parenting, April 4, 2008.

Thanks: Reproductive Rights Prof Blog.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008 | Disability Law, Family Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

April 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Arti K. Rai (Duke Law), The Supreme Court (Re)Discovers Patents: Implications for the Biopharmaceutical Industry

Boston University

Robert Hillman (Cornell Law)

Columbia

Elizabeth Emens (Columbia Law), Intimate Discrimination: The State’s Role in the Accidents of Sex and Love

Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender

Noah Zatz (UCLA Law), What Is a Working Family?: Revisiting the Class parity Analysis of Welfare Work Requirements & What Welfare Requires from Work

Florida State

Rick Geddes (Cornell Human Ecology)

Georgetown

Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law), Transnational Labor Citizenship

Georgia State

Dr. Ellen Bassee

Harvard

Laurence Helfer (Vanderbilt Law), Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community

Michigan Law & Economics

Guy Rub (Michigan Law, Student Fellow), The Efficiency of Contracts that Reallocate Entitlements in Creative Work: A Skeptical View

Minnesota Faculty Works

Jessica Litman (Michigan Law), Rethinking Copyright

Missouri

Catherine Smith (Denver Law)

NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance

Alan Auerbach (UC Berkeley Law), Long-Term Objectives for Government Debt

Suffolk

Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law), Comparative Corporate Law and Emerging Markets

Temple International Law

Jutta Brunnee (Toronto Law), Interactional International Law: Reflections on Obligations

UCLA Legal Theory

Sarah Song (UC Berkeley Law), Three Models of Civic Solidarity

Yale Human Rights

Ralph Steinhardt (George Washington Law), Corporate Complicity and the Alien Tort Statute

Yale Law & Economics

C. Fritz Foley (Harvard Business), Welfare Payments and Crime

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 10th, 2008 | Law and Economics, Tort Law, Commercial Law, Labor and Employment Law, Comparative Law, Law and Technology, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Tax Law, Intellectual Property, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Health Law, Family Law, Business Law, Uncategorized | no comments

April 8, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law & Politics

John Witt (Columbia Law), Form and Substance in the Law of Counterinsurgency Damages

Chicago-Kent

Cynthia Estlund (NYU Law)

Chicago-Kent Legal History

Serena Mayeri (Penn Law)

Connecticut Tax

Joshua Blank (NYU Law), What’s Wrong With Shaming Corporate Tax Abuse

Duke International & Comparative Law

Angelos Pangratis (European Union), The Future of E.U.-U.S. Relations

Fordham

William Eskridge, Jr. (Fordham Law), Vetogates, Chevron, Preemption

Georgetown

Gregg Bloche (Georgetown Law), The Emergent Logic of Health Care

Harvard Internet & Society

Steve Ward (Oxford Internet Institute)

Loyola

Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), The Life Span of Written Constitutions

Minnesota Law & History

Tom Romero II (Hamline Law), Creating and Containing the Multiracial Hetereotopia: Kelo, Parents, and the Spatialization of Color(blindness) in the Berman-Brown Postmetroplis

St. Thomas (Mn)

Charles Reid (St. Thomas (Mn) Law)

Toronto Law & Literature

Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa English), Give Me a Precedent: Past, Present and Future in Victorian Fiction and Law

UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations

Stephen Choi (NYU Law), Empirical Evidence on Securities Arbitration

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 8th, 2008 | Comparative Law, National Security Law, Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Technology, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Politics, Law and Literature, Law and Economics, Tax Law, Health Law, Constitutional Law, International Law, Legal History, Securities Law, Uncategorized | no comments

March 27, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Rennard Strickland (Chapman Law), Keepers of the Springs: A Defense of the American Legal Profession

Alabama

A. E. Dick Howard (Virginia Law), The Changing Face of the Supreme Court: From the Warren Court to the Roberts Court

Boston College

Linda Beale (Wayne State), Tax Patents: At the Crossroads of Tax and Patent Law

Boston University

Kim Ferzan (Rutgers-Camden Law), Beyond the Special Part

Brooklyn

Anita Bernstein (Brooklyn Law), Asbestos and Gender

Chicago-Kent

Elinor Ostrom (Indiana-Bloomington Cognitive Science Program)

Columbia

Clayton Gillette (Columbia Law), Tacit Agreement, Investment, and Contract Design

Emory

Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Anti-Bankruptcy

Florida State

Margaret Blair (Vanderbilt Law), Assurance Services as a Substitute for Law in Global Commerce

Georgetown

William Forbath (Texas Law), History, Memory and “Transformative Law”: Treatment Action Campaign and the Politics of Rights in South Africa

Michigan Law & Economics

Rip Verkerke (Virginia Law), Legal Innocence and Information-Forcing Rules

Minnesota Faculty Works

Elizabeth Beaumont (Minnesota Political Science)

NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance

Andrea Louis Campbell (MIT Political Science), How Americans Think About Taxes: Public Opinion and the American Fiscal State

Penn Law & Economics

Colin Mayer (Oxford Business), Where Do Firms Incorporate: Deregulation and the Cost of Entry

Temple International Law

Sean Murphy (George Washington Law), The Jus Ad Bellum in View of New Security Threats

Texas

Matt Adler (Penn Law), Social Facts, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Rule of Recognition

Vanderbilt

Brian Tamanaha (St. John’s Law)

Washburn

Alex Glashausser (Washburn Law), The Misbegotten Modern Doctrine of Federal Question Jurisdiction

Yale Human Rights

Shameem Black (Yale English), Fiction in the Age of Transitional Justice

Yale Law & Economics

Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown Law), Do Insurer Reserving Practices Drive Liability Insurance Premium Cycles?: An Empirical Study at the Claim Level

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 27th, 2008 | Comparative Law, National Security Law, Law and Gender, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Insurance Law, Courts, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Economics, Jurisprudence, Intellectual Property, Contract Law, Health Law, Business Law, Constitutional Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized | no comments

March 24, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Paul Kahn (Yale Law), Evil and Blame & Out of Eden

Georgetown Statutory Colloquium

Bradford Clark (George Washington Law), Process-Based Federalism Readings 1 & 2

Georgia

Camille A. Nelson (Saint Louis Law)

Rutgers-Camden

Howard Gillette (Rutgers-Camden History), Civitas in the Design of Housing for the Poor

Seton Hall

Michael Gerhardt (UNC Law)

St. John’s

Melanie Leslie (Cardozo Law), Strengthening Fiduciary Norms in Nonprofit Corporations

Suffolk

Beth Lyon (Villanova Law), Migrant Works and Clinical Pedagogy

Temple

Amy Sinden (Temple Law)

Texas

Adair Morse (Chicago Business)

Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley Law), War on! Why a “War on Cancer” should replace our “War on Crime” (and Terror)

Yale Corporate Law

Gandolfo V. DiBlasi (Sullivan & Cromwell), Certified Public Scapegoat: Enron, Arthur Andersen & David Duncan

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 24th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Law and Philosophy, Poverty Law, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Criminal Law, Health Law, Business Law, Uncategorized | no comments

March 21, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Case Western Reserve Law

David Lyons (Boston University Law), Race and the Rule of Law

Cincinnati

Nancy Rapoport (UNLV Law), New Lessons From Enron 

Duke Global Law

Eric A. Feldman (Penn Law), Suing Doctors in Japan: Structure, Culture, and the Rise of Malpractice Litigation

Florida

Alexandra B. Klass (Minnesota Law), State Innovation and Preemption: Lessons from Environmental Law 

Georgia International Law

Paul Schiff Berman (UConn Law), Global Legal Pluralism

UCLA Faculty Fridays

Carol Steiker (Harvard Law), Tempering or Tampering: Mercy and the Administration of Criminal Justice

Virginia

Neil Duxbury (Virginia Law), Golden Rule Reasoning, Moral Dilemmas and Law

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 20th, 2008 | Comparative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Philosophy, Law and Race, International Law, Health Law, Business Law, Environmental Law, Criminal Law | no comments

March 20, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Jack Beermann (Boston University Law), Common Law and Statute Law in U.S. Federal Administrative Law

Connecticut

Randall Lesaffer (Tilburg Law), Just and Legal War, Just and Legal Peace, in Early Modern Europe

Florida State

Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley Law)

Georgetown

Charles Lawrence (Georgetown Law), Unconscious Racism Revisited: Reflections on the Origins and Impact of “The Id, the Ego and Equal Protection”

Harvard

Curtis Bradley (Duke Law), The Story of Ex Parte Milligan: Military Trials, Enemy Combatants, and Congressional Authorization

Harvard Religion & Society

Gregg Ivers (American Public Affairs), Religious Organizations as Legal Advocates: Comparing Canada and the U.S.

Michigan Law & Economics

Michael Heise (Cornell Law), Plaintiphobia in State Courts? An Empirical Study of State Court Trials on Appeal

SMU

Adrienne D. Davis (Washington University in St. Louis Law)

Texas

Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law), Good White People

Toronto Health Law

William Lahey (Dalhousie Law), Inter-Professional Practice and the Law: Understanding and Overcoming the Barriers

UCLA Legal Theory

Stephen R. Perry (Penn Law), Political Authority and Political Obligation

Yale Workplace Theory & Policy

Jack Dennerlein (Harvard Public Health), The Epidemic of Musculoskeletal Disorder in the Modern Workplace. Readings 1 & 2

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 20th, 2008 | Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Courts, Law and Religion, Labor and Employment Law, Health Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Legal History, Uncategorized | no comments

Pandemic Flu - Newark

The Seton Hall Law Review Symposium this fall will be Preparing for a Pharmaceutical Response to Pandemic Influenza, Oct. 23-24, 2008, at Seton Hall Law School in Newark, NJ. It is co-sponsored by the Health Law & Policy Program’s Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law and the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology. The call for papers deadline is April 15, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 18th, 2008 | CALLS FOR PAPERS, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

March 12, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Brant Lee (Akron Law), Whiteness as Brand Management

Chicago-Kent Legal History

Mark Graber (Maryland Politics), John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil

CUNY

Michael Jacobson (Vera Institute of Justice)

Michigan Tax Policy

Mitchell Kane (Virginia Law), Bootstraps, Poverty Traps, and Poverty Pits: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance

NYU Legal History

Christopher Beauchamp (Samuel Golieb Fellow, NYU Law), Technology’s Trials: Patents in the United States Courts, 1860-1910

Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law

William Rossi (Oregon English) & Molly Westling (Oregon English), Reading, Rhetoric, and Climate

Stetson

David Wilkins (Harvard Law), Toward a Joint Venture Model of Attorney/Client Relationship Between Corporations and their Outside Counsel

Toronto Tax Lax & Policy

Jacques Sasseville (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), Tax Treaties: Better the Devil We Know?

UCLA Williams Institute

Devon Carbado (UCLA Law), Acting White: What’s Sexual Orientation Got to Do With it?

USC Law, History, and Culture

Nan Goodman (Colorado English), Banishment and Jurisdictional Indentity in Seventeenth-Century New England

Washington

Mary Whisner (Washington Law Library), The Buzz about Blawgs

Wei Zhang (Peking Management), Politics of Medical Disputes in China

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 12th, 2008 | Law and Sexuality, Comparative Law, Law and Race, Law Librarianship, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Technology, Legal Ethics, Legal History, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Business Law, Tax Law, Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Medical Tourism - Madison

The Wisconsin International Law Journal held a symposium last week (March 7, 2008) entitled Dialogue on Cross-Border Health Care: Medical Tourism Meets Health Law: US - EU Dialogue.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 10th, 2008 | International Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

March 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago-Kent

Josef Drexl (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law)

Chicago Law & Philosophy

Alan Wertheimer (Vermont Political Science)

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Alastair Norcross (Rice Philosophy), Consequentialism and Commitment

Georgetown Statutory

Lisa Schultz Bressman (Vanderbilt Law), Administrative Law

Harvard

Gary Bass (Princeton Politics), Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

Harvard International Law

Jonathan Baron (Penn Psychology)

Michigan International Law

Ambassador Luigi R. Einaudi (Secretary General, Organization of American States), The Ideal and Practice of Democratic Legitimacy in Latin America

Northwestern Law & Economics

Betsey Stevenson (Penn Business), Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

Queen’s Law

John Gardner (Oxford), H.L.A. Hart’s Punishment and Responsibility: Forty Years On

Rutgers-Camden

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

Seton Hall

Brett Frischmann (Loyola-Chicago Law)

Stanford Internet & Society

Jim Bessen (Boston University Law), Patent Failure

St. John’s

Alexandra D. Lahav (UConn Law), Advocacy at Unfair Hearings

UC Berkeley

Malcolm Feeley (UC Berkeley Law) & Edward Rubin (Vanderbilt Law), Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise

UC Berkeley Law & Economics

Ethan Kaplan (UC Berkeley Economics) & Arindrajit Dube (UC Berkeley Wage and Employment) & Suresh Naidu (UC Berkeley Ph.D.), Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information

UCLA Mondays

Arleen Leibowitz (UCLA Public Policy), The Road to Health is Paved With Poor Incentives

USC Law, Economics and Organization

Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), Guarding the Guardians: The Law & Economics of Judicial Councils

Yale Corporate Law

Paul Grossman (Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker), Imaginative Responses to Real World Litigation Problems

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 9th, 2008 | Comparative Law, Law and Society, Law and Sexuality, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Philosophy, Law and Technology, Law and Economics, Administrative Law, Health Law, Criminal Law, Education Law, Business Law, International Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

March 6, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Laura Beny (Michigan Law), Private Regulation of Insider Trading in the Shadow of Lax Public Enforcement (and a Strong Neighbor)–Evidence from Canadian Firms

Chicago Constitutional Law

George Fisher (Stanford Law), Married to Alcohol: The Drug War’s Moral Roots

Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender

Jane Dailey (Chicago History), White Supremacy Is in Peril: Race, Marriage and Sovereignty in the New World Order

Columbia

Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default

Fordham

Linda Sugin (Fordham Law)

Harvard

Ayelet Shachar (Toronto Law), The Global Race for Talent

Iowa

Chancellor Chandler (Delware Court of Chancery)

Loyola-L.A.

Brian Galle (Florida State Law), Tax Fairness

Michigan Law & Economics

Robert Daines (Stanford Law), Rating the Ratings: How Good are the Commercial Governance Ratings?

Minnesota Faculty Works

Alexandra B. Klass (Minnesota Law) & Elizabeth Wilson (Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs), Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration: A Consideration of Tort and Property Law

Northwestern Tax

Michael Knoll (Penn Law), The Tax Advantage of ‘Sweat Equity’: What it is and its Relationship to the Carried Interest Controversy

NYU Tax Policy and Public Finance

Mihir Desai (Harvard Business), Foreign-Direct Investment and Domestic Economic Activity

St. Thomas (MN)

Ed Adams (Minnesota Law)

Temple International Law

Robert Ahdieh (Emory Law), Standardization 2.0: A New Version of the Game

Texas

Peter Smith (George Washington Law), Originalism’s Living Constitutionalism

Toronto Health Law

Chidi Oguamanam (Dalhousie Law), The Future of Personalized Medicine and Personalizing the Medicine of the Future: In Search of Insights from Complementary and Alternative Medicine

UCLA Legal Theory

Jessica Litman (Michigan Law), Rethinking Copyright

Yale Human Rights

Shareen Hertel (UConn Political Science), Rights in Conflict: Insights from Transnational Labor and Economic Rights

Yale Law & Economics

Michael Woodford (Columbia Economics), Principles and Public Policy Decisions: The Case of Monetary Policy

Yale Workplace Theory & Policy

Jacob Hacker (Yale Political Science), The Politics of Risk Privatization in U.S. Social Policy

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 5th, 2008 | Law and Race, Law and Economics, Tort Law, Comparative Law, Law and Humanities, Law and Technology, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Environmental Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Property Law, Business Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Call for Papers Ethical Implications of Social Determinants of Health

Bioethics announces a special issue on Ethical Implications of Social Determinants of Health to be published in February 2009, with guest editors Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. Parmet. The submission deadline is May 1, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 29th, 2008 | CALLS FOR PAPERS, Health Law | no comments

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban - Brooklyn

Brooklyn Law School’s Center for Health, Science and Public Policy and Journal of Law and Policy present The “Partial-Birth Abortion” Ban: Health Care in the Shadow of Criminal Liability March 7, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 22nd, 2008 | Health Law, Criminal Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

February 21, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Jane Campbell Moriarty (Akron Law), Experiences as a Visiting Professor

Boston University

Chuck Whitehead (Boston Law), The Evolution of Debt: Agency Costs, Financial Innovation, and Corporate Governance

Brooklyn

Raqaiijah A. Yearby (Loyola Law), You Can’t Win, You Can’t Break Even, and You Can’t Get Out of the Game: Discontinuing the Cycle of Racial Inequities in Health Care Forty-Four Years after the Passage of Title VI

Chicago Constitutional Law

Gillian Metzger (Columbia Law), Administrative Law as the New Federalism

Connecticut

Robert Thompson (Vanderbilt Law), Corporate Voting in the World of Financial Engineering

Florida State

Jutta Brunnee (Toronto Law)

Fordham

Margareth Etienne (Illinois Law), Uncorporating the Large Firm

Georgetown

Robert Tsai (Oregon Law), Reconsidering Gobitis: Lessons in Presidential Leadership

Michigan Law & Economics

Alicia Davis Evans (Michigan Law), Are Investors’ Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Over Time? Some Preliminary Evidence

Minnesota Faculty Works

Allan Erbsen (Minnesota Law), Horizontal Federalism

NYU Colloquium on Tax Policy & Public Finance

Brian Galle (Florida State Law), Tax Fairness

Northwestern Advanced Topics in Taxation

Adam Rosenzweig (Washington Law in St. Louis), Taxation, Risk and Derivatives: Does an Income Tax Subsidize Hedge Funds?

Southwestern

Jenny S. Martinez (Stanford Law), Substance and Process in the War on Terror

Temple International Law

Jeremy Rabkin (George Mason Law), Exit, Voice, Loyalty in International Organizations: Why Can’t the President Check the First Option

Texas

Heather Gerken (Yale Law), Dissenting by Deciding

Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations

Frank Bloch (Vanderbilt Law), The Future of Legal Education

Nita Farahany (Vanderbilt Law), Neuroscience in the Criminal Justice System

Washburn

Aida Alaka (Washburn Law), The Phenomenology of Error in Student Legal Writing

Washington

Pat Kuszler (Washington Law), Genomics and Global Health: Promise or Peril

Yale Law & Economics

Erica Field (Harvard Economics), Prenuptial Agreements and the Emergence of Dowry in Bangladesh

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 21st, 2008 | Law and Race, Legal Research & Writing, Law and Economics, National Security Law, Comparative Law, Law and Technology, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Civil Rights Law, Administrative Law, Health Law, Criminal Law, Business Law, Family Law, Legal Education, Tax Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals - Winston-Salem, NC

The Wake Forest University Intellectual Property Law Journal presents its 2008 spring symposium, Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals, February 22.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 20th, 2008 | Health Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES | no comments

Globalization & Justice - Seattle

The Center for the Study of Justice in Society at Seattle University and the Center for Global Justice at Seattle University School of Law present Globalization & Justice: Interdisciplinary Dialogues, Feb. 21-22, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 19th, 2008 | International Law, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

February 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Shari Diamond (Northwestern Law)

Columbia

Mitchell Kane (Columbia Law), Bootstraps, Poverty Traps and Povert Pits: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance

Florida State

Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley Law), Katz at Forty: A Sociological Jurisprudence Whose Time Has Come

Fordham

James Kainen (Fordham Law), Re-Evaluating Home Building and Loan v. Blaisdell

Georgetown

Samuel Buell (Washington at St. Louis Law), Underappreciated Virtues of Overbreadth in Criminal Law

Michigan Law & Economics

Albert Choi (Virginia Law), Integrating an Agreement to Induce Information Disclosure

Minnesota Faculty Works

Paul Schwartz (UC Berkeley Law), The Future of Tax Privacy

New York Law Tax Policy & Public Finance

Sarah Lawsky (George Washington Law), Probably? Understanding Tax Law’s Uncertainty

SMU

Jeff Kahn (SMU Law), International Travel and the U.S. Constitution during the War on Terror

Stanford Law & Economics

Jonathan Macey (Yale Law), False Promises: Finding a Role for Directors in Corporate Governance

Toronto Health Law

David Henry (Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences), The Australia/USA Free Trade Agreement - Impact on Access to Medicine

UC Berkeley

Nancy Polikoff (Washington College of Law, American University), Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law

UCLA Legal Theory

Amy M. Adler (NYU Law), Against Moral Rights (in Visual Arts)

Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations

Frank Bloch (Vanderbilt Law), The Quest for Socially Relevant Legal Education in India

Washburn

Tonya Kowalski (Washburn Law), Imperatives and Incentives to Introduce Native American Nations and Law in First-Year Legal Method Courses

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 14th, 2008 | Law and Gender, Law and Religion, Law and Economics, Law and Race, National Security Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Sexuality, Comparative Law, Indian Law, Legal Education, Business Law, Health Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, Tax Law, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

February 8, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Crime & Punishment

Andrew Dilts (Chicago Political Science Ph.D. Candidate)

Cincinnati

Robert Miller (Villanova Law), Directors as Advisors: The Role of Corporate Directors at Shareholder Meetings

Florida

Debra Lyn Bassett (Alabama Law), The Revolution of 1938 and its Discontents: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Today

Georgia International Law

Beth Simmons (Harvard Government), Theories of Commitment

Iowa

Hari Osofsky (Oregon Law)

Loyola LA

Steve Munzer (UCLA Law), Commons and Community in Biotechnological Assets

Minnesota

Ricardo Bascuas (Miami Law), Federal Sentencing: The American Inquisition

Notre Dame

Michael Moreland (Villanova Law), Torts

Queen’s Law

Alan Brudner (Toronto Law), Subjective Fault for Crime: A Reinterpretation

San Diego

Lisa Ramsey (San Diego Law)

Texas

Daniel Hamilton (Chicago-Kent), Emancipation and Contract Law: Litigating Human Property after the Civil War

Toronto Legal Theory

A.J. Julius (UCLA Philosophy), A Lonelier Contractualism

USC

Eric Claeys (George Mason Law), Jefferson Meets Coase: The Harm-Benefit Distinction in Tort Law and Economics and Natural Property Rights

Villanova

Joanna Grossman (Hofstra Law)

Virginia

Devah Pager (Princeton), Race at Work: Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets

Washburn

Sophie Sparrow (Franklin Pierce Law Center), Workshop: Using Grading Rubrics to Improve Teaching, Learning and Grading

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 8th, 2008 | Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Courts, Civil Procedure, Tort Law, Commercial Law, Property Law, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Health Law, Business Law, Uncategorized | no comments

February 7, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston

Stacey Dogan (Boston Law), Functionality Reconsidered

Boston College Legal History

Warren Billings (New Orleans History), Just Laws for the Happy Guiding and Governing of the People There Inhabiting: Laws in the Colonial South

Florida State

John Mayo (Georgetown Business), The Influence of Firms on Government

Fordham

Tracy Higgins (Fordham Law), Regulatory Feminism

Georgetown

Chris Elmendorf (UC Davis), Undue Burdens on Voter Participation (Is the Right to Vote Like the Right to an Abortion?)

Hastings

Reva Siegel (Yale Law), The Rights’ Reasons: Constitutional Conflict and the Spread of Woman-Protective Anti-Abortion Argument

Michigan Law & Economics

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?

Northwestern Tax

Dennis Ventry (American University Law), Whistleblowers and Qui Tam for Tax

Stetson

Marcia McCormick (Cumberland Law), The Truth is Out There: Refitting EEOC for the Twenty-First Century

SMU

William Birdthistle (Chicago-Kent Law), Exchange Traded Funds

Temple International Law

Melissa Waters (Washington & Lee Law), Veri, Vidi, Amici: Law Professors as Transnational Norm Entrepreneurs Before the U.S. Supreme Court

Texas

Dick Fallon (Harvard Law), Constitutional Precedent Viewed Through the Lens of Hartian Jurisprudence

Toronto Health Law

Aeyal Gross (Tel Aviv Law), Health Between a Right and a Commodity: A Comparative Analysis of the Israeli Experience

Vanderbilt

Lars Noah (Florida)

Yale Law & Economics

Tom Miles (Chicago Law), Strategic Judging under the Voting Rights Act & Judicial Decisionmaking and the Transformation of Voting Rights Doctrine

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 7th, 2008 | Law and Economics, Legal History, Law and Gender, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Government Law, Commercial Law, International Law, Health Law, Contract Law, Business Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

February 4, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Alabama

Herbert Hovenkamp (Iowa Law), Innovation and the Domain of Competition Policy

Berkeley

Timothy Kaufman-Osborn (Whitman Politics), Perfecting Death: Abolitionism and the Challenge of Lethal Injection

Columbia Law & Economics

Omri Ben-Shahar (Michigan Law), How to Repair Unconscionable Contracts

Emory

Eric Helland (Claremont-McKenna), The Impact of the Securities Litigation on the Directors’ Labor Market

Georgetown Law & Philosophy

Knud Haakonssen (Sussex History), Protestant Natural Law and the Question of Rights: The Case of Francis Hutcheson I & II

Northwestern Law & Economics

Leemore S. Dafny (Northwestern Management), Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?

Rutgers-Camden

Cristina Rodriguez (NYU Law), Significance of the Local in Immigration Regulation

Seton Hall

Nicole Garnett (Notre Dame Law)

St. Thomas (MN)

Emily Meazell (Oklahoma Law)

Suffolk

Nancy Ehrenreich (Denver Law), Feminist Theory and Reproductive Rights

Temple

Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default

Virginia Law & Economics

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

Yale Corporate Law

Chief Justice Myron Steele (Supreme Court of Delaware), Delaware, North Dakota, and Federalism

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 3rd, 2008 | Law and Gender, Law and Economics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Immigration Law, Law and Philosophy, Securities Law, Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Criminal Law, Health Law, Tax Law, Contract Law | no comments

January 30, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Connecticut

Laura Dickinson (UConn Law), Outsourcing War and Peace

Emory

Nicolas Terry (St. Louis Law), Personal Health Records: Directing More Costs and Risks to Customers

NYU Legal History

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

SMU Law & Citizenship

Kevin Maillard (Syracuse Law), The Ethics of Sovereignty

Toronto Tax Law & Policy

Michael Graetz (Yale Law), 100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States

UC Berkeley

Edward Greenspan (Greenspan, White), Stranger in a Surprisingly Strange Land: A Canadian Lawyer Defends Lord Conrad Black in U.S. Federal Court in Chicago

UC Hastings

Calvin Massey (UC Hastings Law), Of Sovereignty, States, and Standing

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on January 30th, 2008 | National Security Law, Comparative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Government Law, Law and Society, Legal History, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Health Law | no comments

Public Healh, Law, and Obesity - Boston

The Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) and Public Health Law & Policy (PHLP) are sponsoring the Fifth Conference on Public Health, Law, & Obesity, Sept. 19-21, 2008, at Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA.

Advocates, public health practitioners, legal scholars, researchers, and policy makers are invited to come together to discuss the current legal approaches to the obesity epidemic. The conference will help stakeholders collaborate in developing a public health legal strategy with a foundation in environmental change that empowers communities and populations to tackle the public health implications of a broken food system and built environment.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 25th, 2008 | Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

January 25, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Crime & Punishment

Tom Tyler (NYU Psychology), Legitimacy and Cooperation: Why do People Help the Police Fight Crime in their Communities

Florida

Dawn Jourdan (Florida Law), Evidence Based Ordinance Drafting: The Regulation of Signage Based on Scholarship

Robert Wherry (Tax Court Judge), A View from the Tax Court Bench

Iowa

Mary Anne Case (Chicago Law)

Notre Dame

Jill Horwitz (Michigan Law), Healthcare Law

New York Law School Clinical Theory

Mariana Hogan (NYU Law) & Sandy Ogilvy (Catholic University Law), Designing a Judicial Externship Course

Ohio State

William E. Forbath (Texas Law)

Temple

Peter Huang (Temple Law), Law, Happiness, & Meaning

Texas

Laura Gomez (New Mexico Law), Manifest Destiny’s Legacy: Race in America at the Turn of the 20th Century

USC

Pamela Karlan (Stanford Law), “The Law of Small Numbers: Carhart v. Gonzales, Parents Involved in Community Schools, and Some Themes from the First Term of the Roberts Court.”

Vanderbilt

David Law (San Diego Law)

Virginia

Jim Gibson (Richmond Law), Unreasonable Care

Willamette

Elizabeth Glazer (Hofstra Law), When Obscenity Discriminates

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on January 25th, 2008 | Legal History, Law and Society, Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Tort Law, Legal Education, Criminal Law, Health Law, Education Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized | no comments

January 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Kevin Outterson (Boston University Law), Prescription Drug Labels for Limited English Proficiency

Brooklyn

Lawrence Mitchell (George Washington Law), The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry

Columbia

Jane Ginsburg (Columbia Law), Separating the Sony Sheep from the Grokster Goats: Reckoning the Future Business Plans of Copyright-Depending Technology Entrepreneurs

Florida State

Margaret Blair (Vanderbilt Law), Assurance Services as a Substitute for Law in Global Commerce

Fordham

Caroline Gentile (Fordham Law), Creditors and Corporate Governance

Georgetown

Ben Sachs (Yale Law)

Michigan Law and Economics

Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown Law), The Endowment Effect: Implications of Recent Empirical Developments for Legal Theory

NYU Tax Policy and Public Finance

Lily Batchelder (NYU Law), The Superiority of an Inheritance Tax Over an Estate Tax or No Wealth Transfer Tax

SMU

Margo Schlanger (Washington of St. Louis Law)

Stanford Law & Economics

J. Gregory Sidak (Georgetown Law), Patent Holdup and Oligopsonistic Collusion in Standard Setting Organizations

UCLA Legal Theory

Jennifer E. Rothman (Loyola Law), Beyond Intimacy

Washburn

Jeffrey Jackson (Washburn Law), Unenumerated Rights and the Constitution: The Ninth Amendment and Idealized British Constitutionalism

Washington University of St. Louis Law

Melissa Waters (Washington & Lee Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on January 17th, 2008 | International Law, Commercial Law, Law and Economics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Constitutional Law, Tax Law, Intellectual Property, Health Law, Business Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Socio-Legal Studies Ass’n - Manchester, UK

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 14th, 2008 | Law and Gender, Law and Race, Law and Religion, Labor and Employment Law, Law and Literature, Comparative Law, Empirical Legal Studies, Law and Politics, Law and Cyberspace, Government Law, Law and Science, Law and Sexuality, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Education Law, Business Law, Health Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, Family Law, Environmental Law, Administrative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Legal Education, International Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

November 28, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago-Kent

Michael A. Scodro (Solicitor General of Illinois) & William Marshall (Solicitor General of Ohio) & Barry Sullivan (Jenner & Block), Apellate Litigation in the States

Chicago-Kent Legal History

Christopher Schmidt (American Bar Foundation), Civil Disobedience and the Constitution: The Case of the Sit-ins

CUNY

Wendy Espeland (Northwestern Sociology), Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds

NYU Legal History

Jane Burbank (NYU History), The Middle Ground of Law: Litigantion, Supervision, and Governance in Late Imperial Russia

UCLA Williams Institute

Brad Sears (UCLA Law), HIV Discrimination in Dental Care

Villanova

Gerry Korngold (Case Western Reserve Law)

Washington

Bob Gomulkiewicz (Washington Law), The Federal Circuit’s Licensing Law Jurisprudence: Its Nature and Influence

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 28th, 2007 | Law and Race, Law and Sexuality, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Legal History, Jurisprudence, Health Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

GW Symposia - Reproductive Technology, Access to Media

The George Washington Law Review hosted a symposium on regulating reproductive technologies — Conflicting Interests in Reproductive Autonomy and Their Impact on New Technologies — Nov. 2, 2007.

It hosted Access to the Media — 1967 to 2007 and Beyond: A Symposium Honoring Jerome A. Barron’s Path-Breaking Article.

(In this blog we have generally not posted about events that have already passed. But I thought I’d flag these for those who might want to watch for the eventual symposium issues and for those who just want to be aware of current scholarship.)

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 16th, 2007 | Law and Science, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Sexuality, Administrative Law, Health Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

November 12, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Georgia State

Sara Beale (Duke Law)

Loyola Tax Policy

Adam Rosenzweig (Washington University at St. Louis), Risk & Derivatives: Does the Income Tax Subsidize Hedge Funds

Minnesota Public Law

Amy Wax (Penn Law), Engines of Inequality: Class, Race, and Family Structure

San Diego

Adam Mossoff (Michigan State Law), Patents, Property and Property Theory

Seton Hall

Mary Ann Case (Chicago Law)

Temple

Mark Heywood (AIDS Law Project), Politics and Poor Global Health

Vanderbilt

James Cox (Duke Law)

Virginia Law and Economics

Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law), Optimal Political Control of the Bureaucracy

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 12th, 2007 | Law and Economics, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Securities Law, Tax Law, Intellectual Property, Health Law, Uncategorized | no comments

Values and Medicine - Ewing, NJ

The College of New Jersey will host the 35th Annual Conference on Value Inquiry: Values and Medicine, April 5-6, 2008, in Ewing, NJ. The call for papers deadline is Jan. 14, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 12th, 2007 | CALLS FOR PAPERS, Jurisprudence, Health Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

November 8, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston

Greg Keating (USC Law), In Defense of De Minimis

Cincinnati

Suja Thomas (Cincinnati Law), The Civil Jury:  The Disregarded Constitutional Actor

Columbia

Jane Stapleton (Texas Law), Philosophers, Lawyers and Choosing What We Mean by “Causation” in the Law

Columbia Tax Colloquium

Michael Knoll (Penn Law), Taxes and Competitiveness

Drake Constitutional Law

Samuel Issacharoff (NYU Law), Democracy at War

Florida State

Julian Juergensmeyer (Georgia State Law)

Fordham

Henry B. Hansmann (Yale Law), A Global Market for Judicial Services

Georgetown

Abbe Smith (Georgetown Law), I Ain’t Takin’ No Plea: The Challanges in Counseling Young People Facing Serious Time

Minnesota Public Law

Dan Ortiz (Virginia Law), Nice Legal Studies

Northern Kentucky

Jennifer Kreder (Northern Kentucky Law), Towards an International Tribunal for Nazi-Looted Art Disputes

Northwestern Law and Economics

Jesse M. Fried (UC Berkeley Law), Deviations from Contractual Priority in the Sale of VC-Backed Firms

NYU Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy

Rainer Forst (Goethe University), Toleration and Democracy and Pierre Bayle’s Reflexive Theory of Toleration

Penn Law and Economics

Bernard Black (Texas Law), Identifying the Effect of Board Structure on Firm Value: Event Study, DiD, Firm Fixed Effects, and IV Evidence from Korea

Pittsburgh

Michelle Mello (Harvard Public Health), Legal & Policy Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic

Washington

Craig H. Allen ( Washington Law), Law and Maritime Strategy: The Global Legal Order 2020 Project

Amanullah Shah (Washington Law), General Musharraf’s Proclamation of Emergency and Suspension of the Constitution of Pakistan

Yale Legal Theory

David Dyzenhaus (Toronto Law), The Puzzle of Martial Law

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 8th, 2007 | Commercial Law, Comparative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Tax Law, Criminal Law, Health Law, Business Law, Uncategorized | no comments

November 6, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law and Economics

Jesse M. Shapiro (Chicago Business), What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers

Georgetown

Nan Hunter (Georgetown Law), Risk Governance and Democracy in Health Care

Georgia State

Hon. Winston P. Bethel (DeKalb County), Offering Mental Health Treatment to Criminal Offenders Instead of Jail

Harvard Law and Economics

Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law) and Assaf Hamdani (Bar-Ilan Law), Protecting Minority Shareholders

Harvard Internet

Christine Harold (Author of “OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture”)

Marquette

Bruce Boyden (Marquette Law), Cows, Copyrights, and Cotton Looms: Enclosure as a Metaphor for Copyright Law

New York Law School

Kenneth C. Kettering (New York Law School), Securitization and Its Discontents

NYU Law, Economics, and Politics

Lewis Kornhauser (NYU Law), Modeling Courts

Pittsburgh

William Luneburg (Pitt Law), Anonymity and its Dubious Relevance to the Constitutionality of Lobbying Disclosure

Yale Information Society Project

Johannes Britz (Wisconsin-Milwaukee Information Studies), To Talk or Not to Talk: A Critical Analysis of the Telecommunication Policy in South Africa from a Social Justice Perspective

Yale Legal History

David Skeel (Penn Law), The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 6th, 2007 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Technology, Law and Politics, Law and Cyberspace, Law and Religion, Law and Economics, Intellectual Property, Health Law, Business Law, Uncategorized | no comments

October 15, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Alabama

Kim Krawiec (North Carolina Law), Board Diversity and Corporate Performance: Filling the Gaps

Columbia Legal Theory

Winnifred F. Sullivan (Buffalo Law), Prison Religion

Loyola Tax Policy

Mary Heen (Richmond Law), Politically Controversial Speakers on Campus

Minnesota Public Law

Rachel Moran (Cal-Berkeley Law), The Story of Grutter v. Bollinger: The Heirs of Brown

Missouri

Dale Carpenter (Minnesota Law)

Queen’s Law

Heidi Hurd (Illinois Law), The Morality of Mercy

Seton Ha