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
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
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:
- panels and papers (due March 12, 2010)
- Junior Faculty Writing Competition (due June 15, 2010)
- Student Writing Competition (due June 15, 2010)
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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
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
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.
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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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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Sep 16, 2009 Colloquia/Workshops
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
April 22nd Colloquia/Workshops
Alexander Capron (USC Law), The Circulatory-Respiratory Determination of Death in Organ Donation
Ariela Dubler (Columbia Law), Sexing Skinner: Marriage, Procreation and the Legal Family
Charles Weisselberg (UC Berkeley Law)
Michael Perry (Emory Law), Protecting Constitutionally Entrenched Human Rights: What Role for the Courts?
David T. Ritchie (Mercer Law), Legal Writing: Gateway to the Legal Discourse Community
Lawrence Repeta (Washington Law), Human rights in Japan and the efforts of Japan’s NGOS before the UN Human Rights Committee
April 20th Colloquia/Workshops
Cynthia Skach (Oxford Politics)
Margret Meyer (Oxford)
Juliet M. Moringiello (Widener Law)
Michael Carrier (Rutgers Camden Law)
Jacob Hacker (Berkeley Poli. Sci.), Yes, We Can? The New Push for American Health Security
Eugene Volokh (UCLA Law), Facilitative Constitutional Rights
Jannine Bell (Indiana University), Hate Speech and Hate Crime
April 15th Colloquia/Workshops
Mario L. Barnes (Connecticut 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
David Tanenhaus (UNLC History), Gerald’s Story: Children, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice
Roger Alford (Pepperdine Law), Arbitrating Human Rights
April 8th Colloquia/Workshop
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
Deborah Dinner (NYU Law), Debating Protective Legislation: The Origins of the Legal Sex/Gender Distinction, 1964-1974
Kathy Cerminara (Nova Southeastern Law), Open-Access Hospice: Compassionate Reimbursement Rules in Medicare
March 26th Colloquia/Workshops
Matthew Kramer (Cambridge Law), Freedom and the Rule of Law
Neil Buchanan (George Washington Law)
Philip Hamburger (Columbia Law), Beyond Protection
Jayanth Krishnan (William Mitchell Law), (Un)wanted Outsiders: The Debate over Excluding American and British Law Firms from a Thriving Capital Market
Richard Brooks (Yale Law), Groups and Individuals
Theodor R. Marmour (Yale Management), Reflections on Medicare Across the North American Border
March 18th Colloquia/Workshops
Eric Barendt (University College London), Conflicts between right to Freedom of Speech and Privacy
Christine Desan (Harvard Law), Beyond Commodification: Contract and the Credit-Based World of Modern Capitalism
Lawrence A. Cunningham (George Washington Law), Reimagining Financial Regulations
Michael Chernew (Harvard Medical), The Financial Effects of a Value Based Insurance Design Program
Allison Christians (Wisconsin Law), Networks, Norms, and National Tax Policy
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.
March 11th Colloquia/Workshops
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
Michael Willrich (Brandeis History)
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.
March 4th Colloquia/Workshops
Michelle Oberman (Santa Clara Law)
Anup Malani (Harvard Law), Do advertisements affect the physiological efficacy of branded drugs?
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
Jefferson Decker (NYU Law), Governing from the Right: The Conservative Litigation Movement and the Reagan Revolution”
Charles H. Brower (Mississippi Law)
Robert Gatter (St. Louis Law), Constitutionalization of State Informed Consent Law
Mary Bilder (Boston College Law), The Authenticity of Madison’s Notes
February 25th Colloquia/Workshops
Daphne Barak-Erez (Tel Aviv Law), The Institutional Aspects of Comparative Law
David Brink (U.C. San Diego Philosophy)
Ted Marmor (Yale Management), Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of Health Care
Oren Bracha (Texas Law), The Ideology of Authorship, Revisited
Michael Klarman (Harvard Law), Backlash: The Occasionally Perverse Consequences of Court Decisions”
Stanford Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Tim Quinn (Association of California Water Agencies), Water Supply Reliability in a World of Shortages
February 18th Colloquia/Workshops
Justin Long (Connecticut Law), Against Certification
Francesco Parisi (Minnesota Law)
Ben Roin (Harvard Law), The Perverse Incentives Created by the Patent Term for Drugs
Darren Hutchinson (American University Law), Sexuality, Politics, and Doctrinal Evolution
Northwestern Law and Political Economy
Daniel B. Rodrigues (Texas Law), Is Administrative Law Inevitable
James Whitman (Yale Law), Western Legal Imperialism: Thinking About the Deep Historical Roots
Amy Coney Barrett (Notre Dame Law)
Amy Adler (NYU Law), Medusa: A Look at Women in First Amendment Law
February 11th Colloquia/Workshops
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Kim Krawiec (UNC Law), Sunny Samaritans and Egomaniacs: Price Fixing in the Gamete Market
Michael Vanderbergh (Vanderbilt Law), The Logic of Climate Change Governance: Boundaries and Leakage
Michelle Jacobs (Florida Law), Virtual Education
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)
Joseph Doyle (MIT Management), Returns to Physician Human Capital: Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams
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
Felice Batlan (Chicago Kent Law), The Birth of Legal Aid: Knightly Attorneys and Damsels in Distress
Elizabeth G. Thornburg (SMU Law)
Dr. Thomas Eilmansberger (Salzburg)
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
Michell Kane (NYU Law), Bootstraps and Poverty Traps: Treaties as Novel Toos for Development Finance
Brian Simpson (Michigan Law), Lacey: A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream
February 5th Colloquia/Workshops
Risa Goluboff (Columbia Law), Vagrancy, Crime Control, and Judicial Anxiety
Jebediah Purdy (Duke Law), American Earth: The Public Language of Environmental Commitment
Alan Lerner (Penn. Law), From Socrates to Langdel, From Freud to Dewey: The Role of Emotion in Modern Legal Education
Kimberly Ferzan (Rutgers Law), Beyond the Special Part
Richard Chused (Georgetown Law)
Katherine Sikkink (Minnesota Law), Do Human Rights Trials Make a Difference
Constance MacIntosh (Dalhousie Law), Dirty Water, Dirty Hands: Public Health Deficits and Water Quality Debacles on First Nation Reserves
Sari Kisilevsky (UCLA Fellow), Hard Cases and Legal Validity
Jill Hasday (Minnesota Law), Protecting Them from Themselves: Sex and Race Inequality as Shared Benefits
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.
January 29th Colloquia/Workshops
Edward J. Janger (Brooklyn Law), Virtual Territoriality
Robert Ferguson (Columbia Law), Invading Panama: The Power of Circumstance in the Rule of Law
Amy Farmer (Arkansas Law), Strategic Bidding Investment and Investment in Final Offer
Caroline Mala Corbin (Miami Law), The First Amendment Right Against Compelled Listening
Leo Katz (Penn. Law), Why the Law Spruns Win-Win Transactions
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
Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow (Georgetown Law)
JJ Prescott (Michigan Law), Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior
Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), A Limited Defense of Clinical Placebo Deception
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
Betsey Stevenson (Penn Business), The Paradox of Declining Female Hapiness
January 22nd Colloquia/Workshops
Rusty Park (Boston University Law)
Alexandra D. Lahav (Connecticut Law), Portraits of Resistance: How Lawyers Respond to Unjust Proceedings
David Schizer & Thomas Merrill (Columbia Law), Advancing Energy Policy Goals in an Economic Downturn: A Proposed Petroleum Fuel Price Stabilization Plan
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
Kim Lane (Princeton Law and Public Affairs), The Law is the way the State Talk to Itself
Heather K. Gerken (Yale Law), Building the Election System We Deserve
Mary Wiktorowicz (York Health Policy and Management), Mental health network governance and coordination: Comparative analysis across ten regions
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.
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.
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
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
Dwight Newman (Saskatchewan Law)
Yale Law, Economics and Organization
David Haddock (Northwestern Law), Bad Public Goods—CAFE—The Corporate Average Fuel Economy Mandate
November 20th Colloquia/Workshops
Mark D. Rosen (Chicago Kent Law), From Exclusivity to Concurrency
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
David Opderbeck (Seton Hill Law), Patents, Trade Secrets, and Social Relations
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
Jonathan Berger (AIDS Law Project), Institutions Matter: The Right to Health, the Regulation of Medicines and the South African Constitution
October 16th Colloaquia/Workshops
Vanessa A. Baird (Colorado-Boulder Political Science), Answering the Call of the Courts: How Justices and Litigants Set the Supreme Court Agenda
Benjamin Spencer (Washington & Lee), Deconstructing Pleading Doctrine
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
Lori Damrosch (Columbia Law), International Law and National Law
Bernard Black (Texas Law), The Effects of Pretrial Process Reform: Evidence from Texas Malpractice Cases
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
Kathy Feng (California Common Cause)
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
October 13th Colloquia/Workshops
Leonard Burman (Urban Institute), A Blueprint for Tax Reform and Health Reform
Joseph Singer (Harvard Law), Normative Methods for Lawyers
Barton Gellman (Washington Post), Angler: The Cheney Vice President
Eric Feldman (Pennsylvania Law), Assuming the Risk: Tort Law, Policy and Politics on the Slippery Slopes
Christine Borgman (UCLA Information Science), Scholarship in the Digital Age
James Spindler (USC Law), Vicarious Liability for Bad Corporate Governance: Are We Wrong About 10b-5
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
Thomas Merrill (Yale Law), The Origins of the Appellate Review Model in Administrative Law
Gregg Bloche (Georgetown Law), The Emergent Logic in Health Law
Zhang Jing (Peking University)
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.
September 18th Colloquia/Workshops
Juan E. Mendez (International Center for Transitional Justice)
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
Matt Stephenson (Harvard Law), Political Accountability under Alternative Institutional Regimes
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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Innovation in Life Sciences - London
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law presents Innovation in Life Sciences Sept. 25, 2008.
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
June 30, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law), Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
April 24, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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
Claire Priest (Columbia Law), Understanding the End of Entail: Information, Institutions, and Slavery in the American Revolutionary Period
Madhavi Sunder (UC Davis), The New Enlightenment: How Muslim Women are Bringing Religion Out of the Dark Ages
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
Rose Villazor (SMU Law), Birthright Citizenship in the U.S. Territories
Rachel Brewster (Harvard Law), Renegotiation and Reinterpretation of Treaties
Ruti Teitel (New York Law School), Humanity’s Law
Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard Economics), Taking the Long Way Around: Real Consequences of Transport Corruption
April 21, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Christopher Morris (Maryland Law), Natural Rights and Political Legitimacy & P 1-2 Declaration of Independence & Anarchy, State, and Utopia & State Legitimacy and Social Order
Eric Zolt (UCLA Law), Inequality, Collective Action, and Taxing and Spending Patterns of State and Local Governments
Alan O. Sykes (Stanford Law), Transnational Forum Shopping as a Trade and Investment Issue
Greg Mandel (Temple Law), Left Brain vs. Right Brain: Conflicting Conceptions of Creativity in Intellectual Property Law
Jean Comaroff (Chicago Anthropology), Nations with/out Borders: Neoliberalism and the Problem of Belong in Africa, and Beyond
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
Joshua Foa Dienstag (UCLA Political Science), The Promise of Pessimism
Christine Jolls (Yale Law), Mandated Medical Leave in the Workplace
Reinier Kraakman (Harvard Law), Exit, Voice, and Liability: Legal Dimensions of Organizational Structure
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.”
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.
April 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Arti K. Rai (Duke Law), The Supreme Court (Re)Discovers Patents: Implications for the Biopharmaceutical Industry
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
Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law), Transnational Labor Citizenship
Dr. Ellen Bassee
Laurence Helfer (Vanderbilt Law), Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community
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
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Alan Auerbach (UC Berkeley Law), Long-Term Objectives for Government Debt
Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law), Comparative Corporate Law and Emerging Markets
Jutta Brunnee (Toronto Law), Interactional International Law: Reflections on Obligations
Sarah Song (UC Berkeley Law), Three Models of Civic Solidarity
Ralph Steinhardt (George Washington Law), Corporate Complicity and the Alien Tort Statute
C. Fritz Foley (Harvard Business), Welfare Payments and Crime
April 8, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
John Witt (Columbia Law), Form and Substance in the Law of Counterinsurgency Damages
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
William Eskridge, Jr. (Fordham Law), Vetogates, Chevron, Preemption
Gregg Bloche (Georgetown Law), The Emergent Logic of Health Care
Loyola
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), The Life Span of Written Constitutions
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)
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
March 27, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Rennard Strickland (Chapman Law), Keepers of the Springs: A Defense of the American Legal Profession
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
Kim Ferzan (Rutgers-Camden Law), Beyond the Special Part
Elinor Ostrom (Indiana-Bloomington Cognitive Science Program)
Clayton Gillette (Columbia Law), Tacit Agreement, Investment, and Contract Design
Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Anti-Bankruptcy
Margaret Blair (Vanderbilt Law), Assurance Services as a Substitute for Law in Global Commerce
William Forbath (Texas Law), History, Memory and “Transformative Law”: Treatment Action Campaign and the Politics of Rights in South Africa
Rip Verkerke (Virginia Law), Legal Innocence and Information-Forcing Rules
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Andrea Louis Campbell (MIT Political Science), How Americans Think About Taxes: Public Opinion and the American Fiscal State
Colin Mayer (Oxford Business), Where Do Firms Incorporate: Deregulation and the Cost of Entry
Sean Murphy (George Washington Law), The Jus Ad Bellum in View of New Security Threats
Matt Adler (Penn Law), Social Facts, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Rule of Recognition
Alex Glashausser (Washburn Law), The Misbegotten Modern Doctrine of Federal Question Jurisdiction
Shameem Black (Yale English), Fiction in the Age of Transitional Justice
Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown Law), Do Insurer Reserving Practices Drive Liability Insurance Premium Cycles?: An Empirical Study at the Claim Level
March 24, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Georgetown Statutory Colloquium
Bradford Clark (George Washington Law), Process-Based Federalism Readings 1 & 2
Howard Gillette (Rutgers-Camden History), Civitas in the Design of Housing for the Poor
Melanie Leslie (Cardozo Law), Strengthening Fiduciary Norms in Nonprofit Corporations
Beth Lyon (Villanova Law), Migrant Works and Clinical Pedagogy
Adair Morse (Chicago Business)
Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley Law), War on! Why a “War on Cancer” should replace our “War on Crime” (and Terror)
Gandolfo V. DiBlasi (Sullivan & Cromwell), Certified Public Scapegoat: Enron, Arthur Andersen & David Duncan
March 21, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
David Lyons (Boston University Law), Race and the Rule of Law
Nancy Rapoport (UNLV Law), New Lessons From Enron
Eric A. Feldman (Penn Law), Suing Doctors in Japan: Structure, Culture, and the Rise of Malpractice Litigation
Alexandra B. Klass (Minnesota Law), State Innovation and Preemption: Lessons from Environmental Law
Carol Steiker (Harvard Law), Tempering or Tampering: Mercy and the Administration of Criminal Justice
Neil Duxbury (Virginia Law), Golden Rule Reasoning, Moral Dilemmas and Law
March 20, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jack Beermann (Boston University Law), Common Law and Statute Law in U.S. Federal Administrative Law
Randall Lesaffer (Tilburg Law), Just and Legal War, Just and Legal Peace, in Early Modern Europe
Charles Lawrence (Georgetown Law), Unconscious Racism Revisited: Reflections on the Origins and Impact of “The Id, the Ego and Equal Protection”
Curtis Bradley (Duke Law), The Story of Ex Parte Milligan: Military Trials, Enemy Combatants, and Congressional Authorization
Gregg Ivers (American Public Affairs), Religious Organizations as Legal Advocates: Comparing Canada and the U.S.
Michael Heise (Cornell Law), Plaintiphobia in State Courts? An Empirical Study of State Court Trials on Appeal
Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law), Good White People
William Lahey (Dalhousie Law), Inter-Professional Practice and the Law: Understanding and Overcoming the Barriers
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
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.
March 12, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Mark Graber (Maryland Politics), John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
CUNY
Mitchell Kane (Virginia Law), Bootstraps, Poverty Traps, and Poverty Pits: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance
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
David Wilkins (Harvard Law), Toward a Joint Venture Model of Attorney/Client Relationship Between Corporations and their Outside Counsel
Jacques Sasseville (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), Tax Treaties: Better the Devil We Know?
Devon Carbado (UCLA Law), Acting White: What’s Sexual Orientation Got to Do With it?
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
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.
March 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Josef Drexl (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law)
Alastair Norcross (Rice Philosophy), Consequentialism and Commitment
Lisa Schultz Bressman (Vanderbilt Law), Administrative Law
Gary Bass (Princeton Politics), Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
Ambassador Luigi R. Einaudi (Secretary General, Organization of American States), The Ideal and Practice of Democratic Legitimacy in Latin America
Betsey Stevenson (Penn Business), Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
John Gardner (Oxford), H.L.A. Hart’s Punishment and Responsibility: Forty Years On
Michael Dorf (Columbia law), Dynamic Incorporation of Foreign Law
Alexandra D. Lahav (UConn Law), Advocacy at Unfair Hearings
Malcolm Feeley (UC Berkeley Law) & Edward Rubin (Vanderbilt Law), Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise
Ethan Kaplan (UC Berkeley Economics) & Arindrajit Dube (UC Berkeley Wage and Employment) & Suresh Naidu (UC Berkeley Ph.D.), Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information
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
Paul Grossman (Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker), Imaginative Responses to Real World Litigation Problems
March 6, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Laura Beny (Michigan Law), Private Regulation of Insider Trading in the Shadow of Lax Public Enforcement (and a Strong Neighbor)–Evidence from Canadian Firms
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
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default
Ayelet Shachar (Toronto Law), The Global Race for Talent
Robert Daines (Stanford Law), Rating the Ratings: How Good are the Commercial Governance Ratings?
Alexandra B. Klass (Minnesota Law) & Elizabeth Wilson (Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs), Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration: A Consideration of Tort and Property Law
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)
Robert Ahdieh (Emory Law), Standardization 2.0: A New Version of the Game
Peter Smith (George Washington Law), Originalism’s Living Constitutionalism
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
Shareen Hertel (UConn Political Science), Rights in Conflict: Insights from Transnational Labor and Economic Rights
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
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.
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.
February 21, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jane Campbell Moriarty (Akron Law), Experiences as a Visiting Professor
Chuck Whitehead (Boston Law), The Evolution of Debt: Agency Costs, Financial Innovation, and Corporate Governance
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
Gillian Metzger (Columbia Law), Administrative Law as the New Federalism
Robert Thompson (Vanderbilt Law), Corporate Voting in the World of Financial Engineering
Margareth Etienne (Illinois Law), Uncorporating the Large Firm
Robert Tsai (Oregon Law), Reconsidering Gobitis: Lessons in Presidential Leadership
Alicia Davis Evans (Michigan Law), Are Investors’ Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Over Time? Some Preliminary Evidence
Allan Erbsen (Minnesota Law), Horizontal Federalism
NYU Colloquium on Tax Policy & Public Finance
Northwestern Advanced Topics in Taxation
Adam Rosenzweig (Washington Law in St. Louis), Taxation, Risk and Derivatives: Does an Income Tax Subsidize Hedge Funds?
Jenny S. Martinez (Stanford Law), Substance and Process in the War on Terror
Jeremy Rabkin (George Mason Law), Exit, Voice, Loyalty in International Organizations: Why Can’t the President Check the First Option
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Frank Bloch (Vanderbilt Law), The Future of Legal Education
Nita Farahany (Vanderbilt Law), Neuroscience in the Criminal Justice System
Aida Alaka (Washburn Law), The Phenomenology of Error in Student Legal Writing
Pat Kuszler (Washington Law), Genomics and Global Health: Promise or Peril
Erica Field (Harvard Economics), Prenuptial Agreements and the Emergence of Dowry in Bangladesh
Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals - Winston-Salem, NC
The Wake Forest University Intellectual Property Law Journal presents its 2008 spring symposium, Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals, February 22.
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.
February 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Mitchell Kane (Columbia Law), Bootstraps, Poverty Traps and Povert Pits: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance
Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley Law), Katz at Forty: A Sociological Jurisprudence Whose Time Has Come
James Kainen (Fordham Law), Re-Evaluating Home Building and Loan v. Blaisdell
Samuel Buell (Washington at St. Louis Law), Underappreciated Virtues of Overbreadth in Criminal Law
Albert Choi (Virginia Law), Integrating an Agreement to Induce Information Disclosure
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
Jeff Kahn (SMU Law), International Travel and the U.S. Constitution during the War on Terror
Jonathan Macey (Yale Law), False Promises: Finding a Role for Directors in Corporate Governance
David Henry (Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences), The Australia/USA Free Trade Agreement - Impact on Access to Medicine
Nancy Polikoff (Washington College of Law, American University), Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law
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
Tonya Kowalski (Washburn Law), Imperatives and Incentives to Introduce Native American Nations and Law in First-Year Legal Method Courses
February 8, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Robert Miller (Villanova Law), Directors as Advisors: The Role of Corporate Directors at Shareholder Meetings
Debra Lyn Bassett (Alabama Law), The Revolution of 1938 and its Discontents: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Today
Loyola LA
Steve Munzer (UCLA Law), Commons and Community in Biotechnological Assets
Ricardo Bascuas (Miami Law), Federal Sentencing: The American Inquisition
Notre Dame
Michael Moreland (Villanova Law), Torts
Alan Brudner (Toronto Law), Subjective Fault for Crime: A Reinterpretation
Daniel Hamilton (Chicago-Kent), Emancipation and Contract Law: Litigating Human Property after the Civil War
Eric Claeys (George Mason Law), Jefferson Meets Coase: The Harm-Benefit Distinction in Tort Law and Economics and Natural Property Rights
Devah Pager (Princeton), Race at Work: Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets
Sophie Sparrow (Franklin Pierce Law Center), Workshop: Using Grading Rubrics to Improve Teaching, Learning and Grading
February 7, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Stacey Dogan (Boston Law), Functionality Reconsidered
Warren Billings (New Orleans History), Just Laws for the Happy Guiding and Governing of the People There Inhabiting: Laws in the Colonial South
John Mayo (Georgetown Business), The Influence of Firms on Government
Chris Elmendorf (UC Davis), Undue Burdens on Voter Participation (Is the Right to Vote Like the Right to an Abortion?)
Reva Siegel (Yale Law), The Rights’ Reasons: Constitutional Conflict and the Spread of Woman-Protective Anti-Abortion Argument
Jon Klick (Florida State), The Effect of Contractual Regulation: The Case of Franchising
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Chris Sanchirico (Penn Law), The Tax Advantage to Paying Private Equity Funds Managers with Profit Shares: What is it? Why is it Bad?
Dennis Ventry (American University Law), Whistleblowers and Qui Tam for Tax
Marcia McCormick (Cumberland Law), The Truth is Out There: Refitting EEOC for the Twenty-First Century
William Birdthistle (Chicago-Kent Law), Exchange Traded Funds
Melissa Waters (Washington & Lee Law), Veri, Vidi, Amici: Law Professors as Transnational Norm Entrepreneurs Before the U.S. Supreme Court
Dick Fallon (Harvard Law), Constitutional Precedent Viewed Through the Lens of Hartian Jurisprudence
Aeyal Gross (Tel Aviv Law), Health Between a Right and a Commodity: A Comparative Analysis of the Israeli Experience
Tom Miles (Chicago Law), Strategic Judging under the Voting Rights Act & Judicial Decisionmaking and the Transformation of Voting Rights Doctrine
February 4, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Herbert Hovenkamp (Iowa Law), Innovation and the Domain of Competition Policy
Timothy Kaufman-Osborn (Whitman Politics), Perfecting Death: Abolitionism and the Challenge of Lethal Injection
Omri Ben-Shahar (Michigan Law), How to Repair Unconscionable Contracts
Eric Helland (Claremont-McKenna), The Impact of the Securities Litigation on the Directors’ Labor Market
Knud Haakonssen (Sussex History), Protestant Natural Law and the Question of Rights: The Case of Francis Hutcheson I & II
Leemore S. Dafny (Northwestern Management), Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?
Cristina Rodriguez (NYU Law), Significance of the Local in Immigration Regulation
St. Thomas (MN)
Nancy Ehrenreich (Denver Law), Feminist Theory and Reproductive Rights
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default
Yair Listokin (Yale Law), Does Shareholder Voting Maximize Stock Market Value?
Chief Justice Myron Steele (Supreme Court of Delaware), Delaware, North Dakota, and Federalism
January 30, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Laura Dickinson (UConn Law), Outsourcing War and Peace
Nicolas Terry (St. Louis Law), Personal Health Records: Directing More Costs and Risks to Customers
William E. Nelson (NYU Law), Law and Religion in Massachusetts and Virginia: An Historical Comparison & Summary Judgment and the Progressive Constitution
Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law
Jon Palfreman (Oregon Journalism) & Carol Ann Bassett (Oregon Journalism), Cool Reporting about a Warming Planet
Kevin Maillard (Syracuse Law), The Ethics of Sovereignty
Michael Graetz (Yale Law), 100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States
Edward Greenspan (Greenspan, White), Stranger in a Surprisingly Strange Land: A Canadian Lawyer Defends Lord Conrad Black in U.S. Federal Court in Chicago
Calvin Massey (UC Hastings Law), Of Sovereignty, States, and Standing
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.
January 25, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Tom Tyler (NYU Psychology), Legitimacy and Cooperation: Why do People Help the Police Fight Crime in their Communities
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
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
Laura Gomez (New Mexico Law), Manifest Destiny’s Legacy: Race in America at the Turn of the 20th Century
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.”
Elizabeth Glazer (Hofstra Law), When Obscenity Discriminates
January 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Kevin Outterson (Boston University Law), Prescription Drug Labels for Limited English Proficiency
Lawrence Mitchell (George Washington Law), The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry
Jane Ginsburg (Columbia Law), Separating the Sony Sheep from the Grokster Goats: Reckoning the Future Business Plans of Copyright-Depending Technology Entrepreneurs
Margaret Blair (Vanderbilt Law), Assurance Services as a Substitute for Law in Global Commerce
Caroline Gentile (Fordham Law), Creditors and Corporate Governance
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
J. Gregory Sidak (Georgetown Law), Patent Holdup and Oligopsonistic Collusion in Standard Setting Organizations
Jeffrey Jackson (Washburn Law), Unenumerated Rights and the Constitution: The Ninth Amendment and Idealized British Constitutionalism
Washington University of St. Louis Law
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.
November 28, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Michael A. Scodro (Solicitor General of Illinois) & William Marshall (Solicitor General of Ohio) & Barry Sullivan (Jenner & Block), Apellate Litigation in the States
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
Jane Burbank (NYU History), The Middle Ground of Law: Litigantion, Supervision, and Governance in Late Imperial Russia
Brad Sears (UCLA Law), HIV Discrimination in Dental Care
Washington
Bob Gomulkiewicz (Washington Law), The Federal Circuit’s Licensing Law Jurisprudence: Its Nature and Influence
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.
(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.)
November 12, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Adam Rosenzweig (Washington University at St. Louis), Risk & Derivatives: Does the Income Tax Subsidize Hedge Funds
Amy Wax (Penn Law), Engines of Inequality: Class, Race, and Family Structure
Adam Mossoff (Michigan State Law), Patents, Property and Property Theory
Mark Heywood (AIDS Law Project), Politics and Poor Global Health
Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law), Optimal Political Control of the Bureaucracy
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.
November 8, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Greg Keating (USC Law), In Defense of De Minimis
Cincinnati
Suja Thomas (Cincinnati Law), The Civil Jury: The Disregarded Constitutional Actor
Jane Stapleton (Texas Law), Philosophers, Lawyers and Choosing What We Mean by “Causation” in the Law
Samuel Issacharoff (NYU Law), Democracy at War
Henry B. Hansmann (Yale Law), A Global Market for Judicial Services
Abbe Smith (Georgetown Law), I Ain’t Takin’ No Plea: The Challanges in Counseling Young People Facing Serious Time
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
Bernard Black (Texas Law), Identifying the Effect of Board Structure on Firm Value: Event Study, DiD, Firm Fixed Effects, and IV Evidence from Korea
Michelle Mello (Harvard Public Health), Legal & Policy Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic
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
November 6, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Jesse M. Shapiro (Chicago Business), What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers
Nan Hunter (Georgetown Law), Risk Governance and Democracy in Health Care
Hon. Winston P. Bethel (DeKalb County), Offering Mental Health Treatment to Criminal Offenders Instead of Jail
Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law) and Assaf Hamdani (Bar-Ilan Law), Protecting Minority Shareholders
Christine Harold (Author of “OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture”)
Bruce Boyden (Marquette Law), Cows, Copyrights, and Cotton Looms: Enclosure as a Metaphor for Copyright Law
Kenneth C. Kettering (New York Law School), Securitization and Its Discontents
NYU Law, Economics, and Politics
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
David Skeel (Penn Law), The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship
October 15, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Kim Krawiec (North Carolina Law), Board Diversity and Corporate Performance: Filling the Gaps
Winnifred F. Sullivan (Buffalo Law), Prison Religion
Mary Heen (Richmond Law), Politically Controversial Speakers on Campus
Rachel Moran (Cal-Berkeley Law), The Story of Grutter v. Bollinger: The Heirs of Brown