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IP and Indigenous Peoples - Fort Worth, TX

Texas Wesleyan University School of Law will a symposium on Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples Oct. 10, 2008. The call for papers deadline is May 30, 2008. Accepted papers will be published in the Texas Wesleyan Law Review.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 5th, 2008 | Indian Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES | no comments

Indigenous Economic Development: Sustainability, Culture and Business - Portland, OR

Lewis and Clark Law School’s Business Law Programs hosts Indigenous Economic Development: Sustainability, Culture and Business April 4, 2008. The event is co-sponsored by the Oregon State Bar Indian Law Section.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 21st, 2008 | Indian 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

Tribal Law & Government - Lawrence, KS

The University of Kansas School of Law Tribal Law and Government Center hosts its 12th Annual Tribal Law and Government Conference, Friday, Feb. 1, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 7th, 2008 | Indian Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Tribal Courts - Washington, DC

American University Washington College of Law (WCL) is hosting a conference, What Do We Know About Tribal Courts? An Examination on the 30th Anniversary of Oliphant, examining tribal law and tribal courts on March 6, 2008. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 20, 2007.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 3rd, 2007 | Courts, Indian Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES | no comments

Indian Civil Rights Act - East Lansing, MI

Michigan State University College of Law hosts the 5th Annual MSU Indigenous Law Conference: Forty Years of the Indian Civil Rights Act – History, Tribal Law, and Modern Challenges, Oct. 10-11, 2008. Confirmed speakers already include Catharine MacKinnon, Gloria Valencia-Weber, Carole Goldberg, Duane Champagne, Stacy Leeds, Kristen Carpenter, Angela Riley, and others. The proposal deadline for the call for papers is Feb. 1, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 29th, 2007 | Indian Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES | no comments

November 7, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago-Kent

Randall W. Roth (Hawaii Law), The Lawyer as Whistleblower: Lessons from the Bishop Estate Controversy

Chicago-Kent Legal History

Nathan Oman (William & Mary Law), Preaching in the Courthouse and Judging in the Temple

Connecticut

Bethany Berger (UConn Law), Red: Uses of American Indian Race

Duke International and Comparative Law

Jean-Marie Henckaerts (Legal Advisor to the International Red Cross), The IRC Report on International Humanitarian Law and Its Critics

Emory

Jonathan Klick (Florida State Law), Cheap Donuts and Expensive Broccoli: The Effect of Relative Prices on Obesity

NYU Legal History

Sophia Lee (NYU Law, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow), “Race, Sex and Rulemaking, 1964-1977: Revising Equal Protection History, Recovering Administrative Constitutionalism” and “Almost Revolutionary: Administrative Constitutionalism, Labor Politics, and Workplace Civil Rights, 1935-1978″

Oregon Environmental and Natural Resources Law

Steven Kevan (Oregon Physics) and Greg Bothun (Oregon Physics), Physicists on Renewable Energy

Vanderbilt

Robert Ahdieh (Emory Law)

Washington

Steve Calandrillo (Washington Law), Time Well Spent: An Economic Analysis of Daylight Saving Time Legislation

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 7th, 2007 | Law and Religion, Legal Ethics, Law and Humanities, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Science, Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, Environmental Law, Tax Law, International Law, Indian Law, Legal History, Uncategorized | no comments

American Indian Law and Literature

American Indian Law and Literature
Fourth Annual Indigenous Law Conference
Michigan State University College of Law
October 18 & 20, 2007

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Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 16th, 2007 | Indian Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

NEPA in Indian Country - Denver

The International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management offers Workshop on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in Indian Country, September 25-26, 2007, in Denver, CO.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 16th, 2007 | Indian Law, Environmental Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Indian Law - Temecula, CA

The California Indian Law Association hosts its Seventh Annual Indian Law Conference, October 11, 2007,   Pechanga Resort & Casino, Pechanga Indian Reservation, Temecula, California.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 16th, 2007 | Indian Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

Indigenous Law & Lit - East Lansing

Michigan State University College of Law’s Indigenous Law and Policy Center hosts its 4th Annual Indigenous Law Conference in East Lansing on October 19-20, 2007. The conference topic is American Indian Law and Literature.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 15th, 2007 | Law and Literature, Indian Law, CONFERENCES | no comments