May 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law), Reassessing Linkages between Sovereign Wealth Funds and Western Banks
Rufus Pollock (Cambridge), Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright
May 7, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
John McGinnis (Northwestern Law), Democracy and International Human Rights Law
James Grimmelmann (New York Law School), Discussing Copyright
Gary J. Gates (UCLA Law), Is Gay the New Straight?
Access to Knowledge - Geneva
The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School will host the third Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K3) September 8-10, 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland. It “will bring together hundreds of decision-makers and experts on global knowledge to discuss the urgent need for policy reforms.”
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.
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
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 9, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), International Delegation Through Treaties: The Nth Power
David Garland (NYU Sociology), Peculiar Institution: Capital Punishment and American Society
David Gamage (UC Berkeley Law), Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidance: A Tentative Defense of “Double Taxation”
Sophia Lee (NYU Law, Golieb Fellow), Hotspots in a Cold War: The NAACP’s Postwar Workplace Constitutionalism, 1948-1964 & Chapter 4 - Almost Revolutionary: Administrative Constitutionalism, Labor Politics & Workplace Civil Rights, 1935-1978
Oregon Environment and Natural Resources Law
Kathy Cashman (Oregon Geology), Geologic Perspectives on Paleoclimate
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), Murphy vs. IRS: Another Front in the War Against the Income Tax
UC Hastings
Patent Failure - Athens, GA
The University of Georgia Law School, Terry College of Business, Department of Economics, and Research Foundation hosted a Symposium on Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk, by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer, March 29, 2008.
March 28, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Georgetown International Human Rights
David Luban (Georgetown Law), Lawfare and Legal Ethics in Guantanamo
Frederic Megret (McGill Law), Civil Disobedience in Defense of International Law: What Should International Law Have to Say?
New York Law School Clinical Theory
David A. Binder (UCLA Law) & Albert J. Moore (UCLA Law), Demystifying The First Year: Why Professors Continually Ask Questions
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Matthew Sag (DePaul Law), Copyright and Copy-Reliant Technologies
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
Intellectual Property - Austin, TX
The Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal held its 9th Annual Intellectual Property Law Symposium on Feb. 8, 2008. This page lists the presentations with links to the speakers’ slides; it may soon have streaming video as well.
Law Without Borders: Current Legal Challenges Around the Globe - Philadelphia
The 2008 Temple Law Review Symposium, Law Without Borders: Current Legal Challenges Around the Globe took place March 1, 2008.
The Symposium will feature panels on four different areas of law, each studying a different facet of the dynamic between, and distinct challenges faced by, developing and developed countries. Panelists will discuss traditional knowledge as a form of intellectual property, economic reform and the Cape Town Convention, climate change litigation and water regulation, and comparative constitution building.
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
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
March 4, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Nathaniel Persily (Columbia Law), Vote Fraud in the Eye of the Beholder: The Role of Public Opinion in the Challenge to Voter Identification Requirements
Graeme W. Austin (Arizona Law), What is Copyright? A Constitutional Question, Apparently
Allison Tirres (DePaul Law), The Railroad, the Courthouse, and the Making of New Legal Borderlands
Yaffa Epstein, From Emission to Pollution: Business Interests and the Regulation of Smoke Emission in the Twin Cities, 1890-1910
St. Thomas (MN)
Barbara Harlow (Texas English), Tortured Thoughts: The Example Set by Ruth Frst from her Interrogation in 1963 to her Assassination in 1982
Washington
Wei Song (China Law Institute), From Invention to Innovation: Laws and Regulations of Technology Transfer in China
Mark Graber (Maryland Law), Maintaining Judicial Review: The Debate Over Section 25 Revisited
March 3, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Vikrant Vig (London Business), Securitization and Screening: Evidence from Subprime Mortgage Back Securities
Adrienne Davis (Virgina Law), Slavert & Shadow Families: Re-Thinking Miscegenation Regulation Through the Lens of Castle
Ian Ayres (Yale Law), Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk
Sheryll Cashin (Georgetown Law), Race, Class and the American Dream
Rebecca Tushnet (Georgetown Law), Power Without Responsibility: Intermediaries and the First Amendment
Rebecca M. Bratspies (CUNY Law), The Need for Trust in Regulatory Systems
Sonia Katyal (Fordham Law), Intellectual Property
Anthony J. Sebok (Brooklyn Law), The Inauthentic Claim
David Harvey (CUNY Anthropology), From Capital Surplus to Accumulation by Dispossession
Elizabeth Chambliss (New York Law School), When Do Facts Persuade? Some Thoughts on the Market for ‘Empirical Legal Studies’
Austen Parrish (Southwestern Law), Reclaiming International Law from Extraterritoriality
USC Law, Economics and Organization
Edward R. Morrison (Columbia Law), Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11
Washington University in St. Louis
Eleazer Klein (Schulte Roth & Zabel), Current Issues in Private Placement: A Case Study
February 29, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Dayna Brown Matthew (Colorado Law), Race, Religion and Informed Consent — Lessons from Social Science
Russell A. Miller (Washington & Lee Law), Comparative Law in the Era of Global Terrorism: A Case Study for Germany’s Militant Democracy
Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt Law), Adam Smith and the Search for an Ideal Tax System
Lonny Hoffman (Houston Law), Burn Up the Chaff with Unquenchable Fire: Constructing a Sustainable Theory of Judicial Regulatory Power Over Pleading Norms
Tonya Putnam (Columbia Political Science), Beyond Presumption?: Explaining Extraterritorial Variation over Civil Claims
Brian Levack (Texas History), The Prosecution of Sexual Crimes in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law) & Robin Lenhardt (Fordham Law), Rethinking Work and Citizenship
Norman Spaulding (Stanford Law), Professional Independence in the Office of the Attorney General
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Owen D. Jones (Vanderbilt Law), Harm and Punishment: An fMRI Experiment
Karl F. Jorda (Franklin Pierce Law), Patent/Trade Secret Complementariness: An Unsuspected Synergism
February 28, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Boston College Tax Policy Workshop
Nancy Staudt (Northwestern Law), If Major Wars Affect (Judicial Fiscal Policy, How & Why?
Sadiq Reza (Boston Law), Islam’s Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure in Islamic Legal Doctrine and Practice
Colin Picker (Missouri-Kansas Law), International Law as a Mixed Jurisdiction
CUNY
Rebecca Bratspies (CUNY Law), The Need for Trust in Regulatory Systems
Jeffrey N. Gordon (Columbia Law), The Berle-Means Corporation in the 21st Century
Peter Byrne (Georgetown Law), Hallowed Ground: The Gettysburg Battlefield in Historic Preservation Law
NYU Colloquium on Tax Policy & Public Finance
Daniel Shaviro (NYU Law), The Optimal Relationship Between Taxable Income and Financial Accounting Income
Ellen Pryor (SMU Law), Coordinatng the Restatement (Third) of Torts
Geoffrey Miller (NYU Law), Arbitration’s Summer Soldiers: An Empirical Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Nonconsumer Contracts
Tanya Washington (Georgia State Law), Throwing the Black Baby Out with the Bathwater: The (Un)Constitutionality of Same-Sex Adoption Bans
The Full Impact of Digital Media: Shifts of Control and the Future of Music
Judy J. Thomson (MIT Philosophy), Some Reflections on Hart on Honore, CAUSATION IN THE LAW
Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton Philosophy), Experiments in Ethics