Regional Institutions for Innovation and Productivity - Seattle
The University of Washington School of Law and the UW’s Economic Policy Research Center present Regional Institutions for Innovation and Productivity April 9, 2010. mw
Communication, Information, and Internet Policy - Arlington, VA
George Mason University School of Law hosts TPRC’s 38th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy Oct. 1-3, 2010. TPRC is now soliciting abstracts of papers, panel proposals, and student papers for presentation at the 2010 conference. Proposals should be based on current theoretical or empirical research relevant to communication and information policy, and may be from any disciplinary perspective. TPRC seeks submissions of disciplinary, comparative, multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary excellence. Subject areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to 11 listed topics. The deadline for abstracts and panel proposals is March 31, 2010.
The deadline for the student call for papers is April 30, 2010. mw
IP/Gender Symposium: Mapping the Connections - Washington, DC
American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property announces its 7th Annual Symposium on IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections, to be held April 16, 2010. kja
Copyleft vs. Copyright - Winston-Salem, NC
Wake Forest School of Law Intellectual Property Law Journal presents Copyleft vs. Copyright: Artist and Author Rights in Tomorrow’s Digital Age on Friday, March 5, 2010. mw
Intellectual Law & Policy - Akron, OH
The University of Akron School of Law and Sughrue Mion, PLLC, present the 12th Annual Richard C. Sughrue Symposium on Intellectual Law and Policy March 8, 2010. mw
Tailoring Patent System to Promote Innovation - Irvine, CA
University of California Irvine School of Law presents Bend or Break: Tailoring the Patent System to Promote Innovation on Jan. 22, 2010.
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Music Law - Gainesville, FL
The Music Law Conference at the University of Florida Levin College of Law is hosting its 8th annual conference on February 27, 2010.
The conference brings together musicians, lawyers, students, academics, policy makers and entertainment professionals for a weekend to network, learn, and share ideas. It is our goal that everyone, from the disgruntled ex-band member to the seasoned entertainment attorney, that attends the conference will leave with a new perspective on the music industry.
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Music Law - Gainesville, FL
The University of Florida Levin College of Law will host the 8th annual Music Law Conference on Feb. 27, 2010. The conference brings together musicians, lawyers, students, academics, policy makers and entertainment professionals for a weekend to network, learn, and share ideas. Topics will include: digital and retail markets, new forms of music distribution, international issues, ethical issues, protecting musicians’ rights, understanding both sides of the table, the art of business, and basic do-it-yourself ideas for new artists. For updates and additional information, see the UF Music Law Conference Blog. ajc
Innovation, IP, Competition - Tilburg
The Tilburg Law and Economics Center (Tilburg University) presents Workshop on Innovation, Intellectual Property and
Competition Policy Dec. 18, 2009.
In this half-day workshop, the winners of the TILEC IIPC (Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition) grant 2008 will present the first results of their research. Attendance is free, but registration is required.
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Patent Law Institute - Palo Alto, CA
The Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology, the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at UC Berkeley, and the University of Texas School of Law present the 10th Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute, in Palo Alto, Dec. 10-11, 2009. mw
Culture, Society, IP at Law & Society Conf - Chicago
The Culture, Society, and Intellectual Property CRN (Collaborative Research Network No. 14) of the Law and Society Association is organizing panel proposals for the upcoming annual meeting (May 27-30, 2010). The deadline for proposals is November 30, 2009, but earlier proposals are encouraged. The call for papers is on the Empirical Legal Studies Blog. mw
2010 CYBERLAWS: The First International Conference on Technical and Legal Aspects of the e-Society - St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles
CYBERLAWS 2010: The First International Conference on Technical and Legal Aspects of the e-Society will explore issues including electronic accessibility to legal information, privacy rights in cyberspace, and internet fraud. The conference will take place February 10 - 15, 2010 in St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. jv
20th Annual Conference on U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Law and Practice - Washington, DC
The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Conference on U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Law and Practice on December 7, 2009 in Washington, D.C. jv
JURIX 2009 – The 22nd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems - Rotterdam
The 2009 Jurix Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems will take place December 17 - 19 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. jv
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
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
D Is for Digitize - Google Book Settlement - New York City
New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law and Policy presents D Is for Digitize, Oct. 8-10, 2009.
The conference will discuss Google’s plan to digitize books and the class action settlement now awaiting court approval. It will feature a lineup of academics and practitioners who will examine the settlement through the lenses of copyright, civil procedure, antitrust, information policy, literary culture, and the publishing industry.
The conference is timed to coincide with the rescheduled fairness hearing in the Google Book Search case, to be held on Wednesday, October 7, just five blocks away from the Law School. mw
Google Print Project - Online Workshop
The University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property presents an online workshop, Google Print in Depth, led by Prof. Peter Jaszi, Feb. 1-12, 2010. The registration deadline is Jan. 25, 2010.
Conference on the Book - Edinburgh
The Seventh International Conference on the Book will be held at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, October 16-18, 2009.
“This is a conference for any participant in the world of books - authors, publishers, printers, librarians, IT specialists, book retailers, editors, literacy educators and academic researchers.”
The deadline for the current round in the call for papers is Aug. 20, 2009.
Symposium and Call for Papers - IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections - Washington DC
American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property announces its 7th Annual Symposium on IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections, to be held April 16, 2010.
Over the past seven years, the IP/Gender symposium has provided a forum to examine and discuss research on gendered dimensions of intellectual property law. Because issues of gender in intellectual property have been under-appreciated and remain under-theorized, much of this work has been exploratory and pioneering. Topics discussed in past years have ranged from the impact of intellectual property law and policy on gender-related imbalances in wealth, cultural access, political power, and social control; creative production and gender; the effects of stereotyping and of actual and rhetorical feminization and masculinization of participant roles upon intellectual property stakeholders; the gendered development of IP doctrines and doctrinal categories; related issues in the teaching and practicing of intellectual property; feminist jurisprudential insights about intellectual property law; and female fan cultures and intellectual property.
The Spring 2010 symposium will again offer an opportunity to present and critique innovative research, related to the special theme, that is either currently underway or now under contemplation. As in previous years, anticipate the program and the audience will be highly interdisciplinary, including historians, social scientists, legal academics, cultural scholars, and practicing lawyers bringing their disciplinary perspectives to bear on the theme. A limited number of spaces is available on the program.
The coordinators invite proposals for papers on gender issues relating to the production and use of inventions, broadly defined. Appropriate topics might include: gendered patterns in the history of invention or creation; gendered regulation of inventive activities; gendered models of individual and collective inventive activities; gendered aspects in licensing or assignment of technologies; and related subjects. Abstracts should be received by Monday, October 30, 2009. Papers will be selected for presentation and possible publication by November 15, 2009, and will be due by March 1, 2010.
Additional guidelines and links to the web forms for submission are available at the conference website.
Google Book Search Lawsuit - “D Is for Digitize” - New York
A is for Antitrust
B is for Book
C is for Copyright
and
D IS FOR DIGITIZE
A Conference on the Google Book Search Lawsuit
New York Law School
(Institute for Information Law and Policy)
Thursday, October 8 through Saturday, October 10, 2009
Everything about the Google Book Search project is larger than life, from Google’s audacious plan to digitize every book ever published to the gigantic class action settlement now awaiting court approval. D IS FOR Digitize will give this complex lawsuit the sustained attention it deserves. An interdisciplinary lineup of academics and practitioners will examine the settlement through the lenses of copyright, civil procedure, antitrust, the publishing industry, information policy, and literary culture. The conference is timed to coincide with the rescheduled fairness hearing in the Google Book Search case, which will be held on Wednesday, October 7 in New York City, just five blocks from the Law School.
Email infolaw [at] nyls.edu for more information or to be placed on the conference mailing list.
300th Anniversary of the Statute of Anne - Berkeley, CA
On April 9-10, 2010, the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology will be hosting a conference to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Statute of Anne. This conference will feature a host
of excellent presentations, looking back and looking forward, from the Statute of Anne to the future of copyright in the digital age. A symposium issue of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal will feature articles by leading copyright scholars who will be presenting at the conference.
Information about this event is being distributed via CyberProf.
Conference on Innovation and Communications Law - Louisville, KY
The University of Louisville will host the second annual Conference on Innovation and Communication Law on August 21 and 22, 2009. The Conference, a follow-up to the 2008 conference held in Turku, Finland, is a cooperative effort of the University of Louisville School of Law, University of Turku Faculty of Law, Michigan State University College of Law, Drake University Law School, and the IPR Center in Helsinki, Finland.
This year’s conference will focus mainly on the role intellectual property and communications law play in the dissemination of information. As a result, discussion will focus less on the creation of rights, and more on how the legal system helps (or hinders) the development of knowledge.
April 1st Colloquia/Workshops
Wendy Gordon (Boston Law), Computer Technology, Moral Philosophy, and Copyright: The Grokster Case
Arti Rai (Duke Law), The Promise (and Limits) of Facially Neutral Patent Standards
R. Owen Williams (NYU Law), An Impartial Jury of the State”—A Flash of Nationalism in 1880
Sionaidh Douglas Scott (Oxford Law)
Jeff A. Redding (St. Louis Law), Dignity, Legal Pluralism, and Same-Sex Marriage
Scott Hershovitz (Michigan Law), Harry Potter and the Purpose of Tort Law
Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the 1909 Copyright Act - Santa Clara, CA
The High Tech Law Institute of Santa Clara University School of Law and the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology of UC Berkeley School of Law present a Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the 1909 Copyright Act on April 30, 2009.
The 1909 Copyright Act marked a revolution in U.S. copyright law. The 1909 Act was the first to protect works upon publication with notice, without prior registration; the first to expressly recognize a right to prepare derivative works; and the first to expressly recognize the public domain. The 1909 Act remained in effect for seven decades, during which time copyright law was repeatedly called upon to deal with the disruptive effect of new technologies, such as motion pictures, sound recordings, radio and television, photocopy machines, and computers. As a result, the 1909 Act had a significant influence on the copyright law we have today.
Join two dozen distinguished scholars and practitioners to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the 1909 Act and its profound effect on U.S. and international copyright law. Attendance is free and open to the public.
Call for Papers & Workshop on Interoperability - Paris, France
The Innovation & Regulation Chair at the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris and the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy (IJCLP) are pleased to announce their first joint call for interdisciplinary papers in occasion of the Workshop on Interoperability taking place on June 23-24, 2009 in Paris, France.
We invite students, scholars, policy-makers, technologists, practitioners and industry representatives to submit papers on interoperability related issues, analyzed from a legal, economic and/or technological perspective.
Deadline for writing competition: May 15th, 2009
Deadline for Journal publication: September 15th, 2009
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Intellectual Property Recent Developments - Chicago
Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property presents Riding the Wave: Understanding Recent Developments in IP Law today, March 6, 2009.
Digital Rights Management - Seattle
The Federal Trade Commission and the Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic at the University of Washington School of Law hold a Town Hall on Digital Rights Management on March 25, 2009.
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
Intellectual Property - New Rochelle, NY
The inaugural Conference on Intellectual Property (CIP) will be held June 12-13, 2009, at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, and will include keynote addresses by Laura M. Quilter, M.L.S., J.D. and painter Joy Garnett. The call for papers deadline is March 6, 2009. Jump to full post
Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable - Des Moines, IA
The Drake Intellectual Property Law Center presents the 2009 Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable on February 27-28, 2009. This interdisciplinary roundtable provides academics with a forum for sharing their latest research and an opportunity for peer networking. The event will feature presentations from more than 50 experts from the United States, as well as Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Israel and the United Kingdom.
This event is by invitation only. For a full program, a list of confirmed participants, and registration information, please visit the event website above.
17th Annual IP Law and Policy Conference - Cambridge, UK
The 17th Annual IP Law and Policy Conference hosted by Fordham University will be held in Cambridge, England on Wednesday, April 15th and Thursday, April 16th, 2009, with another exceptional roster of participants and comprehensive review and analysis of today’s cutting-edge issues in intellectual property law.
Symposium: The Boundaries of Intellectual Property - Williamsburg, VA
The William and Mary Law Review presents a symposium, The Boundaries of Intellectual Property, on February 6-7, 2009. This symposium addresses the question of the proper goals of IP law and whether the scope of our current system aligns with those goals.
As the scope of intellectual property law continues to expand, courts and scholars are increasingly confronting the question of the law’s proper boundaries. Is it appropriate, for example, for content owners to use copyright law to silence unflattering speech? Are countries’ trademark laws, which have historically been geographically limited, now essentially global trademark laws given the use of marks over the Internet? Is it consistent with the goals of patent law for the U.S. government, through the Patent and Trademark Office, to define the boundaries of what is patentable based on moral or other non-innovation-related criteria? Although such questions have been the topic of debate in the past, there has not yet been an attempt to take a systemic, unifying approach to the question of boundaries in IP law. This symposium will provide the opportunity for participants to do just that, yielding new scholarship that directly addresses the question of the proper goals of IP law and whether the scope of our current system aligns with those goals.
Patent Reforms - Amsterdam
TILEC – Tilburg Law and Economics Center – hosts an international conference on Patent Reforms in Hotel Krasna-polsky, Amsterdam, March 26-27, 2009.
Intellectual Property - Akron, OH
The University of Akron School of Law and Sughrue Mion, PLLC, present the 11th Annual Richard C. Sughrue Symposium on Intellectual Property Law and Policy: Old Problems, New Directions, March 9, 2009.
The program will feature a review of recent development in patent, trademark and copyright law by noted experts in the field. It will also include a review of the PTO’s new disciplinary rules and a panel discussion on the likely impact of the Obama administration on IP policy. The featured luncheon speaker will be Chief Judge Paul R. Michel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Game::Business::Law - Law & Business of Video Games - Dallas
The SMU Dedman School of Law, the Guildhall at SMU, and the Center for American and International Law host Game::Business::Law - International Summit on the Law and Business of Video Games Jan. 14-15, 2009.
Reforming Copyright - Los Angeles
Southwestern Law School’s Donald E. Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute presents Reforming Copyright: Process, Policy and Politics, March 6, 2009.
Conference on Intellectual Property - New Rochelle, NY
The inaugural Conference on Intellectual Property (CIP) will be held on June 12-13th 2009 at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, and will include a keynote addresses by Laura M. Quilter, M.L.S., J.D. and painter Joy Garnett.
Whether it be the submission of student papers to plagiarism-detecting websites, the marketing of a movie that chronicles the challenges of a windshield wiper inventor, or the latest debates over the application of nonobvious intention, issues involving intellectual property in the academic, economic, legal, and technological fields challenge the very notion of ownership: what we own, how we own, and who may claim ownership. The purpose of this conference is to explore intellectual property, in a cross-disciplinary context, as both a concept and a reality relating to the professional fields whose concerns intersect in understanding its essence and implications.We invite papers and panels dealing with any and all aspects of intellectual property, from the origins of eighteenth-century literary property debates to the viability and ethics of plagiarism and plagiarism detection, from the economic impact of patents to the technological advances that may make intellectual property obsolete. We especially encourage papers/panels that embrace a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary approach.
CIP papers and/or abstracts will be included in a conference proceedings, and selected essays may be published in a proposed collection for a peer-reviewed press.
Papers/Panel abstracts should be submitted by February 5th, 2009 to Dr. Amy Stackhouse at astackhouse [at] iona.edu or Dr. Dean Defino at ddefino [at] iona.edu. We look forward to a fruitful and collegial experience.
Update (Feb. 16): The call for papers deadline has been extended to March 6, 2009.
IP/Gender - Female Fan Cultures and Intellectual Property - Washington, DC
IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections
6th Annual Symposium
April 24, 2009
Special Theme: Female Fan Cultures and Intellectual Property
Sponsored by
American University Washington College of Law’s
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
Women and the Law Program
Journal of Gender Social Policy & Law
In collaboration with
American University’s Center for Social Media
Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown University
Francesca Coppa, Muhlenberg College
Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 19, 2008.
Trademarks - Protecting Well-Known Marks - San Diego
The International Trademark Association’s Academic Forum (formerly the Learned Professors Trademark Symposium) will take place Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, 4-6 pm, at the Omni San Diego Hotel (”Conveniently located near the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting venue”). The topic is Protecting Well-Known Marks: At the Crossroads of International and Domestic Legal Reform. Follow link for speakers and paper topics.
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.
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
Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum - Stanford, CA
Stanford and Yale Law Schools announce the tenth session of the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to be held at Stanford Law School on May 29-30, 2009, and seek submissions for this meeting. Jump to full post
The Perfect Storm of Patent Reform — Davis, CA
On November 7, 2008, the University of California, Davis School of Law inaugurates the Fenwick & West Lecture Series in Technology, Entrepreneurship, Science, and Law (TESLaw) with a symposium on patent law developments and their probable effect on innovation, policy and the economic landscape. Symposium topics will focus on patent reform in Congress, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the courts, with a closing panel discussion on the confluence of these reforms. The symposium also will explore the application of the reforms to the major sectors of the technology industry: information technology and life sciences.
November 4th Colloquia/Workshops
Thomas Gomez-Arostegui (Lewis and Clark Law), Prospective Monetary Compensation in Lieu of a Final Injunction in Patent and Copyright Cases
October 17 Colloquia/Workshops
Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law)
Carolyn Grose (William Mitchell Law), Wishing and Hoping and Thinking and Praying, Planning and Dreaming: The Narrative Theory of Predatory Lending
Larry Solan (Brooklyn Law), Stability, Dynamism and Other Values
Margo Bagley (Virginia Law), Illegal, Immoral, Unethical…Patentable? Issues in the Early Livies of Inventions
October 8th Colloquia/Workshops
New York University Legal History
Jefferson Decker (NYU Law), The Rights Revolution on the Right: The Conservative Legal Movement and American Government 1971-87
Kyle Logue (Michigan Law), The Coase Theorem of Tax Law
David Lindsey (Monash Law), Copyright in Electronic Programing Guides: Australia/US Comparative Analysis
Technology, Knowledge and Society - Huntsville, AL
The Fifth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society will take place Jan. 30 - Feb. 1, 2009, in Huntsville, AL.
This Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the relationships between technology, knowledge and society. The Conference is cross-disciplinary in scope, a meeting point for technologists with a concern for the social and social scientists with a concern for the technological. The focus is primarily, but not exclusively, on information and communications technologies.
As well as impressive line-up of international main speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the Conference proceedings.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 9 October 2008. Future deadlines will be announced on the Conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website.
September 26th Colloquia/Workshops
Jennifer Reinganum (Vanderbilt Law)
David Stras (Minnesota Law), Navigating the New Politics of Judicial Appointments
Camille Gear Rich (USC Law), Marginal Whiteness
Dotan Oliar and Chris Sprigman (Virginia Law), The Emergence of Intellectual Property Norms in Stand-up Comedy
Mary Robinson (Former President of Ireland)
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
September 5th Colloquia/Workshops
Gabriel (Jack) Chin (Arizona Law), Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of a Citizenship
Derek Jinks, Larry Sager, Linda Mullenix, George Dix, John Robertson, Jordan Steiker (Texas Law), Review of 2007 SCOTUS Term
James Spindler (USC Law), IPO Disclosure, Underwriting, Mechanics, and Share Price Behavior
Daniel Crane (Yeshiva Law and Chicago Law), Intellectual Liability
Property Rights and Innovation - Chicago
The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth (Northwestern Law) presents Property Rights and Innovation Nov. 13-14, 2008.
World Universities Forum - Mumbai
The second World Universities Forum will be held at the Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, Mumbai, India, celebrating its fiftieth anniversary as one of the leading higher education institutions in India, Jan. 16-18, 2009.
The Forum examines the role and future of the University in a changing world. The 2009 Forum follows our highly successful inaugural conference in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2008. It is ambitious in its intellectual and practical, agenda-setting scope, and broad in its themes.
The deadline for the current call for papers round is Sept. 11, 2008. Check the link for later rounds.
The conference is not explicitly on law, but the themes are broad enough to interest some legal scholars. Topics listed include human rights, international development, and intellectual property.
Creativity, Law, and Entrepreneurship - Madison, WI
Professor Shubha Ghosh (University of Wisconsin School of Law) will host a workshop for scholars invited to present papers on the empirics of patent lawyering, the economics of creativity, intellectual property as governing the employment relationship, international migration, and global intellectual property, April 24, 2009. Details pending.
Thanks: IP and IT Conferences.
Food, Culture, and the Law - essay collection, 2 conferences
We seek papers on food, culture, and the law, written from a variety of perspectives, appropriate for presentation at one or both of the following conferences: the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (Suffolk University Law School, Boston, April 3-4, 2009) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (details for the 2009 conference TBA on the ASFS website). Although we aim to use these panels as a partial foundation for creating the edited collection, we are also happy to consider abstracts and articles from potential contributors who are unable to attend either ASLCH or ASFS. Finished essays should be of a quality suitable for publication with an established university press and reasonably accessible to a multidisciplinary audience of scholars and students of the law, social sciences, and humanities, as well as interested readers outside the academy.
J. Amy Dillard
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Baltimore School of Law
1420 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
adillard[at]ubalt.edu Jump to full post
Innovation in Life Sciences - London
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law presents Innovation in Life Sciences Sept. 25, 2008.
August 6, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Tim Armstrong (Cincinatti Law), Can Authors Shrink the Public Domain
Call for Papers: Organic Internet/Digital Revolutionary
The University of La Verne Law Review is seeking submissions for our Volume 30 (2008-2009) Symposium Issue, “The Organic Internet/The Digital Revolutionary.”The Law Review seeks submissions addressing novel legal issues including, but not limited to, those raised in “The Organic Internet” (free and downloadable at mayfirst.org/organicinternet), such as: Jump to full post
Access to Knowledge - Geneva
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School (Yale ISP) and the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy (IJCLP) are pleased to announce their fifth interdisciplinary writing competition and call for papers in conjunction with the Third Access to Knowledge (A2K3) Conference taking place on September 8-10, 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland.We invite students, scholars, policy-makers, technologists, activists, and industry representatives to submit papers on access to knowledge (A2K) and communications law and policy for publication by the IJCLP. Submissions must be received by July 24th, 2008, to be considered for the A2K3 writing competition.The authors of the selected papers will be invited to publish their work in a special volume of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy, in memoriam of former IJCLP lead editor Boris Rotenberg.
This year’s writing competition will feature an award sponsored by Kaltura. The Kaltura Prize will be granted to the author of the best submission on a topic relating to digital media remix, open-source business models, collaborative production, democratic culture, or related themes which speak to the identity of Kaltura as the world’s first open-source video platform. The Kaltura Prize will include a cash stipend of $1,000 and funding for travel to and accommodations in Geneva to accept the award at the A2K3 conference.
Call for Papers: IP Law in Asia
The San Diego International Law Journal seeks papers on intellectual property law in Asia. A symposium will take place in spring 2009 and the papers will be published in fall 2009. The editors would like to receive all topic submissions by July 16, 2008.
For more information, please e-mail Senior Associate Editor Will Lewis (wd.lewis [at] gmail.com). See also this description of the symposium.
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Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, IP, Self-Determination - Lancaster, UK
Lancaster University Law School presents Indigenous peoples’ rights in the aftermath of the Declaration: (Intellectual) Property and Self-Determination, Sept. 23, 2008.
Lancaster Human Rights Forum presents a one-day conference exploring indigenous peoples’ rights in the aftermath of the adoption in September 2007 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This event will focus on two contested and complex aspects of indigenous rights: the right to self-determination, and intellectual property rights of indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination was a fundamental area of debate in the negotiations leading up to the acceptance of the Declaration, and continues to generate considerable controversy. The intellectual property rights of indigenous peoples is an evolving area of human rights requiring consideration of the ownership of knowledge, informed consent and appropriate sharing of the economic benefits deriving from the commercialisation of traditional knowledge.This event will feature speakers from Brunel, Liverpool, and Leeds Universities, from the departments of Law, Geography and CESAGen at Lancaster, and from Minority Rights Group International.
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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.
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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
Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium - New Orleans
Tulane University Law School hosts the 6th Annual Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium Oct. 3-4, 2008. The call for papers deadline is Aug. 15, 2008. Jump to full post
May 20, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), Constitutional Law, International Law, Public Law
John Golden (Texas Law), The Supreme Court as “Prime Percolator”: A Prescription for Appellate Review of Questions in Patent Law
Information Society - New York
Fordham Law School presents the Second Law and Information Society Symposium: Enforcement, Compliance and Remedies in the Information Society, May 29-30, 2008.
IP, Biotech, and Agricultural Sciences - Johnston, IA
Drake University Law School’s Intellectual Property Law Center hosts the Inaugural Summer Institute in Intellectual Property, Biotechnology and Agricultural Sciences, May 19-20, 2008.
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
February 22, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jay Tidmarsh (Notre Dame Law), The Primacy of Procedure
Amalia D. Kessler (Stanford Law), The Adversarial Principle of U.S. procedure - Why Did Antebellum America not Adopt European Conciliation Courts?
Ingrid Wuerth (Vanderbilt Law), The Original Meaning of the Captures Clause
Marjorie A. Silver (Touro Law), Supporting Lawyers: Supervising Attorneys’ Personal Skills
Notre Dame
Mark McKenna (Notre Dame), Intellectual Property
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Paige Marta Skiba (Vanderbilt Law), Payday Lending
George Geis (Alabama Law), The Space Between Markets and Hierarchies
Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals - Winston-Salem, NC
The Wake Forest University Intellectual Property Law Journal presents its 2008 spring symposium, Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals, February 22.
February 18, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Daniel J. Rohlf (Lewis & Clark Law), Off the Record: The Stealth Attack on Judicial Review of Federal Agencies’ Environmental Decision-Making
Ann Bartow (South Carolina Law), Pornography, Coercion and Copyright Law 2.0
St. Thomas (MN)
Kerry Rittich (Toronto Law), Social Rights and Social Policy: Transformations on the International Landscape & The Future of Law and Development: Second-Generation Reforms and the Incorporation of the Social
J.J. Prescott (Michigan Law), Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Affect Criminal Behavior?
Washington University in St. Louis
February 11, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Duke International & Comparative Law
Jurgen Basedow (Max Planck Institute), The Reform of European Antitrust Law
John Mikhail (Georgetown Law), Bentham’s Theory of Fictions and Critique of Natural Rights
John Gardner (Oxford Law), Introduction to the Second Edition of H.L.A. Hart’s Punishment and Responsibility
Damon Smith (Rutgers-Camden Law), Reconceptualizing Urban Redevelopment: Participatory Planning and Procedural Protections
Judith Donath (MIT), Virtual Design and Trustworthy Signals
Sherry F. Colb (Columbia Law), Why is Torture “Different” and How “Different” is it?
Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke Law), Protecting Financial Markets: Lessons from the Subprime Mortgage Meltdown
Cindy Skach (Harvard Government), The Constitution of Peoples: Outlaw Religion and the Public Sphere
Robert Litan (Kauffman Foundation), Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
Michael R. Eisenson (Charlesbank Capital Partners), An Insider’s Perspective on Private Equity Investing
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 28, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Chicago-Kent Civil Liberties
David D. Cole (Georgetown Law) & Jules L. Lobel (Pittsburgh Law), Less Safe, Less Free: Why America is Losing the War on Terror
Eric Posner (Chicago Law), The Recurrent Illusion: International Relations and Global Legalism
Anu Bradford (Harvard Law), International Antitrust Negotiations and the False Hope of the WTO
Michael Perry (Emory Law), Morality and Normativity & Liberal Democracy and Human Rights
David Anderson
Edward B. Rock (Penn Law), The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting
Alan Madry (Marquette Law), Land Use Regulation and the New Property Revisited
Benjamin Zipursky (Fordham Law), Two Dimensions of Responsibility
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan (Rutgers Law), The Right to Self Defense
Mark Cooper (Consumer Federation of America), The Digital Revolution, Defining the Consumer Victory and Defending the Public Interest in the 21st Century: Network Neutrality, Digital Downloading, and Privacy in Online Advertising
Ronald J. Colombo (Hofstra Law), Ownership, Limited: Reconciling Tradition and Progressive Corporate Law via an Aristotelian Understanding of Ownership
Niko Matouschek (Northwestern Management)
James K. Galbraith (Texas Public Affairs), How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
Ron Shapiro (Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler), Dare to Prepare: How to Win Before You Begin
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), The Lifespan of Written Constitutions
Cesare Romano (Loyola LA Law), The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World’s Cases
David Machlowitz (Medco Health Solutions, Inc.), Standing In Front Of The Bulls Eye: The Corporate Counsel In A Corporate Crisis
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.
IP, Communications, Cyberlaw Junior Scholars - East Lansing, MI
The Michigan State University College of Law Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program hosts the MSU College of Law Scholars Workshop, Feb. 15-16, 2008, in East Lansing, MI. “The Scholars Workshop offers an opportunity for junior scholars (untenured and recently tenured) working in the ares of intellectual property, communications, and cyberlaw to receive detailed feedback on their work from senior scholars. Articles will be chosen prior to the Workshop through a blind-review selection process.” The submission deadline is Dec. 7, 2007.
IP and Gender - Washington, DC
Three entities of American University Washington College of Law — the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, the Women and the Law Program, and the Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law — are presenting IP and Gender: Mapping the Connections, April 4, 2008.
November 13, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Bernadette Atuahene (Chicago-Kent Law), The Legitimacy Equilibrium in Property Law
Duke International and Comparative Law
Joseph Lookofsky (Copenhagen Law), Desperately Seeking Subsidiarity: Danish Private Law in Scandinavian, European & Global Context
Amanda Leiter (Georgetown Law), Inaccurate Precision: The Dangers of Quantitative Standing Inquiry
Jethro K. Lieberman (New York Law School), Tribeca Square Press: What Shall We Publish
Jonathan Klick (Florida State Law), The Effect of Contract Regulation: The Case of Franchising
Robert Bartlett (Georgia Law), Reexamining the Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on Firms’ Going-Private Decisions
Robert Adler (Utah Law), The Implications of Climate Change for Water Law
UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations
Suzanne Scotchmer (UC Berkeley Economics), Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
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
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
November 1, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Amanda Frost (American Law), (Over)Valuing Uniformity
Christopher Eisgruber (Princeton Law and Public Affairs), The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process
Lani Guinier (Harvard Law), Beyond Electocracy: Rethinking The Political Representative as a Powerful Stranger
Lily Batchelder (NYU Law), How Should an Ideal Consumption Tax or Income Tax Treat Wealth Transfers
Duke International and Comparative Law
Erhard Busek (Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe), Southeast Europe–A Region Regains Stability and Future: Changes and Open Problems (Kosovo, Bosnia, EU Enlargement)
Marty Lederman (Georgetown Law), The Commander in Chief at the Lowest Ebb
Gillian Metzger (Columbia Law), Administrative Law as the New Federalism
NYU Legal, Political and Social Philosophy
Michael Meurer (Boston University Law), The Private Cost of Patent Litigation
Northwestern Law and Economics
Margaret F. Brinig (Notre Dame Law), The One-Size Fits All Family
Washington University in St. Louis
Glenn Loury (Brown Economics), Valuing Identity: The Simple Economics of Affirmative Action Programs
October 30, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Joseph T. Hansen (United Food and Commercial Workers International Union)
David Schneiderman (Georgetown Law), Investment Rules, Irreversibility, and the Difficulties of Democratic Resistance
Book Panel on Less Safe, Less Free: Why America is Losing the War on Terror by David Cole (Georgetown Law) and Jules Lobel (Pittsburgh Law). Commentary by David Cole, Neal Katyal (Georgetown Law), and Bradford Berenson (Former Associate Counsel to the President)
Greg Sidak (Georgetown Law), Patent Holdup and Oligopsony in Standard Setting Organizations
Michael Simons (St. John’s Law), Prosecutors as Punishment Theorists
Lorie Johnson (Lewis and Clark Law), The Impact of Taxes on Choice of Venue for Distressed Debt Reconstructuring
Irene Calboli (Marquette Law), The Case for Trademark Merchandising
Dan Hunter (New York Law School), Trademark’s Confusing Lie
Jeff McMahan (Rutgers-New Brunswick Philosophy), The Morality of War and the Law of War
Jason Gillmer (Texas Wesleyan Law), Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery Time
October 26, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Antony Anghie (Utah Law), The UN Mandate System, Imperialism, and International Law
Judith Wegner (North Carolina Law), The Carnegie Report on Legal Education
New York Law South Africa Reading Group
Deevia Bhana (KwaZulu-Natal), “Girls hit girl!” Constructing and negotiating violent African femininities in a working class primary school
Northern Kentucky University
Roger Billings (Northern Kentucky Law), Lincoln and Illinois Real Estate: The Making of a Mortgage Lawyer
Funmi Arewa (Northwestern Law), YouTube and Sharing: Culture Theory, Popular Culture and the Digital Era
Devon Carbado (UCLA Law), What Exactly is Discrimination on the Basis of Race?
October 22, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Jeannie Suk (Harvard Law), At Home in the Law
Chimene Keitner (Cal-Hastings), Conceptualizing Complicity in Alien Tort Litigation
Duke International and Comparative Law
Judge Theodor Meron (NYU Law), Challenges of Impunity
Alice Ristroph (Utah Law), The Dog’s Distinction: State Intentions and the Regulation of Violence
David Hasen (Michigan Law), The Proper Treatment of Loan Proceeds Under an Income Tax and Under a Consumption Tax
H.E. Judge Bruno Simma (Michigan Law), The Genocide Case (Bosnia Herzegovina v. Serbia) before the ICJ
Orin Kerr (George Washington Law), A Defense of the Third-Party Doctrine in Fourth Amendment Law
Anita S. Krishnakumar (St. John’s Law), Representation-Reinforcement and the Court-Congress Dialogue
David Super (Maryland Law), BLOWN AWAY: Hurricane Katrina and the Collapse of the Procedural Model of Anti-Poverty Law
Valentine Moghadam (Purdue Sociology), Globalization, States, and Social Rights: Negotiating Women’s Economic Citizenship in the Maghreb
Tim Canova (Chapman Law), The Federal Reserve and Constitutional Moments Lost
Margaret Blair (Vanderbilt Law), The Roles of Standardization, Certification and Assurance Services in Global Commerce
Tonja Jacobi (Northwestern Law) and Matthew Sag (DePaul Law), The Effect of Judicial Ideology in Intellectual Property Cases
Kuk Cho (Seoul National University Law), Critical Controversies in Korean Criminal Law
John Teton (International Food Security Treaty Campaign)
Washington University in St. Louis
October 17, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Chicago-Kent Law and the Humanities
Ron McCallum (Sydney Law), Developments in Australian Legal Education: Lessons for Other Nations
Alexander Polikoff (Business & Professional People for the Public Interest), The Black Ghetto: Causes, Consequences & Cures
Louis Wolcher (Washington Law), The Tragedy of Justice
October 11, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Mike Meurer (Boston Law), Pirates or Victims: Who Gets Sued for Patent Infringement?
Alice Ristroph (Utah Law), The Dog’s Distinction: Good Intentions as a Constitutional Standard
Mitchell Kane (Virginia Law), Corporate Taxation and International Charter Competition
Michael Doran (Georgetown Law), Intergenerational Equity in Fiscal Policy Reform
Douglas Kysar (Cornell Law), Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity
Daniel Ernst (Georgetown Law), The Politics of Administrative Law: New York, 1938
Edward Iacobucci (Toronto Law), An Empirical Examination of the Governance Choices of Income Trusts
NYU Legal, Political and Social Philosophy
Moshe Halbertal (NYU Law), Self-Transcendence, Violence and the Political Order
Dorothy Roberts (Northwestern University), The Racial Geography of Child Welfare: Toward a New Research Paradigm
Leandra Lederman (Indiana-Bloomington), Taxing Virtual Worlds
Lily L. Batchelder (NYU Law), The Superiority of an Inheritance Tax over an Estate Tax and No Wealth Transfer Tax
Washington
Hyung-Nam Kim (Kyungsung Law), The Reverse Double Standard of Judicial Review in Korea
IP - Cambridge, MA
Fellows of the RSA in the US hosts IP and the Trend towards Openness, Wed. Oct. 10, 2007.
October 9, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Benjamin A. Olken (Harvard Society of Fellows), The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh
Steven Shavell (Harvard Law), Moral Duty to Obey the Law
Drew Clark (Center for Public Integrity), Media Tracker, FCC Watch, and the Politics of Telecom, Media and Technology
Lee Harris (Memphis Law), Cap-for-Performance: Improving Healthcare Quality Through Tort Reform
Marshall E. Tracht (Hofstra Law), Sale-Leaseback Recharacterization in Bankruptcy
NYU Law, Economics, and Politics
Ian Ayres (Yale Law), Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk
UC Berkeley Law, Business and the Economy
Carmen Chang (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati), Challanges and Opportunities for American Lawyers in China or with Chinese Companies
UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations
Doug Lichtman (UCLA Law), Building Book Search Right
October 5, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops
Michele Goodwin (Minnesota Law), Biotechnology: The New Empire
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), Law School Rankings: Past, Present, and Future
Emma Coleman Jordan (Georgetown), Wealth and Inequality: Thinking about Communities and Individualism
Susan Rose-Ackerman (Yale Law), Treaties and National Security
Tom Hazlett (George Mason Law), Natural Experiments in U.S. Broadband Regulation