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
Int’l Economic Crime: Banking Issues - Cambridge, UK
The 26th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime will take place at Jesus College, Cambridge, UK, from Aug. 31 - Sept. 6, 2008. The theme is “Banking on Trouble!” Jump to full post
Int’l Antitrust Law and Policy - New York
Fordham Law hosts its 35th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy Sept. 25-26, 2008.
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.
Theorising the Global Legal Order - Swansea, Wales, UK
Swansea University School of Law presents Theorising the Global Legal Order May 21-22, 2008.
Regional Human Rights Regimes - New York City
The Columbia Society of International Law hosted the 34th annual Wolfgang Friedmann Conference, Reform and Challenges Confronting Regional Human Rights Regimes, April 8, 2008.
April 30, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Emilie Hafner-Burton (Princeton), Democratization and Human Rights Regimes
Douglas NeJaime (UCLA Law), Regulating the Sexuality of Minors
April 23, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Stephen Harp (Akron History), Au Naturel: National Decency Laws and Local Tolerance of Public Nudity in Twentieth-Century France
Alan Sykes (Stanford Law), Currency Manipulation and World Trade
Peggie Smith (Iowa Law), Home Sweet Home? Workplace Casualties of Consumer-Directed Home Care for the Elderly
James Whitman (Yale Law), The Verdict of Battle
UC Hastings
Carolyn Sale (Alberta English), The King is a Thing: The King’s Prerogative and the Treasure of the Realm in Plowden’s Report of the ‘Case of Mines’ and Shakespeare’s Hamlet
April 18, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Georgetown International Human Rights
Peter Spiro (Temple Law), An International Law of Citizenship
New York Law School Clinical Theory
Peter Margulies (Roger Williams Law), Clinical Education and Representing Guantanamo Detainees: Identity, Efficacy, and Gatekeeping
Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt Law), Capitalism and the Tax System: A Search for Social Justice
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default
April 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), The Story of Murphy: A New Front in the War Against the Income Tax
Note: Professor Caron will be blogging on this paper today here.
Scott Moss (Colorado Law), O Brave New World That Has Such Creatures Evidence: An Economic Analysis Of Courts’ Misguided Rules On Discovery Of Digital Evidence
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), A Special Case?: Corporations and Campaign Finance
Fernanda Nicola (American University Law), Invisible Cities: Markets, Distribution and Development in European Union Law
Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Law), The Province of Jurisprudence Revisited
Loyola
Minnesota Faculty Works
Ed McCaffery (USC Law), Towards a Unified Theory of Tax and Property
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
David Gamage (UC Berkeley Law), Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidanc: A Tentative Defense of “Double Taxation”
Diane Ring (Boston College Law), Sovereignty and International Tax
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar (Stanford Law), “Securing” the Bureaucracy: The Federal Security Agency and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 1939-1953
Sai Prakash (San Diego Law), The Seperation and Overlap of War and Military Powers
Joshua Cohen (Stanford Political Science), Politics, Power, and Public Reason
Washington
Amy Wildermuth (Utah Law), The Failed Mead Experiment - A Critical Review of the Skidmore Revival
Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions
April 16, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Kathryn Sikkink (Minnesota Law), Do Human Rights Trials Make a Difference?
Felice Batlan (Chicago-Kent Law), The Imperial SEC? Historicizing the Internationalization of the Securities Markets
CUNY
Dinesh Khosla (CUNY Law), A Case Study in Social Entrepreneurship
Michael Hoeflich (Kansas Law), Selling the Law in Antebellum America: The Sale & Distribution of Law Books, 1780-1870
St. Thomas (Mn)
Matt Bodie (St. Louis Law), The False Promise of One Share, One Vote
UC Hastings
April 15, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jose Alvarez (Columbia Law), The Empire of Law or the Law of Empire
Ray Fisman (Columbia Business), Learning Social Preferences at Yale Law School
David Yalof (UConn Law), Confirmation Obfuscation: Supreme Court Confirmation Politics in a Conservative Era
Joby Branion (Athletes First), An Insider’s Perspective
Tanya K. Hernandez (George Washington Law), The Long Lindering Shadow: Law, Liberalism and Cultures of Racial Hierarchy and Identity in the Americas
Kerry Rittich (Toronto Law), Informal Labour Markets and Development
Rachel Lyon (Lioness Media), Race and the Internet
Rachelle Adam (Israeli Environmental Ministry), Addressing Biodiversity Loss: The Elusiveness of Effective International Agreements
Notre Dame
Mike Kirsch (Notre Dame Law), Evolving Interpretations of U.S. Tax Treaties
Space and Telecom Law - Lincoln, NE
The University of Nebraska College of Law hosts Space and Telecom Law Conference 2008, Formalism, Informalism, and Innovation in Space and Telecommunications Law Conference, May 1-3, 2008.
European Conference on Ecological Restoration - Ghent
The 6th European Conference on Ecological Restoration will be held at the International Convention Center in Ghent, Belgium, Sept. 8-12, 2008. See list of partners here. The deadline for the calls for proposals is April 15, 2008.
Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Protection - Mexico City
The Sixth Annual Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law will focus on Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Protection. It will be hosted by the Metropolitan Autonomous University–Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, Nov. 10-15, 2008. The call for papers deadline is June 30, 2008.
Climate Law in Developing Countries - Ottawa
The Climate Law in Developing Countries Conference will be hosted by the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Sept. 26-28, 2008. The call for papers deadline was March 1, 2008.
Thanks: International Environmental Law Blog.
Politics of International Law - San Francisco
Golden Gate University School of Law hosts the 17th Annual Regional Meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and the 18th Annual Fulbright Symposium: Politics of International Law, Friday, April 18, 2008.
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
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