July 23, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Brad Mank (Cincinnati Law), Standing and Statistical Persons: Should Large Public Interest Organizations Have Greater Standing Rights Than Individuals?
Jurisprudential Perspectives of Taxation Law - Madrid OR Melbourne
The Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Gomez-Acebo & Pombo, Abogados, Madrid, are hosting a colloquium on Jurisprudential Perspectives of Taxation Law on September 11 and 12, 2008. More information on TaxProf Blog.
The same topics will be addressed in an intensive LL.M. course at the University of Melbourne, Sept. 29 - Oct. 3, 2008. See course description. Information about Melbourne’s intensive courses is here.
Critical Legal Strategies - Glasgow
The 2008 Critical Legal Confrence will take place Sept. 5-7, 2008, hosted by the University of Glasgow School of Law. Its theme is Critical Legal Strategies and the intention to return to and capture something of the political nature of critical legal intervention. The call for papers deadline is June 15, 2008.
Call for Papers: Race, Class, Sexuality, Gender in the Pacific Northwest
DISORIENT: A Journal of Race, Class, Sexuality and Gender in the Pacific Northwest at the University of Washington School of Law
Call for submissions to undergraduate and graduate students, professors, activists and attorneys for 2007-2008 Inaugural Issue — deadline: July 1, 2008. Jump to full post
May 1, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Linda McClain (Boston University), Why is Equality So Hard?: Men, Women, and Social Cooperation
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Viviana Zelizer (Princeton Sociology), Intimacy in Economic Organization
David Rosenberg (Harvard Law), A New Sampling Method to Reduce the Cost of Resolving Differing Claims Against a Defendant
Minnesota Faculty Works
Barry Friedman (NYU Law), Judicial Activism and Popular Opinion
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
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
Working from the World Up: Equality’s Future - Madison
Working From the World Up: Equality’s Future: A New Legal Realism* Conference Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project will take place March 14-15, 2008, in Madison. Sponsors are the University of Wisconsin Law School, the Institute for Legal Studies, the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Emory University, and the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society.
* Read about the New Legal Realism here.
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
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
Emotions and Legal Institutions - Chicago
The University of Chicago Law School presents Emotion in Context: Exploring the Interaction between Emotions and Legal Institutions May 9-10, 2008. The conference is cosponsored by the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, the DePaul University College of Law and the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School.
February 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Mitchell Kane (Columbia Law), Bootstraps, Poverty Traps and Povert Pits: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance
Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley Law), Katz at Forty: A Sociological Jurisprudence Whose Time Has Come
James Kainen (Fordham Law), Re-Evaluating Home Building and Loan v. Blaisdell
Samuel Buell (Washington at St. Louis Law), Underappreciated Virtues of Overbreadth in Criminal Law
Albert Choi (Virginia Law), Integrating an Agreement to Induce Information Disclosure
Paul Schwartz (UC Berkeley Law), The Future of Tax Privacy
New York Law Tax Policy & Public Finance
Sarah Lawsky (George Washington Law), Probably? Understanding Tax Law’s Uncertainty
Jeff Kahn (SMU Law), International Travel and the U.S. Constitution during the War on Terror
Jonathan Macey (Yale Law), False Promises: Finding a Role for Directors in Corporate Governance
David Henry (Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences), The Australia/USA Free Trade Agreement - Impact on Access to Medicine
Nancy Polikoff (Washington College of Law, American University), Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law
Amy M. Adler (NYU Law), Against Moral Rights (in Visual Arts)
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Frank Bloch (Vanderbilt Law), The Quest for Socially Relevant Legal Education in India
Tonya Kowalski (Washburn Law), Imperatives and Incentives to Introduce Native American Nations and Law in First-Year Legal Method Courses
February 1, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Martha Chamallas (Ohio State Law), Race, Gender, and Torts
Martin Shapiro (UC Berkeley Law), Independent Agencies in the EU and Globally
Greg Shaffer (Loyola Law), A Structural Theory of WTO Dispute Settlement: Why Institutional Choice Lies at the Center of the GMO Case
Notre Dame
Linda McLain (Boston Law), Family Law
Carol Sanger (Columbia Law), The Eye of the Storm: Mandatory Ultrasound and Fetal Confrontation
Alexandra Natapoff (Loyola LA Law), Deregulating Guilt: The Information Culture of the Criminal System
Gil Seinfeld (Michigan Law), Federal Courts as Franchise: Rethinking the Tripartite Mantra of Federal Jurisdiction
January 31, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Wendy Wagner (Texas Law), Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research
Michael Dorf (Columbia Law), Dynamic Incorporation of Foreign Law
Alexander Volokh (Georgetown Law), Choosing Interpretive Methods: A Positive Theory of Judges and Everyone Else
Ethan Yale (Georgetown Law), Investment Risk and the Tax Benefit of Deferred Compensation
Howard M. Erichson (Seton Hall), CAFA’s Impact on Class Action Lawyers
Mississippi
Arthur Laby (Rutgers-Camden), Insider Trading and False Promising
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Kevin Hassett (American Enterprise Institute), Taxes and Wages
R. Craig Green (Temple Law), An Intellectual History of Judicial Activism
David Weisbach (Chicago Law), A Welfarist Approach to Disabilities
Lonny Hoffman (Houston Law), The Judicialization of Litigation Reform
Moshe Halbertal (NYU Law), Self-Transcendence, Violence and the Political Order
Claire Huntington (Colorado-Boulder Law), Repairing Family Law
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Nita Farahany (Vanderbilt Law), Judging Genes: Implications of the Second Generation of Genetic Tests in the Courtroom
Lyn Goering (Washburn Law), Tailoring Deference to Variety: Judicial Deference to Administrative Interpretation
Lisa Kelly (Washington Law), Telling Children’s Stories: Legal Advocacy for Children and Youth
Stephen Darwall (Michigan Philosophy), Authority and Second-Personal Reasons for Acting
January 29, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Steve Raphael
Robert Tamura (Clemson Economics), Unmarried Fertility, Crime and Social Stigma
Notre Dame
John Nagle (Notre Dame Law), Environmental Law in Antarctica
David Harris (Pitt Law), Rethinking the Use of Informants: The Realities of Police/Muslim Relations in the U.S. After 9/11
Stuart Chinn (Texas Law), Situating Judicial Action within Regime Politics: A Recurrent Theory of Judicial Behavior
Washington
Sergey Gerasin (Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Science), Russian land reform: phases, procedures, outcome
January 24, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Chuck Whitehead (Boston University Law), The Evolution of Debt: Agency Costs, Portfolio Management, and Financial Innovation
Christopher Serkin (Brooklyn Law), Existing Uses
William Novak (Chicago History), The Myth of the “Weak” American State
Lonny Hoffman (Houston Law), Burn Up the Chaff with Unquenchable Fire: Taking Account of Procedural Intersections and Inconsistencies Among Pleading Standards, Summary Judgment and Removal Practice
David Enoch (Columbia Law), Intending, Foreseeing, and the State
Bruce Green (Fordham Law), Criminal Defense Lawyering at the Edge - A Look Back
David Law (San Diego Law), Globalization and the Future of Constitutional Law
Jeff Kwall (Loyola-Chicago Law), Backdating
Tom Miles (Chicago Law), Markets for Stolen Property: Pawnshops and Crime
David Schlachter (Institute for Christian Conciliation)
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Daniel Halperin (Harvard Law), Deferred Compensation Revisited
Northwestern Advanced Topics in Taxation
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan Law), A Proposal to Adopt Formulary Apportionment for Corporate Income Taxation
Patrick Glenn (McGill Law), Globalization and National Legal Traditions
Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), The Subjective Experience of Punishment
Carlos Vazquez (Georgetown Law), Judicial Enforcement of Treaties
Neil Siegel (Duke Law), Legitimation as Law: Race-Conscious Assignment, ‘Partial-Birth’ Abortion, and the Virtue of Judicial Statesmanship
Ali Khan (Washburn Law), Law’s Temporality
Paul Steven Miller (Washington Law), Integration, Citizenship and the Emergence of Disability Human Rights
January 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Bradley Wendel (Cornell Law), Politics and Government Lawyers
Ekow Yankah (Illinois Law), Virtue’s Domain
Laura Appleman (Willamette Law), The Lost True Meaning of the Jury Trial Right
Thomas Healy (Seton Hall Law), Brandenburg in a Time of Terror
Alice Ristroph (Utah Law), Respect and Resistance in Punishment Theory
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentation
Tracey E. George (Vanderbilt Law), The Study of Judicial Behavior Colloquium
January 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Kif Augustine-Adams (BYU Law), Making Mexico: Legal Nationality, Chinese Race and the 1930 Population Census
Yasmin Dawood (Toronto Ethics), The Antidomination Model and the Judicial Oversight of Democracy
Kelli Alces (Florida State Law), Strategic Governance
Paul Finkelman (Albany Law), Affirmative Action for the Master Class: Slavery and the Creation of the American Constitution