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July 23, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Cincinnati

Brad Mank (Cincinnati Law), Standing and Statistical Persons: Should Large Public Interest Organizations Have Greater Standing Rights Than Individuals?

Duke

Ernest Young (Duke Law)

Stanford

Dan Hulsebosch (St. Louis University)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on July 23rd, 2008 | Civil Procedure, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized | no comments

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 17th, 2008 | Jurisprudence, Tax Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

July 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Harvard

Lani Guinier (Harvard Law), Demosprudence through Dissent

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on July 10th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Jurisprudence | no comments

July 9, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Cincinnati

Adam Steinman (Cincinnati Law), Deference and Review

Stanford

Kathryn Zeiler (Georgetown Law)

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on July 10th, 2008 | COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Jurisprudence | no comments

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 4th, 2008 | Law and Politics, CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law, Jurisprudence, CONFERENCES | no comments

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

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 13th, 2008 | Law and Sexuality, Poverty Law, Law and Race, Law and Gender, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Jurisprudence | no comments

May 1, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

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

Fordham

Angela Riley (Southwestern Law)

Harvard

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

Yale Legal Theory

David Wilkins (Harvard Law), Paper

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 30th, 2008 | Law and Gender, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, Civil Rights Law, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized | no comments

April 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston College Tax Policy

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.

Boston University

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

Elizabeth Emens (Columbia Law), Intimate Discrimination

Columbia

Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), A Special Case?: Corporations and Campaign Finance

Fordham

Jeanne C. Fromer (Fordham Law)

Georgetown

Fernanda Nicola (American University Law), Invisible Cities: Markets, Distribution and Development in European Union Law

Harvard

Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Law), The Province of Jurisprudence Revisited

Loyola

Naomi Mezey (Georgetown Law)

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”

Northwestern Tax

Diane Ring (Boston College Law), Sovereignty and International Tax

SMU

Susan Klein (Texas Law)

Southwestern

Mariano-Florentino Cuellar (Stanford Law), “Securing” the Bureaucracy: The Federal Security Agency and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 1939-1953

Suffolk

Ran Hirschl (Toronto Law)

Texas

Sai Prakash (San Diego Law), The Seperation and Overlap of War and Military Powers

UCLA Legal Theory

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

Yale Legal Theory

Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 17th, 2008 | Comparative Law, National Security Law, Law and Race, Evidence Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Law and Technology, Civil Procedure, Law and Economics, Legal History, Family Law, Business Law, Property Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, International Law, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized | no comments

March 27, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Rennard Strickland (Chapman Law), Keepers of the Springs: A Defense of the American Legal Profession

Alabama

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

Boston University

Kim Ferzan (Rutgers-Camden Law), Beyond the Special Part

Brooklyn

Anita Bernstein (Brooklyn Law), Asbestos and Gender

Chicago-Kent

Elinor Ostrom (Indiana-Bloomington Cognitive Science Program)

Columbia

Clayton Gillette (Columbia Law), Tacit Agreement, Investment, and Contract Design

Emory

Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Anti-Bankruptcy

Florida State

Margaret Blair (Vanderbilt Law), Assurance Services as a Substitute for Law in Global Commerce

Georgetown

William Forbath (Texas Law), History, Memory and “Transformative Law”: Treatment Action Campaign and the Politics of Rights in South Africa

Michigan Law & Economics

Rip Verkerke (Virginia Law), Legal Innocence and Information-Forcing Rules

Minnesota Faculty Works

Elizabeth Beaumont (Minnesota Political Science)

NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance

Andrea Louis Campbell (MIT Political Science), How Americans Think About Taxes: Public Opinion and the American Fiscal State

Penn Law & Economics

Colin Mayer (Oxford Business), Where Do Firms Incorporate: Deregulation and the Cost of Entry

Temple International Law

Sean Murphy (George Washington Law), The Jus Ad Bellum in View of New Security Threats

Texas

Matt Adler (Penn Law), Social Facts, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Rule of Recognition

Vanderbilt

Brian Tamanaha (St. John’s Law)

Washburn

Alex Glashausser (Washburn Law), The Misbegotten Modern Doctrine of Federal Question Jurisdiction

Yale Human Rights

Shameem Black (Yale English), Fiction in the Age of Transitional Justice

Yale Law & Economics

Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown Law), Do Insurer Reserving Practices Drive Liability Insurance Premium Cycles?: An Empirical Study at the Claim Level

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 27th, 2008 | Comparative Law, National Security Law, Law and Gender, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Insurance Law, Courts, Bankruptcy Law, Law and Economics, Jurisprudence, Intellectual Property, Contract Law, Health Law, Business Law, Constitutional Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized | no comments

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 10th, 2008 | Law and Gender, Jurisprudence, CONFERENCES | no comments

March 4, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Law & Politics

Nathaniel Persily (Columbia Law), Vote Fraud in the Eye of the Beholder: The Role of Public Opinion in the Challenge to Voter Identification Requirements

Chicago-Kent

Graeme W. Austin (Arizona Law), What is Copyright? A Constitutional Question, Apparently

Chicago-Kent Legal History

Allison Tirres (DePaul Law), The Railroad, the Courthouse, and the Making of New Legal Borderlands

Harvard Internet & Society

Jim Bessen (Boston University Law), Patent Failure

Lewis & Clark

Craig Johnston (Lewis & Clark Law)

Minnesota Law & History

Yaffa Epstein, From Emission to Pollution: Business Interests and the Regulation of Smoke Emission in the Twin Cities, 1890-1910

St. Thomas (MN)

Francesco Parisi (Minnesota Law)

Texas

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

Yale Legal History

Mark Graber (Maryland Law), Maintaining Judicial Review: The Debate Over Section 25 Revisited

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 4th, 2008 | Comparative Law, Law and Society, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Technology, Law and Politics, Legal History, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property, Business Law, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized | no comments

February 29, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago Crime & Punishment

Sheldon Lyke (Chicago Sociology)

Cincinnati

Dayna Brown Matthew (Colorado Law), Race, Religion and Informed Consent — Lessons from Social Science

Duke

Heather Gerken (Yale Law)

Duke Global Law

Russell A. Miller (Washington & Lee Law), Comparative Law in the Era of Global Terrorism: A Case Study for Germany’s Militant Democracy

Florida

Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt Law), Adam Smith and the Search for an Ideal Tax System

Florida State

Lonny Hoffman (Houston Law), Burn Up the Chaff with Unquenchable Fire: Constructing a Sustainable Theory of Judicial Regulatory Power Over Pleading Norms

Georgia International Law

Tonya Putnam (Columbia Political Science), Beyond Presumption?: Explaining Extraterritorial Variation over Civil Claims

Iowa

Jennifer Mnookin (UCLA Law)

Texas

Brian Levack (Texas History), The Prosecution of Sexual Crimes in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland

UCLA Faculty Fridays

Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law) & Robin Lenhardt (Fordham Law), Rethinking Work and Citizenship

USC

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

Washburn

Karl F. Jorda (Franklin Pierce Law), Patent/Trade Secret Complementariness: An Unsuspected Synergism

 

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 29th, 2008 | Law and Sexuality, Comparative Law, Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Immigration Law, Law and Technology, Civil Procedure, Law and Religion, Labor and Employment Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, Tax Law, Jurisprudence, Law and Economics, Legal History, Uncategorized | no comments

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.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 24th, 2008 | Law and Psychology, Law and Society, Jurisprudence, CONFERENCES | no comments

February 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Shari Diamond (Northwestern Law)

Columbia

Mitchell Kane (Columbia Law), Bootstraps, Poverty Traps and Povert Pits: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance

Florida State

Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley Law), Katz at Forty: A Sociological Jurisprudence Whose Time Has Come

Fordham

James Kainen (Fordham Law), Re-Evaluating Home Building and Loan v. Blaisdell

Georgetown

Samuel Buell (Washington at St. Louis Law), Underappreciated Virtues of Overbreadth in Criminal Law

Michigan Law & Economics

Albert Choi (Virginia Law), Integrating an Agreement to Induce Information Disclosure

Minnesota Faculty Works

Paul Schwartz (UC Berkeley Law), The Future of Tax Privacy

New York Law Tax Policy & Public Finance

Sarah Lawsky (George Washington Law), Probably? Understanding Tax Law’s Uncertainty

SMU

Jeff Kahn (SMU Law), International Travel and the U.S. Constitution during the War on Terror

Stanford Law & Economics

Jonathan Macey (Yale Law), False Promises: Finding a Role for Directors in Corporate Governance

Toronto Health Law

David Henry (Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences), The Australia/USA Free Trade Agreement - Impact on Access to Medicine

UC Berkeley

Nancy Polikoff (Washington College of Law, American University), Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law

UCLA Legal Theory

Amy M. Adler (NYU Law), Against Moral Rights (in Visual Arts)

Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations

Frank Bloch (Vanderbilt Law), The Quest for Socially Relevant Legal Education in India

Washburn

Tonya Kowalski (Washburn Law), Imperatives and Incentives to Introduce Native American Nations and Law in First-Year Legal Method Courses

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 14th, 2008 | Law and Gender, Law and Religion, Law and Economics, Law and Race, National Security Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Sexuality, Comparative Law, Indian Law, Legal Education, Business Law, Health Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, Tax Law, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | no comments

February 1, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Cincinnati

Martha Chamallas (Ohio State Law), Race, Gender, and Torts

Duke Global Law

Martin Shapiro (UC Berkeley Law), Independent Agencies in the EU and Globally

Georgia International Law

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

Toronto Feminism

Carol Sanger (Columbia Law), The Eye of the Storm: Mandatory Ultrasound and Fetal Confrontation

UCLA Friday Colloquium

Alexandra Natapoff (Loyola LA Law), Deregulating Guilt: The Information Culture of the Criminal System

Virginia Law

Gil Seinfeld (Michigan Law), Federal Courts as Franchise: Rethinking the Tripartite Mantra of Federal Jurisdiction

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 1st, 2008 | Comparative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Courts, Law and Race, Law and Gender, Family Law, Jurisprudence, Tort Law, Criminal Law | no comments

January 31, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Akron

Wendy Wagner (Texas Law), Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research

Boston University

Mike Guttentag (UNLV Law), The Law Instinct

Chicago Constitutional Law

Barry Friedman (NYU Law), Untitled Manuscript

Columbia

Michael Dorf (Columbia Law), Dynamic Incorporation of Foreign Law

Emory

Alexander Volokh (Georgetown Law), Choosing Interpretive Methods: A Positive Theory of Judges and Everyone Else

Florida

Gavin Clarkson (Michigan Law)

Florida State

Ethan Yale (Georgetown Law), Investment Risk and the Tax Benefit of Deferred Compensation

Fordham

Howard M. Erichson (Seton Hall), CAFA’s Impact on Class Action Lawyers

McGeorge

Al Brophy (Alabama Law)

Michigan Law & Economics

Avi Bell (Fordham Law), Private Takings

Mississippi

Arthur Laby (Rutgers-Camden), Insider Trading and False Promising

NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance

Kevin Hassett (American Enterprise Institute), Taxes and Wages

Ohio State

R. Craig Green (Temple Law), An Intellectual History of Judicial Activism

Stanford Law & Economics

David Weisbach (Chicago Law), A Welfarist Approach to Disabilities

Stetston

Lonny Hoffman (Houston Law), The Judicialization of Litigation Reform

UCLA Legal Theory

Moshe Halbertal (NYU Law), Self-Transcendence, Violence and the Political Order

Vanderbilt

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

Washburn

Lyn Goering (Washburn Law), Tailoring Deference to Variety: Judicial Deference to Administrative Interpretation

Washington

Lisa Kelly (Washington Law), Telling Children’s Stories: Legal Advocacy for Children and Youth

Yale Legal Theory

Stephen Darwall (Michigan Philosophy), Authority and Second-Personal Reasons for Acting

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on January 31st, 2008 | Law and Society, Law and Economics, Evidence Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Technology, Tort Law, Securities Law, Tax Law, Family Law, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Administrative Law, Uncategorized | no comments

January 29, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Chicago-Kent

Carolyn Shapiro (Chicago-Kent Law)

Chicago Crime & Punishment

Steve Raphael

Chicago Law & Economics

Robert Tamura (Clemson Economics), Unmarried Fertility, Crime and Social Stigma

Georgetown

Jodi Short (Berkeley Sociology)

Lewis & Clark

Michael Madison (Pitt Law), Information Governance

Notre Dame

John Nagle (Notre Dame Law), Environmental Law in Antarctica

Pittsburgh

David Harris (Pitt Law), Rethinking the Use of Informants: The Realities of Police/Muslim Relations in the U.S. After 9/11

Texas

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

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on January 29th, 2008 | Law and Society, Comparative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Courts, Law and Economics, Environmental Law, Property Law, Criminal Law, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized | no comments

January 24, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Chuck Whitehead (Boston University Law), The Evolution of Debt: Agency Costs, Portfolio Management, and Financial Innovation

Brooklyn

Christopher Serkin (Brooklyn Law), Existing Uses

Chicago Constitutional Law

William Novak (Chicago History), The Myth of the “Weak” American State

Cincinnati

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

Columbia

David Enoch (Columbia Law), Intending, Foreseeing, and the State

Florida State

Thomas Stratmann (George Mason Economics)

Fordham

Bruce Green (Fordham Law), Criminal Defense Lawyering at the Edge - A Look Back

Georgetown

David Law (San Diego Law), Globalization and the Future of Constitutional Law

Loyola

Jeff Kwall (Loyola-Chicago Law), Backdating

Michigan Law & Economics

Tom Miles (Chicago Law), Markets for Stolen Property: Pawnshops and Crime

Missouri

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

Queen’s Law

Patrick Glenn (McGill Law), Globalization and National Legal Traditions

San Diego

Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), The Subjective Experience of Punishment

SMU

Michael Moreland (Villanova Law)

Temple International Law

Carlos Vazquez (Georgetown Law), Judicial Enforcement of Treaties

Texas

Neil Siegel (Duke Law), Legitimation as Law: Race-Conscious Assignment, ‘Partial-Birth’ Abortion, and the Virtue of Judicial Statesmanship

Washburn

Ali Khan (Washburn Law), Law’s Temporality

Washington

Paul Steven Miller (Washington Law), Integration, Citizenship and the Emergence of Disability Human Rights

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on January 24th, 2008 | Law and Economics, Commercial Law, Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Courts, International Law, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Business Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized | one comment

January 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Columbia Law and Economics

Barak Richman (Duke Law)

Georgetown Law and Philosophy

Henry Richardson (Georgetown Philosophy)

Marquette

Andrew Gold (DePaul Law)

Queen’s Law

Bradley Wendel (Cornell Law), Politics and Government Lawyers

Rutgers-Camden

Ekow Yankah (Illinois Law), Virtue’s Domain

Seton Hall

Dorothy Brown (Washington and Lee Law)

SMU Law and Citizenship

Laura Appleman (Willamette Law), The Lost True Meaning of the Jury Trial Right

St. John’s

Thomas Healy (Seton Hall Law), Brandenburg in a Time of Terror

Temple

Alice Ristroph (Utah Law), Respect and Resistance in Punishment Theory

Vanderbilt

Curtis Bridgeman (Florida State Law)

Vanderbilt Faculty Presentation

Tracey E. George (Vanderbilt Law), The Study of Judicial Behavior Colloquium

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on January 14th, 2008 | Law and Politics, Law and Philosophy, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized | no comments

January 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston College Legal History

Kif Augustine-Adams (BYU Law), Making Mexico: Legal Nationality, Chinese Race and the 1930 Population Census

Brooklyn

Frederic Bloom (Saint Louis Law), State Courts Unbound

Emory

Yasmin Dawood (Toronto Ethics), The Antidomination Model and the Judicial Oversight of Democracy

Florida State

Kelli Alces (Florida State Law), Strategic Governance

Fordham

Edward K. Cheng (Brooklyn Law), Specialized Judges

Toledo

Paul Finkelman (Albany Law), Affirmative Action for the Master Class: Slavery and the Creation of the American Constitution

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on January 10th, 2008 | Law and Society, Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, Legal History, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Uncategorized | no comments