A planning committee requests proposals for the AALS mid-year labor and employment workshop, Harnessing The Interdisciplinary Nature of Work Law. The workshop will be June 10-12, 2009. The deadline for proposals is Nov. 1, 2009. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 3rd, 2008
| Labor and Employment Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Legal Education, CONFERENCES |
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The 85th Annual Meetingof the American Law Institute is taking place in Washington, DC, May 19-21, 2008. On the agenda: Capital Punishment Status Report; Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation; Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations; Restatement of the Law Third, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment; Restatement of the Law Third, Employment Law; Proposal to amend § 1-301 (Choice of Law) of Article 1 of the Uniform Commercial Code; Principles of the Law of Software Contracts.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 20th, 2008
| Civil Procedure, Law and Cyberspace, Labor and Employment Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES, Criminal Law, Contract Law |
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The Third Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor & Employment Law will take place in San Diego from October 23 to October 25, 2008. This year’s colloquium will be co-hosted by California Western School of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and the University of San Diego School of Law. The annual colloquium, which was first held in 2006 at Marquette University Law School, has become an eagerly anticipated forum for American labor and employment law scholars to present and obtain feedback on works-in-progress. The timing of the colloquium, close to the beginning of the academic year, allows professors to float or try out new ideas in the presence of supportive colleagues. The call for papers deadline is July 31, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 13th, 2008
| Labor and Employment Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES |
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Seton Hall Law hosts the Third Annual Seton Hall Annual Employment & Labor Law Scholars’ Forum, Oct. 17-18, 2008.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 1st, 2008
| Labor and Employment Law, CONFERENCES |
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Chicago Law & Philosophy
Robert Pape (Chicago Political Science)
Georgetown Law & Philosophy
Christopher Morris (Maryland Law), Natural Rights and Political Legitimacy & P 1-2 Declaration of Independence & Anarchy, State, and Utopia & State Legitimacy and Social Order
Harvard
Eric Zolt (UCLA Law), Inequality, Collective Action, and Taxing and Spending Patterns of State and Local Governments
Northwestern Law & Economics
Alan O. Sykes (Stanford Law), Transnational Forum Shopping as a Trade and Investment Issue
San Diego
Ariela Gross (USC Law)
Temple
Greg Mandel (Temple Law), Left Brain vs. Right Brain: Conflicting Conceptions of Creativity in Intellectual Property Law
Texas
Jean Comaroff (Chicago Anthropology), Nations with/out Borders: Neoliberalism and the Problem of Belong in Africa, and Beyond
UC Berkeley
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
UCLA Faculty Mondays
Joshua Foa Dienstag (UCLA Political Science), The Promise of Pessimism
Virginia Law & Economics
Christine Jolls (Yale Law), Mandated Medical Leave in the Workplace
Yale Corporate Law
Reinier Kraakman (Harvard Law), Exit, Voice, and Liability: Legal Dimensions of Organizational Structure
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 20th, 2008
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Comparative Law, Insurance Law, Local Government Law, Law and Philosophy, Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, Intellectual Property, Health Law, Business Law, Tax Law, Uncategorized |
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Akron
Arti K. Rai (Duke Law), The Supreme Court (Re)Discovers Patents: Implications for the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Boston University
Robert Hillman (Cornell Law)
Columbia
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
Florida State
Rick Geddes (Cornell Human Ecology)
Georgetown
Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law), Transnational Labor Citizenship
Georgia State
Dr. Ellen Bassee
Harvard
Laurence Helfer (Vanderbilt Law), Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community
Michigan Law & Economics
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
Missouri
Catherine Smith (Denver Law)
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Alan Auerbach (UC Berkeley Law), Long-Term Objectives for Government Debt
Suffolk
Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law), Comparative Corporate Law and Emerging Markets
Temple International Law
Jutta Brunnee (Toronto Law), Interactional International Law: Reflections on Obligations
UCLA Legal Theory
Sarah Song (UC Berkeley Law), Three Models of Civic Solidarity
Yale Human Rights
Ralph Steinhardt (George Washington Law), Corporate Complicity and the Alien Tort Statute
Yale Law & Economics
C. Fritz Foley (Harvard Business), Welfare Payments and Crime
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 10th, 2008
| Law and Economics, Tort Law, Commercial Law, Labor and Employment Law, Comparative Law, Law and Technology, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, International Law, Tax Law, Intellectual Property, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Health Law, Family Law, Business Law, Uncategorized |
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Chicago International Law
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), International Delegation Through Treaties: The Nth Power
Chicago-Kent
Michal Gal (Haifa Law)
Connecticut
David Garland (NYU Sociology), Peculiar Institution: Capital Punishment and American Society
Michigan Tax Policy
David Gamage (UC Berkeley Law), Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidance: A Tentative Defense of “Double Taxation”
NYU Legal History
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
Toronto Tax Law & Policy
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), Murphy vs. IRS: Another Front in the War Against the Income Tax
UC Hastings
Hadar Aviram (UC Hastings Law)
Villanova
Frank Valdes (Miami Law)
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 9th, 2008
| Legal History, Labor and Employment Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Science, International Law, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property, Criminal Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Uncategorized |
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Alabama
Jim Krier (Michigan Law)
Chicago Law & Philosophy
John Hagan (Northwestern Sociology)
Columbia Law & Economics
Efraim Benmelech (Harvard Economics), Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection
Georgetown Law & Philosophy
Leif Wenar (Sheffield Philosophy), The Analysis of Rights
Georgetown Statutory Colloquium
Theodore Ruger (Penn Law), Gonzales v. Oregon and the Normative Constitution of American Health Care
Georgia
David Arthur Skeel (Penn Law)
Harvard
Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown Law), The Endowment Effect: Implications of Recent Empirical Developments for Legal Theory & Exchange Asymmetries Incorrectly Interpreted as Evidence of Endowment Effect Theory and Prospect Theory
Harvard International Law
Paul Slovic (Oregon Psychology)
Michigan International Law
Eleanor Sharpston (Advocate General, European Court of Justice), ‘Freedom, Security, and Justice’ in the European Union: The Story so Far and (some of) the Challenges for the Future
Penn Law & Philosophy
Jody Kraus (Virginia Law), The Correspondence and Divergence in Contract and Promise
Rutgers-Camden
Frank Pasquale (Seton Hall Law), Taxing Tiering: Addressing Inequality in Health Care as Cross-Subsidization Declines
Seton Hall
Stephanie Ben-Ishai (York Law)
St. John’s
Rosemary C. Salomone (St. John’s Law), Official English: The Reality and the Rhetoric
Stetson
Jerry L. Anderson (Drake Law), An Empirical Study of Attitudes Toward Zoning
Texas
Albert Choi (Virginia Law)
Michael Conroy (Colibri Consulting), How Civil Society is Striking Back at Neoliberal Globalization: Tales from the ‘Certification Revolution’
UC Berkeley
Richard Perry (San Jose State University), On the Strange Career of the Cultural Defense
UC Berkeley Law & Economics
Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law) & Jide Nzelibe (Northwestern Law), Political Accountability Under Alternative Institutional Regimes
UCLA Faculty Mondays
Fiona Harrison (California Institute of Technology), Three Big Questions about the Universe (and how Astrophysicists are trying to answer them)
Yale Corporate Law
William H. McDavid (Ret. General Counsel, J.P. Morgan Chase), Enron: The Aftermath
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 7th, 2008
| Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, Law and Humanities, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Courts, Legal History, Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Property Law, International Law, Commercial Law, Administrative Law, Uncategorized |
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Cincinnati
Natasha Martin (Seattle Law), Immunity for Hire: The Same Actor Factor as a Subterfuge to Equality in the Contemporary Workplace
Duke
Christine Jolls (Yale Law)
Florida
Craig Anthony Arnold (Louisville Law), Land Use Regulation and the Democratic Process
Georgetown International Human Rights
Martin Flaherty (Fordham Law), Executive Authority, Fundamental Rights, and Global Separation of Powers
Georgia International Law
David Caron (UC Berkeley Law), Why International Courts and Tribunals Look and Act as They Do
Harvard International Law
John Mikhail (Georgetown Law)
Iowa
Thomas Merrill (Columbia Law), The Rule of First Possession and the Rule of Accession
Missouri
Heidi Kitrosser (Minnesota Law)
Syracuse
Eric A. Kades (William & Mary Law), A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain
Texas
Kristin Collins (BU Law), Let the Government become their Guardians: Administrative Law, Social Provision, and the Legal Construction of the Family in the Early Nineteenth Century
UCLA Faculty Friday
Mark Tushnet (Harvard Law), The Rights Revolution in the Twentieth Century
Virginia
Gia Lee (UCLA Law), Free Speech Deference
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 4th, 2008
| Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, Law and Humanities, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Courts, Legal History, Civil Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Property Law, International Law, Commercial Law, Administrative Law, Uncategorized |
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The Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal held its 2008 symposium, Emerging Technology and Employee Privacy, on March 7.
Focusing on the effects of Emerging Technologies, such as the BlackBerry®, RFIDS, GPS, and other tracking technologies in the employment arena. This symposium will compare and examine proposed solutions to privacy concerns, address the prevalent and continuous data theft debacles, and discuss legal responses to this emerging area of the law.
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 23rd, 2008
| Law and Technology, Labor and Employment Law |
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Boston University
Jack Beermann (Boston University Law), Common Law and Statute Law in U.S. Federal Administrative Law
Connecticut
Randall Lesaffer (Tilburg Law), Just and Legal War, Just and Legal Peace, in Early Modern Europe
Florida State
Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley Law)
Georgetown
Charles Lawrence (Georgetown Law), Unconscious Racism Revisited: Reflections on the Origins and Impact of “The Id, the Ego and Equal Protection”
Harvard
Curtis Bradley (Duke Law), The Story of Ex Parte Milligan: Military Trials, Enemy Combatants, and Congressional Authorization
Harvard Religion & Society
Gregg Ivers (American Public Affairs), Religious Organizations as Legal Advocates: Comparing Canada and the U.S.
Michigan Law & Economics
Michael Heise (Cornell Law), Plaintiphobia in State Courts? An Empirical Study of State Court Trials on Appeal
SMU
Adrienne D. Davis (Washington University in St. Louis Law)
Texas
Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law), Good White People
Toronto Health Law
William Lahey (Dalhousie Law), Inter-Professional Practice and the Law: Understanding and Overcoming the Barriers
UCLA Legal Theory
Stephen R. Perry (Penn Law), Political Authority and Political Obligation
Yale Workplace Theory & Policy
Jack Dennerlein (Harvard Public Health), The Epidemic of Musculoskeletal Disorder in the Modern Workplace. Readings 1 & 2
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 20th, 2008
| Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Courts, Law and Religion, Labor and Employment Law, Health Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Legal History, Uncategorized |
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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 |
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Chicago-Kent
Gary T. Johnson (Chicago History Museum), Chicago Lawyers in Chicago History
Connecticut
Kaaryn Gustafson (UConn Law)
Emory
Bill Henderson (Indiana Law), The Elastic Tournament: A Second Transformation of the Big Law Firm
Florida
Gary Melton (Clemson)
Georgia State
Jeffrey W. Morris (Dayton Law)
NYU Legal History
Richard B. Bernstein (New York Law School), The Founding Fathers Reconsidered
Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law
Rob Illig (Oregon Law), Environmental Entrepreneurship
Villanova
Jeanne Schroeder (Cardozo Law)
Yale Workplace Theory & Policy Seminar
Dalton Conley (NYU Sociology), Family Background and Race Over the Life Course
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 27th, 2008
| Labor and Employment Law, Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, Legal History, Business Law, Family Law, Environmental Law, Uncategorized |
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Chicago-Kent
Miranda Fleischer (Illinois Law), Charitable Justice
CUNY
Sheila Foster (Fordham Law) & Brian Glick (Fordham Law), Integrative Lawyering: Navigating the Political Economy of Urban Development
Florida
Angela Mae Kupenda (Mississippi Law)
Florida State
Jutta Brunnee (Toronto Law), All Together Now? Europe, the United States and the Global Climate Regime
Michigan Tax Policy
Leandra Lederman (Indiana Law), A Proposal to Make the Tax Court More Judicial
NYU Legal History
Gautham Rao (Chicago History Ph.D.), Visible Hands: Customhouses, Law, Capitalism, and the Mercantile State of the Early Republic II
SMU
Ellen P. April (Loyola-LA Law), Responding to Tax Strategy Patents
Toledo
Peter Linebaugh (Toledo History), The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All
UC Hastings
Omar Dajani (McGeorge Law)
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Lisa Schultz Bressman (Vanderbilt Law), Constitutional Theory Workshop
Yale Workplace Theory & Policy Seminar
Nancy Fraser (The New School), Reframing Justice in a Globalizing World
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 20th, 2008
| Law and Economics, Labor and Employment Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Politics, Legal History, International Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Uncategorized |
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Akron
Richard Lavoie (Akron Law), The Taxpaying Dynamic: Developing a New Paradigm for Promoting Compliance with the Internal Revenue Code
Chicago-Kent
Paul Finkelman (Albany Law), Regulating the African Slave Trade
Connecticut
Peter Siegelman (UConn Law), Bribes v. Bombs: A Study in Coasean Warfare
Emory
Nicole Garnett (Notre Dame Law), Ordering in the City
Georgia State
Solange Teles (Unisantos Law (Brazil)), Legal Protections and Social Realities: Protecting Biodiversity in the Brazilian Amazon
NYU Legal History
Laura Edwards (Duke History), The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the State in the New Nation - Intro & Chapter 1
Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources
Jon Erlandson (Oregon Anthropology), Fishing the Past to Feed the Future: Archaeology, Historical Ecology, and Restoration of Marine Ecosystems
SMU Law & Citizenship
Al Brophy (Alabama Law)
Toledo
Kimm Walton, Guerrilla Tactics for Getting the Legal Job of Your Dreams
Toronto Tax Law & Policy
Yoram Margalioth (Tel Aviv Law)
Vanderbilt
Susan Bandes (DePaul Law)
Yale Workplace Theory & Policy
Alan Hyde (Rutgers-Newark Law), What is Labour law?
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 13th, 2008
| Labor and Employment Law, Comparative Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Economics, Legal History, Tax Law, Environmental Law, Uncategorized |
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Chicago Crime & Punishment
Andrew Dilts (Chicago Political Science Ph.D. Candidate)
Cincinnati
Robert Miller (Villanova Law), Directors as Advisors: The Role of Corporate Directors at Shareholder Meetings
Florida
Debra Lyn Bassett (Alabama Law), The Revolution of 1938 and its Discontents: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Today
Georgia International Law
Beth Simmons (Harvard Government), Theories of Commitment
Iowa
Hari Osofsky (Oregon Law)
Loyola LA
Steve Munzer (UCLA Law), Commons and Community in Biotechnological Assets
Minnesota
Ricardo Bascuas (Miami Law), Federal Sentencing: The American Inquisition
Notre Dame
Michael Moreland (Villanova Law), Torts
Queen’s Law
Alan Brudner (Toronto Law), Subjective Fault for Crime: A Reinterpretation
San Diego
Lisa Ramsey (San Diego Law)
Texas
Daniel Hamilton (Chicago-Kent), Emancipation and Contract Law: Litigating Human Property after the Civil War
Toronto Legal Theory
A.J. Julius (UCLA Philosophy), A Lonelier Contractualism
USC
Eric Claeys (George Mason Law), Jefferson Meets Coase: The Harm-Benefit Distinction in Tort Law and Economics and Natural Property Rights
Villanova
Joanna Grossman (Hofstra Law)
Virginia
Devah Pager (Princeton), Race at Work: Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets
Washburn
Sophie Sparrow (Franklin Pierce Law Center), Workshop: Using Grading Rubrics to Improve Teaching, Learning and Grading
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on February 8th, 2008
| Labor and Employment Law, Law and Economics, Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Courts, Civil Procedure, Tort Law, Commercial Law, Property Law, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Health Law, Business Law, Uncategorized |
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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.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 14th, 2008
| Law and Gender, Law and Race, Law and Religion, Labor and Employment Law, Law and Literature, Comparative Law, Empirical Legal Studies, Law and Politics, Law and Cyberspace, Government Law, Law and Science, Law and Sexuality, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Education Law, Business Law, Health Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, Family Law, Environmental Law, Administrative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Legal Education, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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Chicago-Kent
Randall W. Roth (Hawaii Law), The Lawyer as Whistleblower: Lessons from the Bishop Estate Controversy
Chicago-Kent Legal History
Nathan Oman (William & Mary Law), Preaching in the Courthouse and Judging in the Temple
Connecticut
Bethany Berger (UConn Law), Red: Uses of American Indian Race
Duke International and Comparative Law
Jean-Marie Henckaerts (Legal Advisor to the International Red Cross), The IRC Report on International Humanitarian Law and Its Critics
Emory
Jonathan Klick (Florida State Law), Cheap Donuts and Expensive Broccoli: The Effect of Relative Prices on Obesity
NYU Legal History
Sophia Lee (NYU Law, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow), “Race, Sex and Rulemaking, 1964-1977: Revising Equal Protection History, Recovering Administrative Constitutionalism” and “Almost Revolutionary: Administrative Constitutionalism, Labor Politics, and Workplace Civil Rights, 1935-1978″
Oregon Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Steven Kevan (Oregon Physics) and Greg Bothun (Oregon Physics), Physicists on Renewable Energy
Vanderbilt
Robert Ahdieh (Emory Law)
Washington
Steve Calandrillo (Washington Law), Time Well Spent: An Economic Analysis of Daylight Saving Time Legislation
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on November 7th, 2007
| Law and Religion, Legal Ethics, Law a