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Trial by Jury or Trial by Motion? Summary Judgment, Iqbal and Employment Discrimination – New York, NY

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:51:05 +0000

The New York Law School Law Review and The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute for Law & Policy are presenting: Trial By Jury Or Trial By Motion? Summary Judgment, Iqbal, and Employment Discrimination, with Keynote by the Honorable Denny Chin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, on April 23, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. at New York Law School.

This symposium will examine the high failure rates of plaintiffs on pre- and post-trial motions in employment discrimination cases and explore potential strategies to reverse this growing trend. Papers will be published in a forthcoming issue of the New York Law School Law Review.

For more information about the symposium or to register, visit www.nylslawreview.com/trialbymotion. Additional Questions? Please contact 212.431.2109 or law_review@nyls.edu. mmb

2012 Lavender Law Conference Call for Papers — Washington, D.C.

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:23:38 +0000

Call for proposals for the 2012 Lavender Law Conference hosted by the National LGBT Bar Foundation at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. If you are interested in being a presenter, you can submit a workshop proposal by visiting: Submit a CLE Workshop Proposal. Submissions are due by Monday, April 2, at 5:00pm ET (incomplete proposals will not be considered).

Each year, the Lavender Law Conference provides a challenging and rewarding learning experience for attendees and presenters. In addition to day-long seminars focused on family law and transgender issues, the 2012 conference will feature dozens of continuing legal education (CLE) workshops on cutting edge legal issues affecting LGBT individuals, their families and the community. Topics covered in recent years include marriage equality, HIV/AIDS, immigration, LGBT issues in criminal law, LGBT youth issues and many others.

The 2012 conference will also feature workshops geared specifically towards corporate counsel and business practitioners. Topics in previous years included intellectual property, outsourcing and globalization, best practices for winning business from clients interested in LGBT diversity, employment law issues from both the management and plaintiffs’ perspective and others. Distinguished speakers for the 2012 Lavender Law Conference will include representatives from Wells Fargo, Kellogg, Bank of America, Starbucks, Microsoft and many more! mb

Labor and Employment Law Works in Progress – Chicago, IL

uwlegalscholarship — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:32:07 +0000

Northwestern University School of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law a will co-host the Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law Sept. 14-15, 2012. The Colloquium, now in its seventh year, provides an opportunity for labor and employment law scholars to present works-in-progress and receive feedback from their colleagues in the field.

The registration deadline is Aug. 10, 2012.
The deadline for abstracts and papers is Sept. 1, 2012.
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Women and Labor: At Home, at Work, Around the Globe – New Haven, CT

uwlegalscholarship — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:15:44 +0000

Southern Connecticut State University hosts the 20th Annual Women’s Studies Conference, Women and Labor: At Home, at Work, Around the Globe, April 20-21, 2012. The submission deadline for proposals (papers, panels, posters) was Dec. 1, 2011.

Hat tip: Faculty Law Conference Updates. mw

Labor Relations and Pro Baseball – Queens, NY

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:56:20 +0000

St. John’s School of Law Center for Labor and Employment Law presented Labor Relations and the Future of Professional Baseball Nov. 18, 2011. (We apologize for not posting before the event: despite our best efforts we sometimes get behind in our email.) mw

Call For Papers: Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy – Austin, TX

uwlegalscholarship — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 05:19:30 +0000

The Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy of the University of Texas School of Law is currently seeking submissions of articles for Volume 18 of their journal, scheduled for publication in Spring 2012. The call for papers deadline is Jan. 8, 2012. Articles should be submitted electronically to Submissions Editor, Monica Ochoa at thjlp[at]law.utexas.edu. Authors are highly encouraged to submit a CV along with their academic article.

The Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy is an academic publication that aspires to be a forum for issues relevant to Latino legal, political and social issues.The Journal invites ideas and points of views from within and from outside the legal community, as viewed by Latinos and non-Latinos.

Call for Papers: Chinese Labor Market – New York, NY

uwlegalscholarship — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:23:09 +0000

NYU School of Law‘s Center for Labor & Employment Law and U.S.-Asia Law Institute will be hosting a Research Conference on the Chinese Labor Market May 11-12, 2012 in New York. This will be an interdisciplinary conference bringing together leading academics in the field, whether lawyers, economists, sociologists, organizational behavior experts, and others, to share their work on the present and future state of chinese workers, employers, labor relations and labor market institutions. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 15, 2011. Materials should be sent to Torrey Whitman at torrey.whitman[at]nyu.edu.
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Trial by Jury or Trial by Motion? – New York, NY

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:48:27 +0000

The New York Law School Law Review and The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy will present Trial by Jury or Trial by Motion? Summary Judgment, Iqbal and Employment Discrimination April 23, 2012 at New York Law School. The “symposium that will examine the high failure rates of plaintiffs on pre- and post-trial motions in employment discrimination cases and explore potential strategies to reverse this growing trend.” mw

Call for Papers: Stanford, Yale, and Harvard Junior Faculty Forum – Cambridge, MA

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:29:40 +0000

Stanford, Yale, and Harvard Law Schools announce the Junior Faculty Forum (the successor to the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum that has convened for the past twelve years) to be held at Harvard Law School on June 1-2, 2012, and seek submissions for this meeting.

The Forum’s objective is to encourage the work of young scholars by providing experience in the pursuit of scholarship and the nature of the scholarly exchange. Meetings are held each spring, alternating between Yale, Stanford, and Harvard.

Paper submissions for the Forum should be sent to Ms. Kaitlin Burroughs at Harvard Law School (1525 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138). Electronic submissions should be sent to kburroughs[at]law.harvard.edu. The deadline for submission is February 15, 2012. Please note on the cover letter which topic your paper falls under.

Inquiries concerning the Forum should be sent to Adriaan Lanni (adlanni[at]law.harvard.edu) or Gabriella Blum (gblum[at]law.harvard.edu) at Harvard Law School, Joseph Bankman at Stanford Law School (jbankman[at]stanford.edu), or Ian Ayres at Yale Law School (ian.ayres[at]yale.edu)

The focus of this year’s session will be public law and the humanities. The topics to be addressed are:
Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law
Employment Law, Social Welfare Policy, and Anti-Discrimination Law
Environmental Law
Family Law
Jurisprudence and Philosophy
Law and Humanities (including Law and Literature, Critical Legal Studies, and Gender Studies)
Legal History
Public International Law
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Democracy and the Workplace – Las Vegas, NV

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:58:19 +0000

The Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution (UNLV Law) presents Democracy and the Workplace Feb. 24-25, 2012. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Sept. 30, 2012. The call for papers is here. mw