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?
May 6, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Rachel Barkow (NYU Law), Institutional Design and the Policing of Prosecutors: Lessons from Administrative Law
David Ardia, Sam Bayard, Tuna Chatterjee (Members of Citizen Media Law Project), Discussion of the project’s first year
Ruth Mazo Karras (Minnesota History), Telling the Truth About Sex in Late Medieval Paris
Jens Dammann (Texas Law), Of Courts and Corporations
Internet Law - Berkman@10 - Cambridge, MA
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School hosts Berkman@10 May 15-16, 2008.
April 29, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Chris Conley (Harvard Law Grad, 2007), Transparency and Digital Surveillance
Notre Dame
Linda McClain (Boston University Law), Marriage Pluralism in the United States: Multiple Jurisdictions and the Demands of Equal Citizenship
Ian Ferrell (Texas Law), Gilbert & Sullivan and Scalia: The Philosophical Basis of the Eigth Amendment’s Proportionality Principle
Henrik Lando (Copenhagen Business), Optimal Standards of Negligence when One Party is Uninformed
Washington
David Binder (UCLA Law) & Albert Moore (UCLA Law), Demystifying the First-Year Classroom
Raghuram G. Rajan (Chicago Business), Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States
April 22, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Daniel Farber (UC Berkeley Law), Modeling Climate Change and Its Impacts: Law, Policy and Science
Tracey Mitrano (Cornell, Director of IT Policy), Building a Global University
Steve Johansen (Lewis & Clark) & Anne Villella (Lewis & Clark)
Notre Dame
Stephen Elkin (Maryland Behavioral and Social Sciences), The Theory of Republican Constitution
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
April 8, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
John Witt (Columbia Law), Form and Substance in the Law of Counterinsurgency Damages
Joshua Blank (NYU Law), What’s Wrong With Shaming Corporate Tax Abuse
Duke International & Comparative Law
Angelos Pangratis (European Union), The Future of E.U.-U.S. Relations
William Eskridge, Jr. (Fordham Law), Vetogates, Chevron, Preemption
Gregg Bloche (Georgetown Law), The Emergent Logic of Health Care
Loyola
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), The Life Span of Written Constitutions
Tom Romero II (Hamline Law), Creating and Containing the Multiracial Hetereotopia: Kelo, Parents, and the Spatialization of Color(blindness) in the Berman-Brown Postmetroplis
St. Thomas (Mn)
Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa English), Give Me a Precedent: Past, Present and Future in Victorian Fiction and Law
UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations
Stephen Choi (NYU Law), Empirical Evidence on Securities Arbitration
March 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Judith Lictenberg (Georgetown Philosophy), Basic Rights and Are There Any Basic Rights
Gregory Shaffer (Loyola Law), A Structural Theory of WTO Dispute Settlement: Why Institutional Choice Lies at the Center of the GMO Case
Amanda Tyler (George Washington Law), The Suspension Clause as an Emergency Power
Peter Suber (Earlham Philosophy), What Can Universities Do to Promote Open Access
Catherine Candee (University of California), Whose Knowledge is it? UC takes on IP
Laura Underkuffler (Duke Law), Captured by Evil: The Idea of Corruption in Law
Claire A. Hill (Minnesota Law), Why didn’t subprime investors demand (more of) a lemons premium?
Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration
Laura Gomez (New Mexico Law), Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race
Sandra Ikuta (Judge, Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit), What Law Professors Should Know About Preparing Students for Clerking Recommending Students as Clerks, and the new Chief Judge of the 9th Circuit
Ronen Avraham (Northwestern Law), Should Courts Ignore Ex-post Information When Determining Contract Damages? A Re-evaluation of Contract Remedies
Washington University in St. Louis
March 12, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Mark Graber (Maryland Politics), John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
CUNY
Mitchell Kane (Virginia Law), Bootstraps, Poverty Traps, and Poverty Pits: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance
Christopher Beauchamp (Samuel Golieb Fellow, NYU Law), Technology’s Trials: Patents in the United States Courts, 1860-1910
Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law
William Rossi (Oregon English) & Molly Westling (Oregon English), Reading, Rhetoric, and Climate
David Wilkins (Harvard Law), Toward a Joint Venture Model of Attorney/Client Relationship Between Corporations and their Outside Counsel
Jacques Sasseville (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), Tax Treaties: Better the Devil We Know?
Devon Carbado (UCLA Law), Acting White: What’s Sexual Orientation Got to Do With it?
Nan Goodman (Colorado English), Banishment and Jurisdictional Indentity in Seventeenth-Century New England
Washington
Mary Whisner (Washington Law Library), The Buzz about Blawgs
Wei Zhang (Peking Management), Politics of Medical Disputes in China
Legal, Security, Privacy in IT and Int’l Law & Trade - Prague
The Third International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in IT (LSPI) together with the Second International Law and Trade Conference (ILTC) will take place September 3-5, 2008, in Prague, Czech Republic. The meetings are sponsored by the International Association of IT Lawyers in cooperation with University of Economics in Prague.
Call for papers deadlines: peer-reviewed papers - Aug. 1, 2008; non-academic presentation abstracts - Aug. 15, 2008.
International Conf on Business, Law and Technology - Long Island
The International Association of IT Lawyers and Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center present The Second International Conference on Business, Law and Technology (IBLT) June 17-19, 2008 at Touro (Central Islip, NY). The call for papers deadline is May 5, 2008.
Computers, Freedom, and Privacy - New Haven
The Technology Policy ‘08 conference, Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, will be held May 20-23, 2008, in New Haven, CT.
It is sponsored by Google, AOL, Yale Law and Media Project (LAMP), Yale Information Society Project (ISP), and the Association for Computing Machinery.
The Call for presentations, tutorials, and workshops has different options. Most have a deadline of March 21, 2008. The deadline for Birds of a Feather Session proposals is April 21, 2008.
YouTube Election - Washington, DC
Commlaw Conspectus: Journal of Communications Law and Policy presents The 2008 ‘YouTube’ Election? The Role And Influence of 21st Century Media, Thur., March 13, 2008. The event is cosponsored by the Institute for Communications Law Studies at The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law in association with the Federal Communications Bar Association.
e-Democracy - Hartford, CT
The Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal presented e-Democracy: Democratic Values in a Digital Age Feb 7, 2008.
Law School Computing - Baltimore
Transforming Legal Education, the 2008 Conference on Law School Computing (CALI) will be hosted by the University of Maryland School of Law June 19-21, 2008. Session proposals are accepted until June 1, 2008. Jump to full post
January 28, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Chicago-Kent Civil Liberties
David D. Cole (Georgetown Law) & Jules L. Lobel (Pittsburgh Law), Less Safe, Less Free: Why America is Losing the War on Terror
Eric Posner (Chicago Law), The Recurrent Illusion: International Relations and Global Legalism
Anu Bradford (Harvard Law), International Antitrust Negotiations and the False Hope of the WTO
Michael Perry (Emory Law), Morality and Normativity & Liberal Democracy and Human Rights
David Anderson
Edward B. Rock (Penn Law), The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting
Alan Madry (Marquette Law), Land Use Regulation and the New Property Revisited
Benjamin Zipursky (Fordham Law), Two Dimensions of Responsibility
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan (Rutgers Law), The Right to Self Defense
Mark Cooper (Consumer Federation of America), The Digital Revolution, Defining the Consumer Victory and Defending the Public Interest in the 21st Century: Network Neutrality, Digital Downloading, and Privacy in Online Advertising
Ronald J. Colombo (Hofstra Law), Ownership, Limited: Reconciling Tradition and Progressive Corporate Law via an Aristotelian Understanding of Ownership
Niko Matouschek (Northwestern Management)
James K. Galbraith (Texas Public Affairs), How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
Ron Shapiro (Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler), Dare to Prepare: How to Win Before You Begin
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), The Lifespan of Written Constitutions
Cesare Romano (Loyola LA Law), The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World’s Cases
David Machlowitz (Medco Health Solutions, Inc.), Standing In Front Of The Bulls Eye: The Corporate Counsel In A Corporate Crisis
Data Privacy - Durham, NC
Duke University’s Center for European Studies, School of Law, and Center for International & Comparative Law host Data Privacy in Transatlantic Perspective: Conflict or Cooperation?, Jan. 28, 2008.
Internet Governance - Montréal
The Center for International Legal Studies in cooperation with McGill University and Suffolk University Law School present The Internet: Governance and the Law, “Civil Society and the Governance of Multimodal Communication” at McGill, Montréal, Canada, October 26-29, 2008. The call for papers deadline is April 14, 2008. For more information see this post at Concurring Opinions.
Socio-Legal Studies Ass’n - Manchester, UK
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.
Information and Information Economy - NYC
Information and the Information Economy will be co-sponsored by the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University and the Quello Center for Telecommuncation Management and Law at Michigan State University, May 2-3, 2008, Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY.
Thanks: IP and IT Conferences.
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