The American Law and Economics Association (ALEA) is accepting papers for its 2010 meeting, which will take place May 7-8, 2010, at the Woodrow Wilson Center. The call for papers is here. The deadline is Feb. 1, 2010. mw
The Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held at the USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles Nov. 20-21, 2009. The preliminary program is here. Paper abstracts are available on SSRN.
Panel topics address a wide range of legal areas and institutions, including:
(These are all separate panels. I grouped them into the bullet points to make the list easier to browse.) mw
Notre Dame Law School will host the 2009 Midwestern Law & Economics Association (MLEA) annual meeting on October 9-10, 2009 at Eck Hall of Law. Topics to be covered at the conference include: torts and health care, criminal law and welfare economics, and intellectual property and competition law. jv
The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Law & Economics Association will be held on October 4-5 at Notre Dame Law School. Program after the break.
Syracuse University College of Law
Russ Pearce (Fordham University School of Law), Law Practice as a Morally Responsible Business: Reintegrating Ethics into Economics and Law.
Jonathan Masur (Chicago Law), Well-Being Analysis
Rutgers School of Law - Newark, Women’s Rights Law Reporter would like to introduce the topic of our Fall 2009 Symposium, occurring on Friday, November 13, 2009: Women In Economics, Where are We Today?
This symposium is focused on the recent downturn in our economy, and how our latest economic crisis has had an effect on women. We invite discussion on topics such as: women in the workplace today; women’s positions in our economic sphere as it stands today and, possibly, as compared with ten years ago; women’s ability to obtain loans for either small businesses, homes, or the like; the bailout and its effect on women; all current legal issues associated with women and economics, and finally, differing feminist perspectives on where the women of today are headed in the future in terms of this economy. This is a fairly broad topic, but our main concern to answer the question of where this recent economic crisis has left women today, and the legal battles that they may be facing in the future.
We invite proposals for articles, essays and book reviews in conjunction with this symposium topic, however, such proposals are not required for participation in this event. Also, publication of any article, essay or book review is subject to the quality of the piece, and is within the sole discretion of our editors.
We welcome brief submissions of 250 words or less as to what issues you would be able to speak on concerning our Fall 2009 Symposium. I expect to get back to potential speakers as soon as possible, as this event if fast approaching. Please feel free to contact me. Christine Burke, Symposium Editor (burke.christine5 [at] gmail.com).
The Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law, the legal publication of the American Bar Association’s Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, is currently seeking submissions from students, professors, and practitioners. The Journal publishes full-length articles, book reviews, and shorter commentaries on a wide range of affordable housing and community and economic development issues.
The Fall 2009 issue will focus on “Housing and Community Development in the Economic Crisis.” Submissions of papers or proposals for papers should be e-mailed to Paulette Williams at pwillia8@utk.edu no later than June 15, 2009.
Writer’s guidelines can be found here.
The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth (Northwestern University School of Law) presents the Second Annual Searle Center Research Symposium on The Economics and Law of the Entrepreneur on June 11-12, 2009.
The goal of this Research Symposium is to provide a forum where economists and legal scholars can gather together with Northwestern University ’s own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high quality research relevant to the economics and law of the entrepreneur. Panels cover research on Venture Capital and the Entrepreneur; Entrepreneur Law; Economic Growth and Development; Innovation and the Entrepreneur; and The Social Context of Entrepreneurship.
The conference is organized by Professor Daniel F. Spulber, Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business and Professor of Management Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in cooperation with the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS). JEMS will publish a special issue on the economies of the entrepreneur.
To reserve a space at this event, you must send a message with name, affiliation and full contact information to: searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu or call (312) 503-1811.
Space is limited. Please register no later than June 1st, 2009.
The University of Chicago Legal Forum is now accepting abstracts and drafts for our 2010 Volume and symposium, Crime, Criminal Law, and the Recession. Authors selected for publication must present their article at the University of Chicago Legal Forum Symposium on October 23-24, 2009, at the law school and submit a publication draft by early January 2010.
The symposium will provide one of the first opportunities to explore an overlooked aspect of the current recession — changes in crime and criminal law. It will bring together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines — law, economics, sociology, political science, and public policy. Topics may include the impact of inequality or unemployment on crime rates, social trends in crime during recessions, the impact of crime on economic growth, changes in state drug laws, and reevaluations of the cost of punishment.
Interested authors should submit a CV and abstracts or drafts via email at UChicago.LegalForum [at] gmail.com. The submission deadline is August 1, 2009.
Cynthia Skach (Oxford Politics)
Margret Meyer (Oxford)
Juliet M. Moringiello (Widener Law)
Michael Carrier (Rutgers Camden Law)
Jacob Hacker (Berkeley Poli. Sci.), Yes, We Can? The New Push for American Health Security
Eugene Volokh (UCLA Law), Facilitative Constitutional Rights
Jannine Bell (Indiana University), Hate Speech and Hate Crime
James Gathii (Albany Law), War, Commerce and International Law
Minnesota Faculty Works in Progress
Susan Haack (Miami Law), Proving Causation: The Holism of Warrant and the Atomism of Daubert
Northwestern Law and Economics
Gillian Hadfield (USC Law), The Dynamic Quality of Law: The Role of Judicial Incentives and Legal Human Capital in the Adaptation of Law
Victoria Nourse (Wisconsin Law), A Tale of Two Lochners (Why Lochner and Roe are Not Twins)
Michael Carrier (Rutgers Camden)
Daniela Caruso (Boston Law), The Law of Autism
Dara Strolovicth (Minnesota Poli. Sci.), Affirmative Advocacy in Hard Times: Representing Marginalized Groups in Times of National Crisis
Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook (7th Circuit), Public Choice and Legal Interpretation
Eric D. Weitz (Minnesota History), From the Vienna to the Paris System, or: What Human Rights has to do with Imperial Politics, Minority Protection, Forced Deportations, and German Genocides
Northwestern International Law
Jenia Iontcheva Turner (SMU Law)
Omar Dajani, (Pacific McGeorge)
Olivier Roy (U.C. Berkeley Poli. Sci.), Managing Religious Pluralism in Liberal States
Anup Malani (Boston Law) and Zvika Neeman (Boston Economics), Do Advertisements Affect the Physiological Efficacy of Branded Drugs?
The National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL) invite submissions for the NUS Law School-AsianSIL Conference on Sovereign Wealth Funds: Governance and Regulation, to be held at the NUS Law School in Singapore on September 9-11, 2009.
All conference papers will be published as “working papers” on the AsianSIL website. A select number of accepted papers will subsequently be considered for formal publication in a special section of the Singapore Year Book of International Law. Paper-givers who are selected through a competitive process will have their reasonable expenses covered.
Completed proposals must be submitted Friday, 24 April 2009. Those selected to participate in the conference will be notified by Friday, 1 May 2009.
For possible topics, full details on the conference, and an explanation of submission requirements, please see the conference website.
David L. Faigman (UC Hastings), Frames of Reference: Can Constitutionality Really Be Measured One Case at a Time?
Antoinette Schoar (MIT Managment), CEO Careers and Style
Lisa Bressman (Vanderbilt Law)
UC Irvine Center for Psychology and Law & Newkirk Center for Science and Society
Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), Emerging Neurotechnologies: Manipulating Experiences, Dampening Memories, and Customizing Punishment
Mechele Dickerson (Texas Law), Vanishing Financial Freedom
Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), Saving Public Financing
Harold Bruff (Colorado Law), Bad Advise: Bush’s Lawyers in the War on Terror
Laurence Claus (San Diego Law)
Safra Catz (Oracle President and CFO), The People Soft Deal
John Darley (Princeton Psychology), Citizens’ Punishment Decisions are Just Deserts Intuition. Does this have Implications for the Criminal Justice System?
Andrew F. Newman (Boston Economics), Loopholes: Social Learning and the Evolution of Contracts
Guy-Uriel E. Charles (Duke Law)
Joe Miller (Lewis and Clark Law)
Michael Livingston (Rutgers-Camden Law), We Won’t Vote For You If You Haven’t Already Won: On the Prospects of Meaningful Reform of the American Electoral System
Emilio J. Castilla (M.I.T. Mangment), The Paradox of Meritocracy
Alon Klement (Boston Law), Does Private Selection Improve the Accuracy of Arbitrators’ Decisions?
Yale Workplace Theory and Policy
Stephen Rich (USC Law), Against Prejudice
Eric Barendt (University College London), Conflicts between right to Freedom of Speech and Privacy
Christine Desan (Harvard Law), Beyond Commodification: Contract and the Credit-Based World of Modern Capitalism
Lawrence A. Cunningham (George Washington Law), Reimagining Financial Regulations
Michael Chernew (Harvard Medical), The Financial Effects of a Value Based Insurance Design Program
Allison Christians (Wisconsin Law), Networks, Norms, and National Tax Policy
David Velleman (NYU Philosophy)
Catherine Fisk (UC Irvine Law), Attribution Within Organizations: Crediting Work in the Context of Anonymous Authorship at the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency, 1920-1980
Zen-ichi Shishido (Seikei University), The Structure of the Enterprise Law: Complementarities among Contracts, Markets, and Laws in the Incentive Bargain of the Frim.
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