June 25, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Verna Williams (Cincinnati Law), Title IX and Social Justice Feminism
David Lewis
Call for Papers: Feminist Legal History
The editors of a proposed book, Feminist Legal History: New Perspectives on Law seek submissions for contributing chapters to the book. The deadline for proposals is Sept. 15, 2008. Jump to full post
Diversity - Montréal ‘08, Riga ‘09
The Eighth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations will be held in Montréal, Quebec, June 17-20, 2008.
This conference will address a range of critically important themes in the study of diversity today. Main speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the field, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by researchers and practitioners.
The organizers say the conference should interest
- Academics and educational administrators in the fields of globalisation, nationalism, anthropology and cultural studies, tourism studies, ethnic studies, indigenous studies, gender studies, disability studies, gay and lesbian studies, diversity management.
- Research students.
- Public administrators and policy-makers.
- Private and public sector leaders: diversity management, equal employment opportunity, human resource development.
- Workplace trainers and change agents.
The Ninth International Conference on Diversity on Organizations, Communities and Nations will be held in Riga, Latvia, June 15-18, 2009. The call for proposals continues through the year. The deadline for the current round is June 12, 2008; the next deadline will be posted on the webpage.
Presenters may choose to submit their papers The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations at any time before the Conference, and up until one month after the Conference. Participants requiring full refereeing before the Conference must submit their papers at least three months before the Conference.
Pregnancy Discrimination Act - New Haven
In November, the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), along with the 20th anniversary of the Journal, with a symposium [Nov. 7-8, 2008] that brings together the women and men who have been involved in every critical phase of the decades-long campaign for sex equality in the workplace. The event will bring together distinguished advocates and scholars from across the country to share their insights into the PDA and the future of workplace equality with students and faculty at the Yale Law School. Judge Marsha Berzon will be our Keynote speaker, and Sue Ross and Wendy Williams will be among the participants.
The symposium is being planned in coordination with Professors Wiliam Eskridge, Judith Resnik. The Journal of Law and Feminism will publish an issue devoted to the PDA and our twentieth anniversary, including pieces written by conference participants and by members of the Journal.
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
May 5, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Kris. F. Heinzelman (Cravath, Swaine & Moore), Private Equity Firms that Don’t Want to do Deals: How Defaulting on your Mortgage Turned the Private Equity Industry Upside Down
May 1, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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
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
Transgender Lives: The Intersection of Health and Law - Farmington, CT
The second annual Transgender Lives: The Intersection of Health and Law Conference will be held on Saturday, April 19, 2008, at the UConn Health Center. “This all day conference is geared towards Service Providers, Medical and Legal Professionals, Trans and Gender non-conforming community, allies and all those interested in the Health and Law isues facing the Trans and gender non-conforming communities.”
April 2, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jane Larson (Wisconsin Law), Regulating Sex: Multiple Paradigms for Thinking About Sexual Freedom and Autonomy
CUNY
Bernard Freamon (Seton Hall Law), The Abolition of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade and the Vicissitudes of Empire
Michael Kirsch (Notre Dame Law), Taxing Citizens in a Global Economy
Alejandro Moreno (Texas Medicine), Implementation of the Istanbul Protocol - A Summary Report of the Efforts to Eliminate Torture and Ill-Treatment in Mexico
Edward Rock (Penn Law), The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting
UC Hastings
Adam Romero (The Williams Institute), When Family Falls
Josephine McDonagh (King’s College), On Settling and Being Unsettled: Motion and Emotion in Dickens’s Bleak House
March 31, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Florida
Michael B. Lang (Chapman Law), What Every Tax Lawyer Should Know About Patented Tax Strategies
Steve Darwall (Michigan Law), The Nature and Value of Rights & The Second-Person Standpoint: Respect, Morality, and Accountability Chapter 1 & 2
David B. Mustard (Georgia Business) & Thomas A. Eaton (Georgia Law)
Anita Krishnakumar (St. John’s Law), Early Reflections on the Roberts Court and Statutory Interpretation
Roberta Romano (Yale Law), Does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Have a Future?
Deborah L. Brake (Pittsburgh Law), The Invisible Pregnant Athlete and the Promise of Title IX
Ralph Porcher (Institute of Advanced Study), The Hand of Midas: When Concepts Turn Legal or Deflating the Hart-Dworkin-Debate
Stanford Law, Science, & Technology
Michael M. O’Hear (Marquette Law), Lovely Rita?: Procedural Justice and Federal Sentencing
Alexandra Kalev (Arizona Sociology), Cracking the Glass Cages? Restructuring and Ascriptive Inequality at Work
UC Hastings
Yafir Holzman-Gazit (Israel Management Law), Land Expropriation in Israel
Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA Economics), Scylla and Charybdis? Some Historical Reflections on the Two Basic Problems of Corporate Governance
USC Law, Economics, and Organization
Josh Lerner (Harvard Business), Inducement Prizes and Innovation
Stephen Choi (NYU Law), Director Elections and the Influence of Proxy Advisors
Washington University in St. Louis
March 27, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Rennard Strickland (Chapman Law), Keepers of the Springs: A Defense of the American Legal Profession
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
Kim Ferzan (Rutgers-Camden Law), Beyond the Special Part
Elinor Ostrom (Indiana-Bloomington Cognitive Science Program)
Clayton Gillette (Columbia Law), Tacit Agreement, Investment, and Contract Design
Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Anti-Bankruptcy
Margaret Blair (Vanderbilt Law), Assurance Services as a Substitute for Law in Global Commerce
William Forbath (Texas Law), History, Memory and “Transformative Law”: Treatment Action Campaign and the Politics of Rights in South Africa
Rip Verkerke (Virginia Law), Legal Innocence and Information-Forcing Rules
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Andrea Louis Campbell (MIT Political Science), How Americans Think About Taxes: Public Opinion and the American Fiscal State
Colin Mayer (Oxford Business), Where Do Firms Incorporate: Deregulation and the Cost of Entry
Sean Murphy (George Washington Law), The Jus Ad Bellum in View of New Security Threats
Matt Adler (Penn Law), Social Facts, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Rule of Recognition
Alex Glashausser (Washburn Law), The Misbegotten Modern Doctrine of Federal Question Jurisdiction
Shameem Black (Yale English), Fiction in the Age of Transitional Justice
Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown Law), Do Insurer Reserving Practices Drive Liability Insurance Premium Cycles?: An Empirical Study at the Claim Level
Race, Gender, Media in the 2008 Elections - New York
The Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development at St. John’s University School of Law hosts Making History: Race, Gender and the Media in the 2008 Elections Sept. 26-27, 2008. Selected papers will be published in the St. John’s Journal of Legal Commentary. The call for papers deadline is March 14, 2008.
March 13, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
George Fletcher (Columbia Law), CORRECTING EVIL Tort Liability for Human Rights Abuses
Jae Lee (Fordham Law), Recidivism as Omission: A Relational Account
James Fleming (Boston University Law), Are We All Originalists Now? I Hope Not!
Jennifer Gerarda Brown (Quinnipiac Law), Peacemaking in the Culture War Between Gay Rights and Religious Liberty
Hendrik Hartog (Princeton), Planning for Old Age
Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law), Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Care Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Ruth Mason (UConn Law), Made in America for European Taxation: The Internal Consistency Test
Larry Zelenak (Duke Law), The Federal Retail Sales Tax that Wasn’t: An Actual History and an Alternative History
Abraham Wickelgren (Northwestern Law) & Warren Schwartz (Georgetown Law), Credible Discovery, Settlement, and Negative Expected Value Suits
Jill Horwitz (Michigan Law), What do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix
W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell Law), Government Lawyers in the Liberal State
March 11, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Josef Drexl (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law)
Loyola
Robert Miller (Villanova Law), Deal Risk and The Economics of Materials
Notre Dame
Rick Garnett (Notre Dame Law), The ‘Hands-Off’ Approach to Religious Doctrine: What are We Talking About
Samuel R. Bagenstos (Washington University in St. Louis Law)
Peer Zumbansen (York Law), Comparative Corporate Governance
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.
February 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Mitchell Kane (Columbia Law), Bootstraps, Poverty Traps and Povert Pits: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance
Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley Law), Katz at Forty: A Sociological Jurisprudence Whose Time Has Come
James Kainen (Fordham Law), Re-Evaluating Home Building and Loan v. Blaisdell
Samuel Buell (Washington at St. Louis Law), Underappreciated Virtues of Overbreadth in Criminal Law
Albert Choi (Virginia Law), Integrating an Agreement to Induce Information Disclosure
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
Jeff Kahn (SMU Law), International Travel and the U.S. Constitution during the War on Terror
Jonathan Macey (Yale Law), False Promises: Finding a Role for Directors in Corporate Governance
David Henry (Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences), The Australia/USA Free Trade Agreement - Impact on Access to Medicine
Nancy Polikoff (Washington College of Law, American University), Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law
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
Tonya Kowalski (Washburn Law), Imperatives and Incentives to Introduce Native American Nations and Law in First-Year Legal Method Courses
February 7, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Stacey Dogan (Boston Law), Functionality Reconsidered
Warren Billings (New Orleans History), Just Laws for the Happy Guiding and Governing of the People There Inhabiting: Laws in the Colonial South
John Mayo (Georgetown Business), The Influence of Firms on Government
Chris Elmendorf (UC Davis), Undue Burdens on Voter Participation (Is the Right to Vote Like the Right to an Abortion?)
Reva Siegel (Yale Law), The Rights’ Reasons: Constitutional Conflict and the Spread of Woman-Protective Anti-Abortion Argument
Jon Klick (Florida State), The Effect of Contractual Regulation: The Case of Franchising
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Chris Sanchirico (Penn Law), The Tax Advantage to Paying Private Equity Funds Managers with Profit Shares: What is it? Why is it Bad?
Dennis Ventry (American University Law), Whistleblowers and Qui Tam for Tax
Marcia McCormick (Cumberland Law), The Truth is Out There: Refitting EEOC for the Twenty-First Century
William Birdthistle (Chicago-Kent Law), Exchange Traded Funds
Melissa Waters (Washington & Lee Law), Veri, Vidi, Amici: Law Professors as Transnational Norm Entrepreneurs Before the U.S. Supreme Court
Dick Fallon (Harvard Law), Constitutional Precedent Viewed Through the Lens of Hartian Jurisprudence
Aeyal Gross (Tel Aviv Law), Health Between a Right and a Commodity: A Comparative Analysis of the Israeli Experience
Tom Miles (Chicago Law), Strategic Judging under the Voting Rights Act & Judicial Decisionmaking and the Transformation of Voting Rights Doctrine
February 6, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Richard Aynes (Akron Law) & Malina Coleman (Akron Law), Mark Graber, Dred Scott, and Dealing with Evil
Ruth Mason (UConn Law), Made in America for European Tax: The Consistency Test
Chris Sanchirico (Penn Law), The Tax Advantage to Paying Private Equity Fund Managers with Profit Shares: What is it? Why is it Bad?
Lauren Benton (NYU History), Island Chains: Military Law and Convict Transportation, 1780-1840
Toledo
Kenneth Kilbert (Toledo Law), Contribution Under RCRA’s Imminent Hazard Provisions
Yale Workplace Theory & Policy
Nelson Lichtenstein (UC Santa Barbara History), Wal-Mart as the Template for 21st Century Capitalism: The Rise of Retailing as the Lynchpin of the Global Economy
Geography and Gender: The Origins and Reproduction of Wal-Mart’s Managerial Culture
Supply-Chains, Workers’ Chains and the New World of Retail Supremacy
February 4, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Herbert Hovenkamp (Iowa Law), Innovation and the Domain of Competition Policy
Timothy Kaufman-Osborn (Whitman Politics), Perfecting Death: Abolitionism and the Challenge of Lethal Injection
Omri Ben-Shahar (Michigan Law), How to Repair Unconscionable Contracts
Eric Helland (Claremont-McKenna), The Impact of the Securities Litigation on the Directors’ Labor Market
Knud Haakonssen (Sussex History), Protestant Natural Law and the Question of Rights: The Case of Francis Hutcheson I & II
Leemore S. Dafny (Northwestern Management), Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?
Cristina Rodriguez (NYU Law), Significance of the Local in Immigration Regulation
St. Thomas (MN)
Nancy Ehrenreich (Denver Law), Feminist Theory and Reproductive Rights
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default
Yair Listokin (Yale Law), Does Shareholder Voting Maximize Stock Market Value?
Chief Justice Myron Steele (Supreme Court of Delaware), Delaware, North Dakota, and Federalism
February 1, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Martha Chamallas (Ohio State Law), Race, Gender, and Torts
Martin Shapiro (UC Berkeley Law), Independent Agencies in the EU and Globally
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
Carol Sanger (Columbia Law), The Eye of the Storm: Mandatory Ultrasound and Fetal Confrontation
Alexandra Natapoff (Loyola LA Law), Deregulating Guilt: The Information Culture of the Criminal System
Gil Seinfeld (Michigan Law), Federal Courts as Franchise: Rethinking the Tripartite Mantra of Federal Jurisdiction
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