University of Pittsburgh School of Law is hosting today Sociolegal Methods in International Law, a workshop to explore the role of sociolegal methodologies in describing and defining the contours of international law. The list of workshop participants is here. For more information, contact Professor Elena Baylis.
We seek papers on food, culture, and the law, written from a variety of perspectives, appropriate for presentation at one or both of the following conferences: the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (Suffolk University Law School, Boston, April 3-4, 2009) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (details for the 2009 conference TBA on the ASFS website). Although we aim to use these panels as a partial foundation for creating the edited collection, we are also happy to consider abstracts and articles from potential contributors who are unable to attend either ASLCH or ASFS. Finished essays should be of a quality suitable for publication with an established university press and reasonably accessible to a multidisciplinary audience of scholars and students of the law, social sciences, and humanities, as well as interested readers outside the academy.
J. Amy Dillard
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Baltimore School of Law
1420 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
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The Institute of Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University presents the Fourth Conference on Translation, Interpreting and Comparative Legi-Linguistics, an international conference on language and the law. “Our aim is to provide a forum for discussion in those scientific fields where linguistic and legal interests converge, and to facilitate integration between linguists, computer scientists and lawyers from all around the world.” The conference takes place July 2-4, 2009, in Poznan, Poland.
The organizers invite papers on a wide range of topics related to forensic linguistics in general; legal translation and court interpreting; legal languages and legal discourse; computational linguistics; history of law and legal systems; and laws on languages. Abstracts should be submitted by Feb. 28, 2009.
Jim Fleming (Boston University Law), Traditionalism and Backlash in Constitutional Argument
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Laura Rosenbury (Washington University in St. Louis Law), Beyond Intimacy
Claire Priest (Columbia Law), Understanding the End of Entail: Information, Institutions, and Slavery in the American Revolutionary Period
Madhavi Sunder (UC Davis), The New Enlightenment: How Muslim Women are Bringing Religion Out of the Dark Ages
Sharon Dolovich (UCLA Law), Defining Eighth Amendment Deliberate Indifference
Minnesota Faculty Works
Heidi Kitrosser (Minnesota Law), The Reality Based Constitution
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Jason Furman (The Brookings Institution), Reforming the Tax Treatment of Health Care: Right Ways and Wrong Ways
Rose Villazor (SMU Law), Birthright Citizenship in the U.S. Territories
Rachel Brewster (Harvard Law), Renegotiation and Reinterpretation of Treaties
Ruti Teitel (New York Law School), Humanity’s Law
Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard Economics), Taking the Long Way Around: Real Consequences of Transport Corruption
Efraim Benmelech (Harvard Economics), Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection
Georgetown Statutory Colloquium
Theodore Ruger (Penn Law), Gonzales v. Oregon and the Normative Constitution of American Health Care
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
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
Jody Kraus (Virginia Law), The Correspondence and Divergence in Contract and Promise
Frank Pasquale (Seton Hall Law), Taxing Tiering: Addressing Inequality in Health Care as Cross-Subsidization Declines
Rosemary C. Salomone (St. John’s Law), Official English: The Reality and the Rhetoric
Jerry L. Anderson (Drake Law), An Empirical Study of Attitudes Toward Zoning
Michael Conroy (Colibri Consulting), How Civil Society is Striking Back at Neoliberal Globalization: Tales from the ‘Certification Revolution’
Richard Perry (San Jose State University), On the Strange Career of the Cultural Defense
Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law) & Jide Nzelibe (Northwestern Law), Political Accountability Under Alternative Institutional Regimes
Fiona Harrison (California Institute of Technology), Three Big Questions about the Universe (and how Astrophysicists are trying to answer them)
William H. McDavid (Ret. General Counsel, J.P. Morgan Chase), Enron: The Aftermath
Natasha Martin (Seattle Law), Immunity for Hire: The Same Actor Factor as a Subterfuge to Equality in the Contemporary Workplace
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
David Caron (UC Berkeley Law), Why International Courts and Tribunals Look and Act as They Do
Thomas Merrill (Columbia Law), The Rule of First Possession and the Rule of Accession
Syracuse
Eric A. Kades (William & Mary Law), A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain
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
Mark Tushnet (Harvard Law), The Rights Revolution in the Twentieth Century
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
The Sixth International Conference on the Humanities (a/k/a Sixth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities) will be held in Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey, July 15-18, 2008.
The conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that make up the humanities today.
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Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, Communication, English, Fine Arts, Geography, Government, History, Journalism, Languages, Linguistics, Literature, Media Studies, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology or Religion-these are just some of the many disciplines represented at the Humanities Conference. The focus of papers ranges from the finely grained and empirical to the expansive and theoretical.
Georgetown International Human Rights
Paolo Carozza (Notre Dame Law), The ‘Art’ of Democracy and the ‘Taste For Local Freedom’: International Human Rights and the American Constitutional Difference
Notre Dame
Barbara Stark (Hofstra Law), International Law
Eric Biber (UC Berkeley Law), Too Many Things to Do: How to Deal with the Dysfunctions of Multiple-Goal Agencies
Tonja Jacobi (Northwestern Law), Supermedians
Laura Beny (Michigan Law), Private Regulation of Insider Trading in the Shadow of Lax Public Enforcement (and a Strong Neighbor)–Evidence from Canadian Firms
George Fisher (Stanford Law), Married to Alcohol: The Drug War’s Moral Roots
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Jane Dailey (Chicago History), White Supremacy Is in Peril: Race, Marriage and Sovereignty in the New World Order
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default
Ayelet Shachar (Toronto Law), The Global Race for Talent
Robert Daines (Stanford Law), Rating the Ratings: How Good are the Commercial Governance Ratings?
Alexandra B. Klass (Minnesota Law) & Elizabeth Wilson (Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs), Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration: A Consideration of Tort and Property Law
Michael Knoll (Penn Law), The Tax Advantage of ‘Sweat Equity’: What it is and its Relationship to the Carried Interest Controversy
NYU Tax Policy and Public Finance
Mihir Desai (Harvard Business), Foreign-Direct Investment and Domestic Economic Activity
St. Thomas (MN)
Robert Ahdieh (Emory Law), Standardization 2.0: A New Version of the Game
Peter Smith (George Washington Law), Originalism’s Living Constitutionalism
Chidi Oguamanam (Dalhousie Law), The Future of Personalized Medicine and Personalizing the Medicine of the Future: In Search of Insights from Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Shareen Hertel (UConn Political Science), Rights in Conflict: Insights from Transnational Labor and Economic Rights
Michael Woodford (Columbia Economics), Principles and Public Policy Decisions: The Case of Monetary Policy
Yale Workplace Theory & Policy
Jacob Hacker (Yale Political Science), The Politics of Risk Privatization in U.S. Social Policy
Duke International & Comparative Law
Jurgen Basedow (Max Planck Institute), The Reform of European Antitrust Law
John Mikhail (Georgetown Law), Bentham’s Theory of Fictions and Critique of Natural Rights
John Gardner (Oxford Law), Introduction to the Second Edition of H.L.A. Hart’s Punishment and Responsibility
Damon Smith (Rutgers-Camden Law), Reconceptualizing Urban Redevelopment: Participatory Planning and Procedural Protections
Judith Donath (MIT), Virtual Design and Trustworthy Signals
Sherry F. Colb (Columbia Law), Why is Torture “Different” and How “Different” is it?
Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke Law), Protecting Financial Markets: Lessons from the Subprime Mortgage Meltdown
Cindy Skach (Harvard Government), The Constitution of Peoples: Outlaw Religion and the Public Sphere
Robert Litan (Kauffman Foundation), Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
Michael R. Eisenson (Charlesbank Capital Partners), An Insider’s Perspective on Private Equity Investing
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
Spoils of War v. Cultural Heritage: The Russian Cultural Property Law in Historical Context is sponsored by Harvard Law School Arts & Literature Law Society;
Commission for Art Recovery; Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University; Foundation for International Cultural Diplomacy; Harvard Law School European Law Research Center, Feb. 8-9, 2008, at Harvard.
After WWII, Soviet authorities, seeking reparations for the extensive costs of Nazi aggression, used special “Trophy Brigades” to empty museums, castles, and salt mines in Germany and Eastern Europe, transporting millions of cultural treasures to the USSR. These included German state-owned cultural objects, cultural objects taken from churches and synagogues, as well as a great deal of private property that had been looted by the Germans from individuals. The art works taken back to the Soviet Union were held in relative secrecy for years, until the final years of glastnost (Гла́сность). As European countries started to demand their cultural treasures and archives, Russian legislators passed a law that potentially nationalizes all cultural treasures brought to Russia at the end of World War II. In 1999 the Constitutional Court issued an opinion basically upholding the law. How do these actions comport with international law? What are the chances for restitution of these displaced cultural valuables?
Gerald Korngold (Case Western Law), Solving the Contentious Issues of Private Conservation Easements: Promoting Flexibility for the Future and Engaging the Public Land Use Process
Joseph Mwaura (Queen’s University Belfast), Human Rights, Violence and the Elections in Kenya
Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), The Subjective Experience of Punishment
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Richard Nagareda (Vanderbilt Law), Discussion of Vioxx Settlement
Karen Beck (Curator of Rare Books, Boston College Law), The Nineteenth-Century American Lawyer’s Private Library: A Look at the Evidence
Michael Graetz (Yale Law), 100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States
Fordham
Lani Guinier (Harvard Law), All of Us is Tired: Notes Toward a Demosprudence of Social Movements
NYU Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy
David Golove (NYU Law), Incorporating Global Justice into the U.S. Constitution
David Enoch (Columbia Law), Intending, Foreseeing, and the State
William Alford (Harvard Law), “Second Lawyers, First Principles”: Lawyers, Rice-Roots Legal Workers, and the Battle Over Legal Professionalism in China
Yale Law, Economics, and Organization
Abraham Wickelgren (Northwestern Law), Credible Discovery, Settlement, and Negative Expected Value Suits
Luigi Zingales (Chicago Business), Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
Neil Buchanan (George Washington Law), What Do We Owe Future Generations: Framing the Issues, with an Application to Budget Policy
John B. Bellinger (U.S. Dep’t of State), The United States and International law: Three Current Controversies
Vince Blasi (Columbia Law), Madison and the Sedition Act of 1798
Alice Abreu (Temple Law), Contracting the Definition of Income: The Role of Administrability as an Independent Tax Policy Value
Patrick Macklem (Toronto Law), What is International Human Rights Law? Three Applications of a Distributive Account
Danny Bogden (McDonald Carano Wilson), Starting Over: An Insider View of the Attorney General Firings
Saul Friedlander (UCLA History), Towards an Integrated History of the Holocaust
Randall W. Roth (Hawaii Law), The Lawyer as Whistleblower: Lessons from the Bishop Estate Controversy
Nathan Oman (William & Mary Law), Preaching in the Courthouse and Judging in the Temple
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
Jonathan Klick (Florida State Law), Cheap Donuts and Expensive Broccoli: The Effect of Relative Prices on Obesity
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
Washington
Steve Calandrillo (Washington Law), Time Well Spent: An Economic Analysis of Daylight Saving Time Legislation
Forgiveness: Probing the Boundaries is an inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference, research and publishing project” that “aims to explore the nature, significance, and practices of forgiveness.” The conference will take place March 7-9, 2008, in Salzburg, Austria. The deadline for abstracts was Nov. 2, 2007.
Amanda Frost (American Law), (Over)Valuing Uniformity
Christopher Eisgruber (Princeton Law and Public Affairs), The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process
Lani Guinier (Harvard Law), Beyond Electocracy: Rethinking The Political Representative as a Powerful Stranger
Lily Batchelder (NYU Law), How Should an Ideal Consumption Tax or Income Tax Treat Wealth Transfers
Duke International and Comparative Law
Erhard Busek (Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe), Southeast Europe–A Region Regains Stability and Future: Changes and Open Problems (Kosovo, Bosnia, EU Enlargement)
Marty Lederman (Georgetown Law), The Commander in Chief at the Lowest Ebb
Gillian Metzger (Columbia Law), Administrative Law as the New Federalism
NYU Legal, Political and Social Philosophy
