July 21, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jed Shugerman (Harvard Law), The People’s Courts: The Rise of Judicial Elections and Judicial Power in America
July 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Mark Roe (Harvard Law), Political Instability’s Impact on Financial Development
Catholic Social Thought and Citizenship - Villanova, PA
Villanova University School of Law hosts Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and the Law: Catholic Social Thought and Citizenship, Oct. 11, 2008. Description on Commonweal blog. The call for papers deadline was July 1, 2008. Papers will be considered for publication in the Journal of Catholic Social Thought.
Politics of International Economic Law - Washington, DC
The American Society of International Law International Economic Law Interest Group’s 2008 Biennial Interest Group Conference, The Politics of International Economic Law: The Next Four Years, will be held at George Washington University Law School, Nov. 14-15, 2008. The deadline for paper and program proposals is July 20, 2008. The call for papers is here.
June 16, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law), Political Accountability Under Alternative Institutional Regimes
Amer. Political Science Ass’n - Boston
The 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association will take place Aug. 28-31, 2008, in Boston. The theme is “Categories and the Politics of Global Inequalities”. There are dozens of law-related offerings. Jump to full post
Critical Legal Strategies - Glasgow
The 2008 Critical Legal Confrence will take place Sept. 5-7, 2008, hosted by the University of Glasgow School of Law. Its theme is Critical Legal Strategies and the intention to return to and capture something of the political nature of critical legal intervention. The call for papers deadline is June 15, 2008.
May 20, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), Constitutional Law, International Law, Public Law
John Golden (Texas Law), The Supreme Court as “Prime Percolator”: A Prescription for Appellate Review of Questions in Patent Law
May 15, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jytte Klausen (Brandeis Politics), Why Religion has Become More Salient in Europe: Four Working Hypotheses about Secularization and Religiosity in Contemporary Politics
The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law - Madison, WI
The University of Wisconsin Institute for Legal Studies hosts The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law Oct. 24-26, 2008. This interdisciplinary conference “will bring together leading academics, authors and intellectuals to examine the Weimar period in European history, culture, and law and to trace the continuity of Weimar thinkers and their impact on the continued viability of liberal democracy in today’s world.”
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
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 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), The Story of Murphy: A New Front in the War Against the Income Tax
Note: Professor Caron will be blogging on this paper today here.
Scott Moss (Colorado Law), O Brave New World That Has Such Creatures Evidence: An Economic Analysis Of Courts’ Misguided Rules On Discovery Of Digital Evidence
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), A Special Case?: Corporations and Campaign Finance
Fernanda Nicola (American University Law), Invisible Cities: Markets, Distribution and Development in European Union Law
Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Law), The Province of Jurisprudence Revisited
Loyola
Minnesota Faculty Works
Ed McCaffery (USC Law), Towards a Unified Theory of Tax and Property
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
David Gamage (UC Berkeley Law), Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidanc: A Tentative Defense of “Double Taxation”
Diane Ring (Boston College Law), Sovereignty and International Tax
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar (Stanford Law), “Securing” the Bureaucracy: The Federal Security Agency and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 1939-1953
Sai Prakash (San Diego Law), The Seperation and Overlap of War and Military Powers
Joshua Cohen (Stanford Political Science), Politics, Power, and Public Reason
Washington
Amy Wildermuth (Utah Law), The Failed Mead Experiment - A Critical Review of the Skidmore Revival
Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions
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 24, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Georgetown Statutory Colloquium
Bradford Clark (George Washington Law), Process-Based Federalism Readings 1 & 2
Howard Gillette (Rutgers-Camden History), Civitas in the Design of Housing for the Poor
Melanie Leslie (Cardozo Law), Strengthening Fiduciary Norms in Nonprofit Corporations
Beth Lyon (Villanova Law), Migrant Works and Clinical Pedagogy
Adair Morse (Chicago Business)
Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley Law), War on! Why a “War on Cancer” should replace our “War on Crime” (and Terror)
Gandolfo V. DiBlasi (Sullivan & Cromwell), Certified Public Scapegoat: Enron, Arthur Andersen & David Duncan
March 20, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jack Beermann (Boston University Law), Common Law and Statute Law in U.S. Federal Administrative Law
Randall Lesaffer (Tilburg Law), Just and Legal War, Just and Legal Peace, in Early Modern Europe
Charles Lawrence (Georgetown Law), Unconscious Racism Revisited: Reflections on the Origins and Impact of “The Id, the Ego and Equal Protection”
Curtis Bradley (Duke Law), The Story of Ex Parte Milligan: Military Trials, Enemy Combatants, and Congressional Authorization
Gregg Ivers (American Public Affairs), Religious Organizations as Legal Advocates: Comparing Canada and the U.S.
Michael Heise (Cornell Law), Plaintiphobia in State Courts? An Empirical Study of State Court Trials on Appeal
Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law), Good White People
William Lahey (Dalhousie Law), Inter-Professional Practice and the Law: Understanding and Overcoming the Barriers
Stephen R. Perry (Penn Law), Political Authority and Political Obligation
Yale Workplace Theory & Policy
Jack Dennerlein (Harvard Public Health), The Epidemic of Musculoskeletal Disorder in the Modern Workplace. Readings 1 & 2
March 19, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Toledo
Rebecca E. Zietlow (Toledo Law), Congressional Enforcement of the Rights of Citizens
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), The Lifespan of Written Constitutions
James Sloan (Glasgow Law), Belling the Cat in Darfur
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
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