Stanford Law School’s Center for Law and the Biosciences will host a day-long, interdisciplinary conference on Neuroimaging, Pain, and the Law, Dec. 4, 2008. “Leading researchers in their respective fields will discuss the current state of the science, the applicability of the science to the law, and the scope of the legal issues and potential impact.”
The University of Akron School of Law hosts Neuroscience, Law & Government, Sept. 25-26, 2008.
Douglas Mossman (Cincinnati Law), How Accurate Are Psychoiatrists’ Assessments of Competence to Stand Trial
Call for Papers and Submission Guidelines
Journal of Hate StudiesThe Gonzaga University Institute for Action Against Hate* is soliciting submissions for the seventh volume of the peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary Journal of Hate Studies.
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The International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services (IAFMHS) holds its 8th Annual Conference, The Interface between Forensic and General Mental Health Services, July 14-16, 2008, in Vienna.
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Behavioral Sciences and the Law announces a forthcoming special issue on the neuroscience of decision making and the law. The call for papers is here. The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2008.
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The University of Akron School of Law hosts Neuroscience, Law & Government, Sept. 25-26, 2008. The call for abstracts deadline is May 2, 2008.
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Harvard Law School’s Project on Law and Mind Sciences held its Second Conference on Law and Mind Sciences, “Ideology, Psychology & Law,” Saturday, March 8, 2008.
Stanford Law School hosts the Junior Scholars Law and Neuroscience Workshop April 5, 2008.
Adam Kolber (Princeton, San Diego Law), The Subjective Experience of Punishment
Robin Ely (Harvard Business), Racial Diversity, Racial Asymmetries, and Team Learning Environment: Effects on Performance
Julie Cohen (Georgetown Law), Reimagining Privacy
Sarah Benesh (UWM Political Science), Decision Making by Legally Trained Decision Makers: An Experimental Study
Pacific McGeorge
Lisa Bingham (Indiana), Legal Frameworks for Collaboration in Governance
Lisa Fairfax (Maryland Law), The Future of Shareholder Democracy
UC Hastings
David Wilkins (Harvard Law), After the J.D. Study
Kenneth Mack (Harvard Law), A Cultural History of Civil Rights Lawyering
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
The University of Chicago Law School presents Emotion in Context: Exploring the Interaction between Emotions and Legal Institutions May 9-10, 2008. The conference is cosponsored by the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, the DePaul University College of Law and the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School.
On March 28, 2008, the New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement will host Iraq and Back: Legal Implications for Returning Soldiers.
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are considered the most sustained combat operations since the Vietnam War, and there are heightened concerns for long term mental implications and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Because PTSD has consequently been linked to increases in criminal behavior, and at times this criminal behavior is directly connected to the trauma suffered, the legal system is facing new challenges in addressing how to best rehabilitate and sanction criminal offenders.
Paper submissions are still being accepted.
The Hastings Law Journal and University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in association with the University of California, San Francisco, present Faces of Forensics: Identification and Behavior March 21, 2008.
Adam Kolber (San Diego Law, Princeton Center for Human Values), The Subjective Experience of Punishment
Patricia McCoy (UConn Law), The Impact of State Anti-Predatory Lending Laws: Policy Implications and Insights
Kim Scheppele (Princeton Politics), The International State of Emergency
Bill Merkel (Washburn Law), Dubious Originalism and the Second Amendment
Peter Hoffer (Georgia History), The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr: A Law Story from the Early Republic
Balakrishnan Rajagopal (MIT Human Rights), Pro-Human Rights but Anti-Poor? Rethinking the Indian Supreme Court through a Social Movement Analysis
The University of Chicago Law School hosts Torture, Law, and War: What are the moral and legal boundaries on the use of coercion in interrogation? February 29-March 1, 2008. The conference is in conjunction with the University of Chicago Law School’s year-long Law and Philosophy Workshop focused on coercion. It will address the nature, history, psychology, law, and ethics of coercive interrogation.
Behavioral Sciences and the Law announces a forthcoming special issue on the neuroscience of decision making and the law, to be co-edited by Steven K. Erickson, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. and Alan R. Felthous, M.D., Manuscripts that address the following issues are especially welcome: Neuroscience and neuroimaging results of areas of moral judgment; the impact and limitations of such finings on legally relevant behavior; neuropsychiatric, neuropsychological and genetic disorders which impinge on intent and responsibility. Original research reports and forensically relevant literature reviews will be included. The deadline for submission is July 1, 2008. Jump to full post
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.
Mary Anne Case (Chicago Law), Inaugural Address: Colloquium on Law and Sexuality
Daniel Korb (IRS), The Impact of Tax Scholarship on Tax Administration
W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell Law), Authority and Interpretation
Cristina Rodriguez (New York University Law), The Significance of the Local in Immigration
John Lott (Maryland), Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don’t
Tim Fong (UCLA Pyschiatry), Gambling and the Law: Hidden Addictions with Real Consequences?
Emanuel Zur (NYU Business PhD), The Activist Investors - Investment Opportunities, Free Cash Flow, and Overinvestment
Abraham Wickelgren (Northwestern Law), Advantage Defendant: Why Sinking Litigation Costs Make Negative Expected Value Defenses, but not Negative Expected Value Suits Credible
Day Two of the 2007 Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting at the University of Toronto Law School:
Saturday, September 29:
9:15-10:45 Securities Law III
Cecile Carpentier, Jean-Francoi L’Her & Jean-Marc Suret, Competition and Survial of Stock Exchanges: Lessons from Canada
Anna Gelpern, Domestic Bonds, Credit Derivatives and the Next Transformation of Sovereign Debt
P.M. Vasudev, Stock Market, Corporations and the Regulation: A Few Glimpses into Reality
9:15-10:45 Criminal Law
Steeve Mongrain, Dan Bernhardt, Joanne Roberts, Rehabilitated or Not?
JJ Prescott & Jonah Rockoff, Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?
Derek Pyne, When Is It Efficient to Treat Juvenile Offenders More Leniently Than Adult Offenders?
9:15-10:45 Corporate Governance III
Art Durnev & Larry Fauver, Stealing from Thieves: Firm Governance and Performance When States Are Predatory
Katherine Litvak, Did the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Affect Corporate Risk-Taking?
Judd Sneirson, Doing Well by Doing Good: Leveraging Due Care for Better, More Socially Responsible Corporate Decisionmaking
9:15-10:45 Competition Law and Policy II
Daniel Sokol & Kyle Stiegert, Long Term Advisers and Capacity Building in Competition Policy
Volkan Cetinkaya, Minimum Advertised Price and Resale Price Maintenance
Michal S. Gal, Below-Cost Price Alignment: Meeting or Beating Competition
9:15-10:45 Teaching and Political Economy
Alena Kimakova, Teaching Law and Economics from a Positive Perspective: The Political Economy of Law and Policy Design
Jose Vargas-Hernandez, Institutional Economics of Co-operation and the Political Economy of Trust
Max Stearns, Introduction to the Economic Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
11:15-12:45 Federalism, Regulation, and Enforcement
Robert Mikos, State Law Enforcement, Federal Criminal Law, and the “Free Agent” Problem
Sagit Leviner, A New Era of Tax Enforcement: From “Big Stick” to Responsive Regulation
Brian Galle & Joseph Leahy, Innovation Spillovers and the Case for Federalism
11:15-12:45 Tax Law
Phil Curry, Claire Hill & Francesco Parisi, Creating Failures in the Market for Tax Planning
Anthony Infanti, Tax
EquityClaire Hill & Kristin Hickman, Is a Coherent Definition of a Tax Shelter Impossible?
11:15-12:45 Corporate Law and Social Responsibility I
Frederick Tung, Contract Primacy: A Theory of Corporate Fiduciary Duty
Rez Dibadji, The Rhetoric of Fairness
Peter Oh, Piercing v. Lifting
11:15-12:45 Environmental Law
Daniel Cole, The Stern Review and Its Critics
Vinoli Thampapillai, Water Governance in Sweden
Shi-Ling Hsu, Joshua Walters & Anthony Purgas, Pollution Tax Heuristics: An Empirical Study of Public Attitudes Towards Gasoline Taxes
11:15-12:45 Corporate Governance IV
Bernard Black & Woochan Kim, Identifying the Effect of Board Structure on Firm Value: Event Study, DiD, Firm Fixed Effects, and IV Evidence from Korea
Boris Mamlyuk, The Law and Economics of the Polluter Pays Principle
2:00-3:30 Law and Economics - Additional Topics
Mark Bauer, “Give the Lady What She Wants” - As Long As It’s Macy’s
Patricia Illingworth & R. Bhaskar, Law, Economics, and Social Capital Formation
2:00-3:30 Competition Law and Policy III
Doug West & Andrew Eckert, Exclusive Dealing in On-Premise Sales of Beer in Edmonton
Filomena Chirico, Ilse van der Haar & Pierre Larouche, Network Neutrality in the EU
Hamid Nazeman, Rules of Privatization and Globalization in Iran
2:00-3:30 Corporate Law and Social Responsibility II
Claire Hill & Brett McDonnell, Is There Only One Fiduciary Duty? Commentary on Stone v. Ritter
Cherie Metcalf, The Private Diffusion of Public Law Norms: Can Corporate Social Responsibility Really Work?
2:00-3:30 Contracts II and Torts I
Kevin Davis, Interpreting Boilerplate
Riita Ahtonen, Measuring Proper Consent in Voluntary Risk Allocation Under Bounded Rationality
Fernando Gomez & Juanjo Ganuza, Realistic Standards: Optimal Negligence with Limited Liability
2:00-3:30 Litigation
Margherita Saraceno, Can Group Litigation Improve Deterrence?
Bernard Black, David Hyman, Charles Silver & William Sage, The Effect of Caps on Non-Economic Damages: Evidence from Texas Medical Malpractice Cases
David Hoffman, Alan Izenman & Jeffrey Lidicker, Docketology, District Courts, and Doctrine
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