William and Mary Law School‘s Property Rights Project and Institute of Bill of Rights Law present the annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Oct. 16-17, 2009. Topics will include “The Psychology of Property Rights”; “The Contract Clause Reconsidered: Guarantor of Economic Property Rights?”; “Richard E. Pipes’s Scholarship”; “Inverse Condemnation: Comparing Regulatory Takings with Condemnation Blight”; and “Does the Kelo Backlash Have Legs?”
Indiana University School of Law — Indianapolis hosts the 7th Annual Conference on Health, Disability, and the Law, Autism and Vaccines, June 12, 2009.
The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University presents Hooked: Legal and Ethical Implications of Recent Advances in Alcohol and Drug Addiction Research. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, April 10, at the Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse, 401 W. Washington St., in downtown Phoenix. It is co-sponsored by the College’s Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology and the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at ASU.
The conference will offer a balanced, multidisciplinary set of leading national and local experts providing a range of current scientific, legal and ethical perspectives on addiction and how the problem is and should be addressed by the courts. In recent years, scientists have made substantial progress in understanding, diagnosing, predicting, treating and monitoring drug and alcohol addiction, especially pertaining to genetic and neuroscience evidence, which would be helpful to the courts.
The free conference is intended for judges, attorneys, scientists, mental health and addiction specialists, scholars and educators. In addition, free continuing legal education credits will be offered. The conference is the third in a series of biennial programs organized by the Center on subjects relating to the brain and the law. Previous topics were “Abnormal Brains,” in 2005, and “Brain Scanning,” in 2007. For more information, go to www.law.asu.edu/lst or contact Andrew Askland at (480) 965-2465, Andrew.Askland [at] asu.edu.
The 2009 American Psychology-Law Society Conference hosted by AP-LS will be held in San Antonio, TX from March 4-7, 2009 in San Antonio, TX. Topics include: Neuroscience, Genetics and the Law; Psychological Perspectives on Conviction of the Innocent; and Rich False Memories.
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
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