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.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 9th, 2008
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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
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 13th, 2008
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Boston University
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
Columbia
Claire Priest (Columbia Law), Understanding the End of Entail: Information, Institutions, and Slavery in the American Revolutionary Period
Connecticut
Madhavi Sunder (UC Davis), The New Enlightenment: How Muslim Women are Bringing Religion Out of the Dark Ages
Georgetown
Eric Feldman (Penn Law)
Harvard
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
San Diego
Cynthia Estlund (NYU Law)
SMU
Rose Villazor (SMU Law), Birthright Citizenship in the U.S. Territories
Temple International Law
Rachel Brewster (Harvard Law), Renegotiation and Reinterpretation of Treaties
Yale Human Rights
Ruti Teitel (New York Law School), Humanity’s Law
Yale Law & Economics
Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard Economics), Taking the Long Way Around: Real Consequences of Transport Corruption
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 24th, 2008
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Boston College Tax Policy
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.
Boston University
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
Elizabeth Emens (Columbia Law), Intimate Discrimination
Columbia
Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), A Special Case?: Corporations and Campaign Finance
Fordham
Jeanne C. Fromer (Fordham Law)
Georgetown
Fernanda Nicola (American University Law), Invisible Cities: Markets, Distribution and Development in European Union Law
Harvard
Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Law), The Province of Jurisprudence Revisited
Loyola
Naomi Mezey (Georgetown Law)
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”
Northwestern Tax
Diane Ring (Boston College Law), Sovereignty and International Tax
SMU
Susan Klein (Texas Law)
Southwestern
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar (Stanford Law), “Securing” the Bureaucracy: The Federal Security Agency and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 1939-1953
Suffolk
Ran Hirschl (Toronto Law)
Texas
Sai Prakash (San Diego Law), The Seperation and Overlap of War and Military Powers
UCLA Legal Theory
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
Yale Legal Theory
Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 17th, 2008
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Alabama
Jose Alvarez (Columbia Law), The Empire of Law or the Law of Empire
Chicago Law & Economics
Ray Fisman (Columbia Business), Learning Social Preferences at Yale Law School
Connecticut
David Yalof (UConn Law), Confirmation Obfuscation: Supreme Court Confirmation Politics in a Conservative Era
Duke
Joby Branion (Athletes First), An Insider’s Perspective
Fordham
Tanya K. Hernandez (George Washington Law), The Long Lindering Shadow: Law, Liberalism and Cultures of Racial Hierarchy and Identity in the Americas
Georgetown
Kerry Rittich (Toronto Law), Informal Labour Markets and Development
Harvard Internet & Society
Rachel Lyon (Lioness Media), Race and the Internet
Lewis & Clark
Rachelle Adam (Israeli Environmental Ministry), Addressing Biodiversity Loss: The Elusiveness of Effective International Agreements
Notre Dame
Mike Kirsch (Notre Dame Law), Evolving Interpretations of U.S. Tax Treaties
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 15th, 2008
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Connecticut
Adrienne Davis (Virginia Law), Slavery & Shadow Families: Re-Thinking Miscegenation Regulation Through the Lens of Case
Harvard Legal History
Cynthia Nicoletti (Harvard Law, Berger Fellow), The American Civil War as a Trial by Battle
Georgetown Law & Philosophy
Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke Philosophy), A Hybrid Theory of Claim-Rights
Georgia
Anup Malani (Chicago Law)
Harvard
Vicki Jackson (Georgetown Law), Constitutional Cosmology: Convergence, Resistance, and Engagement
Northwestern Law & Economics
Oliver Hart (Harvard Economics), Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points
Rutgers-Camden
Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), Constitutional Law, International Law, Public Law
Seton Hall
Errol Mendes (Ottawa Common Law)
St. John’s
Jean Braucher (Arizona Law), The Supreme Court’s 5-4 Rejection of Textualist Interpretation of the Bankruptcy Code in Marrana v. Citizens Bank of Massachusetts
Stanford Internet & Society
James Fishkin (Stanford Communication), An Online Experiment in Democracy: Deliberative Polling for Democratic Reform
Temple
Salil Mehra (Temple Law)
UC Berkeley
Alison Morantz (Stanford Law), Rethinking the Great Compromise: What Happens When Large Companies Opt Out of Workers Compensation?
UCLA Faculty Mondays
Gia Lee (UCLA Law), Free Speech Deference
USC Law, Economics & Organization
Devah Pager (Princeton Sociology), Race at Work: A Field Experiment of Discrimination in Low-Wage Labor Markets
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Nancy King (Vanderbilt Law)
Yale Corporate Law
Gary J. Wolfe (Seward & Kissel), Golden Ocean–Taking Supertankers from Junk Bonds to Restructuring Bankruptcy to (Someone Else’s) Profit, and Fighting Every Step of the Way
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 13th, 2008
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Stand Up! The New Politics of Racial Uplift: A Public Philosophy Symposium, May 2, 2008, is sponsored by Temple University Department of Philosophy, the Office of the Provost, the College of Liberal Arts, the Center for Humanities at Temple, the Ira Lawrence Family Fund, and the Jamestown Project.
Thanks: Feminist Law Professors.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 11th, 2008
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Chicago Law & Politics
John Witt (Columbia Law), Form and Substance in the Law of Counterinsurgency Damages
Chicago-Kent
Cynthia Estlund (NYU Law)
Chicago-Kent Legal History
Serena Mayeri (Penn Law)
Connecticut Tax
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
Fordham
William Eskridge, Jr. (Fordham Law), Vetogates, Chevron, Preemption
Georgetown
Gregg Bloche (Georgetown Law), The Emergent Logic of Health Care
Harvard Internet & Society
Steve Ward (Oxford Internet Institute)
Loyola
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), The Life Span of Written Constitutions
Minnesota Law & History
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)
Charles Reid (St. Thomas (Mn) Law)
Toronto Law & Literature
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
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 8th, 2008
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Dartmouth
Adam Kolber (Princeton, San Diego Law), The Subjective Experience of Punishment
Florida
Stephanie Coontz (Evergreen State College)
Fordham
Robin Ely (Harvard Business), Racial Diversity, Racial Asymmetries, and Team Learning Environment: Effects on Performance
Georgetown
Julie Cohen (Georgetown Law), Reimagining Privacy
Marquette
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
Pittsburgh
Lisa Fairfax (Maryland Law), The Future of Shareholder Democracy
Texas
Katherine Litvak (Texas Law)
UC Hastings
David Wilkins (Harvard Law), After the J.D. Study
Yale Legal History
Kenneth Mack (Harvard Law), A Cultural History of Civil Rights Lawyering
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 25th, 2008
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Case Western Reserve Law
David Lyons (Boston University Law), Race and the Rule of Law
Cincinnati
Nancy Rapoport (UNLV Law), New Lessons From Enron
Duke Global Law
Eric A. Feldman (Penn Law), Suing Doctors in Japan: Structure, Culture, and the Rise of Malpractice Litigation
Florida
Alexandra B. Klass (Minnesota Law), State Innovation and Preemption: Lessons from Environmental Law
Georgia International Law
Paul Schiff Berman (UConn Law), Global Legal Pluralism
UCLA Faculty Fridays
Carol Steiker (Harvard Law), Tempering or Tampering: Mercy and the Administration of Criminal Justice
Virginia
Neil Duxbury (Virginia Law), Golden Rule Reasoning, Moral Dilemmas and Law
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 20th, 2008
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Boston University
Jack Beermann (Boston University Law), Common Law and Statute Law in U.S. Federal Administrative Law
Connecticut
Randall Lesaffer (Tilburg Law), Just and Legal War, Just and Legal Peace, in Early Modern Europe
Florida State
Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley Law)
Georgetown
Charles Lawrence (Georgetown Law), Unconscious Racism Revisited: Reflections on the Origins and Impact of “The Id, the Ego and Equal Protection”
Harvard
Curtis Bradley (Duke Law), The Story of Ex Parte Milligan: Military Trials, Enemy Combatants, and Congressional Authorization
Harvard Religion & Society
Gregg Ivers (American Public Affairs), Religious Organizations as Legal Advocates: Comparing Canada and the U.S.
Michigan Law & Economics
Michael Heise (Cornell Law), Plaintiphobia in State Courts? An Empirical Study of State Court Trials on Appeal
SMU
Adrienne D. Davis (Washington University in St. Louis Law)
Texas
Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law), Good White People
Toronto Health Law
William Lahey (Dalhousie Law), Inter-Professional Practice and the Law: Understanding and Overcoming the Barriers
UCLA Legal Theory
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
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 20th, 2008
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Georgetown Law & Philosophy
Judith Lictenberg (Georgetown Philosophy), Basic Rights and Are There Any Basic Rights
Georgia International Law
Gregory Shaffer (Loyola Law), A Structural Theory of WTO Dispute Settlement: Why Institutional Choice Lies at the Center of the GMO Case
Harvard
Amanda Tyler (George Washington Law), The Suspension Clause as an Emergency Power
Harvard International Law
Deborah Prentice (Princeton Psychology)
Harvard Internet & Society
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
Queen’s Law
Laura Underkuffler (Duke Law), Captured by Evil: The Idea of Corruption in Law
Seton Hall
Michael Granne (Seton Hall Law)
Temple
Claire A. Hill (Minnesota Law), Why didn’t subprime investors demand (more of) a lemons premium?
Texas
Mark Weinstein (USC Business)
Toledo
Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration
UC Berkeley
Laura Gomez (New Mexico Law), Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race
UC Berkeley Law & Economics
Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley Economics), Superstar CEO’s
UCLA Faculty Mondays
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
Virginia Law & Economics
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
Gia Lee (UCLA Law)
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 17th, 2008
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Akron
Brant Lee (Akron Law), Whiteness as Brand Management
Chicago-Kent Legal History
Mark Graber (Maryland Politics), John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
CUNY
Michael Jacobson (Vera Institute of Justice)
Michigan Tax Policy
Mitchell Kane (Virginia Law), Bootstraps, Poverty Traps, and Poverty Pits: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance
NYU Legal History
Christopher Beauchamp (Samuel Golieb Fellow, NYU Law), Technology’s Trials: Patents in the United States Courts, 1860-1910
Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law
William Rossi (Oregon English) & Molly Westling (Oregon English), Reading, Rhetoric, and Climate
Stetson
David Wilkins (Harvard Law), Toward a Joint Venture Model of Attorney/Client Relationship Between Corporations and their Outside Counsel
Toronto Tax Lax & Policy
Jacques Sasseville (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), Tax Treaties: Better the Devil We Know?
UCLA Williams Institute
Devon Carbado (UCLA Law), Acting White: What’s Sexual Orientation Got to Do With it?
USC Law, History, and Culture
Nan Goodman (Colorado English), Banishment and Jurisdictional Indentity in Seventeenth-Century New England
Washington
Mary Whisner (Washington Law Library), The Buzz about Blawgs
Wei Zhang (Peking Management), Politics of Medical Disputes in China
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 12th, 2008
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Florida
Steve R. Johnson (UNLV Law), The Who and What of Anti-Abuse Rules: The Debate over Codifying the Economic Substance Doctrine
Iowa
Keith Aoki (UC Davis Law)
Missouri
Molly Wilson (Saint Louis Law)
Queen’s Law
Laurence Ashworth (Queen’s Business), Advertising Deception, Correction, and Defensive Consumers
Rosemary Coombe (York University), A Broken Record: Music as a Subject of Cultural Rights
San Diego
Mat McCubbins (San Diego Law)
Stetson
Andrew Taslitz (Howard Law), Wrongly Accused Redux: How Race Contributes to Convicting the Innocent - the Informants Example
UCLA Fridays
Eric Posner (Chicago Law), Professionals or Politicians: The Uncertain Empirical Case for an Elected Rather than Appointed Judiciary
Washburn
Michael Hunter Schwartz (Washburn Law), Instructional Design-Based Law School Teaching Methodologies
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 7th, 2008
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Boston University
Laura Beny (Michigan Law), Private Regulation of Insider Trading in the Shadow of Lax Public Enforcement (and a Strong Neighbor)–Evidence from Canadian Firms
Chicago Constitutional Law
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
Columbia
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default
Fordham
Linda Sugin (Fordham Law)
Harvard
Ayelet Shachar (Toronto Law), The Global Race for Talent
Iowa
Chancellor Chandler (Delware Court of Chancery)
Loyola-L.A.
Brian Galle (Florida State Law), Tax Fairness
Michigan Law & Economics
Robert Daines (Stanford Law), Rating the Ratings: How Good are the Commercial Governance Ratings?
Minnesota Faculty Works
Alexandra B. Klass (Minnesota Law) & Elizabeth Wilson (Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs), Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration: A Consideration of Tort and Property Law
Northwestern Tax
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)
Ed Adams (Minnesota Law)
Temple International Law
Robert Ahdieh (Emory Law), Standardization 2.0: A New Version of the Game
Texas
Peter Smith (George Washington Law), Originalism’s Living Constitutionalism
Toronto Health Law
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
UCLA Legal Theory
Jessica Litman (Michigan Law), Rethinking Copyright
Yale Human Rights
Shareen Hertel (UConn Political Science), Rights in Conflict: Insights from Transnational Labor and Economic Rights
Yale Law & Economics
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
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 5th, 2008
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