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.
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law presents Innovation in Life Sciences Sept. 25, 2008.
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The Center for Genetic Research Ethics and Law at Case Western Reserve University and the National Institutes of Health are hosting Translating “ELSI”: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genomics May 1-3, 2008.
The University of Akron School of Law hosts Neuroscience, Law & Government, Sept. 25-26, 2008. The call for abstracts deadline is May 2, 2008.
Update (8/14/08): The conference website is here. Jump to full post
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), International Delegation Through Treaties: The Nth Power
David Garland (NYU Sociology), Peculiar Institution: Capital Punishment and American Society
David Gamage (UC Berkeley Law), Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidance: A Tentative Defense of “Double Taxation”
Sophia Lee (NYU Law, Golieb Fellow), Hotspots in a Cold War: The NAACP’s Postwar Workplace Constitutionalism, 1948-1964 & Chapter 4 - Almost Revolutionary: Administrative Constitutionalism, Labor Politics & Workplace Civil Rights, 1935-1978
Oregon Environment and Natural Resources Law
Kathy Cashman (Oregon Geology), Geologic Perspectives on Paleoclimate
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), Murphy vs. IRS: Another Front in the War Against the Income Tax
UC Hastings
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.
The Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Manchester School of Law hosts the annual Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference March 18-20, 2008. The call for papers deadline is Feb. 1, 2008.
Papers are called for in many streams: Administrative Law; Construction Law; Criminal Justice; Diversity and Judging; Education Law; Environmental Law; European Law; Family and Child Law; Gender, Sexuality and Law; Human Rights Practice; Information Technology, Law and Cyberspace; Intellectual Property; Labour Law; Law and Economics; Law and Literature; Law, Race, Religion and Human Rights; Legal Education; Maths, Statistics and Scientific Legal Methodologies; Medical Law and Ethics; Mental Health and Mental Capacity; Regulation, Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility; Regulation, Security and Justice; Sentencing and Punishment; Sexual Offences and Offending; Socio-legal Theory and Method; Sports Law; Transitional Justice; Victims in International Law.
To promote “dialogue across traditional subject specialisms,” the organizers also invite paper proposals under keywords: Governance; Poverty and welfare; Space (real and virtual); Vulnerability; Participation; Identities; Trust; Histories; Resistance; Change.
The University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal invites original scholarly articles for a special issue on Science and the Courts to be published in 2008. The submission deadline is March 1, 2008.
The George Washington Law Review hosted a symposium on regulating reproductive technologies — Conflicting Interests in Reproductive Autonomy and Their Impact on New Technologies — Nov. 2, 2007.
(In this blog we have generally not posted about events that have already passed. But I thought I’d flag these for those who might want to watch for the eventual symposium issues and for those who just want to be aware of current scholarship.)
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
Michele Goodwin (Minnesota Law), Biotechnology: The New Empire
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), Law School Rankings: Past, Present, and Future
Emma Coleman Jordan (Georgetown), Wealth and Inequality: Thinking about Communities and Individualism
Susan Rose-Ackerman (Yale Law), Treaties and National Security
Tom Hazlett (George Mason Law), Natural Experiments in U.S. Broadband Regulation
Christina Bohannan (Iowa Law), Copyright Harm and Fair Use
New York Law School South Africa Reading Group
Adam Dodek (Toronto Law), The Springbok, the Maple Leaf, and the Eagle: South African-Canadian Constitutional Relationships in a World of Old, New, and Middle-Aged Constitutions
Northern Kentucky
Wolfram Karl (Salzburg Law), Fundamental Rights and Terrorism–The European Experience
Kate Bohl (Stetson Law), Generations of X and Y Take Legal Writing: Practical Strategies for Class Management
Robert Mikos (UC Davis), Regulating under the Influence of the Controlled Substances Act
Curtis Milhaupt (Columbia Law), Reputational Sanctions in China’s Security Market
Nicole Garnett (Notre Dame Law), Suburbs as Exit, Suburbs as Entrance
Chad Oldfather (Marquette Law), A Consequentialist Analysis of Universal De Novo Review
NYU Law, Economics, and Politics
Maggie Penn (Harverd University-Government), The Possibility of Statehood
Susan A. Bandes (DePaul Law), Victims, “Closure,” and the Sociology of Emotion
Elena Baylis (Pitt Law), Early Adopters: Congolese Military Courts and the International Criminal Court Statute
Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law
Robert Nachtigall (UCSF), The Disposition Decision: How Post-IVF Couples Decide What to Do with Their Surplus Frozen Embryos
Dale A. Carpenter (Minnesota Law), Traditionalism and Gay Marriage
UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations
Ed McCaffery (USC Law), Explorations in the Theory of Optimal Consumption Taxes
Thomas Lee (Fordham Law), Theorizing the Foreign Affairs Constitution
David Seipp (BU Law), Formalism and Realism in Fifteenth-Century English Law: Bodies Corporate and Natural
Tom Baker (UConn Law), Bargaining in the Shadow of the Shadow of the Law: Settlement and Directors’ and Officers’ Liability Insurance in Shareholder Class Actions
Scott Dodson (Arkansas Law), The Living Constitution: What Would Darwin Say?
Ondine Galvez-Sniffen & Kate Aguirre (Immigration Law, Education and Advocacy Project), The New Bedford Raids: Legal and Community Responses
Mark McKenna (Saint Louis Law), Trademark Use and the Problem of Source in Trademark Law
Steve Goldberg (Georgetown Law), Intelligent Design in Law, Religion and Science
Susan Franck (Nebraska Law), Empirical Analysis of Investment Treaty
Tom McGarity (Texas Law), Freedom to Harm: The Thirty-Year Assault on the Positive State and the Coming Crisis of Accountability
Austin Sarat is organizing a three-part conference at the University of Alabama School of Law: Law, Knowledge, and Imagination.
Oct. 19, 2007 - Law’s History: How Law Understands the Past
Jan. 11, 2008 - Imagining a New Constitution for the United States in the 21st Century
April 11, 2008 - Legal Doubt of Scientific Certainty: What Scientific Knowledge Does For and to Law
Duke University School of Law is putting on Animals & Bioengineering: A Consideration of Law, Ethics and Science, Nov. 9-10, 2007, Durham, NC.
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