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
John McGinnis (Northwestern Law), Democracy and International Human Rights Law
James Grimmelmann (New York Law School), Discussing Copyright
Gary J. Gates (UCLA Law), Is Gay the New Straight?
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
Emilie Hafner-Burton (Princeton), Democratization and Human Rights Regimes
Douglas NeJaime (UCLA Law), Regulating the Sexuality of Minors
The second annual Transgender Lives: The Intersection of Health and Law Conference will be held on Saturday, April 19, 2008, at the UConn Health Center. “This all day conference is geared towards Service Providers, Medical and Legal Professionals, Trans and Gender non-conforming community, allies and all those interested in the Health and Law isues facing the Trans and gender non-conforming communities.”
Jane Larson (Wisconsin Law), Regulating Sex: Multiple Paradigms for Thinking About Sexual Freedom and Autonomy
CUNY
Bernard Freamon (Seton Hall Law), The Abolition of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade and the Vicissitudes of Empire
Michael Kirsch (Notre Dame Law), Taxing Citizens in a Global Economy
Alejandro Moreno (Texas Medicine), Implementation of the Istanbul Protocol - A Summary Report of the Efforts to Eliminate Torture and Ill-Treatment in Mexico
Edward Rock (Penn Law), The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting
UC Hastings
Adam Romero (The Williams Institute), When Family Falls
Josephine McDonagh (King’s College), On Settling and Being Unsettled: Motion and Emotion in Dickens’s Bleak House
The South Texas Law Review hosted Is Gay Marriage Conservative? Feb. 15, 2008.
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
Mark Graber (Maryland Politics), John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
CUNY
Mitchell Kane (Virginia Law), Bootstraps, Poverty Traps, and Poverty Pits: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance
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
David Wilkins (Harvard Law), Toward a Joint Venture Model of Attorney/Client Relationship Between Corporations and their Outside Counsel
Jacques Sasseville (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), Tax Treaties: Better the Devil We Know?
Devon Carbado (UCLA Law), Acting White: What’s Sexual Orientation Got to Do With it?
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
Josef Drexl (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law)
Alastair Norcross (Rice Philosophy), Consequentialism and Commitment
Lisa Schultz Bressman (Vanderbilt Law), Administrative Law
Gary Bass (Princeton Politics), Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
Ambassador Luigi R. Einaudi (Secretary General, Organization of American States), The Ideal and Practice of Democratic Legitimacy in Latin America
Betsey Stevenson (Penn Business), Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
John Gardner (Oxford), H.L.A. Hart’s Punishment and Responsibility: Forty Years On
Michael Dorf (Columbia law), Dynamic Incorporation of Foreign Law
Alexandra D. Lahav (UConn Law), Advocacy at Unfair Hearings
Malcolm Feeley (UC Berkeley Law) & Edward Rubin (Vanderbilt Law), Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise
Ethan Kaplan (UC Berkeley Economics) & Arindrajit Dube (UC Berkeley Wage and Employment) & Suresh Naidu (UC Berkeley Ph.D.), Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information
Arleen Leibowitz (UCLA Public Policy), The Road to Health is Paved With Poor Incentives
USC Law, Economics and Organization
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), Guarding the Guardians: The Law & Economics of Judicial Councils
Paul Grossman (Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker), Imaginative Responses to Real World Litigation Problems
Dayna Brown Matthew (Colorado Law), Race, Religion and Informed Consent — Lessons from Social Science
Russell A. Miller (Washington & Lee Law), Comparative Law in the Era of Global Terrorism: A Case Study for Germany’s Militant Democracy
Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt Law), Adam Smith and the Search for an Ideal Tax System
Lonny Hoffman (Houston Law), Burn Up the Chaff with Unquenchable Fire: Constructing a Sustainable Theory of Judicial Regulatory Power Over Pleading Norms
Tonya Putnam (Columbia Political Science), Beyond Presumption?: Explaining Extraterritorial Variation over Civil Claims
Brian Levack (Texas History), The Prosecution of Sexual Crimes in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law) & Robin Lenhardt (Fordham Law), Rethinking Work and Citizenship
Norman Spaulding (Stanford Law), Professional Independence in the Office of the Attorney General
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Owen D. Jones (Vanderbilt Law), Harm and Punishment: An fMRI Experiment
Karl F. Jorda (Franklin Pierce Law), Patent/Trade Secret Complementariness: An Unsuspected Synergism
Mitchell Kane (Columbia Law), Bootstraps, Poverty Traps and Povert Pits: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance
Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley Law), Katz at Forty: A Sociological Jurisprudence Whose Time Has Come
James Kainen (Fordham Law), Re-Evaluating Home Building and Loan v. Blaisdell
Samuel Buell (Washington at St. Louis Law), Underappreciated Virtues of Overbreadth in Criminal Law
Albert Choi (Virginia Law), Integrating an Agreement to Induce Information Disclosure
Paul Schwartz (UC Berkeley Law), The Future of Tax Privacy
New York Law Tax Policy & Public Finance
Sarah Lawsky (George Washington Law), Probably? Understanding Tax Law’s Uncertainty
Jeff Kahn (SMU Law), International Travel and the U.S. Constitution during the War on Terror
Jonathan Macey (Yale Law), False Promises: Finding a Role for Directors in Corporate Governance
David Henry (Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences), The Australia/USA Free Trade Agreement - Impact on Access to Medicine
Nancy Polikoff (Washington College of Law, American University), Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law
Amy M. Adler (NYU Law), Against Moral Rights (in Visual Arts)
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Frank Bloch (Vanderbilt Law), The Quest for Socially Relevant Legal Education in India
Tonya Kowalski (Washburn Law), Imperatives and Incentives to Introduce Native American Nations and Law in First-Year Legal Method Courses
The theme of this year’s SALT (Society of American Law Teachers) conference is Teaching for Social Change. It will be hosted at the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, March 14-15, 2008.
Susan Pace Hamill (Alabama Law), Tax Policy and Judeo-Christian Ethics
Rick Bank (Stanford), Race Consciousness, Color Blindness and the Non-Recognition of Discrimination
James Oldham (Georgetown Law), Introductory Memorandum re Session on Insuring British Slave Ships “Insurance Litigation Involving the Zong and Other British Slave Ships, 1780-1807
Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law
Svitlana Kravchenko (Oregon Law), Global Warming and Human Rights
M.V. Lee Badgett (Research Director of The Williams Institute), LGBT Poverty
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 organizer of the Gender, Sexuality and Law stream for the annual Socio-Legal Studies Conference (March 18-20, 2008, Manchester) solicits abstracts and paper proposals by Jan. 31, 2008. Jump to full post
Michael A. Scodro (Solicitor General of Illinois) & William Marshall (Solicitor General of Ohio) & Barry Sullivan (Jenner & Block), Apellate Litigation in the States
Christopher Schmidt (American Bar Foundation), Civil Disobedience and the Constitution: The Case of the Sit-ins
CUNY
Wendy Espeland (Northwestern Sociology), Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds
Jane Burbank (NYU History), The Middle Ground of Law: Litigantion, Supervision, and Governance in Late Imperial Russia
Brad Sears (UCLA Law), HIV Discrimination in Dental Care
Washington
Bob Gomulkiewicz (Washington Law), The Federal Circuit’s Licensing Law Jurisprudence: Its Nature and Influence
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.)
The 20th Anniversary Celebration Lavender Law Conference (presented by the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association) will be Sept. 4-6, 2008, in San Francisco.
Tom Eisele (Cincinnati Law), Participating in Disillusion and Renewel
Duke International and Comparative Law
Lawrence Rosen (Princeton Anthropology), The Cultural Defense Plea in the U.S. and the U.K.
Steven Bank (UCLA Law), War and Taxes: Is There an American Tradition of Wartime Fiscal Sacrifice?
Pittsburgh
Marjorie Cohn (Thomas Jefferson Law) & Michael Lewis (Ohio Northern Law), Debating the Status of Detainees in the “War on Terror”
Antonio Orti Vallejo (Granada Law)
Mark Greenberg (UCLA Law), The Standard Picture and its Discontents
Lior Stahilevitz (Chicago Law), Reputation Nation: Law in an Era of Ubiquitous Personal Information
Holning Lau (Hofstra Law), Formalism: From Racial Integration to Same Sex Marriage
Jody Kraus (Virginia Law) and Robert Scott (Columbia Law), Contract Design and Contractual Intent
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