Midwest Law and Society - Madison
The University of Wisconsin Institute for Legal Studies hosts the 2008 Midwest Law and Society Retreat Sept. 19-20, 2008. The call for papers deadline is June 1, 2008.
Chinese Legal Scholars - “Law in Context” - Ithaca, NY
The Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture (specifically the Clarke International Consortium on Law and Social Justice in Emerging Markets) at Cornell University Law School presents Law in Context: New & Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law Conference June 8-10, 2008.
“Law in Context” will bring together Chinese legal scholars whose areas of expertise range from economic law to law and sociology to international financial law; a Tel Aviv University law professor whose research includes evidence and negotiation theory; and nine CLS professors who will present new research and serve as discussants. “Law in Context” panel presentations will investigate topics as diverse as social movements and legal knowledge, and corrective justice and legal decision making.
May 5, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Kris. F. Heinzelman (Cravath, Swaine & Moore), Private Equity Firms that Don’t Want to do Deals: How Defaulting on your Mortgage Turned the Private Equity Industry Upside Down
April 28, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Bar Ilan
Sagit Leviner (Bar Ilan Law), A New Era of Tax Enforcement - From “Big Stick” to Responsive Regulation
Margaret Gilbert (Connecticut Philosophy), Scanlon on Promissory Obligation & A Theory of Political Obligation Chapter 2 & 7
Frank Michelman (Harvard Law), Socioeconomic Rights in Constitutional Law: Explaining America Away
Richard Abel (UCLA Law), The Defense of Legality in post-9/11 America
Hon. Guido Calabresi (U.S. Court of Appeals), Toward a Unified Theory of Torts
USC Law, Economics, & Organization
Kevin Quinn (Harvard Government), Viewpoint Diversity and Media Consolidation: An Empirical Study of National Newspapers
April 16, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Kathryn Sikkink (Minnesota Law), Do Human Rights Trials Make a Difference?
Felice Batlan (Chicago-Kent Law), The Imperial SEC? Historicizing the Internationalization of the Securities Markets
CUNY
Dinesh Khosla (CUNY Law), A Case Study in Social Entrepreneurship
Michael Hoeflich (Kansas Law), Selling the Law in Antebellum America: The Sale & Distribution of Law Books, 1780-1870
St. Thomas (Mn)
Matt Bodie (St. Louis Law), The False Promise of One Share, One Vote
UC Hastings
March 24, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Georgetown Statutory Colloquium
Bradford Clark (George Washington Law), Process-Based Federalism Readings 1 & 2
Howard Gillette (Rutgers-Camden History), Civitas in the Design of Housing for the Poor
Melanie Leslie (Cardozo Law), Strengthening Fiduciary Norms in Nonprofit Corporations
Beth Lyon (Villanova Law), Migrant Works and Clinical Pedagogy
Adair Morse (Chicago Business)
Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley Law), War on! Why a “War on Cancer” should replace our “War on Crime” (and Terror)
Gandolfo V. DiBlasi (Sullivan & Cromwell), Certified Public Scapegoat: Enron, Arthur Andersen & David Duncan
March 18, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Adam Levitin (Georgetown Law), The Mortgage Striptease–The Effect of Bankruptcy Strip-Down on Mortgages Markets: “Mortgage Market Sensitivity to Bankruptcy Modification”
Steve Johansen (Lewis & Clark Law) & Anne Villella (Lewis & Clark Law)
Notre Dame
Bob Blakey (Notre Dame Law), RICO and Corporate Campaigns
Burt Neuborne (NYU Law), Aiding and Abetting the Unthinkable: Legal Redress Against Holocaust Profiteers
Bradin Cormack (Chicago English), A Power to Do Justice
UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations
Leonardo Felli (London School of Economics), Statute Law or Case Law?
March 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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
March 13, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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
March 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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
March 7, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Steve R. Johnson (UNLV Law), The Who and What of Anti-Abuse Rules: The Debate over Codifying the Economic Substance Doctrine
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
Andrew Taslitz (Howard Law), Wrongly Accused Redux: How Race Contributes to Convicting the Innocent - the Informants Example
Eric Posner (Chicago Law), Professionals or Politicians: The Uncertain Empirical Case for an Elected Rather than Appointed Judiciary
Michael Hunter Schwartz (Washburn Law), Instructional Design-Based Law School Teaching Methodologies
March 4, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Nathaniel Persily (Columbia Law), Vote Fraud in the Eye of the Beholder: The Role of Public Opinion in the Challenge to Voter Identification Requirements
Graeme W. Austin (Arizona Law), What is Copyright? A Constitutional Question, Apparently
Allison Tirres (DePaul Law), The Railroad, the Courthouse, and the Making of New Legal Borderlands
Yaffa Epstein, From Emission to Pollution: Business Interests and the Regulation of Smoke Emission in the Twin Cities, 1890-1910
St. Thomas (MN)
Barbara Harlow (Texas English), Tortured Thoughts: The Example Set by Ruth Frst from her Interrogation in 1963 to her Assassination in 1982
Washington
Wei Song (China Law Institute), From Invention to Innovation: Laws and Regulations of Technology Transfer in China
Mark Graber (Maryland Law), Maintaining Judicial Review: The Debate Over Section 25 Revisited
February 28, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Boston College Tax Policy Workshop
Nancy Staudt (Northwestern Law), If Major Wars Affect (Judicial Fiscal Policy, How & Why?
Sadiq Reza (Boston Law), Islam’s Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure in Islamic Legal Doctrine and Practice
Colin Picker (Missouri-Kansas Law), International Law as a Mixed Jurisdiction
CUNY
Rebecca Bratspies (CUNY Law), The Need for Trust in Regulatory Systems
Jeffrey N. Gordon (Columbia Law), The Berle-Means Corporation in the 21st Century
Peter Byrne (Georgetown Law), Hallowed Ground: The Gettysburg Battlefield in Historic Preservation Law
NYU Colloquium on Tax Policy & Public Finance
Daniel Shaviro (NYU Law), The Optimal Relationship Between Taxable Income and Financial Accounting Income
Ellen Pryor (SMU Law), Coordinatng the Restatement (Third) of Torts
Geoffrey Miller (NYU Law), Arbitration’s Summer Soldiers: An Empirical Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Nonconsumer Contracts
Tanya Washington (Georgia State Law), Throwing the Black Baby Out with the Bathwater: The (Un)Constitutionality of Same-Sex Adoption Bans
The Full Impact of Digital Media: Shifts of Control and the Future of Music
Judy J. Thomson (MIT Philosophy), Some Reflections on Hart on Honore, CAUSATION IN THE LAW
Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton Philosophy), Experiments in Ethics
February 25, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
John Conley (North Carolina Law), The Corporate Social Responsibility Movement as an Ethnographic Problem
David Brink (UCSD Philosophy), Mill’s Ambivalence About Rights
Paul Miller (Washington Law), Good Intentions and Eugenics: Avoiding Genetic Genocide
Greg Mitchell (Virginia Law), Second Thoughts
Richard Craswell (Stanford Law), When is a Willful Breach Willful?
Richard Hyland (Rutgers-Camden Law), A Flexible Methodology for Comparative Law
Kim Alexander (California Voter Foundation), Digital Democracy –a Look Back, a Look Ahead
Kenneth C. Kettering (New York Law School), Securitization and Its Discontents
Benjamin L. Liebman (Columbia Law), A Populist Threat to China’s Courts?
Noga Morag-Levine (Michigan State Law), Civil Law, Common Law, and the Origins of Anglo-American Skepticism towards the Precautionary Principle
Andy Daughety (Vanderbilt Economics), Mass Torts and the Incentives for Suit, Settlement, and Trial
Rick Hasen (Loyola-LA Law), The Untimely Death of Bush v. Gore
Randall K.C. Kau (XE Capital Management), The Winding Path from Tax Law to Hedge Fund Land
Emotions and Legal Institutions - Chicago
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.
February 19, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Lee Fennell (Chicago Law), The Coase Lecture: Slices and Lumps
John de Figueiredo (UCLA Management), Endogenous Cost Lobbying: Theory and Evidence
Juliet Stumpf (Lewis & Clark Law), States of Confusion: The Inevitable Confluence of Federal and State Immigration Law
Masako Nakamura (Minnesota Ph.D. Candidate), Families Precede Nation and Race? The 1947 Amendment of the War Bridges Act and the American Family
Notre Dame
Paolo Carozza (Notre Dame Law), International Human Rights and Democratic Theory
Jennifer Harbury, The U.S. and Torture: History and Jurisprudence
Toledo
Bill Richman (Toledo Law), Genetic Residues of Prehistoric Migrations: An End to Biological Essentialism and the Reification of Race
Cynthia Herrup (USC Law), Uncertain Forgiveness: Pardons, Bureaucracy, and Confusion in the Seventeenth Century
February 18, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Daniel J. Rohlf (Lewis & Clark Law), Off the Record: The Stealth Attack on Judicial Review of Federal Agencies’ Environmental Decision-Making
Ann Bartow (South Carolina Law), Pornography, Coercion and Copyright Law 2.0
St. Thomas (MN)
Kerry Rittich (Toronto Law), Social Rights and Social Policy: Transformations on the International Landscape & The Future of Law and Development: Second-Generation Reforms and the Incorporation of the Social
J.J. Prescott (Michigan Law), Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Affect Criminal Behavior?
Washington University in St. Louis
February 15, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Gregory S. Alexander (Cornell Law), Can Constitutions be Transformative? The Role of Background Traditions and Culture
Stephen H. Legomsky (Washington University Law), Learning to Live with Unequal Justice: Asylum and the Limits to Consistency
Nadia Bernaz (National University of Ireland at Galway), The Caribbean Court of Justice: One Court with Two Jurisdictions — A Unique Judicial Institution?
Notre Dame
Laura Dickinson (UConn Law), Civil Rights and Legal History
Ronald J. Allen (Northwestern Law), Juridical Proof and the Best Explanation
Christopher Slobogin (Florida Law), Dangerousness and Death Penalty
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Chris Brummer (Vanderbilt Law), The Public Markets and International Financial Centers
Saikrishna Prakash (San Diego Law), The Separation and Overlap of War and Military Powers