e-Forensics - Adelaide, Australia
The University of Adelaide hosts e-Forensics 2009 — International Conference on Forensic Applications and Techniques in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia — Jan. 19-21, 2009. The call for papers deadline is Aug. 29, 2008.
IP, Biotech, and Agricultural Sciences - Johnston, IA
Drake University Law School’s Intellectual Property Law Center hosts the Inaugural Summer Institute in Intellectual Property, Biotechnology and Agricultural Sciences, May 19-20, 2008.
April 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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.
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
Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), A Special Case?: Corporations and Campaign Finance
Fernanda Nicola (American University Law), Invisible Cities: Markets, Distribution and Development in European Union Law
Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Law), The Province of Jurisprudence Revisited
Loyola
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”
Diane Ring (Boston College Law), Sovereignty and International Tax
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar (Stanford Law), “Securing” the Bureaucracy: The Federal Security Agency and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 1939-1953
Sai Prakash (San Diego Law), The Seperation and Overlap of War and Military Powers
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
Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions
Space and Telecom Law - Lincoln, NE
The University of Nebraska College of Law hosts Space and Telecom Law Conference 2008, Formalism, Informalism, and Innovation in Space and Telecommunications Law Conference, May 1-3, 2008.
Legal Doubt, Scientific Certainty - Alabama
Alabama Law School hosted Legal Doubt, Scientific Certainty: What Scientific Knowledge Does For and To the Law on April 11, 2008.
April 10, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Arti K. Rai (Duke Law), The Supreme Court (Re)Discovers Patents: Implications for the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Elizabeth Emens (Columbia Law), Intimate Discrimination: The State’s Role in the Accidents of Sex and Love
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Noah Zatz (UCLA Law), What Is a Working Family?: Revisiting the Class parity Analysis of Welfare Work Requirements & What Welfare Requires from Work
Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law), Transnational Labor Citizenship
Dr. Ellen Bassee
Laurence Helfer (Vanderbilt Law), Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community
Guy Rub (Michigan Law, Student Fellow), The Efficiency of Contracts that Reallocate Entitlements in Creative Work: A Skeptical View
Minnesota Faculty Works
Jessica Litman (Michigan Law), Rethinking Copyright
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Alan Auerbach (UC Berkeley Law), Long-Term Objectives for Government Debt
Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law), Comparative Corporate Law and Emerging Markets
Jutta Brunnee (Toronto Law), Interactional International Law: Reflections on Obligations
Sarah Song (UC Berkeley Law), Three Models of Civic Solidarity
Ralph Steinhardt (George Washington Law), Corporate Complicity and the Alien Tort Statute
C. Fritz Foley (Harvard Business), Welfare Payments and Crime
April 8, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
John Witt (Columbia Law), Form and Substance in the Law of Counterinsurgency Damages
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
William Eskridge, Jr. (Fordham Law), Vetogates, Chevron, Preemption
Gregg Bloche (Georgetown Law), The Emergent Logic of Health Care
Loyola
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), The Life Span of Written Constitutions
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)
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
April 3, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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
Paul Halliday (Virginia History), The Liberty of the Subject: Conceiving Habeas Corpus in England and Empire
Nestor Davidson (Colorado Law), Standardization and Pluralism in Property Law
Jessica Stern (Harvard Law), Producing Terror: Organization Dynamics of Survival
Dalia Tsuk Mitchell (George Washington Law), Corporate Directors: Trustees, Representatives, Agents
Loyola
Fernando Gomez (Barcelona Law), Insurance and Tort: Coordination Systems and Imperfect Liability Rules
Geoffrey Miller (NYU Law), Law Economics and Narrative in the Hebrew Bible
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Jonathan Barry Forman (Oklahoma Law), Making America Work & 2008 Tax Considerations in a Universal Pension System
David Duff (Toronto Law), Rethinking the Concept of Income in Tax Law & Policy
Seattle
Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge Economics), Bad Samaritans — The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Sionaidh Douglas-Scott (King’s College Law), The EU and Terrorism
Yair Listokin (Yale Law), Does Shareholder Voting Maximize Stock Market Value?
Jason Gillmer (Texas Wesleyan Law), Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery Times
Calvin Johnson (Texas Law), Consumption Tax for Extraordinary Returns
Washington
Ilhyung Lee (Missouri Law), Korean Parties and Korean Panelists in UDRP Decisions (and the ‘Bad Faith’ Dilemma)
Robert Frank (Cornell Management), The Status of Moral Emotions in Consequentialist Moral Reasoning
March 28, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Georgetown International Human Rights
David Luban (Georgetown Law), Lawfare and Legal Ethics in Guantanamo
Frederic Megret (McGill Law), Civil Disobedience in Defense of International Law: What Should International Law Have to Say?
New York Law School Clinical Theory
David A. Binder (UCLA Law) & Albert J. Moore (UCLA Law), Demystifying The First Year: Why Professors Continually Ask Questions
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Matthew Sag (DePaul Law), Copyright and Copy-Reliant Technologies
Advanced Issues in Electronic Discovery - Baltimore
The University of Baltimore Law Review held its 2008 spring symposium, Advanced Issues in Electronic Discovery: The Impact of the First Year of the Federal Rules and the Adoption of the Maryland Rules, on March 13. A few of the presentations are available for download.
Emerging Technology & Employee Privacy - Hempstead, NY
The Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal held its 2008 symposium, Emerging Technology and Employee Privacy, on March 7.
Focusing on the effects of Emerging Technologies, such as the BlackBerry®, RFIDS, GPS, and other tracking technologies in the employment arena. This symposium will compare and examine proposed solutions to privacy concerns, address the prevalent and continuous data theft debacles, and discuss legal responses to this emerging area of the law.
NYLS Faculty Presentation Day - New York
New York Law School presents its fourth biennial Faculty Presentation Day on April 2.
Faculty and students present their work—making the effort to offer serious and subtle ideas in an accessible and enjoyable format—and our whole community takes part in the discussions these presentations generate.
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This event is open to all members of the New York Law School community and to our colleagues on the bench, at the bar, and in academia. There is no charge for attendance and complimentary breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be served.
The New York Law Review will publish a symposium issue based on the presentations. Jump to full post
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 12, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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
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
International Conf on Business, Law and Technology - Long Island
The International Association of IT Lawyers and Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center present The Second International Conference on Business, Law and Technology (IBLT) June 17-19, 2008 at Touro (Central Islip, NY). The call for papers deadline is May 5, 2008.
March 6, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Laura Beny (Michigan Law), Private Regulation of Insider Trading in the Shadow of Lax Public Enforcement (and a Strong Neighbor)–Evidence from Canadian Firms
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
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default
Ayelet Shachar (Toronto Law), The Global Race for Talent
Robert Daines (Stanford Law), Rating the Ratings: How Good are the Commercial Governance Ratings?
Alexandra B. Klass (Minnesota Law) & Elizabeth Wilson (Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs), Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration: A Consideration of Tort and Property Law
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)
Robert Ahdieh (Emory Law), Standardization 2.0: A New Version of the Game
Peter Smith (George Washington Law), Originalism’s Living Constitutionalism
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
Shareen Hertel (UConn Political Science), Rights in Conflict: Insights from Transnational Labor and Economic Rights
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
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