The Property Law group from the School of Law of the University of South Africa is presenting an International Property Law Conference Oct. 28-29, 2010. The topics (and sessions) for the conference are the following:
1 Basic Principles of Property Law
2 Acquisition of Ownership
3 Real Security Law
4 Constitutional Property Law
The call for papers deadline is Feb. 15, 2010. mw
The Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held at the USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles Nov. 20-21, 2009. The preliminary program is here. Paper abstracts are available on SSRN.
Panel topics address a wide range of legal areas and institutions, including:
(These are all separate panels. I grouped them into the bullet points to make the list easier to browse.) mw
Eric Chason (William and Mary Law), The Intersection of Trust Law and ERISA.
This paper is not publicly available.
William and Mary Law School’s Property Rights Project and Institute of Bill of Rights Law present the annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Oct. 16-17, 2009. Topics will include “The Psychology of Property Rights”; “The Contract Clause Reconsidered: Guarantor of Economic Property Rights?”; “Richard E. Pipes’s Scholarship”; “Inverse Condemnation: Comparing Regulatory Takings with Condemnation Blight”; and “Does the Kelo Backlash Have Legs?”
Call for Articles and Essays: Recent Developments in New York Law
Proposals due October 1, 2009.
The editors of Pace Law Review invite proposals from scholars, researchers, practitioners, and professionals for contributions to our second annual issue addressing recent developments in New York law to be published in Spring 2010.
This issue will explore a wide range of recent developments in the laws of New York State, including but not limited to areas of criminal law, civil litigation, family law, property law, constitutional law, tax law, bankruptcy law, and municipal law. Authors may also discuss proposed changes to New York law, at the state or local level.
Please submit proposals of no more than 500 words by attachment to plr [at] law.pace.edu by October 1, 2009. All proposals should include the intended author’s name, title, institutional affiliation, contact information, and should relate to an area of New York State law. Authors are also welcome, but not required, to submit a CV. We expect to make publication offers by October 8. We encourage clear, concise, and accessible writing that will be of use to lawmakers, attorneys, and students.
Completed manuscripts will be due November 24, 2009.
2009 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum
Session 1: Corporate and Securities Law
Michal Barzuza (Virginia Law), Lemon Signaling in Cross-Listing
Katherine V. Litvak (Texas Law), The Effect of U.S. Securities Law on Foreign Companies: The Relationship Between Cross-Listing Premia U.S. Stock Prices, and U.S. Trading Volumes
Usha Rodrigues (Georgia Law), Placebo Ethics
James Spindler (USC Law), Vicarious Liability for Bad Corporate Governance: Are We Wrong About 10b-5?
Session 2: Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff (Washington University of St. Louis Law), Just Negotiation
Brian T. Fitzpatrick (Vanderbilt Law), The End of Objector Blackmail
Session 3: Property
Daniel B. Kelly (Harvard Law), Strategic Spillovers
David Schleicher (George Mason Law), The City as a Law and Economic Subject
Ben Depoorter (Miami Law), Law in the Shadow of Bargaining: The Feedback Effect of Civil Settlements
Dorothy Roberts (Northwestern Law)
Sally Hadden (Florida State), Lawyers’ Libraries in Colonial America: Volume and Volumes
Joel K. Goldstein (St. Louis Law), Cheney, Vice Presidential Power, and the War on Terror
Llew Gibbons (Toledo Law), Regulatory Approaches: Crisis, Danger or Opportunity for Intellectual Property Law in the United States
Mark Gergen (Texas), Why Strong Third Party Penalties are an Essential Tool for Discouraging Taxpayers from Taking Aggressive Positions in Reporting on Matters of Factual or Legal Uncertainty
Scott Washington (Princeton), The Blood of Homer Plessy: A Counterfactual Analysis of the Case of Plessy v. Ferguson
Franco Ferrari (Columbia Law), Homeward Trend and Lex Forism Despite Uniform Sales Law
Phoebe Haddon (Temple Law), Can the U.S. Supreme Court’s Keyes Desegregation Decision Unlock Opportunities to Rethink Brown in the 21st Century
Minnesota Faculty Works in Progress
Gregory S. Alexander (Cornell Law), The Social Obligation Norm in American Property Law
Northwestern Law and Economics
Albert Choi (Virginia Law), Shrink Wraps: Who Should Bear the Cost of Communicating Mass-Market Contract Terms
Yoram Margalioth (Tel Aviv Law), Employing Statistical Stigma as a Welfare Ordeal
Gregg D. Polsky (Florida State Law) & Brant J. Hellwig (South Carolina Law), Taxing Structured Settlements
Tim Terrell (Emory Law), The Challenge of Legal Writing Training in Law School and Law Practice
UCLA Tax Policy and Public Finance
Neil Buchanan (George Washington Law), What Do We Owe Future Generations?
Steven Pincus (Yale History), Revolution in Political Economy
Craig Boise (Case Western Law), Breaking Open Offshore Piggybanks: Redux
Jon Eddy (Washington Law), Current Trends in Legal Education in Afghanistan
Brooklyn Law School hosts the Sparer Symposium, Government’s Role in Housing and Economic Development, March 27, 2009. It is co-sponsored by the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Program and the Journal of Law and Policy. Details at SSRN.
Arizona Economics, Law, and the Environment
Bradley T. Borden (Washburn Law), Open Tenancies in Common
Carlos M. Vazquez (Georgetown Law), Not a Happy Precedent: The Story of Ex parte Quirin
Kevin Jon Heller (Melbourne Law), Situational Gravity Under the Rome Statute
Katherine T. Bartlett (Duke Law), Good Intentions, Unconscious Bias and the Law
Peter Joy (Washington Law) and Robert R. Kuehn (Alabama Law), Lawyering in the Academy: The Intersection of Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibility
Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), The Comparative Nature of Punishment
Laura Kalman (UC Santa Barbara History), Realism Reconsidered: Rethinking Legal Realism
Avi Bell (Bar Ila), Private Takings
New York University Law & Security
Benjamin Wittes (Brookings Institute), Law and the Long War
The Texas Wesleyan Law Review is accepting submissions for a symposium on Urban Gas Drilling. The symposium will take place April 16-17, 2009. Abstracts are due by Dec. 15, 2008.
The University of Auckland Faculty of Law and the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law (NZCEL) will host a conference on Property Rights and Sustainability: The Evolution of Property Rights to Meet Ecological Challenges April 16-18, 2009, Auckland. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 1, 2008.
Stanford and Yale Law Schools announce the tenth session of the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to be held at Stanford Law School on May 29-30, 2009, and seek submissions for this meeting. Jump to full post
Aya Gruber (Florida International University Law), Rape in the Feminist War on Crime
John Lovett (Loyola-New Orleans Law), The Winding Road to Recovery: Observations on Property Relations Three Year After Hurricane Katrina
Eric Talley (Berkeley Law), Public Ownership, Firm Governance, and Litigation Risk
Nicole Garnett (Norte Dame Law), Ordering the City
Oregon Center for Law and Politics
Lani Guinier (Harvard Law) and Gerald Torres (Texas Law), Changin the Wind: The Demonsprudence of Law and Social Movements
Santa Clara Social Justice Workshop
Martha Mahoney (Miami Law), Electronic Voting
Chad Oldfather (Marquette Law)
Mary Dudziak (USC Law), Law, War and the History of Time
Washington Law Through Global Lense Series
David T. Johnson (Hawaii Sociology), The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia
Washington University in St. Louis
Scott Sundby (Washington and Lee), Group Think and Capital Juries
The Pace Law Review and the Pace University School of Law LL.M. Program in Real Estate Law present Real Property, Mortgages and the Economy: A Call for Ethics and Reforms March 20, 2009. The call for papers deadline is Oct. 1, 2008. See the call for papers on SSRN.
The South Carolina Law Review presents 1.9 Kids and a Foreclosure: Subprime Mortgages, the Credit Crisis, and Restoring the American Dream Oct. 24, 2008.
The symposium will examine various issues and problems stemming from the sub-prime mortgage crisis. We will place a significant emphasis on analyzing solutions proposed by academic figures, political candidates, and regulatory bodies, seeking to determine the role of law in correcting the current financial turbulence and preventing future incidents. The Symposium will host a distinguished and diverse field of speakers with perspectives from law, economics, business, history, and the social sciences.
The Fair Housing Legal Support Center at The John Marshall Law School hosts The Integration Debate: Competing Futures for American Cities, Sept. 5-6, 2008.
On November 6-7, 2008, the Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute at Georgetown University Law Center and Stanford Law School’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program will host the 11th Annual Conference on Litigating Takings and Related Legal Challenges to Land Use and Environmental Regulation.
The conference, to be held at Stanford Law School, will examine how the Takings Clause and related legal doctrines may undermine the public’s ability to address emerging environmental, public health, and growth management challenges. A particular focus of this year’s conference will be the potential takings implications of public policy initiatives designed to mitigate and adapt to global warming. The conference will also address recent legal developments in takings law and related fields, including the latest legal and policy fall out from the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in Lingle v. Chevron USA and Kelo v. City of New London. Another featured topic will be future prospects for property rights ballot measures along the lines of Propositions 98 and 99 in California and other states.
Conference faculty will include a mix of leading academic scholars and expert practitioners. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Stanford Environmental Law Journal.
The South Carolina Law Review presents 1.9 Kids and a Foreclosure: Subprime Mortgages, the Credit Crisis, and Restoring the American Dream Oct. 24, 2008.
The symposium will examine various issues and problems stemming from the sub-prime mortgage crisis. We will place a significant emphasis on analyzing solutions proposed by academic figures, political candidates, and regulatory bodies, seeking to determine the role of law in correcting the current financial turbulence and preventing future incidents. The Symposium will host a distinguished and diverse field of speakers with perspectives from law, economics, business, history, and the social sciences.
CALL FOR ARTICLES-REAL ESTATE LAW JOURNALThe Real Estate Law Journal is calling for articles on any subject of real estate law. The RELJ is published by Thomson/West and has been presenting its extensive readership both theoretical and practical articles in field of real estate law for over 36 years.Generally, the articles range in length from 15 to 35 double-spaced pages, including footnotes. Authors should use Bluebook style, but extensive footnoting typically seen in traditional law reviews is not required.
The RELJ welcomes articles from legal scholars, practitioners and well-written articles from law students.
Anyone wishing to submit an article can send it in MS Word format to: robert.aalberts [at] unlv.edu.
Thank you.
Robert J. Aalberts, J.D., M.A.
Editor-in-Chief
Professor of Legal Studies
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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The Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy solicits articles on housing (deadline Aug. 1, 2008), the elderly (deadline Sept. 1, 2008), and juvenile justice (deadline Nov. 1, 2008). Jump to full post
The Pacific Legal Foundation’s Program for Judicial Awareness will award $10,000 to one junior faculty member for an original contribution to legal scholarship on the following question.
The Fifth Amendment mandates that government may not take private property for public use without payment of just compensation. Some legal commentators have argued that the law of governmental takings should be balanced by a theory of “givings,” such that compensation for the taking of property should be offset by the amount of value attributable to the existence of general governmental programs and services. Explain why the “givings” rationale is inconsistent with the purpose and function of the Takings Clause.
The deadline for submissions is May 30, 2008. Details about the competition are here.
Georgetown International Human Rights
Peter Spiro (Temple Law), An International Law of Citizenship
New York Law School Clinical Theory
Peter Margulies (Roger Williams Law), Clinical Education and Representing Guantanamo Detainees: Identity, Efficacy, and Gatekeeping
Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt Law), Capitalism and the Tax System: A Search for Social Justice
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default
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
Efraim Benmelech (Harvard Economics), Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection
Georgetown Statutory Colloquium
Theodore Ruger (Penn Law), Gonzales v. Oregon and the Normative Constitution of American Health Care
Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown Law), The Endowment Effect: Implications of Recent Empirical Developments for Legal Theory & Exchange Asymmetries Incorrectly Interpreted as Evidence of Endowment Effect Theory and Prospect Theory
Eleanor Sharpston (Advocate General, European Court of Justice), ‘Freedom, Security, and Justice’ in the European Union: The Story so Far and (some of) the Challenges for the Future
Jody Kraus (Virginia Law), The Correspondence and Divergence in Contract and Promise
Frank Pasquale (Seton Hall Law), Taxing Tiering: Addressing Inequality in Health Care as Cross-Subsidization Declines
Rosemary C. Salomone (St. John’s Law), Official English: The Reality and the Rhetoric
Jerry L. Anderson (Drake Law), An Empirical Study of Attitudes Toward Zoning
Michael Conroy (Colibri Consulting), How Civil Society is Striking Back at Neoliberal Globalization: Tales from the ‘Certification Revolution’
Richard Perry (San Jose State University), On the Strange Career of the Cultural Defense
Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law) & Jide Nzelibe (Northwestern Law), Political Accountability Under Alternative Institutional Regimes
Fiona Harrison (California Institute of Technology), Three Big Questions about the Universe (and how Astrophysicists are trying to answer them)
William H. McDavid (Ret. General Counsel, J.P. Morgan Chase), Enron: The Aftermath
Natasha Martin (Seattle Law), Immunity for Hire: The Same Actor Factor as a Subterfuge to Equality in the Contemporary Workplace
Craig Anthony Arnold (Louisville Law), Land Use Regulation and the Democratic Process
Georgetown International Human Rights
Martin Flaherty (Fordham Law), Executive Authority, Fundamental Rights, and Global Separation of Powers
David Caron (UC Berkeley Law), Why International Courts and Tribunals Look and Act as They Do
Thomas Merrill (Columbia Law), The Rule of First Possession and the Rule of Accession
Syracuse
Eric A. Kades (William & Mary Law), A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain
Kristin Collins (BU Law), Let the Government become their Guardians: Administrative Law, Social Provision, and the Legal Construction of the Family in the Early Nineteenth Century
Mark Tushnet (Harvard Law), The Rights Revolution in the Twentieth Century
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
Elizabeth Trujillo (Suffolk Law), Deconstructing the Public/Private Overlaps in Foeign Investment and Trade Regimes
Muneer Ahmed (American University), Guantanamo is about the Body
Rachel Godsil (Seton Hall Law), Protecting Status: The Mortgage Crisis, Eminent Domain, and the Ethic of Homeownership
Loyola
Gaicinto Dela Caneaea (Rome Law)
Emily Kadens (Texas Law), Merchants, Kings, and the Codification of Commercial Law
Florida
Michael B. Lang (Chapman Law), What Every Tax Lawyer Should Know About Patented Tax Strategies
Steve Darwall (Michigan Law), The Nature and Value of Rights & The Second-Person Standpoint: Respect, Morality, and Accountability Chapter 1 & 2
David B. Mustard (Georgia Business) & Thomas A. Eaton (Georgia Law)
Anita Krishnakumar (St. John’s Law), Early Reflections on the Roberts Court and Statutory Interpretation
Roberta Romano (Yale Law), Does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Have a Future?
Deborah L. Brake (Pittsburgh Law), The Invisible Pregnant Athlete and the Promise of Title IX
Ralph Porcher (Institute of Advanced Study), The Hand of Midas: When Concepts Turn Legal or Deflating the Hart-Dworkin-Debate
Stanford Law, Science, & Technology
Michael M. O’Hear (Marquette Law), Lovely Rita?: Procedural Justice and Federal Sentencing
Alexandra Kalev (Arizona Sociology), Cracking the Glass Cages? Restructuring and Ascriptive Inequality at Work
UC Hastings
Yafir Holzman-Gazit (Israel Management Law), Land Expropriation in Israel
Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA Economics), Scylla and Charybdis? Some Historical Reflections on the Two Basic Problems of Corporate Governance
USC Law, Economics, and Organization
Josh Lerner (Harvard Business), Inducement Prizes and Innovation
Stephen Choi (NYU Law), Director Elections and the Influence of Proxy Advisors
Washington University in St. Louis
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?
The Connecticut Law Review will host a symposium, The Subprime Crisis: Moving Forward, at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
The standard subprime conference focuses on yesterday’s issues - i.e., definitions of subprime loans and why the subprime crisis happened. In this conference, in contrast, we will focus on the challenges that lie before us. It came as a shock to policymakers around the world that this seemingly obscure corner of the U.S. consumer credit market morphed into global contagion. Similarly, the United States is groping toward solutions to revive the credit markets and resolve millions of foreclosures. Necessarily, the symposium will be interdisciplinary in nature, involving the intersection of economics, finance, and law.
Symposium editors are John Herrington (john.herrington[at]huskymail.uconn.edu) and Kathryn Foley (kfoley5385[at]gmail.com).
The St. John’s University School of Law Child Advocacy Clinic hosts a symposium, No Place to Live: The Housing Crisis Facing Youth Aging-Out of Foster Care, March 28, 2008. A PDF flyer is here.
The School of Law is bringing together distinguished scholars and practitioners from diverse disciplines, including policy makers, affordable housing professionals and advocates for children and the homeless, to discuss the housing crisis that is facing adolescents as they exit foster care around the country. Young people experiencing this crisis will also play a vital role. We will engage in expert dialogue which both raises awareness and explores concrete solutions to this critical national issue.
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
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
William A. Birdthistle (Chicago-Kent Law), The Fortunes and Foibles of Exchange-Traded Funds
Joanna Grisinger (Clemson History), Looking Inward: The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and Administrative Reform
Sharon Hannes (Tel Aviv Law), Compensating for Executive Compensation
David Hoffman (Temple Law), Docketology, District Courts, and Doctrine
Risa Goluboff (Virginia Law), The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (Intro), Chapter 9: Brown and the Remaking of Civil Rights
Loyola
Jackie Lipton (Case Western Law), The Rise of Publicity in Rubloff Reception
Ed Fallone (Marquette Law), The Borderless Consitution
Notre Dame
Judy Fox (Notre Dame Law), Foreclosures and Abandoned Homes in South Bend: A Search for Causes and Solutions
Daniel Berkowitz (Pittsburgh Economics) & Karen Clay (Carnegie Mellon Heinz School of Public Policy & Management), Legal Origins and the Evolution of Institutions: Evidence from American State Courts
Steve Friedland (Elon Law), Some Thoughts on Implementing the Carnegie Report — Curriculum, Assessment and Learning Environments
UCLA Law, Economics, & Organizations
Emmanuel Saez (UC Berkeley Economics), Optimal Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets
Joshua Getzler (Oxford Law), Changing Attitudes to Finance in English Law and Equity c. 1860-1920
Duke International & Comparative Law
Jurgen Basedow (Max Planck Institute), The Reform of European Antitrust Law
John Mikhail (Georgetown Law), Bentham’s Theory of Fictions and Critique of Natural Rights
John Gardner (Oxford Law), Introduction to the Second Edition of H.L.A. Hart’s Punishment and Responsibility
Damon Smith (Rutgers-Camden Law), Reconceptualizing Urban Redevelopment: Participatory Planning and Procedural Protections
Judith Donath (MIT), Virtual Design and Trustworthy Signals
Sherry F. Colb (Columbia Law), Why is Torture “Different” and How “Different” is it?
Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke Law), Protecting Financial Markets: Lessons from the Subprime Mortgage Meltdown
Cindy Skach (Harvard Government), The Constitution of Peoples: Outlaw Religion and the Public Sphere
Robert Litan (Kauffman Foundation), Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
Michael R. Eisenson (Charlesbank Capital Partners), An Insider’s Perspective on Private Equity Investing
Robert Miller (Villanova Law), Directors as Advisors: The Role of Corporate Directors at Shareholder Meetings
Debra Lyn Bassett (Alabama Law), The Revolution of 1938 and its Discontents: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Today
Loyola LA
Steve Munzer (UCLA Law), Commons and Community in Biotechnological Assets
Ricardo Bascuas (Miami Law), Federal Sentencing: The American Inquisition
Notre Dame
Michael Moreland (Villanova Law), Torts
Alan Brudner (Toronto Law), Subjective Fault for Crime: A Reinterpretation
Daniel Hamilton (Chicago-Kent), Emancipation and Contract Law: Litigating Human Property after the Civil War
Eric Claeys (George Mason Law), Jefferson Meets Coase: The Harm-Benefit Distinction in Tort Law and Economics and Natural Property Rights
Devah Pager (Princeton), Race at Work: Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets
Sophie Sparrow (Franklin Pierce Law Center), Workshop: Using Grading Rubrics to Improve Teaching, Learning and Grading
Steve Raphael
Robert Tamura (Clemson Economics), Unmarried Fertility, Crime and Social Stigma
Notre Dame
John Nagle (Notre Dame Law), Environmental Law in Antarctica
David Harris (Pitt Law), Rethinking the Use of Informants: The Realities of Police/Muslim Relations in the U.S. After 9/11
Stuart Chinn (Texas Law), Situating Judicial Action within Regime Politics: A Recurrent Theory of Judicial Behavior
Washington
Sergey Gerasin (Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Science), Russian land reform: phases, procedures, outcome
Chicago-Kent Civil Liberties
David D. Cole (Georgetown Law) & Jules L. Lobel (Pittsburgh Law), Less Safe, Less Free: Why America is Losing the War on Terror
Eric Posner (Chicago Law), The Recurrent Illusion: International Relations and Global Legalism
Anu Bradford (Harvard Law), International Antitrust Negotiations and the False Hope of the WTO
Michael Perry (Emory Law), Morality and Normativity & Liberal Democracy and Human Rights
David Anderson
Edward B. Rock (Penn Law), The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting
Alan Madry (Marquette Law), Land Use Regulation and the New Property Revisited
Benjamin Zipursky (Fordham Law), Two Dimensions of Responsibility
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan (Rutgers Law), The Right to Self Defense
Mark Cooper (Consumer Federation of America), The Digital Revolution, Defining the Consumer Victory and Defending the Public Interest in the 21st Century: Network Neutrality, Digital Downloading, and Privacy in Online Advertising
Ronald J. Colombo (Hofstra Law), Ownership, Limited: Reconciling Tradition and Progressive Corporate Law via an Aristotelian Understanding of Ownership
Niko Matouschek (Northwestern Management)
James K. Galbraith (Texas Public Affairs), How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
Ron Shapiro (Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler), Dare to Prepare: How to Win Before You Begin
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), The Lifespan of Written Constitutions
Cesare Romano (Loyola LA Law), The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World’s Cases
David Machlowitz (Medco Health Solutions, Inc.), Standing In Front Of The Bulls Eye: The Corporate Counsel In A Corporate Crisis
Spoils of War v. Cultural Heritage: The Russian Cultural Property Law in Historical Context is sponsored by Harvard Law School Arts & Literature Law Society;
Commission for Art Recovery; Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University; Foundation for International Cultural Diplomacy; Harvard Law School European Law Research Center, Feb. 8-9, 2008, at Harvard.
After WWII, Soviet authorities, seeking reparations for the extensive costs of Nazi aggression, used special “Trophy Brigades” to empty museums, castles, and salt mines in Germany and Eastern Europe, transporting millions of cultural treasures to the USSR. These included German state-owned cultural objects, cultural objects taken from churches and synagogues, as well as a great deal of private property that had been looted by the Germans from individuals. The art works taken back to the Soviet Union were held in relative secrecy for years, until the final years of glastnost (Гла́сность). As European countries started to demand their cultural treasures and archives, Russian legislators passed a law that potentially nationalizes all cultural treasures brought to Russia at the end of World War II. In 1999 the Constitutional Court issued an opinion basically upholding the law. How do these actions comport with international law? What are the chances for restitution of these displaced cultural valuables?
Gerald Korngold (Case Western Law), Solving the Contentious Issues of Private Conservation Easements: Promoting Flexibility for the Future and Engaging the Public Land Use Process
Joseph Mwaura (Queen’s University Belfast), Human Rights, Violence and the Elections in Kenya
The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute’s 17th Annual RMLUI Land Use Conference, Sustaining the Next 100 Million, will take place March 6-7, 2008, at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
Bernadette Atuahene (Chicago-Kent Law), The Legitimacy of Property Rights
Robert L. Rabin (Stanford Law), The Case for Specially Compensating Victims of Terrorists Acts: An Assessment
Joan Heminway (Tennessee Law), Does Sarbanes-Oxley Foster the Existence of Ethical Executive Role Models in the Corporation?
Illinois
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology to Foster Active Student Learning
Northern Kentucky
John Bickers (Northern Kentucky Law), Of Nonhorses, Quantum Mechanics, and the Establishment Clause
Hiroshi Motomura (North Carolina Law), Undocumented Immigrants or Illegal Aliens? A Roadmap 25 years after Plyler v. Doe
Jonathan Lear (Chicago Philosophy), What is it to be Deprived of a World?
Michelle Boardman (George Mason Law). Actuarial Data in Insurance Interpretation: Factual Intent Behind Contractual Words
Curtis Bradley (Duke Law), The Story of Ex parte Milligan: Military Trials, Enemy Combatants, and Congressional Authorization
Bernadette Atuahene (Chicago-Kent Law), The Legitimacy Equilibrium in Property Law
Duke International and Comparative Law
Joseph Lookofsky (Copenhagen Law), Desperately Seeking Subsidiarity: Danish Private Law in Scandinavian, European & Global Context
Amanda Leiter (Georgetown Law), Inaccurate Precision: The Dangers of Quantitative Standing Inquiry
Jethro K. Lieberman (New York Law School), Tribeca Square Press: What Shall We Publish
Jonathan Klick (Florida State Law), The Effect of Contract Regulation: The Case of Franchising
Robert Bartlett (Georgia Law), Reexamining the Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on Firms’ Going-Private Decisions
Robert Adler (Utah Law), The Implications of Climate Change for Water Law
UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations
Suzanne Scotchmer (UC Berkeley Economics), Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
The National Consumer Law Center presents its 16th Annual Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, Nov. 8-11, 2007, Washington, DC.
In addition to the main conference, there will be day-long “intensives” on particular topics:
Antony Anghie (Utah Law), The UN Mandate System, Imperialism, and International Law
Judith Wegner (North Carolina Law), The Carnegie Report on Legal Education
New York Law South Africa Reading Group
Deevia Bhana (KwaZulu-Natal), “Girls hit girl!” Constructing and negotiating violent African femininities in a working class primary school
Northern Kentucky University
Roger Billings (Northern Kentucky Law), Lincoln and Illinois Real Estate: The Making of a Mortgage Lawyer
Funmi Arewa (Northwestern Law), YouTube and Sharing: Culture Theory, Popular Culture and the Digital Era
Devon Carbado (UCLA Law), What Exactly is Discrimination on the Basis of Race?
Louis Kaplow (Harvard Law), Taxation of Transfers
Steve Kanter (Lewis & Clark Law), Bong Hits 4 Jesus as a Cautionary Tale of Two Cities
Joy Gordon (Fairfield), The Economic Sanctions on Cuba and the Problem of Extraterritoriality
Edward A. Purcell (New York Law School), The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005: The Old and New in Federal Jurisdictional Reform
NYU Law, Economics, and Politics
J. Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law), The Industrial Organizations of the Japanese Bar: Levels and Determinants of Attorney Income
Bernard Black (Texas Law), Empty Voting and Other Decoupling Strategies //: Importance, Responses, and Extensions
UC Berkeley Law, Business and the Economy
William Falik (Westpark Associates), How to Succeed in the California Land Use Wars - Sixteen Years and 1,600 Acres
Mike Meurer (Boston Law), Pirates or Victims: Who Gets Sued for Patent Infringement?
Alice Ristroph (Utah Law), The Dog’s Distinction: Good Intentions as a Constitutional Standard
Mitchell Kane (Virginia Law), Corporate Taxation and International Charter Competition
Michael Doran (Georgetown Law), Intergenerational Equity in Fiscal Policy Reform
Douglas Kysar (Cornell Law), Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity
Daniel Ernst (Georgetown Law), The Politics of Administrative Law: New York, 1938
Edward Iacobucci (Toronto Law), An Empirical Examination of the Governance Choices of Income Trusts
NYU Legal, Political and Social Philosophy
Moshe Halbertal (NYU Law), Self-Transcendence, Violence and the Political Order
Dorothy Roberts (Northwestern University), The Racial Geography of Child Welfare: Toward a New Research Paradigm
Leandra Lederman (Indiana-Bloomington), Taxing Virtual Worlds
Lily L. Batchelder (NYU Law), The Superiority of an Inheritance Tax over an Estate Tax and No Wealth Transfer Tax
Washington
Hyung-Nam Kim (Kyungsung Law), The Reverse Double Standard of Judicial Review in Korea
Gillian Metzger (Columbia Law), Federalism and Administrative Law
David Bederman (Emory Law), Shipwrecks, Treasure and Pirates: Old Law for New Booty
Andrew Schepard (Hofstra Law), The Uniform Collaborative Law Act- From Private Association to Public Policy?
Renee Lettow Lerner (George Washington Law), Disenchantment with Democracy: Reforming Judicial Elections during and after the Civil War
Oregon Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Nancy Shurtz (Oregon Law), Mother Earth says: “I’m Cool with Carbon Taxes”
Teemu Ruskola (Emory Law), Law’s Empire: The Legal Construction of “America” in the “District of China”
Bill Merkel (Washburn Law), Unprincipled Originalism and the Right to Arms
Scott Sundby (Washington & Lee Law), War and Peace in the Jury Room: How Capital Juries Reach Unanimity
Michael Kremer (Harvard Economics), Protecting Antiquities: A Role for Long-Term Leases?
Ruth O’Brien (The Graduate Center of the City University of New York), Telling Stories Out of Court: A Different Type of Legal Narration
Philippe Sands (University College London Law), Poodles and Bulldogs: the US, Britain and the International Rule of Law
Henry Drummonds (Lewis & Clark Law), Reforming Labor Law By Reforming Preemption Doctrine and Unleashing the States
Jim Repetti (Boston College Law), Democracy and Opportunity A New Paradigm for Tax Equity
Richard Frase (Minnesota Law), What Factors Explain Persistent Racial Disparities in Minnesota’s Prison and Jail Populations?
David Hoffman (Temple Law), Docketology, District Courts, and Doctrine
Karen Engle (Texas Law) & Gerald Torres (Texas Law), Indigenous Roads to Development and Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Indigenous Peoples and Reparations
Sean Pine (UCLA Law), Developments in Information Technology for Law Faculty
Liu Peng (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Religious Policies in China: An Overview
Washington University in St. Louis
Kenneth Ayotte (Northwestern Law), Optimal Property Rights in Financial Contracting
Widener Law School in Harrisburg, PA hosts a works-in-progress conference for junior property scholars (Junior Scholars Conference), February 8 and 9, 2008. Details after the jump. Jump to full post
Call for Papers
Research Symposium on Insurance Markets and Regulation
The Searle Center at Northwestern University School of Law
April 14-15, 2008
Reading University Centre for Property Law presents the 7th Biennial Conference on Property Law, April 1-3, 2008, Queens’ College, Cambridge University.
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