Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Rachel Jean-Baptiste (Chicago History), Settling Out of Court, Marriage, and Divorce in Post-colonial Gabon
Yifat Holzman-Gazit (Stanford Law), The Effect of Form and Content on Public Approval Investigatory Commissions: Findings from Israel
Peter Nicolas (Washington Law), Taking State Law Seriously: A Re-Assessment of Our Obsession with All Things Federal
Todd Henderson (Chicago Law), Rule 10b5-2 Trading Plan Disclosure Choice
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
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
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
The Williams Act 40 Years On, May 21 - May 22, 2008.
In cooperation with the Securities & Exchange Commission, Georgetown Law has planned a day and a half of lively presentations and discussion about the current state of both U.S. and global regulation of corporate takeovers and M&A activity. The speakers and panelists will include senior SEC officials, academics, financial journalists, regulators, practitioners, bankers, and judges, including Delaware Vice- Chancellors Leo Strine and Steve Lamb.
The Continuing Evolution of Securities Class Actions, the 14th annual ILEP conference, will be held April 10-11, 2008, in Naples, FL. It is sponsored by the Institute for Law and Economic Policy and the University of Wisconsin Law School.
The Virginia Law & Business Review and the Virginia Law & Business Society presented The Competitive Edge: Is the U.S. Losing Ground in the Capital Markets? Feb. 15, 2008.
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
The North Dakota Law Review is planning its 2009 symposium: North Dakota Publicly Traded Corporations Act Symposium. Interested authors should contact the journal as soon as possible; editors anticipate accepting all papers by Dec. 1, 2008.
The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business and Employment Law held its symposium, Hedge Funds: Regulating the Untamed Market, Feb. 8, 2008.
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
Stephen Choi (NYU Law) & Mitu Gulati (Duke Law), Are Judges Overpaid?
Ed Brunet (Lewis & Clark Law) & Jennifer Johnson (Lewis & Clark Law), The Fox in the Henhouse: Arbitration of Shareholder Claims
Loyola
Mitu Gulati (Duke Law), Do Judges Get Paid Too Much?
Wayne Summer (Toronto Philosophy) & Lorraine Weinrib (Toronto Law), A Theory of the Charter
Washington
Hiroko Goto (Chiba Law), The Recent Victim-Oriented Reform to Japan’s Criminal Justice System
Herbert Hovenkamp (Iowa Law), Innovation and the Domain of Competition Policy
Timothy Kaufman-Osborn (Whitman Politics), Perfecting Death: Abolitionism and the Challenge of Lethal Injection
Omri Ben-Shahar (Michigan Law), How to Repair Unconscionable Contracts
Eric Helland (Claremont-McKenna), The Impact of the Securities Litigation on the Directors’ Labor Market
Knud Haakonssen (Sussex History), Protestant Natural Law and the Question of Rights: The Case of Francis Hutcheson I & II
Leemore S. Dafny (Northwestern Management), Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?
Cristina Rodriguez (NYU Law), Significance of the Local in Immigration Regulation
St. Thomas (MN)
Nancy Ehrenreich (Denver Law), Feminist Theory and Reproductive Rights
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default
Yair Listokin (Yale Law), Does Shareholder Voting Maximize Stock Market Value?
Chief Justice Myron Steele (Supreme Court of Delaware), Delaware, North Dakota, and Federalism
Wendy Wagner (Texas Law), Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research
Michael Dorf (Columbia Law), Dynamic Incorporation of Foreign Law
Alexander Volokh (Georgetown Law), Choosing Interpretive Methods: A Positive Theory of Judges and Everyone Else
Ethan Yale (Georgetown Law), Investment Risk and the Tax Benefit of Deferred Compensation
Howard M. Erichson (Seton Hall), CAFA’s Impact on Class Action Lawyers
Mississippi
Arthur Laby (Rutgers-Camden), Insider Trading and False Promising
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Kevin Hassett (American Enterprise Institute), Taxes and Wages
R. Craig Green (Temple Law), An Intellectual History of Judicial Activism
David Weisbach (Chicago Law), A Welfarist Approach to Disabilities
Lonny Hoffman (Houston Law), The Judicialization of Litigation Reform
Moshe Halbertal (NYU Law), Self-Transcendence, Violence and the Political Order
Claire Huntington (Colorado-Boulder Law), Repairing Family Law
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Nita Farahany (Vanderbilt Law), Judging Genes: Implications of the Second Generation of Genetic Tests in the Courtroom
Lyn Goering (Washburn Law), Tailoring Deference to Variety: Judicial Deference to Administrative Interpretation
Lisa Kelly (Washington Law), Telling Children’s Stories: Legal Advocacy for Children and Youth
Stephen Darwall (Michigan Philosophy), Authority and Second-Personal Reasons for Acting
Ben Liebman (Columbia Law) & Curtis Milhaupt (Columbia Law), Reputational Sanctions in China’s Securities Market
Deborah Schenk (NYU Law), The Political Economy of Tax Reform: The Case for Retaining the AMT
David Schmidtz (Arizona Philosophy), The History of Liberty
Sanford Levinson (Texas Law), Three Types of Constitutional Crises
Northwestern Law and Economics
David Arthur Skeel (Penn Law), The Future of the Global Law Firm
Bonnie Honig (Northwestern Political Science), Antigone’s Anachronism? Homeric Mourning in Democratic Athens
David Walker (Boston Law), Book/Tax Conformity and Equity Compensation
Gerald Leonard (Boston Law), Rethinking Dred Scott
Robert C. Hockett (Cornell), Winning Trade-Liberalization More Stakeholders by Making More Stockholders: A Global Stock-Ownership Plan
Jesse Fried (UC Berkeley), Deviations from Contractual Priority in the Sale of VC-Backed Firms
Edward McCaffery (USC Law), An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Consumption Taxes
Erin O’Hara (Vanderbilt Law), The Law Market
Stephen Shute (Birmingham Law), Self-Control in the Modern Provocation Defense
NYU Legal, Political and Social Philosophy
John Dunn (Cambridge Political Science), Capitalist Democracy: Elective Affinity or Beguiling Illusion? and Disambiguating Democracy
Pittsburgh
Jonathan Macey (Yale Law), The Problem of Corporate Governance
Nathan Oman (William & Mary Law), The Thirteenth Amendment and Specific Performance
Jane Winn (Washington Law), Globalization and the Reinvention of Contract Law
Dean Lueck (Arizona Economics), The Rectangular Survery versus Metes and Bounds: Systematic and Unsystematic Land Demarcation
Adam Rosenzweig (Washington University at St. Louis), Risk & Derivatives: Does the Income Tax Subsidize Hedge Funds
Amy Wax (Penn Law), Engines of Inequality: Class, Race, and Family Structure
Adam Mossoff (Michigan State Law), Patents, Property and Property Theory
Mark Heywood (AIDS Law Project), Politics and Poor Global Health
Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law), Optimal Political Control of the Bureaucracy
Michael S. Pardo (Alabama Law), Judicial Proof and the Best Explanation
Victor Fleischer (Illinois Law), Regulatory Cost-Engineering: The Lawyer’s Role in Regulating Gamesmanship
Lisa Hilbink (Minnesota Pol’y Sci), Judges beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile
Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law), Optimal Political Control of the Bureaucracy
Ian Ayres (Yale Law), Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk
Tom Baker (UConn Law), How the Merits Matter: D&O Insurance and Settlements in Securities Class Actions
Jason Czarnezki (Marquette Law), An Empirical Investigation of Judicial Decisionmaking, Statutory Interpretation & the Chevron Doctrine in Environmental Law
Washington University in St. Louis
Earlier this month (Oct. 18-19, 2007), Fordham University School of Law’s Corporate Law Center hosted Corporations, Investors, and the Securities Markets.
Deborah R. Hensler (Stanford Law), Reconsidering Jury Verdicts in Tort Liability Suits
Amy Adler (NYU Law), Against Moral Rights (in the Visual Arts)
Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern Law), Religious Neutrality in American Law
Ira Lupu (George Washington Law) and Robert Tuttle (George Washington Law), Religious Expression in the Public Schools - Contemporary Issues
Susanna Blumenthal (Minnesota Law), “Death by His Own Hand”: Accounting for Suicide in Nineteenth-Century Life Insurance Litigation
Brian Cartwright (Securities and Exchange Commission), The Future of Securities Regulation
Oregon Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Mike Russo (Oregon Business), The Business of Global Warming