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Call for Papers: Baseball and the Law - Green Bag Almanac

The Green Bag Almanac & Reader seeks submissions on baseball and the law for its 2010 volume.

We are seeking submissions for our 2010 Almanac & Reader, which will have a baseball-and-the-law theme. We want scholarly essays on topics related to baseball and the law. We hope to select 12 essays, each between 1500 and 5000 words long. Topics in which we are particularly (but not exclusively) interested are: (a) baseball and … civil rights law; criminal law; defamation law; intellectual property law; international law; labor law; media law; property law; tax law; tort law; transportation law; (b) baseball players who were or became lawyers; and (c) roles played by lawyers in baseball.

Please send your proposals for papers to editors [at] greenbag.org.

Ross E. Davies
Professor of Law
George Mason University School of Law
3301 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, Virginia 22201
(703) 993-8049
(703) 993-8202 fax

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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 25th, 2008 | Legal History, Sports Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS | no comments

April 15, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops

Alabama

Jose Alvarez (Columbia Law), The Empire of Law or the Law of Empire

Chicago Law & Economics

Ray Fisman (Columbia Business), Learning Social Preferences at Yale Law School

Connecticut

David Yalof (UConn Law), Confirmation Obfuscation: Supreme Court Confirmation Politics in a Conservative Era

Duke

Joby Branion (Athletes First), An Insider’s Perspective

Fordham

Tanya K. Hernandez (George Washington Law), The Long Lindering Shadow: Law, Liberalism and Cultures of Racial Hierarchy and Identity in the Americas 

Georgetown

Kerry Rittich (Toronto Law), Informal Labour Markets and Development

Harvard Internet & Society

Rachel Lyon (Lioness Media), Race and the Internet

Lewis & Clark

Rachelle Adam (Israeli Environmental Ministry), Addressing Biodiversity Loss: The Elusiveness of Effective International Agreements

Notre Dame

Mike Kirsch (Notre Dame Law), Evolving Interpretations of U.S. Tax Treaties 

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on April 15th, 2008 | Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Cyberspace, Sports Law, Legal Education, Tax Law, Environmental Law, International Law, Uncategorized | no comments

October 12, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Georgetown Law and Economics

Karla Hoff (World Bank)

Georgia

Chris Brummer (Vanderbilt Law)

Rutgers-Camden

Eric Muller (North Carolina Law), American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese-American Disloyalty in World War II

Texas

Lino Graglia(Texas Law), Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc.: The Strange Career of the Law of Resale Price Maintenance

UCLA Faculty Fridays

Ann Carlson (UCLA Law), Iterative Federalism and Climate Change

USC

David Cruz (USC Law), Sexual Judgments: Federalism and Gender Identity Determinations

Villanova

Mitch Nathanson (Villanova Law), What’s in a Name or, Better Yet, What’s it Worth?: Cities, Sports Teams and the Right of Publicity

Virginia Law

Richard Schragger (Virginia Law), Cities, Economic Development, and the Free Trade Constitution

Washburn

John Bickers (Northern Kentucky Law), Of Non-horses, Quantum Mechanics, and the Establishment Clause

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on October 12th, 2007 | Law and Economics, Law and Gender, Law and Race, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Legal History, Civil Rights Law, Business Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Sports Law, Uncategorized | no comments

September 27, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Boston University

Sadiq Reza (New York Law School), Islam’s Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure in Islamic Legal Doctrine and Practice

Boston College Legal History

Adriaan Lanni (Harvard Law), Social Norms in the Courts of Classical Athens

Brooklyn

Elizabeth M. Schneider (Brooklyn Law), The Dangers of Summary Judgment: Gender and Federal Litigation

Columbia Tax Colloquium

Lawrence Zelenak (Duke Law), Tax Policy and Personal Identity over Time

Florida State

Joseph Sanders (Houston Law), A Norms Approach to Jury ‘Nullification’: Interests, Values and Scripts

Georgetown

Sanford Levinson (Texas Law), Three Types of Constitutional Crisis

Iowa

Cristina Rodriguez (NYU Law), The Significance of the Local in Immigration Regulation

Marquette Sports Law Institute

Topic: A number of legal scholars will be discussing a variety of issues regarding sports law

New York University Legal, Political and Social Philosophy

Richard Pildes (NYU Law), Identity and Democratic Institutions

Northwestern Law and Economics

James R. Hines Jr. (Michigan Law), Which Countries Become Tax Havens?

Pittsburgh

Ruth Colker (OSU Law), Why I Only Give Take-Home Exams: A Disability Perspective

SMU

Paul H. Robinson (UPenn), Rifleshot Legislative Amendments: A Proposal to Correct Legislative Errors

Toledo

Jay Heinrichs, Thank you for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln and Homer Simpson can teach us about the Art of Persuasion

Yale Law, Economics and Organization

Deirdre McCloskey (Illinois at Chicago), How to Buy, Sell, Make, Manage, Produce, Transact, Consume with Words

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 27th, 2007 | Law and Gender, Law and Religion, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Immigration Law, Civil Procedure, Law and Society, Law and Economics, Constitutional Law, Tax Law, Legal Education, Sports Law, Legal History, Uncategorized | no comments

Reversing Field: Examining Commercialization, Labor and Race in 21st Century Sports Law

Reversing Field:  Examining Commercialization, Labor and Race in 21st Century Sports Law at West Virginia University College of Law in Morgantown, West Virginia on October 4-5, 2007.

Posted by legalscholarshipblog on August 13th, 2007 | Law and Race, Labor and Employment Law, Sports Law, CONFERENCES | no comments