Foreign Tort Law: Beyond Europe - San Diego
Call for papers: Foreign Tort Law: Beyond Europe, AALS Section on Torts and Compensation Systems, San Diego, CA, Jan. 9, 2009. The call for papers deadline is July 2, 2008. Jump to full post
April 29, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Chris Conley (Harvard Law Grad, 2007), Transparency and Digital Surveillance
Notre Dame
Linda McClain (Boston University Law), Marriage Pluralism in the United States: Multiple Jurisdictions and the Demands of Equal Citizenship
Ian Ferrell (Texas Law), Gilbert & Sullivan and Scalia: The Philosophical Basis of the Eigth Amendment’s Proportionality Principle
Henrik Lando (Copenhagen Business), Optimal Standards of Negligence when One Party is Uninformed
Washington
David Binder (UCLA Law) & Albert Moore (UCLA Law), Demystifying the First-Year Classroom
Raghuram G. Rajan (Chicago Business), Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States
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
Products Liability Restatement - Brooklyn
Brooklyn Law School will host The Products Liability Restatement: Was it a Success? Nov. 13-14, 2008.
Thanks: Mass Tort Litigation Blog.
Update (June 5, 2008): A list of scheduled participants is here.
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 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
Bhopal Disaster Approaches 25 - Boston
The New England Law Review held its 2008 symposium, The Bhopal Disaster Approaches 25: Looking Back to Look Forward, on Feb. 8. The symposium discussed:
the causes and environmental and public health consequences of the 1984 chemical plant explosion in Bhopal, India;
theories of liability under which American companies can be held accountable for their international conduct through the lens of Bhopal; and
modern corporate responsibility in light of such disasters.
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 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
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
February 8, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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
February 1, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Martha Chamallas (Ohio State Law), Race, Gender, and Torts
Martin Shapiro (UC Berkeley Law), Independent Agencies in the EU and Globally
Greg Shaffer (Loyola Law), A Structural Theory of WTO Dispute Settlement: Why Institutional Choice Lies at the Center of the GMO Case
Notre Dame
Linda McLain (Boston Law), Family Law
Carol Sanger (Columbia Law), The Eye of the Storm: Mandatory Ultrasound and Fetal Confrontation
Alexandra Natapoff (Loyola LA Law), Deregulating Guilt: The Information Culture of the Criminal System
Gil Seinfeld (Michigan Law), Federal Courts as Franchise: Rethinking the Tripartite Mantra of Federal Jurisdiction
January 31, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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
January 28, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
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