• Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster, June 8-10, 2012.
• Workshop on When Technology Disrupts Law: How Do IP, Internet and Bio Law Adapt?, June 10-12, 2012.

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Practising and academic lawyers from any part of the world and of any nationality are invited to respond to the Call for Papers.

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• Constitutionality of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (“HCERA”).
• Tort and medical malpractice reform after the HCERA.
• Federalism and the HCERA.
• Economic issues and projections surrounding the HCERA.
• Tax policy surrounding health care reform and the HCERA.
• Comparison of international health care policies.
• Race and gender disparity in health care.

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The 2012 Energy Symposium will focus on a wide variety of energy-related issues exploring topics from the perspectives of the operator, royalty owner, surface owner, regulator, and municipality. In addition to scholarly articles, we encourage authors to submit papers for our first annual Energy Law Survey. Our Survey is aimed at legal practitioners and will review emerging legal issues among nine different states as an annual comparative law survey on oil and gas.

Interested authors and presenters should submit an abstract of approximately 500 words to texwesenergysymposium [at] gmail.com by June 15, 2011. Please submit a resume or curriculum vitae along with the abstract. Authors and presenters will be informed by July 15, 2011, of the outcome of the initial review process. Papers accepted for publication will be published in a special Symposium Issue or Survey Issue of the Texas Wesleyan Law Review.

Examples of emerging topics that we encourage authors, speakers, and panelists to submit include, but are not limited to:

• Moratoriums
• Mass Torts
• Royalty calculation and payment
• Operator duties (implied and express)
• The Oil and Gas Lease
• New or emerging shale regions
• Mineral and royalty conveyances
• Surface-use issues
• Natural gas marketing
• Subsurface trespass
• Oil and gas litigation strategies and challenges
• Ethical issues encountered in energy practice
• Pooling
• Leasing Trends
• Joint Operating Agreements and Master Service Agreements
• Urban development issues
• Railroad Commission Regulations
• Horizontal drilling challenges and developments
• Seismic and geophysical testing
• Legislative developments and trends
• Municipalities and regulation through local ordinances
• Clean technology in the Oil & Gas Industry
• Environmental developments
• Claims for damage, injury, or death arising from drilling rig or work-site accidents
• Pipeline construction, placement, and easement disputes

The date for the 2012 Energy Symposium is tentatively scheduled for the last week in March and will be determined after the initial review process. For panel proposals, please submit the panel topic as well as possible panelists and a resume or curriculum vitae for each panelist. If you
would like to serve as the panel moderator, please indicate this on your proposal.

Questions and requests for further information can be directed to Kate Echols, Symposia Editor of the Texas Wesleyan Law Review, at kate.echols [at] gmail.com. Our faculty advisor is Professor Wayne Barnes.

Please visit our website throughout the year to view new Symposium information.

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The Obligations series of conferences originated at the University of Melbourne in 2002, and has since become one of the leading private law conferences in the common law world. The conferences have been held at the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland, and the National University of Singapore. Mostly recently, the Obligations V Conference was held at the University of Oxford. 2012 will mark the first time that the conference will be held in North America.

Scholars working in the fields of contract, tort, unjust enrichment, equity or private law theory are invited to submit proposals for papers addressing the conference theme. The theme is intended to encourage scholars to question some of the common law’s established rules and approaches and to propose novel solutions to old problems. . . . Junior scholars and those currently engaged in graduate degrees in law are encouraged to apply.

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• The Legal Impact of Social Media
• Wikileaks: Testing the Bounds of National Security
• Speech and the Role of Torts
• Political Speech and the Call for Civility
• Legal Speech: Civility Oaths and Attorney Advertising

The Charleston Law Review and the Richard W. Riley Institute at Furman University will host a symposium on Free Speech and Civil Discourse in the 21st Century on February 17-18, 2011. This two-day symposium will be the 3rd annual “Law and Society” series sponsored by the Charleston Law Review and the Riley Institute.

Persons interested in submitting a paper relating to any of the above topics should submit along with a paper, a CV, to Piper Reiff, Charleston Law Review Editor in Chief, via email: epreiff [at] charlestonlaw.edu. Contributions are welcome from scholars and practitioners in all disciplines. All submissions must be received by March 14, 2011.
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