May 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law), Reassessing Linkages between Sovereign Wealth Funds and Western Banks
Rufus Pollock (Cambridge), Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright
Int’l Economic Crime: Banking Issues - Cambridge, UK
The 26th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime will take place at Jesus College, Cambridge, UK, from Aug. 31 - Sept. 6, 2008. The theme is “Banking on Trouble!” Jump to full post
White Collar Crime: Tax Fraud - Houston
The Houston Business and Tax Law Journal holds its Second Annual Symposium, White Collar Crime: Issues in Tax Fraud, on October 14, 2008.
Int’l Antitrust Law and Policy - New York
Fordham Law hosts its 35th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy Sept. 25-26, 2008.
Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law - San Diego
The Third Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor & Employment Law will take place in San Diego from October 23 to October 25, 2008. This year’s colloquium will be co-hosted by California Western School of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and the University of San Diego School of Law. The annual colloquium, which was first held in 2006 at Marquette University Law School, has become an eagerly anticipated forum for American labor and employment law scholars to present and obtain feedback on works-in-progress. The timing of the colloquium, close to the beginning of the academic year, allows professors to float or try out new ideas in the presence of supportive colleagues. The call for papers deadline is July 31, 2008.
The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law - Madison, WI
The University of Wisconsin Institute for Legal Studies hosts The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law Oct. 24-26, 2008. This interdisciplinary conference “will bring together leading academics, authors and intellectuals to examine the Weimar period in European history, culture, and law and to trace the continuity of Weimar thinkers and their impact on the continued viability of liberal democracy in today’s world.”
Midwest Law and Society - Madison
The University of Wisconsin Institute for Legal Studies hosts the 2008 Midwest Law and Society Retreat Sept. 19-20, 2008. The call for papers deadline is June 1, 2008.
Law and Economics - Chicago
The Midwest Law and Economics Association will hold its annual meeting Oct. 3-4, 2008, at Northwestern University School of Law. This year’s Meeting is sponsored by the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law.
To submit a presentation, please send an abstract or paper to searlecenter[at]law.northwestern.edu. At previous MLEA meetings, scholars have presented papers on a diverse assortment of legal topics such as securities regulation, tort law, family law, environmental law, and constitutional law. The deadline for submission will be July 15th, 2008. Jump to full post
Istanbul Legal Skills Conference - Istanbul
August 4-7, 2008, the Istanbul Legal Skills Conference will bring together professors from the United States and European Union to discuss legal writing skills with Turkish lawyers and law students. The conference is sponsored by Bahcesehir University’s Institute for Global Understanding in Law and the Legal Writing Institute.
For more information, contact Tracy McGaugh at tmcgaugh[at]tourolaw.edu.
Off-Label Uses of Approved Drugs - Washington, DC
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research presents Off-Label Uses of Approved Drugs: Medicine, Law, and Policy May 21, 2008.
U.S. Government Efforts to Suppress Terrorism Financing - Winston-Salem, NC
The Wake Forest Law Review held its twenty-first annual Business Law Symposium — U.S. Government Efforts to Suppress Terrorism Financing — on Friday, April 4, 2008, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Chinese Legal Scholars - “Law in Context” - Ithaca, NY
The Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture (specifically the Clarke International Consortium on Law and Social Justice in Emerging Markets) at Cornell University Law School presents Law in Context: New & Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law Conference June 8-10, 2008.
“Law in Context” will bring together Chinese legal scholars whose areas of expertise range from economic law to law and sociology to international financial law; a Tel Aviv University law professor whose research includes evidence and negotiation theory; and nine CLS professors who will present new research and serve as discussants. “Law in Context” panel presentations will investigate topics as diverse as social movements and legal knowledge, and corrective justice and legal decision making.
Internet Law - Berkman@10 - Cambridge, MA
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School hosts Berkman@10 May 15-16, 2008.
Access to Knowledge - Geneva
The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School will host the third Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K3) September 8-10, 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland. It “will bring together hundreds of decision-makers and experts on global knowledge to discuss the urgent need for policy reforms.”
Patents and Commercialization of Innovation - Arlington, VA
George Mason University School of Law and Microsoft Corporation announce the second in an annual series of conferences on The Law and Economics of Innovation, Patents and the Commercialization of Innovation, Thur., May 15, 2008.
Canadian Law and Economics Ass’n Conference - Toronto
The Canadian Law and Economics Association will meet Sept. 26-27, 2008, at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. The call for papers asks for submissions “in all areas of Law and Economics. In addition, there will be a number of panels focusing on specific topics,” including Bankruptcy, Behavioural Law and Economics, Competition Policy, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Crime, Environmental Law and Economics, Family Law and Economics, Intellectual Property, Normative Law and Economics, Norms, Regulation of the Legal Profession, Securities Law, and Taxation. The deadline for submissions is May 28, 2008.
Deterrence in Competition Policy - Berlin
The 15th WZB Conference on Markets and Politics and the 2nd Conference of the Research Network on Innovation and Competition Policy (RNIC), on Deterrence in Competition Policy, will take place Oct. 17-18, 2008, at the WZB.
The WZB is the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Social Science Research Center Berlin).
The call for papers deadline is Aug. 1, 2008.
Prosecutorial Ethic - Seattle
The University of Washington School of Law presents The Prosecutorial Ethic, Fri., May 30, 2008. The Washington Law Review is planning a symposium issue on the same theme.
Tax Symposium - Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler School of Business hosts its Twelfth Annual Tax Symposium Jan. 23-24, 2009. The call for papers deadline is Nov. 13, 2008.
IP and Indigenous Peoples - Fort Worth, TX
Texas Wesleyan University School of Law will a symposium on Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples Oct. 10, 2008. The call for papers deadline is May 30, 2008. Accepted papers will be published in the Texas Wesleyan Law Review.
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