Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship – Los Angeles, CA
USC Gould School of Law and Washington University Law present the 11th Annual Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop May 23-25, 2012. The registration deadline is May 11, 2012. mw
Sanctions in Competition Policy – Norwich, England
The University of East Anglia‘s Centre for Competition Policy presents its 8th annual conference, What Do Public and Private Sanctions in Competition Policy Actually Achieve?, June 14-15, 2012. The website includes the preliminary program and a list of speakers with abstracts of their presentations. mw
AAI’s 13th Annual Conference, Civil Liberties and Competition Policy — Washington, D.C.
American Antitrust Institute‘s 13th Annual Conference, with a focus on “Civil Liberties and Competition Policy,” will be held on June 21st, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the National Press Club Ballroom in Washington, D.C. To view the full agenda for this conference or to register, please visit the organization’s event page. mmb
Hagley Symposium — Wilmington, Delaware
Daniel Raff, of the Wharton School and NEBR, will present: “How to Do Things with Time: Reflections on Method and Practice in Business History,” on Friday, May 18th at 1:00 p.m. This event will take place at the Hagley Library, Copeland Room. For a copy of the paper or to attend, please contact Carol Ressler Lockman at clockman[at]hagley.org. mmb
Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy – Chicago, IL
The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth is issuing a call for original research papers to be presented at the Fifth Annual Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy at Northwestern University School of Law. The conference will be held September 21-22, 2012.
Submission Deadline: May 18, 2012
Research Proposals should be submitted to Derek Gundersen atd-gundersen[@]law.northwestern.edu. im
First Asia Pacific Conference on Gambling & Commercial Gaming Research – Macao, China
The Asia Pacific Association for Gambling Studies (APAGS) would like to invite you to submit your papers/abstracts for presentation consideration at the First Asia Pacific Conference on Gambling & Commercial Gaming Research (APCG2012), which will be held between November 5-8, 2012.
All research on gambling and commercial gaming from perspectives in the fields of psychology, law and regulation, marketing and management, economics, public policy, medical science, and others are welcome. The language of the conference is English, though arrangements for some sessions in Chinese will be arranged.
Deadline: August 1, 2012. im
Conference on International Humanitarian Law – Jerusalem
The 7th Annual Minerva/ICRC Conference on International Humanitarian Law will be held December 3-4 2012.
It will address the complex and increasingly significant topic of the interplay between two distinct legal regimes: the conduct of hostilities regime, derived from [international humanitarian law] and the law enforcement regime, derived mainly from human rights law.
Researchers interested in addressing these and other questions related to the conference topic are invited to respond to this call for papers with a 1-2 page proposal for an article and presentation, along with a brief CV. Proposals should be submitted by email to the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (mchr[@]savion.huji.ac.il) no later than June 1, 2012.
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Criminal Justice Forensics – New York, NY
The ABA Criminal Justice Section and the Louis Stein Center for Law & Ethics will host the Third Annual Prescription for Criminal Justice Forensics on June 1,2012 at Fordham University School of Law. More information can be found here. gf
Call for Papers: Teaching Legal History
The American Journal of Legal History will publish a symposium issue on teaching legal history in its October 2013 issue. If you are teaching a legal history course in a United States law school, you are invited to contribute a piece by May 1, 2013.
Emerging Issues in First Amendment Jurisprudence – Greensboro, NC
The Elon Law Review is accepting submissions for a call for articles, essays and requests to present for their 2012 Symposium: “Emerging Issues in First Amendment Jurisprudence: Interpreting the Relationship Between Religion and the State in the Modern Age.” The symposium will be held on October 26, 2012, and proposals are due by July 15, 2012. gf
Conference on Internet Search and Innovation – Chicago, IL
The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth presents the Third Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation to be held at Northwestern University School of Law, June 21-22, 2012. An agenda for the conference can be found here. Attendance for this conference is by invitation only. To receive an invitation, please send a message with your name, affiliation, and full contact information to Derek Gundersen at:
d-gundersen@law.northwestern.edu.
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office – Chicago, IL
The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth presents the Fifth Annual Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)-Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Conference on Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship to be held at Northwestern University School of Law, June 14-15, 2012. Attendance for this conference is by invitation only. To receive an invitation, please send a message with your name, affiliation, and full contact information to Derek Gundersen at: d-gundersen@law.northwestern.edu.
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International Antitrust Forum – Chicago, IL
The Northwestern Law Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth of Northwestern University School of Law will host the Third Annual Chicago Forum on International Antitrust Issues, June 7-8, 2012. Registration is available here. gf
Charleston Law Review – Supreme Court Preview
The Charleston Law Review of the Charleston School of Law invites submissions for its annual Supreme Court Preview volume. Submissions are welcome addressing a case before the Court in its October 2012 term or addressing an aspect of the Court itself such as recent voting trends, case load, an analysis of a particular Justice, or any other topic related to the Supreme Court. The deadline for submissions is August 1, 2012. For questions, contact Morgan Peterson via email or via telephone at (828) 284-0378.
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Institutional Responsibility for Sex and Gender Exploitation – New Orleans, LA
The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education will hold a program during the AALS 2013 Annual Meeting in New Orleans (January 4-7, 2013), with paper presentations on the topic of Institutional Responsibility for Sex and Gender Exploitation. The papers will be published as a Symposium in the Iowa Journal of Gender, Race & Justice.
Maximum word limit: 25,000 (inclusive of footnotes).
Deadline: August 1, 2012. im
Hague Academic Coalition – The Hague
The Hague Academic Coalition Conference The Politics of Justice: From a Human Rights Revolution to Global Justice? will be held at the International Institute of Social Studies October 12-13, 2012.
Call for Papers: Submit an expression of interest with a title and abstract (300 words maximum) dealing with one or more of the conference questions and themes by May 15, 2012, to secretariat[@]haguecoalition.org.
Guiding themes include:
- The rights revolution and contemporary challenges
- International criminal justice: challenging impunity through law and other justice efforts
- Global justice and international law?
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2012 Forum for Interdisciplinary Dialogue – Charlottesville, VA
The Jefferson Scholars Foundation and the Jefferson Graduate Fellows at the University of Virginia present the third biannual Forum for Interdisciplinary Dialogue, September 28-29, 2012. The Forum is an interdisciplinary conference for students, faculty, and community members from around the globe. The theme for 2012 is “Fact, Fiction, and Supposition: Creating Truth, Engineering Reality.” im
Transnational Societal Constitutionalism – Torino, Italy
The Transnational Societal Constitutionalism Conference will be held May 17-19, 2012, in Torino, Italy. It is hosted by the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL), the International University College of Turin (IUC) and the Collegio Carlo Alberto.
Young researchers attending the conference are encouraged to present their own research in this field in form of a poster. im
Twenty-First British Legal History: Law and Authority – Glasgow, Scotland
The Twenty-First British Legal History Conference will be held at the University of Glasgow, July 10-13, 2013.
Proposals for papers (up to 500 words) should be submitted by August 31, 2012, toBLHC2013[@]gla.ac.uk
The conference theme of “law and authority” relates to how sources of law and frameworks for their application have related to underlying conceptions of authority, or to the authority of other institutions, processes or actors within the legal order.
Papers concerning all jurisdictions, branches of the law, and historical periods are welcome.
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International Competition Law Forum – St. Gallen, Switzerland
The International Competition Law Forum will be held June 7-8, 2012, in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
High-ranking speakers inform and debate on the current trends in European and International Competition Law. The Forum is the annual meeting point for about 180 participants from advocacy, the business world, academia as well as public authorities. The two-day event distinguishes itself from other competition conferences not only by its quality and its reputation, but also by the “je ne sais quoi” of its supporting programme.
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