May 15, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jytte Klausen (Brandeis Politics), Why Religion has Become More Salient in Europe: Four Working Hypotheses about Secularization and Religiosity in Contemporary Politics
May 13, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Loyola
Pittsburgh
Event regarding the arrest of Dr. Binayak Sen. For information go to http://www.cnbc.com/id/24243747
UCLA Law, Economics, & Organizations
Andrew Metrick (UPenn Business), The Economics of Private Equity Funds
May 8, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Rachel Jean-Baptiste (Chicago History), Settling Out of Court, Marriage, and Divorce in Post-colonial Gabon
Yifat Holzman-Gazit (Stanford Law), The Effect of Form and Content on Public Approval Investigatory Commissions: Findings from Israel
Peter Nicolas (Washington Law), Taking State Law Seriously: A Re-Assessment of Our Obsession with All Things Federal
Todd Henderson (Chicago Law), Rule 10b5-2 Trading Plan Disclosure Choice
May 6, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Rachel Barkow (NYU Law), Institutional Design and the Policing of Prosecutors: Lessons from Administrative Law
David Ardia, Sam Bayard, Tuna Chatterjee (Members of Citizen Media Law Project), Discussion of the project’s first year
Ruth Mazo Karras (Minnesota History), Telling the Truth About Sex in Late Medieval Paris
Jens Dammann (Texas Law), Of Courts and Corporations
May 1, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Linda McClain (Boston University), Why is Equality So Hard?: Men, Women, and Social Cooperation
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Viviana Zelizer (Princeton Sociology), Intimacy in Economic Organization
David Rosenberg (Harvard Law), A New Sampling Method to Reduce the Cost of Resolving Differing Claims Against a Defendant
Minnesota Faculty Works
Barry Friedman (NYU Law), Judicial Activism and Popular Opinion
April 30, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Emilie Hafner-Burton (Princeton), Democratization and Human Rights Regimes
Douglas NeJaime (UCLA Law), Regulating the Sexuality of Minors
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
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April 25, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jessie Hill (Case Western Law), Of Christmas Trees and Corpus Christi: The Establishment Clause and Change in Meaning Over Time
Haider Hamoudi (Pittsburgh Law), Realism in Islamic Jurisprudence
Ed Morrison (Columbia Law), Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11
April 24, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jim Fleming (Boston University Law), Traditionalism and Backlash in Constitutional Argument
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Laura Rosenbury (Washington University in St. Louis Law), Beyond Intimacy
Claire Priest (Columbia Law), Understanding the End of Entail: Information, Institutions, and Slavery in the American Revolutionary Period
Madhavi Sunder (UC Davis), The New Enlightenment: How Muslim Women are Bringing Religion Out of the Dark Ages
Sharon Dolovich (UCLA Law), Defining Eighth Amendment Deliberate Indifference
Minnesota Faculty Works
Heidi Kitrosser (Minnesota Law), The Reality Based Constitution
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Jason Furman (The Brookings Institution), Reforming the Tax Treatment of Health Care: Right Ways and Wrong Ways
Rose Villazor (SMU Law), Birthright Citizenship in the U.S. Territories
Rachel Brewster (Harvard Law), Renegotiation and Reinterpretation of Treaties
Ruti Teitel (New York Law School), Humanity’s Law
Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard Economics), Taking the Long Way Around: Real Consequences of Transport Corruption
April 23, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Stephen Harp (Akron History), Au Naturel: National Decency Laws and Local Tolerance of Public Nudity in Twentieth-Century France
Alan Sykes (Stanford Law), Currency Manipulation and World Trade
Peggie Smith (Iowa Law), Home Sweet Home? Workplace Casualties of Consumer-Directed Home Care for the Elderly
James Whitman (Yale Law), The Verdict of Battle
UC Hastings
Carolyn Sale (Alberta English), The King is a Thing: The King’s Prerogative and the Treasure of the Realm in Plowden’s Report of the ‘Case of Mines’ and Shakespeare’s Hamlet
April 22, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Daniel Farber (UC Berkeley Law), Modeling Climate Change and Its Impacts: Law, Policy and Science
Tracey Mitrano (Cornell, Director of IT Policy), Building a Global University
Steve Johansen (Lewis & Clark) & Anne Villella (Lewis & Clark)
Notre Dame
Stephen Elkin (Maryland Behavioral and Social Sciences), The Theory of Republican Constitution
April 21, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Christopher Morris (Maryland Law), Natural Rights and Political Legitimacy & P 1-2 Declaration of Independence & Anarchy, State, and Utopia & State Legitimacy and Social Order
Eric Zolt (UCLA Law), Inequality, Collective Action, and Taxing and Spending Patterns of State and Local Governments
Alan O. Sykes (Stanford Law), Transnational Forum Shopping as a Trade and Investment Issue
Greg Mandel (Temple Law), Left Brain vs. Right Brain: Conflicting Conceptions of Creativity in Intellectual Property Law
Jean Comaroff (Chicago Anthropology), Nations with/out Borders: Neoliberalism and the Problem of Belong in Africa, and Beyond
Lauren Edelman (UC Berkeley Law) & Linda Krieger (UC Berkeley Law) & Scott Eliason (Minnesota Sociology) & Catherine Albiston (UC Berkeley Law) & Virginia Mellema (EEOC), When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Employment Structures
UC Hastings
Adam Scales (Washington & Lee Law), Insurance in the Aftermath of Katrina
Joshua Foa Dienstag (UCLA Political Science), The Promise of Pessimism
Christine Jolls (Yale Law), Mandated Medical Leave in the Workplace
Reinier Kraakman (Harvard Law), Exit, Voice, and Liability: Legal Dimensions of Organizational Structure
April 18, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Georgetown International Human Rights
Peter Spiro (Temple Law), An International Law of Citizenship
New York Law School Clinical Theory
Peter Margulies (Roger Williams Law), Clinical Education and Representing Guantanamo Detainees: Identity, Efficacy, and Gatekeeping
Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt Law), Capitalism and the Tax System: A Search for Social Justice
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default
April 17, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), The Story of Murphy: A New Front in the War Against the Income Tax
Note: Professor Caron will be blogging on this paper today here.
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
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), A Special Case?: Corporations and Campaign Finance
Fernanda Nicola (American University Law), Invisible Cities: Markets, Distribution and Development in European Union Law
Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Law), The Province of Jurisprudence Revisited
Loyola
Minnesota Faculty Works
Ed McCaffery (USC Law), Towards a Unified Theory of Tax and Property
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
David Gamage (UC Berkeley Law), Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidanc: A Tentative Defense of “Double Taxation”
Diane Ring (Boston College Law), Sovereignty and International Tax
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar (Stanford Law), “Securing” the Bureaucracy: The Federal Security Agency and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 1939-1953
Sai Prakash (San Diego Law), The Seperation and Overlap of War and Military Powers
Joshua Cohen (Stanford Political Science), Politics, Power, and Public Reason
Washington
Amy Wildermuth (Utah Law), The Failed Mead Experiment - A Critical Review of the Skidmore Revival
Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions
April 16, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Kathryn Sikkink (Minnesota Law), Do Human Rights Trials Make a Difference?
Felice Batlan (Chicago-Kent Law), The Imperial SEC? Historicizing the Internationalization of the Securities Markets
CUNY
Dinesh Khosla (CUNY Law), A Case Study in Social Entrepreneurship
Michael Hoeflich (Kansas Law), Selling the Law in Antebellum America: The Sale & Distribution of Law Books, 1780-1870
St. Thomas (Mn)
Matt Bodie (St. Louis Law), The False Promise of One Share, One Vote
UC Hastings
April 15, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jose Alvarez (Columbia Law), The Empire of Law or the Law of Empire
Ray Fisman (Columbia Business), Learning Social Preferences at Yale Law School
David Yalof (UConn Law), Confirmation Obfuscation: Supreme Court Confirmation Politics in a Conservative Era
Joby Branion (Athletes First), An Insider’s Perspective
Tanya K. Hernandez (George Washington Law), The Long Lindering Shadow: Law, Liberalism and Cultures of Racial Hierarchy and Identity in the Americas
Kerry Rittich (Toronto Law), Informal Labour Markets and Development
Rachel Lyon (Lioness Media), Race and the Internet
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
Animal Law - Portland, OR
The Student Animal Legal Defense Fund at Lewis & Clark Law School hosts its 16th Annual Animal Law Conference October 17-19, 2008.
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