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.
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research presents Off-Label Uses of Approved Drugs: Medicine, Law, and Policy May 21, 2008.
I posted information about this conference in February. Now I have new links to add, as well as a reminder: The call for proposals deadline (May 15) is approaching. Get your proposals in: the organizers look forward to reviewing them!
The University of Washington School of Law will host a small, working conference (about 40-60 participants), Legal Education at the Crossroads — Ideas to Accomplishments: Sharing New Ideas for an Integrated Curriculum, Sept. 5-7, 2008. The planning committee includes faculty from seven different law schools
The conference responds to the suggestions in the Carnegie Report (Sullivan, et al., Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (2007)) and supported by the recent study by Stuckey et al. (Best Practices for Legal Education (2007)).
While we will be championing existing transformative efforts, our principal goal is to help participants develop, expand, and assess projects anywhere along the spectrum between ideas and recently-initiated innovations. Consequently, while participants in the conference will gain a sense of what law schools are already doing to implement the Carnegie and CLEA Reports, participants’ primary benefit will be the opportunity to develop their own ideas as they share and explore those ideas in facilitated groups.
There will be no registration fee, and some meals will be provided. Participants will pay for their own transportation and hotel costs.
Requests to participate should be submitted by May 15, 2008. See the request for proposals here.
For further information, you may contact Debbie Maranville (206.685.6803, maran[at]u.washington.edu) or Michael Hunter Schwartz (785-670-1666).
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.
Entries will be accepted through July 1, 2008, for the 2008 Chicago-Kent College of Law / Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize.Established in 2007 at Chicago-Kent College of Law by alumnus Roy C. Palmer and his wife, Susan M. Palmer, the prize honors a work of scholarship that explores the tension between civil liberties and national security in contemporary American society. The $10,000 prize is designed to encourage and reward public debate among scholars on current issues affecting the rights of individuals and the responsibilities of governments throughout the world.
Articles or books submitted to the competition must be in draft form or have been published within the six months prior to the July 1 deadline. As a condition of accepting the award, the winner will present his or her work at Chicago-Kent. Eligible books and articles should be submitted to Tasha Kincade, assistant to Dean Harold J. Krent, at tkincade[at]kentlaw.edu or 565 West Adams Street, Chicago, IL 60661-3691.
The 2007 prize was awarded to constitutional scholars David D. Cole and Jules L. Lobel for their book Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (The New Press). The award-winning book is a critical analysis of the civil liberties and geopolitical implications of the Bush administration’s “war on terror” and self-described “paradigm of prevention” with respect to terrorism.
Roy Palmer, a lawyer and real estate developer, is a 1962 honors graduate of Chicago-Kent and a member of its board of overseers. He and his wife, Susan, active in numerous civic, social and philanthropic organizations, are the recipients of the 1997 Outstanding Individual Philanthropist Award of the National Society of Fundraising Executives. In 2006, the Palmers pledged a $1 million gift to the law school earmarked to support the expansion of Chicago-Kent’s campus, located in a rapidly developing area of downtown Chicago.
Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. Chicago-Kent has a proud tradition of advancing and influencing legal thought through public programs, endowed lecture series, and faculty scholarship.
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
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.
John McGinnis (Northwestern Law), Democracy and International Human Rights Law
James Grimmelmann (New York Law School), Discussing Copyright
Gary J. Gates (UCLA Law), Is Gay the New Straight?
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
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School hosts Berkman@10 May 15-16, 2008.
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.”
The Law School Admission Council Research Grant Program funds empirical research on legal training and legal practice broadly viewed. This includes the study of precursors to legal training (including demographic variables), all varieties of legal training itself, and the work that lawyers, judges, law teachers, and other legal professionals do after they complete their training (“law jobs”).
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Although the program welcomes research on a variety of topics, three requests for proposals have been issued in the following areas . . ..* Research on Pipeline Issues and Access to Law Schools for Minority Populations
* Research on Access to Law School for Students With Disabilities
* Research on Law School Academic Assistance Programs
For more information, visit http://members.lsacnet.org/, and choose Research Grants under Grants.
There are two reviewing cycles each year, with deadlines of Sept. 1 and Feb. 1.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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