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The Law Librarian’s Role in the Scholarly Enterprise - Columbia, SC

The University of South Carolina School of Law presents The Law Librarian’s Role in the Scholarly Enterprise Nov. 21, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 23rd, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

The Law Librarian’s Role in the Scholarly Enterprise - Columbia, SC

The University of South Carolina School of Law presents The Law Librarian’s Role in the Scholarly Enterprise Nov. 21, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 23rd, 2008 | Law Librarianship, Legal Education, CONFERENCES | no comments

Rise of Transnational Networks - Dallas

SMU Dedman School of Law presents The Rise of Transnational Networks Nov. 7, 2008.

In the last few decades, judges, legislators, prosecutors, and agency officials have increasingly been coordinating policy and decision-making across borders through informal networks. Such coordination has often occurred without formal legal sanction and is especially prominent in areas of cross-border regulation, including banking, antitrust, environmental protection, and securities law. But it also occurs in more politically charged areas, such as constitutional law, national security, law enforcement, and human rights. This conference will review the record of transnational networks and the promise they hold for deeper and more effective international cooperation. Under what conditions are transnational networks likely to arise and how do they function? What are their advantages over traditional diplomacy and international organizations, and in what circumstances are networks most likely to be successful? What are some of the main obstacles to their legitimacy and effectiveness, and how can these obstacles be overcome?

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 23rd, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

Rise of Transnational Networks - Dallas

SMU Dedman School of Law presents The Rise of Transnational Networks Nov. 7, 2008.

In the last few decades, judges, legislators, prosecutors, and agency officials have increasingly been coordinating policy and decision-making across borders through informal networks. Such coordination has often occurred without formal legal sanction and is especially prominent in areas of cross-border regulation, including banking, antitrust, environmental protection, and securities law. But it also occurs in more politically charged areas, such as constitutional law, national security, law enforcement, and human rights.This conference will review the record of transnational networks and the promise they hold for deeper and more effective international cooperation. Under what conditions are transnational networks likely to arise and how do they function? What are their advantages over traditional diplomacy and international organizations, and in what circumstances are networks most likely to be successful? What are some of the main obstacles to their legitimacy and effectiveness, and how can these obstacles be overcome?

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 23rd, 2008 | International Law, CONFERENCES | no comments

September 24 Colloquia/Workshops

Connecticut

       Richard Abel (UCLA Law), Lawyers in the Dock: Learnings from New York Disciplinary Proceedings

Miami

      Scott Sunby (Miami Law), War and Peace in the Jury Room: The Deliberative Process of Capital Juries

NYU Legal History

       Christina Burnett (Columbia Law),A Clash of Constitutionalisms: The Conflict over the Platt Amendments 1900-1901

Pacific McGeorge

       Miriam Cherry (Pacific McGeorge Law), Virtual Work

USC Law History and Culture

       Hilary Schor (USC English, Law), “Maidens Choosing”: George Eliot, Curiosity, and the Law

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 23rd, 2008 | EVENTS, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Literature, Constitutional Law | no comments

September 23rd Colloquia/Workshops

Kansas

       Lee Fennell (Chicago Law), Adjusting Alienability

Lewis and Clark

       Steve Johansen (Lewis and Clark Law), Was Colonel Sanders a Terrorist?: The Ethics of Storytelling in Legislation

Marquette

       Ellen Harvey (Yale Law Graduate)

NYU Law, Economics and Politics

       Jessica Trounstine (Princeton Politics), Information, Turnout, and Incumbency in Local Elections

Oregon Center for Law and Politics

       Mark Graber (Maryland Law), Polarization and the Courts

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 23rd, 2008 | Local Government Law, Immigration Law, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Society | no comments

September 23rd Colloquia/Workshops

Kansas

       Lee Fennell (Chicago Law), Adjusting Alienability

Lewis and Clark

       Steve Johansen (Lewis and Clark Law), Was Colonel Sanders a Terrorist?: The Ethics of Storytelling in Legislation

Marquette

       Ellen Harvey (Yale Law Graduate)

NYU Law, Economics and Politics

       Jessica Trounstine (Princeton Politics), Information, Turnout, and Incumbency in Local Elections

Oregon Center for Law and Politics

       Mark Graber (Maryland Law), Polarization and the Courts

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 22nd, 2008 | Local Government Law, Immigration Law, EVENTS, COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Law and Society | no comments

Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, IP, Self-Determination - Lancaster, UK

Lancaster University Law School presents Indigenous peoples’ rights in the aftermath of the Declaration: (Intellectual) Property and Self-Determination, Sept. 23, 2008.

Lancaster Human Rights Forum presents a one-day conference exploring indigenous peoples’ rights in the aftermath of the adoption in September 2007 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This event will focus on two contested and complex aspects of indigenous rights: the right to self-determination, and intellectual property rights of indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination was a fundamental area of debate in the negotiations leading up to the acceptance of the Declaration, and continues to generate considerable controversy. The intellectual property rights of indigenous peoples is an evolving area of human rights requiring consideration of the ownership of knowledge, informed consent and appropriate sharing of the economic benefits deriving from the commercialisation of traditional knowledge.This event will feature speakers from Brunel, Liverpool, and Leeds Universities, from the departments of Law, Geography and CESAGen at Lancaster, and from Minority Rights Group International.

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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 25th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

ABA Section of International Law - Brussels

The ABA Section of International Law holds its fall meeting in Brussels Sept. 23-27, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 10th, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

Public Land Law - Federal Lands Agenda - Missoula, MT

The University of Montana School of Law’s Public Land & Resources Law Review, in partnership with the University of Montana Public Policy Research Institute, presents the 32nd Annual Public Land Law Conference, A Federal Lands Agenda for the 21st Century: Recommendations for the New Administration, Sept. 22-24, 2008.

Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 3rd, 2008 | EVENTS | no comments

Australian Institute of Comparative Legal Systems Conference

The Istanbul Conference - The Legal System of Turkey, by the Australian Institute of Comparative Legal Systems in Istanbul, Turkey, September 22-26, 2008

Posted by pittlegalscholarship on September 3rd, 2007 | EVENTS | no comments