Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship - Chicago
Northwestern University School of Law and Washington University present Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop, May 20 - 22, 2009, at Northwestern.
Conducting Empirical Scholarship - Chicago
| May 20, 2009 | to | May 22, 2009 |
Northwestern University School of Law and Washington University present Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop, May 20 - 22, 2009, at Northwestern.
Presidential Power in Historical Perspective - Philadelphia
| February 6, 2009 | to | February 7, 2009 |
The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law and the Penn Program on Regulation present Presidential Power in Historical Perspective: Reflections on Calabresi and Yoo’s The Unitary Executive Feb. 6-7, 2009.
Presidential Power in Historical Perspective - Philadelphia
The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law and the Penn Program on Regulation present Presidential Power in Historical Perspective: Reflections on Calabresi and Yoo’s The Unitary Executive Feb. 6-7, 2009.
Call for Papers Deadline: Risk Management & Corporate Governance - Chicago
| July 15, 2009 |
The Center for Integrated Risk Management and Corporate Governance (Loyola University Chicago Graduate School of Business) presents the Annual Conference on Risk Management and Corporate Governance Oct. 1-2, 2009. The call for papers deadline is July 15, 2009.
Risk Management & Corporate Governance - Chicago
| October 1, 2009 | to | October 2, 2009 |
The Center for Integrated Risk Management and Corporate Governance (Loyola University Chicago Graduate School of Business) presents the Annual Conference on Risk Management and Corporate Governance Oct. 1-2, 2009. The call for papers deadline is July 15, 2009.
Risk Management & Corporate Governance - Chicago
The Center for Integrated Risk Management and Corporate Governance (Loyola University Chicago Graduate School of Business) presents the Annual Conference on Risk Management and Corporate Governance Oct. 1-2, 2009. The call for papers deadline is July 15, 2009.
Bankruptcy Claims Trading & Securities Reg - Brooklyn
| February 27, 2009 |
Brooklyn Law School presents a symposium, Bankruptcy Claims Trading and Securities Regulation, Feb. 27, 2009. Papers will be published in the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law.
Bankruptcy Claims Trading & Securities Reg - Brooklyn
Brooklyn Law School presents a symposium, Bankruptcy Claims Trading and Securities Regulation, Feb. 27, 2009. Papers will be published in the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law.
Government’s Role in Housing & Economic Development - Brooklyn
| March 27, 2009 |
Brooklyn Law School hosts the Sparer Symposium, Government’s Role in Housing and Economic Development, March 27, 2009. It is co-sponsored by the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Program and the Journal of Law and Policy. Details at SSRN.
Government’s Role in Housing - Brooklyn
Brooklyn Law School hosts the Sparer Symposium, Government’s Role in Housing and Economic Development, March 27, 2009. It is co-sponsored by the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Program and the Journal of Law and Policy. Details at SSRN.
Call for Papers Deadline: Origins & History of Shareholder Advocacy - New Haven
| February 24, 2009 |
The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management is planning a conference on the origins and historical development of shareholder advocacy. The conference will take place in November 2009. The call for proposals deadline is Feb. 24, 2009. Details at SSRN.
Origins & History of Shareholder Advocacy - New Haven
The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management is planning a conference on the origins and historical development of shareholder advocacy. The conference will take place in November 2009. The call for proposals deadline is Feb. 24, 2009. Details at SSRN.
Drug & Alcohol Addiction Research, Legal & Ethical Implications - Phoenix
| April 10, 2009 |
The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University presents Hooked: Legal and Ethical Implications of Recent Advances in Alcohol and Drug Addiction Research. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, April 10, at the Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse, 401 W. Washington St., in downtown Phoenix. It is co-sponsored by the College’s Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology and the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at ASU.
The conference will offer a balanced, multidisciplinary set of leading national and local experts providing a range of current scientific, legal and ethical perspectives on addiction and how the problem is and should be addressed by the courts. In recent years, scientists have made substantial progress in understanding, diagnosing, predicting, treating and monitoring drug and alcohol addiction, especially pertaining to genetic and neuroscience evidence, which would be helpful to the courts.
The free conference is intended for judges, attorneys, scientists, mental health and addiction specialists, scholars and educators. In addition, free continuing legal education credits will be offered. The conference is the third in a series of biennial programs organized by the Center on subjects relating to the brain and the law. Previous topics were “Abnormal Brains,” in 2005, and “Brain Scanning,” in 2007. For more information, go to www.law.asu.edu/lst or contact Andrew Askland at (480) 965-2465, Andrew.Askland [at] asu.edu.
Alcohol & Drug Addiction Research, Legal & Ethical Implications - Phoenix
The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University presents Hooked: Legal and Ethical Implications of Recent Advances in Alcohol and Drug Addiction Research. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, April 10, at the Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse, 401 W. Washington St., in downtown Phoenix. It is co-sponsored by the College’s Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology and the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at ASU.
The conference will offer a balanced, multidisciplinary set of leading national and local experts providing a range of current scientific, legal and ethical perspectives on addiction and how the problem is and should be addressed by the courts. In recent years, scientists have made substantial progress in understanding, diagnosing, predicting, treating and monitoring drug and alcohol addiction, especially pertaining to genetic and neuroscience evidence, which would be helpful to the courts.
The free conference is intended for judges, attorneys, scientists, mental health and addiction specialists, scholars and educators. In addition, free continuing legal education credits will be offered. The conference is the third in a series of biennial programs organized by the Center on subjects relating to the brain and the law. Previous topics were “Abnormal Brains,” in 2005, and “Brain Scanning,” in 2007. For more information, go to www.law.asu.edu/lst or contact Andrew Askland at (480) 965-2465, Andrew.Askland [at] asu.edu.
February 2nd Colloquia/Workshops
| February 2, 2009 |
Mark Denbeaux (Seton Hall), Justice Scalia, the Department of Defense, And the Perpetuation of an Urban Legend
Bruce E. Boyden (Marquette Law)
Calvin Morrill (UC Irvine Sociology) Lauren Edelman (Berkeley Law) Richard Arum (NYU Sociology) and Karolyn Tyson (UNC Sociology), Legal Mobilization in U.S. Schools: How Race Conditions Students’ Response to Laws and Rights
January 30th Colloquia/Workshops
Arizona Economics, Law, and the Environment
Bradley T. Borden (Washburn Law), Open Tenancies in Common
Carlos M. Vazquez (Georgetown Law), Not a Happy Precedent: The Story of Ex parte Quirin
Kevin Jon Heller (Melbourne Law), Situational Gravity Under the Rome Statute
Katherine T. Bartlett (Duke Law), Good Intentions, Unconscious Bias and the Law
Peter Joy (Washington Law) and Robert R. Kuehn (Alabama Law), Lawyering in the Academy: The Intersection of Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibility
Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), The Comparative Nature of Punishment
Tax Policy in the Obama Era
| January 30, 2009 | ||
| 9:00 am | to | 5:15 pm |
Tax Policy in the Obama Era, a conference today sponsored by UCLA School of Law and the Tax Policy Center today at UCLA:
9:00-9:15 am Welcome and Introductory Remarks
9:15-10:45 am Tax Policy in an Era of Growing Inequality
Emmanuel Saez (UC Berkeley, Economics), Income Tax Reform and Inequality
Len Burman (Tax Policy Center), The Rising Tide Tax System: Indexing the Tax System for Changes in Inequality
Eric Zolt (UCLA Law & Economics), Income Inequality and Local Government
Commentator: Elizabeth Garrett (USC Law)
11:00 am-12:30 pm Dimensions of Fiscal Policy in the Post-Bush Era
George Yin (Virginia Law), Temporary-Effect Legislation, Politicial Accountability, and Fiscal Restraint (PowerPoint)
Hillary Hoynes (UC Davis, Economics), Tax Policy for Low Income Families: The EITC
Kirk Stark (UCLA Law), In Search of a Post-Partisan Fiscal Federalism
Commentator: Pamela Olson (Skadden Arps)
12:30-2:00 pm Hon. Rep. Xavier Becerra (U.S. House of Representatives, Member of Committee on Ways and Means)
2:00-3:30 pm Policy Options Amid Economic Crisis
Steve Bank (UCLA Law), Tax Policy During the Great Depression
Dan Halperin (Harvard Law), Retirement Income Security After the Fall
Daniel J. B. Mitchell (UCLA School of Management), When Luck Runs Out: Leadership - Present and Past - and the California State Budget
Commentator: Joseph Bankman (Stanford Law)
3:45-5:15 pm Politics, Public Opinion & the Possibility of Tax Reform
Larry Bartels (Princeton), Public Opinion and the Politics of Tax Policy: From Bush to Obama (PowerPoint)
Ed McCaffery (USC Law, Cal Tech), Behavioral Dimensions of Tax Reform
Rosanne Altshuler (Tax Policy Center), Lessons from the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform
Commentator: Ellen Aprill (Loyola Law)
Tax Policy in the Obama Era
Tax Policy in the Obama Era, a conference today sponsored by UCLA School of Law and the Tax Policy Center today at UCLA:
January 30th, Colloquia/Workshops
| January 30, 2009 |
Arizona Economics, Law, and the Environment
Bradley T. Borden (Washburn Law), Open Tenancies in Common
Carlos M. Vazquez (Georgetown Law), Not a Happy Precedent: The Story of Ex parte Quirin
Kevin Jon Heller (Melbourne Law), Situational Gravity Under the Rome Statute
Katherine T. Bartlett (Duke Law), Good Intentions, Unconscious Bias and the Law
Peter Joy (Washington Law) and Robert R. Kuehn (Alabama Law), Lawyering in the Academy: The Intersection of Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibility
Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), The Comparative Nature of Punishment
Call for Papers Deadline: Employment Law
| January 30, 2009 |
Call for Papers: “Emerging Trends in Employment Law”
The Rutgers Law Record seeks scholarly articles on Emerging Trends in Employment Law to be included in its first issue in its new on-line symposium format. See submissions page for article requirements.
Please submit all articles and questions to lawrecordarticles [at] gmail.com prior to January 5, 2009.
Update (Jan. 6): The editors are extending the deadline to Jan. 30, 2009.
Green Building - Williamsburg, VA
| January 30, 2009 | to | January 31, 2009 |
The William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review will host It’s Not Easy Being Green, a symposium on green building and legal issues surrounding its application, Jan. 30-31, 2009.
Public Service & the Law - Charlottesville, VA
| January 30, 2009 | to | January 31, 2009 |
The University of Virginia School of Law hosts the 10th Annual Conference on Public Service & the Law Jan. 30-31, 2009.
Founded by law students at the University of Virginia ten years ago, the Conference on Public Service and the Law brings together students, faculty, attorneys, and policymakers to explore public interest issues facing today’s legal community and related career paths for young attorneys.
This year’s keynote speaker is Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. A special guest speaker is Alan Morrison.
Lincoln’s Constitutionalism in Time of War: Lessons for the Current War on Terror? - Orange, CA
| January 30, 2009 |
Chapman University Law Review’s 2009 Symposium, Lincoln’s Constitutionalism in Time of War: Lessons for the Current War on Terror?, will take place on January 30, 2009. Panels will compare constitutional approaches to the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus by President Lincoln in the Civil War and President Bush during the War on Terror, the effect of war on the American economy during the Civil War and the War on Terror, and related topics.
Access to the Courts in the Roberts Era - Cleveland, OH
| January 30, 2009 |
The Case Western Reserve Law Review Symposium, Access to the Courts in the Roberts Era, will take place on January 30, 2009. The symposium will explore the access individuals have had to the courts since the appointment of Chief Justice Roberts to the United States Supreme Court, as well as the future of access issues in what has been called the “Roberts Era.”
Keynote speaker Gene Nichol will address emerging trends concerning access to the courts and standing rights. Symposium panelists, who are among the country’s leading experts in the field, will examine a wide array of issues critical to an accessible judiciary system.
Technology, Knowledge and Society - Huntsville, AL
| January 30, 2009 | to | February 1, 2009 |
The Fifth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society will take place Jan. 30 - Feb. 1, 2009, in Huntsville, AL.
This Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the relationships between technology, knowledge and society. The Conference is cross-disciplinary in scope, a meeting point for technologists with a concern for the social and social scientists with a concern for the technological. The focus is primarily, but not exclusively, on information and communications technologies.
As well as impressive line-up of international main speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the Conference proceedings.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 9 October 2008. Future deadlines will be announced on the Conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website.
Confrontation Clause - Portland, OR
| January 30, 2009 |
Lewis & Clark Law School’s Spring Symposium, Jan. 30, 2009, focuses on Giles v. California, the most recent Confrontation Clause case decided by the United States Supreme Court. Giles v. California involved the historic forfeiture-by-wrongdoing exception to the Confrontation Clause. The 4-2-3 split among the Justices indicates that Giles v. California is not the last word on this Confrontation Clause exception.The Symposium will feature many of the top scholars in the contemporary Confrontation Clause debate. Hostedy by Lewis & Clark Law Professor Doug Beloof, the expected presenters are Thomas Davies (Tennessee), Jeffrey Fisher (Stanford), Richard Friedman (Michigan), Robert Kry (firm of Baker Botts), Tom Lininger (Oregon), Robert Mosteller (Duke) and Deborah Tuerkheimer (Maine).
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