The Next Generation of Antitrust Scholarship Conference sponsored by NYU School of Law and the Antitrust Section of the ABA is accepting papers from new law professors. Submissions are due November 20, 2009. The conference will take place on January 29, 2010. jv
The Next Generation of Antitrust Scholarship Conference sponsored by NYU School of Law and the Antitrust Section of the ABA is accepting papers from new law professors. Submissions are due November 20, 2009. The conference will take place on January 29, 2010. jv
Penn Law will award two Sharswood Fellowships in 2010 for two years of research, writing and teaching for scholars committed to entering a career in legal academia. Applications are due January 15, 2010.
Penn Law will award two Sharswood Fellowships in 2010 for two years of research, writing and teaching for scholars committed to entering a career in legal academia. Applications are due January 15, 2010. jv
Georgetown University Law Center, Columbia Law School, University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and UCLA School of Law invite submissions for the eighth meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles on June 4 & 5, 2010. Submissions must be received by January 8, 2010. jv
Georgetown University Law Center, Columbia Law School, University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and UCLA School of Law invite submissions for the eighth meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles on June 4 & 5, 2010. Submissions must be received by January 8, 2010. jv
The Arkansas Law Review will host a symposium on the Unmarried Couple Adoption Ban on November 5, 2009, at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The symposium will address the legal and political issues surrounding what was Arkansas’s Initiated Act 1, banning the adoption of children by unmarried couples in the state, as well as the national context in which it was passed. Jump to full post
The Arkansas Law Review will host a symposium on the Unmarried Couple Adoption Ban on November 5, 2009, at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The symposium will address the legal and political issues surrounding what was Arkansas’s Initiated Act 1, banning the adoption of children by unmarried couples in the state, as well as the national context in which it was passed. Jump to full post
The University of Denver Sturm College of Law Faculty Colloquia Series will be featuring a presentation by The Honorable David Edward, former member of the European Court of Justice, who will be presenting Nationalism, Constitutionalism, and the Future of the European Union.
Hofstra University School of Law presents a conference, Power, Politics, and Public Service: The Legal Ethics of Lawyers in Government, on October 18 – 20, 2009.
The conference will focus on the most important regulatory and cultural reforms regarding the ethics of prosecutors, and the ethical duties and limitations of government lawyers who advise or litigate on behalf of public officials or public agencies.
The William Mitchell Law Review seeks papers and proposals for a symposium, The Future of Carbon Management Law, to be held in St. Paul, Minnesota on November 5, 2009. [UPDATE (Sept. 17): the symposium will be rescheduled for sometime in January.] The symposium will include sessions on the basics of carbon management, market-based solutions, and regulation-based solutions.Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
The role of the law in ordering and regulating carbon markets
Comparisons to similar market-based approaches, historical and international
Jurisdictional issues arising among local, state, regional, federal, and international carbon management authorities
Effective enforcement and regulation of carbon producers and carbon emissions as an alternative to, or in conjunction with, market-based solutions
Other alternative regulatory approaches to carbon management
Other topics relevant to carbon management
Symposium participants will engage in panel discussions within each of these topics. Articles by symposium participants will be included in Issue 3 of the William Mitchell Law Review’s upcoming Volume 36, which will be published in Spring 2010.Proposals should be in the form of abstracts of no more than 500 words and accompanied by the author’s resume or curriculum vitae. Authors whose proposals are selected will be expected to submit initial drafts of completed articles by October 20. The deadline for final drafts will be January 1, 2010.Please direct inquiries and submissions to Executive Editor Laura Bartlow at laura.bartlow@wmitchell.edu. Please note that the Law Review prefers electronic submissions. However, submissions may also be mailed to the Editorial Office at:William Mitchell Law ReviewWilliam Mitchell College of Law875 Summit Avenue, Suite 159St. Paul, Minnesota 55105
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