The Paoli Baffi Centre on Central Banking and Financial Regulation (Università Bocconi), the European Banking Center (Tilburg University), and the Center on Central Banks and Financial Institutions (New York University) present Finlawmetrics 2012 (7th ed.), The Taylor Rule at the Crossroads: Monetary Policy, Prudential Issues and Central Banking, June 21-22, 2012, at Bocconi University.
The conference will focus on the relationships between monetary policy, prudential issues, and central banking — economics and political economy — in developed and emerging countries. Selected papers will be considered for publication in the Journal of Financial Stability. The submission deadline is Feb. 28, 2012.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 27th, 2011
| Law and Economics, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland invites submissions for a two-day conference on issues related to capital requirements for financial firms, to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 12-13, 2012. The conference will bring together academics, policymakers, and market participants to discuss regulatory reform and the future of the financial system. The organizers are looking for a mix of theoretical and empirical papers. The submission deadline is Jan. 31, 2012. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 27th, 2011
| Empirical Legal Studies, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Centre for Business and Commercial Laws at National Law Institute University, Bhopal invites papers for the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Critical Issues in International Commercial Arbitration to be held March 3-4, 2012 in Bhopal, India. Abstracts are due by Jan. 5th, 2012. All questions may be directed to cbcl.nliu[at]gmail.com.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 15th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Commercial Law, International Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES |
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The American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers awards prizes to written contributions to the field of consumer financial services law. Eligible papers include publishable articles, substantial book reviews, or book chapters; books; and student case note or comment. The entry deadline is Dec. 1, 2011. Works must have been written or published within the past twelve months. Details are here. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 9th, 2011
| Consumer law, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law |
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Suffolk Law School and the National Consumer Law Center are convening a Research Symposium on Credit Scoring and Credit Reporting in Boston on June 6-7, 2012. Paper proposals are due Nov. 15, 2011. The call for papers is available on SSRN.
The goal of the Symposium, which is invitation-only, is to bring together the nation’s top experts, including academics, private attorneys, industry representatives, consumer advocates, and government officials, to discuss research and policy related to credit scoring and credit reporting, including their impact on communities of color and other protected groups.TOPICS: We invite paper proposals that are empirical, qualitative, theoretical or policy-oriented. . . .
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 9th, 2011
| Poverty Law, Consumer law, Empirical Legal Studies, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Northern Kentucky Law Review (Salmon P. Chase College of Law Northern Kentucky University) presents The Legal Heritage of the Civil War Oct. 22, 2011, 9 am - 12:45 pm. Topics:
- Salmon P. Chase and the Legal Basis for the U.S. Monetary System
- Civil War Legislation and the Growth of Federal Power: The Land Grant College Act (The Morill Act), The Homestead Act (origin of the Department of Agriculture), and the Pacific Railway Act (to fund the trans-continental railway)
- Military Trials of Terrorists: From Lincoln Conspirators to the Guantanamo Inmates
- The Civil War Origin of the Rules of War: Francis Lieber and Lincoln’s General Orders No. 100
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on September 18th, 2011
| Legal History, National Security Law, Commercial Law, International Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES |
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CONSOB and Bocconi University, through its CAREFIN and “Paolo Baffi” research centers, are organizing a conference on financial innovation, capital markets dynamics and the implications for securities regulation. The conference will be held Feb. 10, 2012, at Bocconi University premises in Milan. Interested authors should submit their paper to the e-mail studi_analisi [at] consob.it by Oct. 14, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 29th, 2011
| Securities Law, Law and Economics, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES |
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The 2012 annual meeting of the Business History Conference (BHC) will take place March 29-31 in Philadelphia. The theme for the conference is “Business and the State.” Proposals—for individual papers or entire panels—are due Oct. 1, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 27th, 2011
| Legal History, Law and Society, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, Business Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Frances Lewis Law Center (Washington and Lee University School of Law) and the Washington and Lee Law Review present Regulation in the Fringe Economy Nov. 11, 2011. The Washington and Lee Law Review will publish a symposium issue featuring the conference papers in 2012.
The symposium Regulation in the Fringe Economy represents the most significant attempt to date by legal scholars to address the vexing legal and social issues created by lenders on the fringes of the economy who offer payday, auto title, for-profit college, and refund anticipation loans. A complete list of confirmed participants and their paper topics is available at the conference website.
Manuscript submissions are due by Aug. 15, 2011. Even if you are not able to submit a paper, the sponsors invite you to attend the conference, which is free. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 13th, 2011
| Poverty Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Ph.D. students of the Queen Mary University School of Law present the Queen Mary PhD Conference 2011, Pushing Legal Knowledge Boundaries, June 7, 2011.
The call for papers deadline has been extended to April 25, 2011.
We invite papers from all areas of law, including:Intellectual Property | Public International | Human Rights | Criminal | Competition | Commercial & Corporate | Banking & Finance | Tax | European Union | Litigation | Constitutional | Arbitration | Information Technology
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 18th, 2011
| Comparative Law, Antitrust Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Civil Procedure, Human Rights Law, Law and Cyberspace, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, Business Law, Tax Law, International Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES |
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OECD hosts the 2011 Banking Law Symposium: Crisis Management and the Use of Government Guarantees Oct. 3-4, 2011. The event is co-sponsored by Warwick Law School, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, and the University of Reading.
We welcome submissions of high-quality, publishable research on all topics related to financial services, their regulation, and industry issues such as:
- International Initiatives
- Failure resolution: Is too-big-to-fail behind us?
- Systemic risk identification and regulation
- Crisis Management - Cross-Border, Effective Practices and Strategies for policymakers
- The financial system safety net - who does what and are there better arrangements that should be developed?
- Sovereign debt and Linkages to Financial Sector Regulation - Costs and Benefits
The call for papers (posted on SSRN) deadline is May 15, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on April 5th, 2011
| Securities Law, Government Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) North American Branch, the University of Missouri International Center, and the University of Missouri Transatlantic Center host Border Skirmishes: The Intersection Between Litigation and International Commercial Arbitration on October 21, 2011.
With this, the University of Missouri School of Law and the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution host a works-in-progress conference for academics and scholarly-minded practitioners to be held on October 20, 2011 (proposals are due May 20, 2011), as well as a student writing competition with a $300 prize (papers due August 15, 2011). sr
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 12th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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Stanford and Yale Law Schools announce the twelfth session of the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to be held at Stanford Law School on June 24-25, 2011, and seek submissions for this meeting. The focus of the twelfth session will be private law and dispute resolution. The topics to be addressed are: Bankruptcy, Torts, Taxation, Contracts, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, Corporate & Securities Law, Private International Law, Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Property, The Legal Profession. The call for papers deadline is March 17, 2011. The full call is available on SSRN.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 12th, 2010
| Antitrust Law, Tort Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, JUNIOR SCHOLARS, Civil Procedure, Legal Profession, Bankruptcy Law, Securities Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Intellectual Property, CONFERENCES, Property Law, Business Law, Tax Law, Commercial Law, International Law, Contract Law |
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The 17th Commonwealth Law Conference will take place in Hyderabad, India, Feb. 5-9, 2011. Organizers expect over 1,000 lawyers, judges, and legal academics from 54 Commonwealth countries to attend. The theme of the conference is Emerging Economies and the Rule of Law: Challenges and Opportunities and the diverse business programme will cover human rights and the rule of law, corporate and commercial law and the legal and judicial professions.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on November 4th, 2010
| Legal Profession, Human Rights Law, Comparative Law, Commercial Law, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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The 8th ASLI (Asian Law Institute) Conference, Law in a Sustainable Asia, will be hosted by the Faculty of Law, Kyushu University (Kyushu, Fukuoka, Japan) May 26-27, 2011.
Within the broad conference theme of “Law in a Sustainable Asia”, five of the parallel sessions will focus on selected sub-themes: (1) general perspectives on sustainability (studying aspects such as sustainable development, environmental justice, green development, or conservation ethics); (2) the economic dimension of sustainability (exploring, among other issues, corporate social responsibility, corporate sustainability, sustainable finance, economic opportunity or transnational commons); (3) the environmental dimension of sustainability (examining pollution control, climate change, food security, natural resource management, bio-diversity etc); (4) the participatory dimension of sustainability (looking at community partnership, civil society participation, stakeholder participation, community participation and the like); (5) the social dimension of sustainability (examining issues such as peace, security and social justice, livable cities, cultural heritage and diversity, law and development, social capital or planning and land use).
The organizers invite proposals for papers, panels, and poster sessions. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Jan. 7, 2011.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on October 7th, 2010
| National Security Law, Comparative Law, Law and Politics, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, Environmental Law, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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