The Association for Canadian Studies / Association d’Études Canadiennes presents the Inaugural Conference of the New Institute for Canadian Identities, Checking Our Constitution@30: The Influence of the Canadian Constitution and the Charter of Rights on Legislation, Identities and Federalism, April 17-18, 2012, Ottawa, Ontario. Abstracts are due Jan. 31, 2012. mw
The University College Dublin School of Law’s Constitutional Studies Group will be hosting a conference in Dublin from June 28th to 30th. The conference will mark the 75th anniversary of the enactment of the current (Irish) Constitution. The event will have an international and inter-disciplinary focus, and has invited submissions from all disciplines and all jurisdictions. A number of bursaries are available to cover the travel costs of early career researchers.
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The University College Dublin School of Law’s Constitutional Studies Group has issued a call for papers for a conference to be held in Dublin from June 28th to 30th. The conference will mark the 75th anniversary of the enactment of the current (Irish) Constitution. The event will have an international and inter-disciplinary focus, so submissions are invited from all disciplines and all jurisdictions. A number of bursaries are available to cover the travel costs of early career researchers. Submissions should be received by February 29, 2012.
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Stanford, Yale, and Harvard Law Schools announce the Junior Faculty Forum (the successor to the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum that has convened for the past twelve years) to be held at Harvard Law School on June 1-2, 2012, and seek submissions for this meeting.
The Forum’s objective is to encourage the work of young scholars by providing experience in the pursuit of scholarship and the nature of the scholarly exchange. Meetings are held each spring, alternating between Yale, Stanford, and Harvard.
Paper submissions for the Forum should be sent to Ms. Kaitlin Burroughs at Harvard Law School (1525 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138). Electronic submissions should be sent to kburroughs[at]law.harvard.edu. The deadline for submission is February 15, 2012. Please note on the cover letter which topic your paper falls under.
Inquiries concerning the Forum should be sent to Adriaan Lanni (adlanni[at]law.harvard.edu) or Gabriella Blum (gblum[at]law.harvard.edu) at Harvard Law School, Joseph Bankman at Stanford Law School (jbankman[at]stanford.edu), or Ian Ayres at Yale Law School (ian.ayres[at]yale.edu)
The focus of this year’s session will be public law and the humanities. The topics to be addressed are:
Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law
Employment Law, Social Welfare Policy, and Anti-Discrimination Law
Environmental Law
Family Law
Jurisprudence and Philosophy
Law and Humanities (including Law and Literature, Critical Legal Studies, and Gender Studies)
Legal History
Public International Law
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The 14th Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference will be held Jan. 5-6, 2012, in Washington, DC, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. (It will be across the street from the 2012 AALS Convention, which will also be taking place that week.) mw
The Federalist Society presents Silenced: Are Global Trends to Ban Religious Defamation, Religious Insult, and Islamophobia a New Challenge to First Amendment Freedoms? Nov. 4, 2011, in Washington, DC. The event is free. mw
The Federalist Society holds its National Lawyers Convention Nov. 10-12, 2012, in Washington. The theme is The Constitution of Small Government? mw
The MassBay DNA and Civil Liberties Conference II will be taking place at MassBay Community College from November 10 - November 12, 2011. The conference will focus on forensic DNA analysis of human remains, in particular, bones, and will feature scientists who are experts in the field from around the world. A highlight of the conference will be a debate on familial testing –the controversial use of DNA and its impact on American civil liberties.
Hat Tip: Faculty Awareness Blog
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The University of Iowa College of Law will be hosting an academic conference and tribute to honor the late David C. Baldus, Joseph B. Tye Professor at the University of Iowa College of Law. The College of Law will also be hosting a symposium entitled Batson at Twenty-Five: Perspectives on the Landmark, Reflections on Its Legacy. These events will take place Oct. 20-21, 2011. nh
The Louisiana Law Review announces its 2012 symposium, Coastal Land Loss in the Gulf Coast and Beyond, scheduled for March 23, 2012. The submission deadline (abstracts) is Oct. 9, 2011. mw
FIU College of Law will host the Fourth Annual Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop on February 2-4, 2012.
The workshop is open to non-tenured and recently tenured academics who teach and write in Federal Courts, Civil Rights Litigation, and associated topics. Those who do not currently hold a faculty appointment but expect to do so beginning in fall 2012 are welcome. The program is also open to scholars wanting to attend, read, and comment on papers but not present. There is no registration fee.
Abstracts are due by Nov. 15, 2011. Details on PrawfsBlawg. mw
Chapman Law Review seeks articles with ties to California topics for upcoming Winter Issue. They welcome any topics related to California law, including:
The submission deadline is Sept. 30, 2011.The full call for papers is on SSRN. mw
Stanford Law School and the Stanford Constitutional Law Center announce an Academic Fellowship program for future scholars. Fellows must be committed to producing publishable research in constitutional law. It is expected that fellows will enter the teaching market during the second year of the fellowship. The deadline for applications is Sept. 30, 2011. Hat tip: PrawfsBlawg. mw
The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce the launch of American Political Thought in association with the Notre Dame Program in Constitutional Studies and the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History, a non-profit foundation. Submissions are currently being considered for its inaugural year. The call for papers is here. It does not list a deadline.
Interdisciplinary in scope, APT bridges the gap between historical, empirical, and theoretical, and is the only journal dedicated exclusively to the study of American political thought. APT will feature research by political scientists, historians, literary scholars, economists, and philosophers who study the texts, authors, and ideas at the foundation of the American political tradition. Scholars from all related disciplines are encouraged to submit papers.The editors are seeking papers that will explore key political concepts such as democracy, constitutionalism, equality, liberty, citizenship, political identity, the role of the state, and classic thinkers in the American tradition.
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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:
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In conjunction with a symposium issue of The Chicago-Kent Law Review, Duquesne University School of Law will host The Future of the Establishment Clause in Context: Neutrality, Religion, or Avoidance? on Nov. 3, 2011 in Pittsbugh, PA.
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The Transatlantic Law Forum (TLF), a joint initiative of the American Enterprise Institute and the Council on Public Policy (Bayreuth, Germany), and the Federalist Society will host its Fifth Annual Conference: America, EU Confront Constitutionalism in Crisis at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany Oct. 28-29, 2011. Jump to full post
Florida Coastal Law Review is seeking articles for its 2011 Spring Symposium journal entitled: A Decade of Transformation: The Continuing Impact of 9/11 on National Security and Civil Liberty in America. The deadline is Oct. 1, 2011 for completed articles only (no abstracts please). All correspondence can be sent to lawreview@fcsl.edu.
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The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy (University of Buffalo Law School) hosts Major Developments in Redistricting Oct. 14-15, 2011. The call for papers deadline is tomorrow, Aug. 20, 2011. mw
The Connecticut Law Review, in conjunction with the Connecticut Insurance Law Center and the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal, will hold its 2011-2012 symposium on Nov. 11-12, 2011. Topics may include:
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The New York Law School Law Review presents Sharia in the United States Thur. Aug. 25 (4:30-6 pm) and Fri. Aug. 26, 2011. mw
New York Law School presents Civil Liberties 10 Years After 9/11 on Sept. 9, 2011. The event is hosted by the Justice Action Center at New York Law School and the New York Law School Law Review.
Lawyers and the Law in New York City: Ten Years After 9/11, a reception and panel discussion, takes place the evening before the reception, Sept. 8, 2011, 6-8 pm. mw
The Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism at the University of San Diego Law School will hold its Third Annual Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference on Feb. 3-4, 2012. The conference will include approximately 6 unpublished papers on originalism, with separate commentators, and then questions from the other participants at the conference. There is a call for works in progress (draft papers in article form not yet published as of the conference date) with a deadline of Aug. 31, 2011.
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The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth (Northwestern Law) presents a Research Roundtable on Accelerating Democracy, a forthcoming book by John O. McGinnis, Sept. 15-16, 2011. To request an invitation, contact searlecenter [at] law.northwestern.edu. mw
Fix Congress First, the Tea Party Patriots, and Harvard Law School present Conference on the Constitutional Convention Sept. 24-25, 2011. Lawrence Lessig and Mark Meckler will co-chair the conference.
On September 24th, people from across America and across the political spectrum will convene at Harvard University to discuss the advisability and feasibility of organizing towards a Constitutional Convention. The conference’s lead organizers are both proponents and opponents of an Article V convention and we actively encourage the participation of those who support a convention and those who oppose holding a convention at all.
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The Center for Tax Law & Employee Benefits at The John Marshall Law School and The John Marshall Law Review present The Intersection of ERISA and PPACA Laws: Do the Two Fit Together? April 16, 2012. Paper proposals are due Oct. 1, 2011. Jump to full post
The Journal of Public Interest Law (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law) presents a symposium on the recent Supreme Court case of Connick v. Thompson on Nov. 3, 2011. Papers and symposium proceedings will be published in the Spring 2012 volume of the journal. mw
The Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, in conjunction with the Institute of European and Comparative Law of the University of Oxford, presents The Common Law of Intellectual Property in an Era of Europeanisation: European Methods and Interactions in the Field of Intellectual Property Law, Jan. 7-8, 2012.
By considering seven specific topics relating to the making and impact of European IP Law – namely, models of harmonisation, the pursuit of harmonisation, the creation of European IP courts, the impact of constitutional rights and values on IP, the impact of general EU Law on IP, the relationship between European and national courts, and European (IP) legal methodology/ies – we hope to further understanding of the impact of Europeanisation on the substance and quality of law, the process of law-making in a Europeanised system, and the requirements for a truly “European” legal order. Thus, using IP as a case study in private law Europeanisation, we hope to generate insights of relevance and application within the fields of IP and private law generally, and to help develop a European legal methodology.
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The Institute of European and Comparative Law (University of Oxford) presents The Involvement of EU Law in Private Law Relationships Sept. 28-29, 2011. mw
Loyola University Chicago School of Law is organizing the Second Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium. The event will begin on Friday morning, October 21 and end midday on Saturday, October 22, 2011. The deadline for abstracts is June 15, 2011. See call for papers on SSRN. mw
The 34th Annual Health Law Professors Conference (American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics) will be held at Loyola University Chicago School of Law June 9-11, 2011. A pre-conference workshop (June 9) addresses Public Health Law Research Workshop: Using Empirical Methods to Measure Law. The full conference begins with a reception the evening of June 9.
Topics include:
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The American Constitution Society will host its 10th Anniversary National Convention Constitution at the Crossroads: Progress Imperiled? in Washington, DC June 16-18, 2011. sr
The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law presents the Law of the Future Conference, taking place in The Hague’s Peace Palace on June 23-24, 2011.
The Law of the Future Forum takes place the first day. It is by personal invitation only.
The second day has two keynote addresses followed by parallel workshops:
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Latina & Latino Critical Legal Theory, Inc. and the Univ. of Connecticut Institute for Puerto Rican & Latino Studies will host the 16th Annual LatCrit Conference: Global Justice: Theories, Histories, Futures in San Diego, CA Oct. 6-9, 2011. sr
Update (Sept. 19, 2011): The conference’s new website is here. mw
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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Loyola University Chicago School of Law will hold the Second Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium Oct. 21-22, 2011.
Topics, abstracts, papers, questions, and comments should be submitted to: Program Administrator Carrie Bird, cbird [at] luc.edu, by May 31, 2011.
More information on Constitutional Law Prof Blog. mw
Northwestern University and the Northwestern University Law Review are honored to host a conference on the Legacy of Justice Stevens on May 12, 2011. The keynote event will be a moderated conversation with Justice Stevens. Panels will address Justice Stevens on executive power; Justice Stevens on religion; Justice Stevens’s trajectory on the Court; and Justice Stevens’s methods of interpretation. Only members of the Northwestern community may attend the event. mw
The Minnesota Law Review will hold its annual symposium (vol. 96) Oct. 21, 2011. The title is “Citizens United: Democracy Realized—or Defeated?” mw
The University of St. Thomas Law Journal held its spring symposium “Official Wrongdoing and the Civil Liability of the Federal Government and Officers” today, Friday, March 18, 2011. mw
The Faculty of Law of the Universidad Autonóma de Madrid will host the I UAM International Conference on European Union Law, Recent trends in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (2008-2011), July 14-15, 2011. The deadline for submitting abstracts is April 10, 2011. The panels are:
The Panels of the Conference are:
Panel 1: Institutional system of the EU
Panel 2: Police cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters
Panel 3: EU Competition Law
Panel 4: EU Citizenship and free movement of persons
Panel 5: Judicial cooperation in civil matters and Private International Law
Panel 6: EU External Action
Panel 7: Internal Market
Panel 8: EU Social Policy
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The International Association of Constitutional Law Research Group on Constitutional Responses to Terrorism will hold an international conference on Secrecy, National Security, and the Vindication of Constitutional Law hosted by Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, on December 1-2, 2011. Abstracts are due by April 24, 2011. Full call for papers is posted on SSRN. mw
The 2011 Indiana Law Review symposium is What If? Counterfactuals in Constitutional History. It will take place April 1, 2011. mw
The Centre for Comparative and Public Law and the University of Hong Kong will host the 4th Asian Constitutional Law Forum on Dec 16-17, 2011. This year’s conference theme of “Major Constitutional Developments in Asia in the First Decade of the 21st Century.” Persons interested in submitting a paper to the Forum, should email their CV and an Abstract of no more than 300 words to Sharron Fast, Assistant Research Officer, sfast [at] hku.hk by May 15th 2011. Call for papers available here. mw
The Charleston Law Review invites submissions for its 3rd annual Symposium Issue. The editors welcome an article or essay of any length addressing topics relating to Free Speech & Civil Discourse, such as:
• The Legal Impact of Social Media
• Wikileaks: Testing the Bounds of National Security
• Speech and the Role of Torts
• Political Speech and the Call for Civility
• Legal Speech: Civility Oaths and Attorney Advertising
The Charleston Law Review and the Richard W. Riley Institute at Furman University will host a symposium on Free Speech and Civil Discourse in the 21st Century on February 17-18, 2011. This two-day symposium will be the 3rd annual “Law and Society” series sponsored by the Charleston Law Review and the Riley Institute.
Persons interested in submitting a paper relating to any of the above topics should submit along with a paper, a CV, to Piper Reiff, Charleston Law Review Editor in Chief, via email: epreiff [at] charlestonlaw.edu. Contributions are welcome from scholars and practitioners in all disciplines. All submissions must be received by March 14, 2011.
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The University of Washington School of Law presents Global Law and Its Exceptions: Globalization, Legal Transplants, Local Reception and Resistance Feb. 25, 2011.
The symposium will explore the idea that there is emerging in almost every field a core of law which we can call “Global Law” which is influencing domestic legal evolutions in particular ways. At the same time, there are areas of law which have traditionally staved off “global influences” such as family law which appear to be fair game in this round of “Global Law.” This symposium will consider this emerging “Global Law”, what is driving it and how the new phase of globalization of law is transforming legal education, practice and legal doctrines.
Presentations will address the globalization of law and economic development, constitutional law, corporate law, international law, human rights law, environmental law, and family law. mw
The Rutgers Law Review hosts a conference titled “Unsettled Foundations, Uncertain Results: 9/11 and the Law, Ten Years After” on Feb. 3-4, 2011.
The TC Beirne School of Law at The University of Queensland hosts a private law conference on the theme “Private and Public Law - Intersections in Law and Method” July 21-22, 2011. The last date for submission of abstracts is March 31, 2011.
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society (an independent institution affiliated with Oxford University) presents The Social and Political Foundations of Constitutions Dec. 11, 2011. Presentations include:
The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law Law Review (UDC/DCSL L. Rev.) presents its 2011 symposium, War on Drugs, March 3, 2011. The symposium’s three panels are “International Approaches to Drug Usage,” “Conflicts Between State and Federal Narcotics Laws,” and “Life After the War.”
The editors have lined up a strong group of authors and speakers already, but are open to an additional submission. Contact Symposium Editor Leila Mansouri, Leila.Mansouri [at] udc.edu. The deadline for drafts is Dec. 15, 2010.
Update (Dec. 9, 2011): All of the paper slots have been filled for the symposium, so submissions are not longer being accepted.
Texas Tech Law Review and Texas Tech University School of Law present Criminal Law & the 1st Amendment April 8, 2011.
With the support of the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Courts and Media, based at National Judicial College and the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, is pleased to announce the creation of the Reynolds Courts and Media Law Journal.
We will begin publishing in 2011, and are seeking legal and scholarly articles on the interaction of the courts and the media, and the impact and implications of this interaction. Examples of possible article topics include, but are not limited to:
* Media access to court proceedings (including cameras, new media in the courtroom)
* Conflicts between First Amendment and Sixth Amendment principles and values
* Impact of social and new media on court proceedings
* Process and implications of online access to court records and proceedings
* Analysis of specific examples and cases of court-media conflict situations
Judges, attorneys, journalists and professors are invited to submit (via e-mail) ideas, proposals or drafts for articles of up to 30,000 words (including text and footnotes). The journal will be published in print and online.
Electronic submissions in Microsoft Word format strongly preferred. Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) or Blue Book legal citation format is preferred; other social science citation formats are also accepted, but citations must be in footnotes, not endnotes or parentheticals.
Submissions, ideas and questions should be sent to courtsandmedia@unr.edu.
The Florida Coastal Law Review seeks articles and speakers for its 2011 Spring Symposium entitled: A Decade of Transformation: The Continuing Impact of 9/11 on National Security and Civil Liberty in America. The symposium will take place March 4, 2011. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Dec. 1, 2010. Jump to full post
The theme for next fall’s American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Sept. 1-4, 2011) is The Politics of Rights. The deadline for all the calls for proposals — general, divisional, and related groups — is Dec. 15, 2010. Of particular interest to legal scholars are:
Update (6/16/11): The conference was originally planned for San Francisco but was moved to Seattle because of a labor dispute. See this notice.
LatCrit XV (and the 8th Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop) will take place Oct. 7-10, 2010, in Denver. The deadline to register is September 15, 2010, but the organizers appreciate early registration to help their planning. Online registration is here.
LatCrit’s annual conference returns to Colorado ten years after LatCrit V., LatCrit Theory and Praxis in a World of Economic Inequality, was held in Breckenridge, CO. LatCrit XV allows us to revisit some of the issues explored then in this year’s theme, The Color of the Economic Crisis: Exploring the Downturn from the Bottom Up.
The Global Financial Crisis peaked in September 2008 when stock markets crashed and numerous banks, mortgage lenders and insurance companies failed. Almost two years later , relief for the hardest hit – people of color, low-income communities, and women – has yet to materialize. Communities of color have moved beyond recession and are now experiencing a depression, yet the media has paid little attention to the effects of this crisis on the most vulnerable. In examining the workings of subordinated identities — race, gender, sexual orientation and class (economic status) — class stands alone as a putative indicator of merit. Net worth and social worth are equated in a capitalism that holds itself out as a tool of anti-subordination. But such an account of capitalism ignores its historical and societal underpinnings, and how capitalism functions to entrench the status quo. This conference will explore, from diverse vantage points, the causes, conditions and ramifications of the economic crisis.
Thanks to an overwhelming response to our Call for Papers/Panels, LatCrit XV promises to be a dynamic and engaging conference. Joining illustrious plenary speakers and honorees will be an extensive and diverse roster of notable speakers on panels, roundtables and in work-in-progress colloquia. Register Early! We look forward to seeing you there!
Rashmi Goel, Associate Professor of Law, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver
The University of Pittsburgh School of Law will host Professor Richard Weisberg of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University as he presents “The First Amendment Degraded: Milkovich v. Lorain and A Continuing Sense of Loss on its 20th Birthday.” The presentation will be held on Tuesday, August 24, 2010.
The Charleston Law Review, the flagship law review of the Charleston School of Law, invites submissions for its Supreme Court Preview issue. The editors welcome an article or essay addressing a case before the Court in its October 2010 Term, or in the alternative, addressing an aspect of the Court itself such as recent voting trends, case load, an analysis of a particular Justice, or any other topic related to the Supreme Court. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning July 1; all submissions must be in by Aug. 1, 2010. Jump to full post
Loyola Law School Los Angeles and Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review present Rebooting California: Initiatives, Conventions & Government Reform Sept. 24, 2010.
Questions and proposals should be sent to karl.manheim [at] lls.edu. Drafts are due Sept. 1, 2010.
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The American Journal of Law and Medicine (Boston University) will hold its annual symposium, Constitutional Health Law: The Growing Role of Commercial Speech Doctrine in Health Regulation, Feb. 26, 2011. Abstracts are due May 15, 2010. mw
The Center for Social Justice and Public Service at Santa Clara University Announces the 2010 Women and the Law Stories Conference, The Power of Women’s Stories ll: Examining Women’s Role in Law and the Legal System. It will take place April 16, 2010. mw
The Fordham Law Review presents The Adequacy of the Presidential Succession System in the 21st Century: Filling the Gaps and Clarifying the Ambiguities in Constitutional and Extraconstitutional Arrangements April 16-17, 2010. kja
University of St. Thomas School of Law will host its spring law journal symposium on “Islamic Law and Constitutional Liberty” Monday, April 12. The event will feature scholars from half a dozen U.S. law schools; keynote speaker will be Noah Feldman, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor at Harvard Law School. Additional information can be found here. ajc
Loyola New Orleans’s Westerfield Fellows will hold two workshops, March 23, and 25:
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Yesterday (Feb. 25, 2010), the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly presented its annual symposium, Waking from the California Dream: The Past, Present, and Future of California’s Fiscal Constitution. mw
The 11th Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum will take place at Yale June 18-19, 2010. The topics will cover public law and the humanities:
• Administrative Law
• Constitutional Law - historical foundations
• Constitutional Law - theoretical foundations
• Criminal Law and Literature, Critical Legal Studies
• Environmental Law
• Family Law
• Jurisprudence and Philosophy
• Labor Law and Social Welfare Policy
• Law and Humanities (including Law and Gender Studies)
• Public International Law
The deadline for submissions is March 19, 2010. mw
The Rutgers Law Record (Rutgers School of Law - Newark) seeks submissions for its First Amendment Law Issue. The tentative submissions deadline is Feb. 20, 2010.
The Law Record seeks to facilitate quick dissemination of the legal community’s initial impressions of ground breaking legal issues with innovative articles and cutting edge viewpoints. To accomplish this goal we publish online symposiums consisting of op-ed length articles written by practitioners, judges, and academics. In addition, we actively promote each addition by publicizing our issues with relevant professional associations. We aim for our authors’ articles to be read by potential clients, peers and colleagues.
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The Pace International Law Review will host this year’s symposium entitled “Comparative Constitutional Law: National Security Across the Globe” on November 13, 2009. The conference will discuss legal issues faced by various nations which must balance constitutional and civil rights with national security needs. jv
The Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William & Mary Law School will hold the symposium, “Families, Fundamentalism, and the First Amendment.” The conference will take place on November 6, 2009 at William & Mary Law School. jv
Fabio Arcila (Touro), The Death Of Suspicion
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David Duff (British Columbia), Carbon Taxation in Theory and Practice
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Christopher Capozzola (MIT) A Tale of Two Treasons: Adjudicating War Crimes and Collaboration in Manila, 1945
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Robert Gatter, St. Louis University
Dennis Klimchuk (Western Ontario), The Rule of Private, Common Law
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Dan Kahan (Yale),Culture, Cognition, and Consent: Who Perceives What, and Why, in ‘Acquaintance Rape’ Cases
Mark Kende (Drake), Constitutional Rights in Two Worlds: South Africa and the United States
David A. Matsa,(Kellogg School of Management),
Growing Out of Trouble? Managerial Responses to Risk of Corporate Liability
Rebecca Zietlow (Toledo), Originalism and the Reconstruction Congress.
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Taunya Lovell Banks (Maryland), Thurgood Marshall on the Bench: ‘Race Man’ and ‘Pragmatic Feminist’
Brian Bix (University of Minnesota), Contract Enforcement and the Harm Principle
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The International Association of Law Schools just held IALS Conference on Constitutional Law at American University Sept. 11-12, 2009. Working papers are available here, grouped into Comparative Constitutional Law; Religion, State and Constitution; Gender and Constitution; Constitutional Adjudication and Democracy; Distributive Justice; Contemporary Challenges to Executive Power; and Miscellaneous.
Professor Bradford Clark (George Washington University Law School) The Eleventh Amendment and the Nature of the Union.
The Willamette Center for Religion, Law and Democracy and the Willamette Law Review present a The Future of the First Amendment Oct. 16, 2009. Erwin Chemerinsky (UC Irvine) will be the keynote speaker.
William and Mary Law School’s Property Rights Project and Institute of Bill of Rights Law present the annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Oct. 16-17, 2009. Topics will include “The Psychology of Property Rights”; “The Contract Clause Reconsidered: Guarantor of Economic Property Rights?”; “Richard E. Pipes’s Scholarship”; “Inverse Condemnation: Comparing Regulatory Takings with Condemnation Blight”; and “Does the Kelo Backlash Have Legs?”
William and Mary Law School’s Institute of Bill of Rights Law hosts Families, Fundamentalism, & the First Amendment Nov. 6-7, 2009. Papers will be published in the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal.
William and Mary Law School’s Institute of Bill of Rights Law hosts its Supreme Court Preview Oct. 2-3, 2009.
Call for Articles and Essays: Recent Developments in New York Law
Proposals due October 1, 2009.
The editors of Pace Law Review invite proposals from scholars, researchers, practitioners, and professionals for contributions to our second annual issue addressing recent developments in New York law to be published in Spring 2010.
This issue will explore a wide range of recent developments in the laws of New York State, including but not limited to areas of criminal law, civil litigation, family law, property law, constitutional law, tax law, bankruptcy law, and municipal law. Authors may also discuss proposed changes to New York law, at the state or local level.
Please submit proposals of no more than 500 words by attachment to plr [at] law.pace.edu by October 1, 2009. All proposals should include the intended author’s name, title, institutional affiliation, contact information, and should relate to an area of New York State law. Authors are also welcome, but not required, to submit a CV. We expect to make publication offers by October 8. We encourage clear, concise, and accessible writing that will be of use to lawmakers, attorneys, and students.
Completed manuscripts will be due November 24, 2009.
CRN East Asian Law and Society (Law and Society Association) and Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong present the Inaugural East Asian Law and Society Conference, Changing Socio-Legal Landscapes in East Asia: Common Trends and Local Variations. The conference takes place Feb. 5-6, 2010, at the University of Hong Kong.
organized with this vision.
The organizers invite proposals for papers and panels that are related to the conference theme (Changing Socio-Legal Landscapes in East Asia: Common Trends and Local Variations) or fall within any of the following streams on East Asian law and society:
* Legal Education and Training
* Legal and Quasi-legal Professions
* Dispute Resolution and Civil Litigation
* Lay Participation and Other Forms of Democratic Justice
* Gender in Law
* Criminal Justice
* Constitutional Law.
The deadline for proposals and papers is Sept. 30, 2009. All paper or panel proposals must be in English and sent by email to: Professor Hiroshi Fukurai (University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.), hfukurai [at] ucsc.edu. Submission details here.
The Institute for Consitutional History — hosted by George Washington University Law School and by the New York Historical Society — announces a semester-length seminar on Lincoln’s Constitution.
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The University of St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy will be accepting papers for its fall and spring issues. The fall issue will pertain to “Intelligent Design and the Constitution” and the spring issue will pertain to “The Armenian Genocide”.
The editors encourage papers on a wide and broad range of directions within these two designated areas. Papers for the fall issue on Intelligent Design and the Constitution are due October 25, 2009. Papers for the spring issue on the Armenian Genocide are due March 14, 2010.
Please forward papers to the editors at jmsandy@stthomas.edu for consideration.
Pace International Law Review will hold a symposium, Comparative Constitutional Law: National Security Across the Globe, on November 13th, 2009. The editors invite proposals for articles, essays and book reviews from scholars, researchers, practitioners, and professionals for contributions to be considered for presentation at the symposium and subsequent publication on the newly developed and comprehensive International Law Website.
Authors are encouraged to submit clear, concise, and accessible proposals for articles, essays and book reviews that will interest lawmakers, attorneys, and students. The proposals should address issues pertinent to the interrelationship between national security concerns and constitutional law of a particular nation or nations. Article proposals that provide a comparative analysis of issues and concerns faced by various nations are preferred. The proposals should be as thorough as possible and may include suggestions for other panelists who are experts in the proposed topic.
Book review proposals should also include (a) the title and publication date of the book proposed for review; (b) a description of the importance of the book to the general topic; and (c) any other information relevant to the book or proposed review (e.g., the reviewer’s expertise or any relationship with the author).
Please submit proposals of no more than 500 words to pilr@law.pace.edu by July 30, 2009. All proposals should include the intended author’s name, title, institutional affiliation and contact information. Authors are also welcome, but not required, to submit a CV. The editors expect to make offers to the selected guest speakers in August, 2009. Please note that all proposals will be considered for publication even if Pace International Law Review finds that the proposal is not suitable or pertinent to this year’s symposium. Complete manuscripts for work that will not be presented at the Symposium will be due by August 31, 2009.
The Charleston Law Review, the flagship law review of the Charleston School of Law, invites submissions for its Supreme Court Preview issue. We welcome an article or essay addressing a case before the Court in its October 2009 Term, or in the alternative, addressing an aspect of the Court itself such as recent voting trends, case load, an analysis of a particular Justice, or any other topic related to the Supreme Court.
Last year, our Supreme Court Preview included a diverse spectrum of works ranging from articles that examined cases argued in the Court’s October 2008 Term to articles that analyzed current voting trends among the Court. For example, in Crime Labs and Prison Guards: A Comment on Melendez-Diaz and Its Potential Impact on Capital Sentencing Proceedings, John Blume and Emily Paavola argued that the Court’s decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts could resolve conflicting authority on what constitutes testimonial hearsay under Crawford v. Washington and could have a dramatic impact on the criminal justice system, particularly capital sentencing proceedings. Alternatively, in The Roberts Court and Criminal Justice at the Dawn of the 2008 Term, Professors Christopher E. Smith, Michael A. McCall, and Madhavi M. McCall introduced empirical decision-making patterns from the initial three terms of the Roberts Court in an attempt to ascertain how the Court would likely determine three Fourth Amendment cases in the Court’s October 2008 Term.
The Supreme Court Preview is published to coincide with the opening of the October Term 2009, and we therefore ask that work be submitted no later than August 1, 2009. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning July 1, 2009. Please direct submissions and any questions about our Supreme Court Preview to Ben Garner, Editor in Chief, via email at bgarner [at] charlestonlaw.edu or via telephone at (434) 941-9831.
Nelson Tebbe (Brooklyn Law), Constitutional Borrowing
Henry Monaghan (Columbia Law), Supremacy Clause Fundamentalism
Dennis M. Patterson (Rutgers-Camden Law)
Robert Starssfeld (Case Law), How the Cleveland Bar Became Segregated: 1870-1930
Washington University in St. Louis
Lior Strahilevitz (Chicago Law), The Right to Abandon
Alexander Capron (USC Law), The Circulatory-Respiratory Determination of Death in Organ Donation
Ariela Dubler (Columbia Law), Sexing Skinner: Marriage, Procreation and the Legal Family
Charles Weisselberg (UC Berkeley Law)
Michael Perry (Emory Law), Protecting Constitutionally Entrenched Human Rights: What Role for the Courts?
David T. Ritchie (Mercer Law), Legal Writing: Gateway to the Legal Discourse Community
Lawrence Repeta (Washington Law), Human rights in Japan and the efforts of Japan’s NGOS before the UN Human Rights Committee
Cynthia Skach (Oxford Politics)
Margret Meyer (Oxford)
Juliet M. Moringiello (Widener Law)
Michael Carrier (Rutgers Camden Law)
Jacob Hacker (Berkeley Poli. Sci.), Yes, We Can? The New Push for American Health Security
Eugene Volokh (UCLA Law), Facilitative Constitutional Rights
Jannine Bell (Indiana University), Hate Speech and Hate Crime
Yale Workplace Theory and Policy
The Program on Law and Government of the Washington College of Law, the American University Law Review and the Marshall‐Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project present a conference, Tinker Turns 40: Freedom of Expression at School and Its Meaning for American Democracy. The conference will be held on April 16, 2009 at American University Washington College of Law.
This event will mark the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District with panel discussions exploring the legacy of Tinker for First Amendment rights, not only in schools but in American society.
There is no attendance charge for this event, but registration is required. To register, please go to www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration.
For further information about this event, please contact: Office of Special Events & Continuing
Legal Education, American University Washington College of Law, 202.274.4075 or
secle@wcl.american.edu.
Merritt Fox (Columbia Law), Fraud-on-the-Market Class Actions Against Foreign Issuers
Fernando Teson (Florida State), The Liberal Constitution and Foreign Affairs
Jules Lobel (Pittsburgh Law), The Constitution Abroad: Extraterritorial Constitutional Restraints on Governmental Action After Boumediene
Quince Hopkins, (Florida Coastal Law)
The Charleston Law Review, the flagship law review of the Charleston School of Law, invites submissions for its Supreme Court Preview issue. We welcome an article or essay addressing a case before the Court in its October 2009 Term, or in the alternative, addressing an aspect of the Court itself such as recent voting trends, case load, an analysis of a particular Justice, or any other topic related to the Supreme Court.
Last year, our Supreme Court Preview included a diverse spectrum of works ranging from articles that examined cases argued in the Court’s October 2008 Term to articles that analyzed current voting trends among the Court. For example, in Crime Labs and Prison Guards: A Comment on Melendez-Diaz and Its Potential Impact on Capital Sentencing Proceedings, John Blume and Emily Paavola argued that the Court’s decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts could resolve conflicting authority on what constitutes testimonial hearsay under Crawford v. Washington and could have a dramatic impact on the criminal justice system, particularly capital sentencing proceedings. Alternatively, in The Roberts Court and Criminal Justice at the Dawn of the 2008 Term, Professors Christopher E. Smith, Michael A. McCall, and Madhavi M. McCall introduced empirical decision-making patterns from the initial three terms of the Roberts Court in an attempt to ascertain how the Court would likely determine three Fourth Amendment cases in the Court’s October 2008 Term.
The Supreme Court Preview is published to coincide with the opening of the October Term 2009, and we therefore ask that work be submitted no later than August 1, 2009. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning July 1, 2009. Please direct submissions and any questions about our Supreme Court Preview to Ben Garner, Editor in Chief, via email at bgarner [at] charlestonlaw.edu or via telephone at (434) 941-9831.
David L. Faigman (UC Hastings), Frames of Reference: Can Constitutionality Really Be Measured One Case at a Time?
Antoinette Schoar (MIT Managment), CEO Careers and Style
Lisa Bressman (Vanderbilt Law)
UC Irvine Center for Psychology and Law & Newkirk Center for Science and Society
Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), Emerging Neurotechnologies: Manipulating Experiences, Dampening Memories, and Customizing Punishment
Drake University Law School’s Constitutional Law Center presents its 2009 Symposium, Global Perspectives on Religion, the State, and Constitutionalism, April 4, 2009.
American University Washington College of Law hosts the Fourteenth Annual LatCrit (Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory, Inc.) Conference on October 1-4, 2009. The theme of this year’s conference is Outsiders Inside: Critical Outside Theory and Praxis in the Policymaking of the New American Regime. The Seventh Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop, sponsored jointly with the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), will take place concurrently with the conference.
The LatCrit XIV Host Committee invites the submission of proposals for panels and papers propounding prescriptive critiques of discrete areas of law, policy and regulation of specific relevance to outsider communities, including (but by no means limited to) economic justice, international and comparative law, criminal law and the death penalty, civil rights and constitutional law (including gender and LGBT equality, reproductive and disability rights), immigration, political and electoral (dis)enfranchisement, communications policy and intellectual property, healthcare, education, employment, tax policy, and the environment.
Please submit panel and paper proposals through the online process at the LatCrit website no later than April 27, 2009. For full information and submission protocols, please refer to the call for papers and panels.
Thanks to Professor Ezra Rosser of Poverty Law Prof Blog for this information.
Philip Hamburger (Columbia Law), Evading the First Amendment: Censorship by Consent
UCLA Law, Economics and Organizations
Keith Hylton (Boston University Law), The Economics of Injunctive and Reverse Settlements
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars presents The Russian Constitution at Fifteen: Assessments and Current Challenges to Russia’s Legal Development March 19, 2009.
UC Davis Law Review hosts a symposium on Justice John Paul Stevens today, March 6, 2009.
New England Law Review hosts a symposium on the jurisprudence of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg March 12, 2009.
The University of Washington School Law presents a symposium honoring Judge Betty Binns Fletcher of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Judicial Circuit on March 6, 2009. Judge Fletcher “broke the glass ceiling for women in Washington when she became the first woman from Washington to join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Court, the first woman president of the Seattle Bar Association, and the first woman on the Washington Bar Association Board of Governors.” Panel topics for the symposium include the environment, anti-discrimination law, law and equality, constitutional law and federal courts.
Franco Ferrari (Columbia Law), Homeward Trend and Lex Forism Despite Uniform Sales Law
Phoebe Haddon (Temple Law), Can the U.S. Supreme Court’s Keyes Desegregation Decision Unlock Opportunities to Rethink Brown in the 21st Century
Minnesota Faculty Works in Progress
Gregory S. Alexander (Cornell Law), The Social Obligation Norm in American Property Law
Northwestern Law and Economics
Albert Choi (Virginia Law), Shrink Wraps: Who Should Bear the Cost of Communicating Mass-Market Contract Terms
Yoram Margalioth (Tel Aviv Law), Employing Statistical Stigma as a Welfare Ordeal
Gregg D. Polsky (Florida State Law) & Brant J. Hellwig (South Carolina Law), Taxing Structured Settlements
Tim Terrell (Emory Law), The Challenge of Legal Writing Training in Law School and Law Practice
UCLA Tax Policy and Public Finance
Neil Buchanan (George Washington Law), What Do We Owe Future Generations?
Steven Pincus (Yale History), Revolution in Political Economy
Craig Boise (Case Western Law), Breaking Open Offshore Piggybanks: Redux
Jon Eddy (Washington Law), Current Trends in Legal Education in Afghanistan
Anne Joseph O’Connell (UC Berkeley Law), Vacant Offices in the Administrative State
Judge Pierre N. Leval (U.S. Court of Appeals Second Circuit), Did Campbell Fix Fair Use
Jessica Slavin (Marquette Law), Talking Back to IRAC: Legal Writing Beyond the Paradigm
Timothy Armstrong (Cincinnati Law), Can Authors Shrink the Public Domain? Preliminary Thoughts on the Terminability of Free Software Licenses, Creative Comons Licenses, and Other Grants for the Benefit of the Public
Mitchell Berman (Texas Law), Reflective Equilibrium and Constitutional Method: The Case of John McCain and the Natural Born Citizenship Clause
The Hastings Law Journal will host The Second Amendment After Heller on February 13, 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.
Slavery, Abolition, and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Thirteenth Amendment will be held on April 17-18, 2009 at the University of Chicago Law School hosted by the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law and the University of Chicago. The conference explores the past and present significance of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery and provided constitutional authority for eradicating its badges and incidents and, ultimately, for invalidating Jim Crow’s legacies and myriad forms of involuntary labor.
Edward J. Janger (Brooklyn Law), Virtual Territoriality
Robert Ferguson (Columbia Law), Invading Panama: The Power of Circumstance in the Rule of Law
Amy Farmer (Arkansas Law), Strategic Bidding Investment and Investment in Final Offer
Caroline Mala Corbin (Miami Law), The First Amendment Right Against Compelled Listening
Leo Katz (Penn. Law), Why the Law Spruns Win-Win Transactions
Devon W. Carbado (UCLA Law), After Obama: Three Post-Racial Challanges
Northwestern Law and Economics
Robert Marquez (Arizona State Business) Stockholder Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Firm Value
Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow (Georgetown Law)
JJ Prescott (Michigan Law), Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior
Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), A Limited Defense of Clinical Placebo Deception
Martin Hevia and Joanna Erdman (Toronto Law), Denied Access to Medical Care as a Violation of the Rights Against Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment: A Case Study on Anencephalic Pregnancy
Betsey Stevenson (Penn Business), The Paradox of Declining Female Hapiness
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.
Steve Smith (San Diego Law), Secularism v. Separation of Church and State
NYU Law, Economics, and Politics
Bina Agarwal (University of Delhi), Bargaining, Gender Equality, and Legal Change
Northwestern Law and Economics
Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Financial Innovation and the New Chapter 11
Angela Onwuachi Willig (Iowa Law), Cracking the Egg: Which Came First Stigma or Affirmative Action?
Guyora Binder (Buffalo Law), Representing Value: The Meaning of Institutions
Kris Franklin (New York Law), Sim City: Putting Simulation-Based Clinics in Context
John Oberdiek (Rutgers Law), Choice, Value, and the Perfection of Distributive Justice
Richard Pildes (NYU Law), Groups and the Design of Democratic Institutions
Guy-Uriel Charles (Minnesota Law) The Voting Rights Act and Noisy Statutory Interpretation
Boston University School of Law will hold a conference on The Most Disparaged Branch: The Role of Congress in the 21st Century on November 14-15, 2008. This is the third in a series of conferences at BU that began with The Role of the Judge in the 21st Century and continued with The Role of the President in the 21st Century. They keynote address on November 14 will be presented by Jeremy Waldron, and Lawrence Lessig will give a lunch address on November 15.
For further information or to RSVP, please contact Andrea Larsen at 617.353.8011 or alarsen@bu.edu.
Grainne de Burca (Fordham Law)
Patricia Cain (Santa Clara Law), Taxing Families Fairly: Next Steps
Deborah Pearlstein (Princeton), Form and Function in the National Security Constitution
Orin S. Kerr (George Washington Law), Applying the Fourth Amendment to Internet Communications: A General Approach
Traci Burch (Northwesten Poli. Sci.), Trading Democracy for Justice? The Spillover Effects of Imprisonment on Neighborhood Voter Registration in Atlanta
USC Communications Law and Policy
The U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform holds its 9th Annual Legal Reform Summit Oct. 29, 2008.
This year’s summit will cover a variety of timely topics, including:
- The Congressional landscape for legal reform post-election;
- The public’s stake in preserving pre-dispute arbitration provisions in contracts;
- Parameters of federal preemption;
- The challenge of discovery abuse in federal and state court;
- Foreign activities of the U.S. plaintiffs’ bar; and,
- The role of criminal law in promoting compliance and rational enforcement.
The Hon. Carlos M. Gutierrez, United States Secretary of Commerce, will deliver the morning keynote address on the U.S. legal environment’s impact on foreign investment. Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, will deliver the luncheon keynote address on the future of legal reform.
Three new pieces of research will be released at the summit, including:
- A whitepaper on the proper role of criminal law as it relates to corporate conduct authored by former Enron prosecutor Andrew Weissmann;
- The findings of ILR’s discovery survey;
- A practitioner’s handbook on federal preemption.
Jessie Hill (Case Western Law), Of Christmas Trees and Corpus Christie: The Establishment Clause and Change of Meaning over Time
David Stras (Minnesota Law), Pierce Butler: A Supreme Technician
New York South Africa Reading Group
Brian Ray (Cleveland Marshall College of Law), Understanding Engagement as an Enforcement Mechanism for Socioeconomic Rights
Judith Resnik (Yale Law), Representing Justice: An Iconography of Norms
John Donohue (Yale Law), Can You Believe Econometric Evaluations of Law, Policy, and Medicine?
Margaret Lemos (Cardozo Law), Judicial vs. Agency Administrative Interpritation of Title VII
Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics
Mike Scherer (Harvard Public Policy), Markets and Uncertainty in Pharmaceutical Development
Douglas Branson (Pitt Law) & Kenneth Lehn (Pitt Business), Markets in Crisis-Perspectives from Business and Law
Lilly Ledbetter (& Deborah Brake, Moderator), Gender Discrimination, the Supreme Court, and an Agenda for Equal Pay: A Conversation with Lilly Ledbetter
The Center for Constitutional Law at the University of Akron School of Law presents The Fourteenth Amendment: The 140th Anniversary Symposium on October 23-24, 2008. The Akron Law Review is co-sponsor of the Symposium and will publish the proceedings in a future issue of the Review.
The Charleston Law Review and the Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leadership at Furman University will host State Constitutional Reform in the New South on January 15-16, 2009. Scheduled speakers include former United States Secretary of Education and former South Carolina Governor Richard W. Riley. This two-day symposium will be the inaugural event for an annual “Law and Policy” series sponsored by the Charleston Law Review and the Riley Institute.
We will be accepting presentation and panel proposals until December 10, 2009. Topics include State Constitutions as Protectionist Documents; Education as a Legal Right and Constitutional Barriers to Educational Excellence; Challenges and Opportunities: Examples of Real Reform in the New South; and the Administration of Justice and Judicial Reform. You may submit proposals on more than one topic. The Charleston Law Review will publish papers based on the presentations in Spring 2009.
Persons interested in presenting at the symposium should submit a CV and a 250-word abstract outlining the presentation to Katie Fowler, Charleston Law Review Editor-in-Chief, via email: kfowler [at] charlestonlaw.edu. Prospective panelists should indicate whether they would be interested in submitting a paper based on their presentation for publication in the Charleston Law Review. Contributions are welcome from scholars and practitioners in all disciplines.
Buffalo Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
Same Sex Marriage and Federalism Workshop
Stephen F. Smith (Virginia Law)
Robin Kar (Loyola Law), Contractualism about Contract Law
Jedediah Purdy (Duke Law), Presidential Popular Constitutionalism
Richard Abel (UCLA Law), Lawyers in the Dock: Learnings from New York Disciplinary Proceedings
Scott Sunby (Miami Law), War and Peace in the Jury Room: The Deliberative Process of Capital Juries
Christina Burnett (Columbia Law),A Clash of Constitutionalisms: The Conflict over the Platt Amendments 1900-1901
Miriam Cherry (Pacific McGeorge Law), Virtual Work
Hilary Schor (USC English, Law), “Maidens Choosing”: George Eliot, Curiosity, and the Law
The Charleston Law Review, the flagship journal of the Charleston School of Law, is currently accepting papers for its Supreme Court issue. This issue will address any topic before the Court in the October 2008 Term; in the alternative, the Charleston Law Review will accept submissions that address an aspect of the Court itself such as voting trends, case load, or an analysis of a particular Justice.Though we are a young school and journal, we have enjoyed the privilege of publishing some of our nation’s leading thinkers and have earned a reputation as being a professional publication that authors have enjoyed working with. In our second volume, for example, we garnered national recognition for publishing Senator and Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama and hosting a punitive damages symposium that featured leading thinkers such as Professor Anthony Sebok of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Professor Neil Vidmar of Duke Law School, Professor Keith Hylton of Boston University Law School, and Professor Mike Rustad of Suffolk University Law School. The symposium volume also included noted practitioners Ms. Elizabeth Cabraser and Mr. Victor Schwartz. In our general issues, we also published notable scholars such as Professor Walter Murphy of Princeton University and Professor John Yoo of University of California Berkeley Law School. Our first issue of Volume 3 featuresa foreword by Fourth Circuit Chief Judge Karen Williams.The Supreme Court Preview will be published in late 2008, and we therefore ask that you submit your work by October 10th. For more information on this issue or the Charleston Law Review, please contact Editor-in-Chief Katie Fowler via email at kfowler [at]charlestonlaw.edu or via telephone at 803-309-5421.
Johnny Rex Buckles (Houston Law), Does the Constitutional Norm of Separation of Church and State Justify the Denial of Tax Exemption to Churches that Engage in Partisan Political Speech?
Jay Krishnan (William Mitchell Law)
Toronto Legal Theory Workshops
Brian Tamanaha (St. John’s Law), The Distorting Slant in Quantitative Studies of Judging
Vanderbilt Law & Economics/Applied Microeconomics Seminar Series
Robert Pollak (Washington University Economics)
Vanderbilt International Legal Studies
Jacob Gersen (Chicago Law), The Unbundled Executive
Stephen Siegel (Depaul Law), Injunction for Defamation, Juries, and the Clarifying Lens of 1868
Samuel Jordan (St. Louis Law), Irregular Panels
Judge Coughenour (USDC Westen District of Washington)
Neal Devins (William and Mary Law), Did Bush Hurt the Presidency? The Nexus between Party Polarization and Presidential Power
Max Schanzenbach (Northwestern Law), The Impact of Tort Reform on Private Health Insurance Coverage
Oregon Enviromental & Natural Resources Law
Gabriel Eckstein (Oregon Law), Climate Change Implication for Negotiating International Transboundary Water Agreements
Santa Clara Center For Social Justice and Public Service
Jocelyn Benson (Wayne State Law), Towards Full Participation: The History and Relevance of Language Assistance for English Learning Voters
Enrichetta Ravina (NYU Business), Love & Loans. The Effect of Beauty and Personal Characteristics in Credit Markets
Patrick O. Gudridge (Miami Law), Formal Realism and Constitutional Law
New York University Legal History
Kaius Tuori (University of Helsinki Law), Legal Realists and Indigenous Law: Llewellyn, Cohen, and Schiller
SMU Colloquium on Law & Citizenship
Cristina Rodriguez (NYU Law), Reciprocity in an Age of Migration
Alicia Davis Evans (Michigan Law), Are Investors’ Gains and Losses from Securities Fraud Equal Over Time? Some Preliminary Evidence
Adam Kolber (San Diego Law), The Subjective Experience of Punishment
Michael Zimmerman (Loyola-Chicago Law), A Pro-Employee Supreme Court? - The Retaliation Decisions
George Yin (Virginia Law), Temporary Effect Legislation, Political, Accountability, and Fiscal Restraint
Laura E. Gomez (New Mexico Law), What’s Race Got To Do With It? Latinos and Media Coverage of the 2008 Democratic Primary
New York University Law and Security Colloquia
Stephen Holmes and David Golove (NYU Law), The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice, the Courts, and the War on Terror
Daniel Sokol (Florida Law), Did the Chicago Antitrust Revolution Kill Anti-trust in the Legal Academy: A Comparison of Teaching and Law Scholarship in Antitrust, Tax and Intellectual Property
U.C. Berkeley CSLS Speaker Series
Justin McCrary (U.C.. Berkeley Law), Economic Perspectives on Prison Expansion in the U.S. 1979-2000
Richard D. Anderson Jr. (UCLA Political Science), Peacekeeping or Peacemaking? Russians, Georgians, South Ossetia, and the World
Christopher Kutz (U.C. Berkeley), The Repugnance of Secret Law
Gabriel (Jack) Chin (Arizona Law), Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of a Citizenship
Derek Jinks, Larry Sager, Linda Mullenix, George Dix, John Robertson, Jordan Steiker (Texas Law), Review of 2007 SCOTUS Term
James Spindler (USC Law), IPO Disclosure, Underwriting, Mechanics, and Share Price Behavior
Daniel Crane (Yeshiva Law and Chicago Law), Intellectual Liability
Queen’s University Faculty of Law will host an International Conference on Feminist Constitutionalism Feb. 28 - March 1, 2009. The submission deadline for abstracts is Sept. 30, 2008.
Adam J. Kolber (San Diego Law), The Subjective Experience of Punishment
Florida State Faculty Enrichment
Sarah Brosnan (Georgia State University Psychology), An Evolutionary Approach to the Endowment Effect
David Kennedy (Brown University), The Mystery of Global Governance
USC Center for Law History and Policy
Daphne Barak-Erez (Tel Aviv University Law), Symbolic Constitutionalism: On Sacred Cows and Abominable Pigs
Minna J. Kotkin (Brooklyn Law), Diversity and Discrimination: A Look at Complex Bias
Michael Gerhardt (North Carolina Law), The Constitutional Significance of the Forgotten Presidents
Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law
Roberta Mann (Oregon Law), Do Tax Breaks for Ethanol Reduce Global Warming
On November 6-7, 2008, the Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute at Georgetown University Law Center and Stanford Law School’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program will host the 11th Annual Conference on Litigating Takings and Related Legal Challenges to Land Use and Environmental Regulation.
The conference, to be held at Stanford Law School, will examine how the Takings Clause and related legal doctrines may undermine the public’s ability to address emerging environmental, public health, and growth management challenges. A particular focus of this year’s conference will be the potential takings implications of public policy initiatives designed to mitigate and adapt to global warming. The conference will also address recent legal developments in takings law and related fields, including the latest legal and policy fall out from the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in Lingle v. Chevron USA and Kelo v. City of New London. Another featured topic will be future prospects for property rights ballot measures along the lines of Propositions 98 and 99 in California and other states.
Conference faculty will include a mix of leading academic scholars and expert practitioners. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Stanford Environmental Law Journal.
As part of a series on Law, Knowledge & Imagination, the University of Alabama School of Law presents Speech and Silence in American Law, Feb. 27, 2009.
This symposium will study the relationship between speech and silence in American law. We will examine how the law values silence, focusing on the right not to speak, as well as the decision not to select a speaker, in both private and government discourse.
We will analyze compelled speech, in contexts ranging from the flag salute to the Solomon Amendment cases, as well as instances where individuals are forced to be identified with a particular message.
In the aftermath of 9/11, we were reminded that speech alone may be troubling or dangerous. For some, the continuing threat of terrorism requires new attitudes toward speech. Others believe we can strike a better balance between freedom and security.
AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest
The Future of Federalism
Cosponsored by Federalist Society
Friday, September 12, 2008, 9 a.m.–3:15 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
The American system of federalism is at the heart of many disagreements over important constitutional and public policy issues. Changes in all three branches of government and recent Supreme Court decisions raise questions about the future scope of federal-state relationships: How should we balance state and federal rights? Should the courts take a more active role in limiting federal power, or should they instead leave the federal-state balance to the political process? Can we make better progress on these issues by allowing states to pursue their own policies independently? Or should the federal government take a more active role?
At this AEI event, cosponsored by the Chapman School of Law and the Federalist Society, scholars of differing points of view will address these questions and reflect on the future structure of American federalism. During the first panel, award-winning professor of courts and social policy Malcolm Feely, AEI’s Michael S. Greve, public and constitutional law professor Roderick Hills, and George Mason Law professor and coeditor of the Supreme Court Economic Review Ilya Somin will consider whether we should strive for a system in which states compete or cooperate with each other and with the federal government. Randy Barnett, author of Restoring the Lost Constitution, and constitutional law expert Jesse Choper will discuss the appropriate level of judicial review and the role of the judicial branch in adjudicating disputes over th e scope of federal and state power during the second panel. Panelists for the third discussion will examine the importance of federalism in two major public policy issues: health care and the environment. Judge William Pryor of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit will deliver a keynote address on the future of federalism.
There is no charge for the conference, but CLE credit will be available through the Federalist Society for $25.
Gerald Neuman (Harvard Law), The Extraterritorial Constitution after Boumediene v. Bush
The IDF Law Review, published by the Israel Defense Forces Military School of Law, aims to serve both as an academic and professional research tool, and as a mechanism for facilitating debate and innovative ideas in the fields of Military Law, the Laws of War, Operational Law, as well as Criminal, Constitutional and other International Law issues relating to military activities.
A copy of the 2007-2008 Call for Papers is below. Although the editors already have most of the articles for the 2007-2008 edition, they are still accepting articles that are at an advanced/publishable stage. Their publishing target is winter 2008.
They are also collecting articles for the 2009-2010 edition of the IDF Law Review, for which they are accepting contribution on a rolling basis (i.e. no deadline yet).
The 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association will take place Aug. 28-31, 2008, in Boston. The theme is “Categories and the Politics of Global Inequalities”. There are dozens of law-related offerings. Jump to full post
The Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge and the School of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong will present a joint conference, Effective Judicial Review: A Cornerstone of Good Governance, Dec. 10-12, 2008, in Hong Kong.
The Law Council of Australia’s European Focus Group and the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law (CPICL), TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, are proud to announce the major International Conference: The Future of Federalism, Brisbane, July 10-12, 2008. Jump to full post
The UC Davis Law Review is pleased to announce that its 2009 Symposium will focus on Justice John Paul Stevens. The Symposium will take place in March 2009, at UC Davis School of Law.
Nominated by President Ford in 1975, Justice Stevens is the longest serving justice on the Supreme Court. Over his tenure, the Justice has critically influenced fundamental decisions on the Burger, Rehnquist, and Roberts Courts. This Symposium will explore the Justice’s opinions and methodology. Furthermore, the Symposium will explore the Justice’s biographical background to help elucidate the underlying rationale for his opinions and methodology.
Jamie Chon and David Vogel
UC Davis Law Review
Senior Symposium Editors
Cincinnati
Jacob Cogan (Cincinnati Law), Representation and Power in International Organization: The Current Constitutional Crisis
The Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law presents its 21st Annual upreme Court Preview Sept. 26-27, 2008.
