National Ass’n of Women Judges - Newark, NJ
The National Association of Women Judges holds its annual meeting Oc. 12-16, 2011, in Newark. The theme is Global Women’s Issues. Hat tip: Concurring Opinions. mw
Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop - Miami, FL
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
Hill-Thomas Hearings 20 Years Later - Washington, DC
Georgetown Law presents Context and Consequences: The Hill-Thomas Hearings 20 Years Later Oct. 6, 2011. mw
Call for Papers - The State of State Courts
The Albany Law Review is presently accepting article submissions for its State Constitutional Commentary, on topics related to the upcoming Symposium entitled “The State of State Courts.” The issue will feature a Perspectives section which includes analysis, op-ed, and essay pieces related to Judicial Retention. The deadline for submission is Dec. 15, 2011. Please contact Nikki Nielson, Executive Editor for State Constitutional Commentary, at nnielson@albanylaw.edu for more information. sr
Kentucky Law Journal Symposium on Court Funding - Lexington, KY
The University of Kentucky College of Law and the Kentucky Law Journal will hold a symposium on Court Funding on Sept. 23-24, 2011 in Lexington, KY. The symposium will celebrate the KLJ’s 100th volume and our distinguished alumnus, Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson, III, and his ascension to the presidency of the American Bar Association. It will be a national dialogue on court funding, and will feature discussion panels with leading legal scholars, judges, practitioners, court administrators and members of the business community discussing the practical and constitutional impact of court underfunding.
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Sharia in the United States - New York, NY
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
Civil Liberties 10 Years After 9/11, Lawyers & the Law 10 Years After 9/11 - New York, NY
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
Miller’s Courts: Media, Rules, Policy, and the Future of Access to Justice - Eugene, OR
The Oregon Law Review host a symposium called “Miller’s Courts: Media, Rules, Policy, and the Future of Access to Justice” April 13, 2012. At this event, we will honor Professor Arthur Miller’s diverse professional achievements while facilitating substantive discussions on modern access challenges in the civil system. We would like the event to be a sort of intense festshrift, an opportunity both to celebrate his career and to engage the kinds of issues he has worked on throughout his career.
To that end, we are soliciting submissions that either (1) focus on specific contributions of Professor Miller with respect to access to justice inside and outside the legal academy, or (2) speculate as to future trends and possible issues relating to access in the civil system.
Submissions must be received by Jan. 2, 2012.
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Post-Conviction Review - Portland, ME
The Maine Law Review, in consultation with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, is pleased to announce plans for a spring 2012 live symposium on the law of post-conviction review, and an invitation for article proposals to be considered for publication in the spring edition of the Law Review. The submission deadline is Sept. 15, 2011. Update (Aug. 19, 2011): The symposium will take place Feb. 4, 2012. Jump to full post
Friday’s Scholarship About Scholarship
The Supreme Court and Legal Scholarship
Petherbridge, Lee and Schwartz, David L., An Empirical Assessment of the Supreme Court’s Use of Legal Scholarship (July 12, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1884462
Derogating legal scholarship has become something of a sport for leading figures in the federal judiciary. Perhaps the chief antagonist in recent years has been none other than the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John G. Roberts Jr. His most recent salvo includes the claim that because law review articles are not of interest to the bench, he has trouble remembering the last law review article he read. This claim, and others by the Chief Justice, may represent the end of an uneasy détente concerning the topic of the utility of legal scholarship to the bench and bar. At a minimum, Justice Roberts’s recent comments represent a vigorous invitation to a discussion, which this article accepts. To that discussion we contribute an empirical study that is based on an original and unprecedented body of data derived from every Supreme Court decision over the last sixty-one years. This article presents several surprising results and makes two major novel contributions. The first is evidence describing the amount and patterns of the Supreme Court’s use of legal scholarship over the last sixty-one years. The second, and perhaps most striking contribution of this article, is empirical evidence on the nature and quality of the Court’s use of scholarship. This article provides the first report, as far as we can determine, of evidence that the Supreme Court not only often uses legal scholarship, it also disproportionately uses scholarship when cases are either more important or more difficult to decide. It thus presents results strongly counterintuitive to claims that scholarship is useless or irrelevant to judges and practitioners. The article also discusses areas for future work.
Kenneth Jost, the Supreme Court editor of CQ Press, blogs: Roberts’ Ill-Informed Attack on Legal Scholarship, Jost on Justice, July 19, 2011.
Jonathan H. Adler writes a post and others comment: Chief Justice Roberts and Current Legal Scholarship, Volokh Conspiracy, July 23, 2011.
Resolving Land Disputes in East Asia - Hong Kong
The Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific Business Regulation Group at Monash University will co-host a workshop on Resolving Land Disputes in East Asia on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011.
This workshop will investigate the role and limits of law in resolving land disputes in greater China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) and Vietnam. Speakers will examine how courts (and other dispute resolution fora) use law and/or other regulatory sources to resolve disputes about ownership and access to land. Land taking cases will be investigated from the perspective of conflicting understandings about land ownership and tenure rights. More particularly some of the speakers will investigate to what extent dispute resolution fora draw on guidance from outside the juridical framework to resolve disputes.
All are welcome.
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European Methods and Interactions in IP - Oxford, England
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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Tax Administration: Risky Business - Sydney, Australia
Atax (the Australian School of Taxation, University of New South Wales) will host the 10th International Conference on Tax Administration on April 2-3, 2012. This biennial conference brings together tax administrators, academic researchers and practitioners from around the globe to share expertise and to extend understanding of emerging trends and challenges in tax administration. The theme for this event is Tax Administration: Risky Business. A call for papers will issue shortly with abstracts due by Sept. 12, 2011. Registration will open early 2012.
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War, Terrorism, Federal Courts, 10 Years After 9/11 - AALS - Washington, DC
The AALS Section on Federal Courts announces a call for papers in conjunction with the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (Jan. 4–8, 2012, Washington, D.C.). The topic of the section program at the 2012 Annual Meeting (Sat., Jan. 7, 1:30–3:15 p.m.) is “War, Terrorism, and the Federal Courts Ten Years After 9/11.” One paper will be selected from the call, and will be published in Volume 61 of the American University Law Review. The deadline for submission of papers is Aug. 29, 2011. Contact: Prof. Steve Vladek, American University Washington College of Law, (svladeck [at] wcl.american.edu). The full call for papers is on PrawfsBlawg. mw
Call for Papers - Charleston Law Review’s Annual Supreme Court Preview
The Charleston Law Review invites submissions for its annual Supreme Court Preview volume. Articles or essays may address a case before the Court in its October 2011 Term, 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. Jump to full post
Restorative Justice for Youth - Los Angeles, CA
The Center for Restorative Justice (Loyola Law School Los Angeles) presents Another Way: Restorative Justice for Youth June 4, 2011. mw
Law of the Future - the Hague, Netherlands
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:
- The Rule of Law and the Law of the Future
- Highest Courts and the Law of the Future
- Transnational Constitutionality and the Law of the Future
- Private Actors and the Law of the Future
- International Criminal Process and the Law of the Future
- The Youth, the Law & the Future
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Stevens Symposium - Chicago, IL
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
Transitional Justice Mechanisms in Ongoing Conflicts - Jerusalem, Israel
The Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is holding an international conference that seeks to examine the potential impact of transitional justice mechanisms in ongoing conflicts. The conference will take place Nov. 13-15, 2011. Proposals are due by May 1, 2011. mw
Trends in Case Law, EU Court of Justice - Madrid, Spain
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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