The Thomas Jefferson School of Law presents its 12th Annual Women and the Law Conference, Reproductive Justice: Examining Choice and Autonomy in the New Millennium, on February 24, 2012. mm
The International Association for the Study of the Commons presents the 1st Thematic Conference on the Knowledge Commons, Governing Pooled Knowledge Resources: Building Institutions for Sustainable Scientific, Cultural and Genetic Resources Commons, Sept. 12-14, 2012 at Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium. The call for papers deadline is Jan. 15, 2012.
There will be six tracks for abstract submissions:
The 1st Global Thematic IASC Conference on the Knowledge Commons aims to bring together leading people from a number of international scientific research communities, social science researchers, practitioners and policy analysts, to discuss the rationale and practical feasibility of institutional arrangements designed to emulate key public domain conditions for collaborative research.
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Lexxion, publisher of the European Food and Feed Law Review (EFFL) as well as the European Journal of Risk Regulation (EJRR), organises the 4th Summer Academy on Global Food Law & Policy July 23-27, 2012, Lake Como, Italy. mw
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School seeks candidates for the 2012-2014 Academic Fellowship Program. Applications will be accepted starting Sept. 1, 2011. Completed applications must be received at petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu by 9:00 a.m. on Nov. 14, 2011. Details are here. mw
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce plans for our annual conference, this year entitled: “The Future of Human Subjects Research Regulation” The one and a half day event will take place Friday, May 18 and Saturday May 19, 2012 at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
If you are interested in participating please reply to petrie-flom[at]law.harvard.edu as soon as possible, but not later than November 25, 2011, and include a brief, single-paragraph description of your proposal for presentation. Full abstracts will be due by January 6, 2012, and final submissions will be due after Spring Break, closer to the date of the event.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), titled “Human Subjects Research Protections: Enhancing Protections for Research Subjects and Reducing Burden, Delay, and Ambiguity for Investigators,” which proposes to substantially amend the Common Rule for the first time in twenty years. This development, as well as attention by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, suggests we are at a moment when the regulation of human subjects research is ripe for re-thinking. This conference is meant to gather leading experts from the U.S. and across the globe to assist in that endeavor.
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The European Association for American Studies holds its biennial conference March 30 - April 2, 2012 in Izmir, Turkey. The theme of the conference is The Health of the Nation.
Those interested in presenting papers should write to the organizers of workshops by Oct. 1, 2011. Descriptions of the workshops are here. Several might interest legal scholars. In particular, note:
Workshop 13, Health Care and American Constitutionalism, organized by Mehmet K. Konar-Steenberg, William Mitchell College of Law, mehmet.konarsteenber [at] wmitchell.edu, andHelle Porsdam, SAXO Institute, Department of History, University of Copenhagen, porsdam [at] hum.ku.dk
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The American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics presents Conflicts of Interest in the Practice of Medicine: A National Symposium Oct. 27-28, 2011, at the University of Pittsburgh. The agenda is here. Cosponsors are: Highmark Foundation, Jewish Healthcare Foundation, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences. The findings of the conference will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. mw
Justice Quarterly invites submissions for a special issue, Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Public Health
Studies, guest edited by Travis C. Pratt.
While there is a burgeoning field of research which studies violence and crime as a health outcome, little of that work originates from criminology and criminal justice. The goal of this special issue is to begin the discussion of health-related outcomes from within criminology and to ultimately build public health-criminology collaborations. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are appropriate. Theoretical and analytical papers are appropriate and welcomed as well.
The submissions deadline is Dec. 31, 2011. mw
Temple Law School and the Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review host Aging in the US: The Next Civil Rights Movement? Oct. 22, 2011.
In this Symposium, we explore elder law and aging policy from a civil rights perspective and begin the important task of rethinking equality across the lifespan. Over twenty leading scholars and advocates will engage cutting edge public policy issues regarding health care, guardianships, caregiving, institutionalized elders, and the special needs of minority populations. The goal of the Symposium is to move the national conversation surrounding aging beyond the traditional elder law topics of estate planning, benefit eligibility, and health care financing and ask whether elder rights should be the next civil rights movement.
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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 Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School seeks candidates for the
2012-2014 Academic Fellowship Program. Applications will be accepted starting Sept. 1, 2011. Completed applications must be received at petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu by 9:00 a.m. on Nov. 14, 2011. Details are here. mw
The Chair of Comparative Law, School of Law University of Lucerne (UNILU) presents International Workshop on Global Trends in Law and Religion in the 21st Century Nov. 18-19, 2011. The call for papers deadline is Sept. 1, 2011. Jump to full post
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 Center for Reproductive Rights (”the Center”) and Columbia Law School offer a two-year fellowship to prepare recent law school graduates for legal academic careers in reproductive health and human rights. Fellows will be affiliated with the Center and the Law School and will participate in the intellectual life of both programs. Applicants do not need to be graduates of Columbia Law School to be eligible for this program. The deadline for applying for a 2012-14 fellowship is October 31, 2011. The application is here. mw
Nexus Journal of Law and Policy (Chapman University School of Law) presents Food Fight! The Legal Debate Over the Obesity Epidemic, Food Labeling, and the Government’s Involvement in What You Eat Nov. 4, 2011. Abstracts are due July 22, 2011.
Examples of the types of topics that we encourage authors and panelists to submit include, but are not limited to:
- Federal & State Regulation of Ingredients used by Restaurants
- Federal & State Regulation of Disclosures in Restaurant Advertisements
- Federal & State Regulation of Calorie Content on Chain Restaurant Menus
- The Cost to Restaurant Owners of Compliance with Federal & State Regulations
- The Economics of Food Regulation as it Affects the Healthcare Industry
- The Economics of Food Regulation as it Affects the Consumer Prices of Food
- The Role of Parents in Educating their Children on Healthy Eating Habits
- The Role of Schools in Educating Children on Healthy Eating Habits
- The Ability of Federal & State Governments to Regulate Meals in Schools
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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 Eighth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability will be held at the University of British Columbia, Jan. 10-12, 2012. “The Conference will work in a multidisciplinary way across the various fields and perspectives through which we can address the fundamental and related questions of sustainability.”
The submission deadline for the current round in the call for papers is May 19; there will be other rounds. mw
Lexxion presents the 5th International European Food and Feed Law Conference: Regulation of Innovations, Oct. 6-7, 2011. mw
The Academy of Business Research will hold its Fall 2011 conference Sept. 13-15 in Atlantic City, NJ. Abstract submissions are due by May 16th, 2011.
Each paper must be designated for one of the following tracks: Accounting; Economics; Education; Finance; Health Care; Human Resources; Management; Marketing; MIS; Public Administration; Real Estate; Strategy. mw
Lexxion—the publisher of the European Food and Feed Law Review (EFFL) as well as of the European Journal of Risk Regulation (EJRR)—presents the 3rd Summer Academy on Global Food Law & Policy July 25-29, 2011. Location: Villa La Collina/Accademia Konrad Adenauer, Cadenabbia, Lake Como, Italy. mw
The Lancet seeks papers for a special issue on September 11—A Decade On.
We invite submissions (research articles, reviews, health policy papers, and viewpoints) that address the short-term and long-term physical, mental, and public health consequences of the events that took place (and continue to take place) in New York, Iraq, Afghanistan, or any other part of the world touched by September 11. We are also interested in how the war on terrorism has affected the services, outcomes, policies, and regulations made in the fight against chronic and acute diseases, domestically and worldwide.
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The XIX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 11-15, 2011. The call for papers deadline is March 15, 2011. mw
The University of Washington School of Law hosts Regulating the Drug Treatment of Cancer: Who Decides & How? March 4, 2011. It is cosponsored by the University of Washington schools of Law, Medicine, Public Health, and Pharmacy. mw
The George Washington Journal of Energy and Environmental Law presents the 2011 J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Conference, Environmental Governance at the Leading Edge of Technology, March 23-24, 2011.
The conference will explore the need for and the possible structure of anticipatory governance systems that are capable of protecting the environment and public health. The conference will focus especially on emerging technologies such as geo-engineering to address climate change, hydro-fracturing and deep water drilling to recover energy resources, synthetic biology to produce new fuels and other innovative materials, and the expanding use of nanotechnologies.
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The European Journal of Law and Technology (EJLT) will publish a special issue on The Regulation of Nanotechnologies. Abstracts are due by March 31, 2011.
The objective of this special issue will be to discuss the impact of nanotechnologies on consumer behaviour, policy and law which relate to European issues as well as within the international context. The papers may pertain to a range of nano-applications such as in foods and feed, medical products, chemicals and other consumer products. Contributions that cover various aspects of risk in nanotechnologies as well as policy and regulatory instruments are particularly welcome.The editors of this special issue welcome contributions reflecting different perspectives, methodological approaches, international and cross-cultural contexts.
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William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health (Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis) presents Challenges for Drug Safety March 24, 2011, 12-2:45 pm (11 am to 4 pm, including the lunch and the reception). The Annual McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Lecture and Indiana Health Law Review Symposium features Professor Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin speaking on FDA regulation issues. The keynote address will be followed by a panel discussion of experts. mw
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (Cleveland State University) hosts Ripping Off the Bandaids: A Summit to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Local Public Health Laws, March 1, 2011, 8:30am - 1:00pm. The summit is sponsored by the Center for Health Law & Policy and the Health Law Society. mw
Osgoode Hall Law School (York University) Graduate Law Students Assocation presents its 2011 Conference, No Boundaries: Transnational Law and a New Order of Global Governance, May 9-10, 2011. Abstract proposals are due March 4, 2011.
We welcome papers that engage in questions of “boundaries”, particularly those with a focus on globalization, models of governance and transnational law. We are interested in a broad range of work dealing with the financial markets (commercial, banking and financial law), environmental protection, administrative law, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, tax, e-commerce, intellectual property, women’s studies, trade, human rights, crisis and emergency planning, labour and employment, health, disability, historical conceptions of regulation and governance, reflections upon the nature and operative conditions of governance, the relationship between state sovereignty and regulatory authority. Papers with an interdisciplinary focus and from graduate students in other disciplines are strongly encouraged.
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Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection on Incarcerated Mothers:Oppression and Resistance, Co-Editors: Gordana Eljdupovic and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich. The deadline for abstracts is May 31, 2011. mw
The Editors of Bioethics are pleased to announce a special issue in 2012 on the role of solidarity in bioethics, with guest editors Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. Parmet. The submission deadline is Sept. 1, 2011. Jump to full post
The Editors of Bioethics are pleased to announce a special issue in 2012 on ethical issues of chronic diseases, with guest editors Ross Upshur and Jennifer Gibson, Joint Centre for Bioethics University of Toronto. The submission deadline is Feb. 1, 2011. Jump to full post
The University of Iowa College of Law and The Journal of Corporation Law will host a symposium entitled “Reregulation and the Business Firm” Feb. 18-19, 2011.
The focus of the symposium will be on the transition from the period of deregulation in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008. The symposium will explore the effects of reregulation on three major sectors of the U.S. economy: Health Care, Telecommunications, and Financial Institutions.
Health Affairs will publish a theme issue on health care quality in April 2011. Papers should be submitted (via this online form) to Health Affairs by January 3, 2011.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study presents Driving Change, Shaping Lives: Gender in the Developing World March 3-4, 2011. Registration is required and opens in late January.
This conference will bring leading experts from different fields, countries, and perspectives together at the to explore the complex roles of gender in the developing world. Academic scholarship will be interwoven with practical experience as scholars, practitioners, organizers, and political leaders engage with one another in panel sessions on health, education, shifting populations, politics, and technology and media. Discussions will investigate intersections among these topics, crossing boundaries both conceptual and geographic.
The Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), University of Ottawa, presents its 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference March 24-25, 2011. The topic is The Governance Gap: How to Address Global Challenges. The call for papers deadline is Jan. 7, 2011. For updates about the conference, check this page (which currently has information about the 2010 conference.)
the conference wishes to:
* Address how governance is or should be applied to emerging challenges in global health, environment, and food crises;
* Examine the plight of refugees in the context of global security and how governance can be used to meet this issue;
* Discuss how governance has or should respond to current emerging international security threats in the areas of failed states, nation rebuilding, and/or borders.The conference aims to include both theoretical and policy-oriented research. The conference is organized by graduate students with the support of the Centre for International Policy Studies and is intended to be fully interdisciplinary in nature. The conference aims to include contributions from graduate students in various disciplines such as law, political science, gender studies, geography, economics, and sociology, among others, and from universities across Canada and beyond.
Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law presents The Biggest Issues for the Smallest Stuff: Regulation and Risk Management of Nanotechnology March 21, 2011. The event is sponsored by the Center for Law, Science & Innovation, in partnership with the law firm of Polsinelli Shughart PC and the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU.
Nanotechnology, the science of the very small, is a rapidly emerging set of technologies being applied in virtually every industry sector, including health care, energy, food, cosmetics, materials, computer and communication technologies, automotive, environmental services and many others. At the same time that nanotechnology is providing many new exciting applications and benefits, it also has the potential to create significant new risks for workers, consumers and the environment. After several years of studying the problem, federal agencies such as EPA, FDA, and NIOSH are now moving forward with more aggressive regulation of nanotechnology, and a variety of other non-regulatory risk management and safety initiatives are being proposed or implemented.
The Harvard Journal of Law and Gender presents its symposium, Sexual and Reproductive Rights: Barriers to Access, Roadmaps to Fulfillment, on Friday, March 4, 2011.
This symposium will feature current academic discourse concerning the important issue of sexual and reproductive rights analyzed through four different frameworks, corresponding to four panels: motherhood, teenage sexuality, abortion, and international human rights. Featured on the symposium panels will be 10 preeminent scholars, who will discuss crucial topics in the field including: (1) the feminization of HIV and poverty; (2) critical race studies and intersectionality; (3) gender-motivated violence and patriarchy; (4) the shape of sexual rights in the international human rights framework; and (5) the implications of a woman’s childbearing decision-making on assessing her qualifications as a mother.
The Harvard Law School Women’s Law Association presents its Fifth Annual Conference, This is What Equality Looks Like: The World We Want for Women and Girls, on Friday, February 11, 2010. The conference will include four panels, Judiciary, Economics, Girls, and Health, as well as a Keynote Address, which will be announced at a later date. The conference concludes with cocktails and dinner with the panelists. More details about the conference and dinner registration to follow.
Northeastern University Law Journal presents From Seed to Stomach: Food and Agricultural Law Jan. 21, 2011.
The Emory International Law Review and Emory’s Center for International and Comparative Law present A Worldwide Response: An Examination of International Law Frameworks in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters Jan. 27, 2011.
The symposium will analyze how nations can balance the need for receiving timely assistance from worldwide organizations with their goal of retaining sovereignty in the days following a disaster. As countries struggle to rebuild, is it appropriate for international law to play a role in managing the chaos? Panelists, who have visited and assisted in many disaster zones, will debate new disaster preparedness guidelines and the policy implications of having the international community assume a more prominent role in disaster relief. Panelists also will focus their remarks on specific aspects of disaster law, such as how tragic events impact housing rights, children, healthcare and education.
American University’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Policy (PIJIP) and Universities Allied for Essential Medicines will cohost a university innovation symposium on neglected diseases Nov. 20, 2010. The workshop is for NGO representatives, university professors and administrators, and policy makers to focus on strategies to increase research on neglected diseases and innovative policies for universities to contribute most effectively to the medicines innovation system. Topics will include intellectual property protection, licensing, and alternate models of funding.
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School will host Should Congress Repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act? on Friday, November 12, 2010. There are a limited number of spaces available for specialists in the field who would like to attend. Requests for attendance will be accepted on the basis of availability. If you would like to attend or have any questions, please email petrie-flom@law.harvard.edu Please note that unfortunately, funding for travel to Cambridge is not available and must be provided by attendee’s home institution.
Conference Description
In 1944, the U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Association, held that the Commerce Clause authorized the federal government to regulate insurance companies. The next year, in direct response, Congress passed the McCarran-Ferguson Act, effectively shielding the business of insurance from federal antitrust regulation, except the regulation of boycott, coercion and intimidation, so long as state law regulates anticompetitive conduct. Shortly thereafter, a debate arose as to whether the federal antitrust law exemption should be repealed. With the recent flurry of federal reform of health care insurance markets, the current debate has centered on whether Congress should repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act’s antitrust exemption for health care insurers. The one-day conference will bring together regulators, industry actors and academics working in the fields of business, law and economics to discuss the pros and cons of repealing the McCarran-Ferguson Act’s federal antitrust exemption for health care insurers.
Boston University’s School of Public Health and School of Law present Coming Home Injured: Care and Advocacy for America’s Veterans Oct. 29, 2010. The annual Pike Conference is held to honor Neal Pike, a BU School of Law graduate, distinguished lawyer, and lifelong advocate for individuals with disabilities.
The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics will host a thematic Issue on the topic of Public Health Reform: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Implications for the Public’s Health. Abstracts are due Feb. 15, 2011.
The 34th Annual Health Law Professors Conference (American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics) will be held at Loyola University Chicago School of Law June 2-4, 2011.
Update (May 25, 2011): The dates are June 9-11. More information is available here. mw
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School announces its annual conference, The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Challenges, which will take place June 3-4, 2011, [UPDATE 10/3/10] late May or early June, 2011, at Harvard Law School. The conference will be presented in conjunction with the Harvard University Program on Ethics and Health. People interested in participating should contact petrie-flom [at] law.harvard.edu as soon as possible, but not later than October 25, and include a brief description of a proposal for presentation. Accepted presenters will have their travel paid. Details here.
The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) intends to publish a theme issue on the science of environmental justice and health disparities and the policy applications of science to address environmental justice. Papers are invited on the following topic areas: state of the science and knowledge on factors that contribute to environmental injustice and environmental health disparities in minority, low income and tribal populations.We also invite original research papers featuring the contributions of social context to differential environmental exposures in vulnerable populations, community or population group vulnerability to environmental hazards, and risk/health impacts resulting from environmental exposures. Other topics of interest are analytic and decision-making tools and frameworks for incorporating environmental justice into environmental health policy. Case studies of successful incorporation of environmental justice principles in environmental decision making, integrated strategies in research and policy to develop effective interventions, or other promising practices are also invited.
All selected authors are encouraged to consider the different categories of manuscripts as indicated on the AJPH website. All manuscripts will undergo the standard peer review process by the AJPH editors and peer referees as defined by AJPH policy. Manuscripts will be due to the Journal on 0ctober 1, 2010, and can be submitted at http://submit.ajph.org. For more information about this supplement, please contact the guest editors at Symposiumpapers@epa.gov.
Guest Editors: Devon Payne-Sturges, DrPH, National Center for Environmental Research, US Environmental Protection Agency; Onyemaechi Nweke, DrPH, Office of Environmental Justice, US Environmental Protection Agency; Irene Dankwa-Mullan, MD MPH, National Institutes of Health, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law is accepting scholarly papers related to “Biotechnology and Health-Related Issues in IP Law” for its spring 2011 issue. Professionals and scholars are invited to submit a working paper or idea for consideration. Published individuals may also be invited to present their works at the RIPL symposium April 15, 2011. Proposals are due by September 10, 2010. For questions, contact questions regarding submissions, contact: Wasim K. Bleibel, Lead Articles Editor, wbleibe [at] law.jmls.edu.
The Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science (Monash University Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences) will present a conference in Prato, Tuscany, Italy, September, 12-14, 2011: Working with the forensic paradigm: developing effective responses across the mental health, helping and legal professions.
The conference will give particular attention to forensic work across the health, helping and legal professions. The focus is on the intersection between the forensic lens as it is applied to a range of individual and family matters: in child protection, family welfare, mental health offending, disability and addictions, and related areas.
Check here for the call for papers.
You can register your interest in notices about the conference by contacting the conference convenors, Dr. Rosemary Sheehan
(Rosemary.Sheehan [at] monash.edu) and Prof. James Ogloff (James.Ogloff [at] monash.edu).
The editors of the Pace Law Review invite proposals from scholars, researchers, practitioners, and professionals for contributions to our third annual issue on New York law, slated for publication in Spring 2011.
In the past, this book has examined a wide range of topics in New York law, including education, immigration, land use, and criminal procedure. Next year will mark the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks. We encourage authors to consider how the events of 9/11 have affected the legal landscape in New York State. For example, articles may address how 9/11 has influenced privacy, mass-tort, local security, health, and administrative law. Additionally, we encourage authors to consider proposals on other recent developments in New York law, unrelated to 9/11, and what they mean for our State.
Please submit proposals of no more than 500 words to plr [at] law.pace.edu by September 1, 2010. We welcome proposals for articles, essays, and book reviews. All proposals should include the author’s name, title, institutional affiliation, contact information, and should concern issues related to the subject-matter described above. 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). Authors are also welcome, but not required, to submit a CV. We expect to make publication offers by September 15, 2010. Completed manuscripts will be due November 1, 2010.
Best regards,
James Healy and Nicholas Tapert
Executive Articles Editors
Pace Law Review
The Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT) (National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India), the only law journal in India specifically devoted to the field of technology law, invites submissions for Volume No. 7 of 2011. The Journal follows a rolling submissions policy and the deadline for the forthcoming volume is 15 November 2010. The submissions received after this date shall be considered for the next volume.
The Journal accepts academic submissions in the form of articles, notes, comments or book reviews on a host of legal issues regarding the interface between law and technology, including e-commerce, cyber crime, biotechnology, bioethics, competition law, outsourcing, intellectual property, related public policy, and law and society issues posed by new technology. The Journal is also oriented towards publishing academic work that considers the aforementioned issues from a comparative perspective and/or the perspective of the developing world.
Lexxion is organizing an event on European food and feed law: the 4th International European Food and Feed Law Conference, Oct. 14-15, in London. The two-day event will focus on the Challenges of Consumer Information, offering insight into the latest developments and requirements in the field of consumer protection and information. Experts from various European countries, international organisations and institutions will discuss consumer needs for information, the legal requirements of food information as well as health and nutrition claims.
Faculty members of AALS member and fee-paid law schools are invited to submit a proposal of a poster presentation for the 2011 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California (January 5-8, 2011). Details here.
Please send your proposal by e-mail to sections [at] aals.org by September 3, 2010. The proposal should state your name, the name of your law school, the Section for which you are submitting, a title of the poster, a description of what you will be presenting and an actual electronic copy of the poster itself. Your proposal will be sent to the Section Chair and Chair-elect and they will review and select the posters that will be presented as the Section’s posters at the 2011 AALS Annual Meeting. This is an opportunity to share your work with the larger academic community. If your Section is not sponsoring posters, you may still submit a poster proposal; the AALS Committee on Sections and Annual Meeting will review it. AALS will notify all posters proposers by October 15, 2010 of the section’s decision.
The following AALS Sections are seeking proposals from individuals for poster presentations for the 2011 AALS Annual Meeting:
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The World Response Conference on Global Outbreak (WRCTO India -2010) will discuss pandemic influenza Sept. 23-24, 2010, in Delhi.
WRCGO is a spearhead of convergence to address the leadership roles and responsibilities for an influenza pandemic, to test and exercise the mechanism of coordination, to strengthen the performance monitoring and accountability, between federal, state, and local governments and the private sector in preparing and responding for a pandemic.
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The Hamline Journal of Public Law & Policy seeks papers on Critical Race Theory and health care for its Fall 2010 issue. The submission deadline is June 30, 2010. Jump to full post
The American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, the Public Health Law Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention present Using Law, Policy, and Research to Improve the Public’s Health Sept. 13–15, 2010, in Atlanta. mw
The American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics holds the 33rd Annual Health Law Professors Conference June 3-5, 2010, at the University of Texas School of Law. mw
The 2nd EFFL Summer Academy in Global Food Law & Policy will be held on July 26-30 2010, at Villa La Collina on the shores of the Lake Como. The academy will offer scientific reflection and discourse on key legal and policy issues in European and World food law as well as information and updates on the latest developments through a dynamic, informal and highly interactive five-day program, including lectures, presentations, discussion groups and social activities. The faculty of the academy consists of food experts coming from relevant authorities, European and US institutions, academia, legal practice and the industry. For more information, please click here. ajc
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 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics) will host a thematic issue on costs and end-of-life medical treatment in 2011. The submission deadline is June 15, 2010.
Robert Arnold, Amber Barnato (both University of Pittsburgh Medicine), and I have been asked to serve as Guest Editors. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics is the peer-reviewed journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics.Articles may be submitted for any topic relating to on costs and end-of-life medical treatment. We are primarily interested in shorter papers (10 – 30 double spaced pages; 3000 – 9000 words, exclusive of endnotes), although longer papers will receive careful consideration. The JLME style sheet is found here.
Please submit an abstract by June 15, 2010. Papers are due by November 1, 2010 so that we can complete the editorial and review process in a timely manner. Early submissions are appreciated. All correspondence should be directed to me at tmpope [at] widener.edu.
Thaddeus Pope, Associate Professor of Law, Widener University
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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 Rutgers Law Record (Rutgers School of Law: Newark) presents Lead Paint Poisoning and the Law April 23, 2010.
Loyola New Orleans’s Westerfield Fellows will hold two workshops, March 23, and 25:
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The American Health Lawyers Association holds its annual meeting June 28-30. A program for in-house counsel will be offered June 27. mw
The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law for a multi-disciplinary symposium focusing on issues of law, ethics, and maintaining patient confidentiality in the electronic age. The symposium, Privacy and Ethics Meets Biomedical Informatics, begins at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 4 and runs all day on Friday, March 5. It is cosponsored by the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, the Division of Medical Ethics, and the Department of Biomedical Informatics. mw
Seton Hall University School of Law hosts the Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference Sept. 9-12, 2010. The conference theme is Our Country, Our World in a “Post-Racial” Era.
It will feature panels on the “war on terror,” urban revitalization, criminal law, health care, education, immigration, human trafficking, voting rights, international and comparative law, judicial nominations, environmental justice, and corporate responsibility, among others. It will also include a Junior Faculty and Development Workshop. A media plenary session will explore the meaning of a “post-racial” society and its relevance to legal scholarship and teaching.
Calls for papers or proposals:
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The West Virginia Law Review announces a call for articles and invites scholars, practitioners, and researchers to submit contributions for its upcoming issue focusing on health care. This issue will include articles from the Law Review’s Lecture Series, “Beyond Politics: A Discussion of Health Care in America,” a thoughtful discourse on the social disparities in access and outcomes engrained in our current health care system. For this issue, we are particularly interested in scholarship discussing the following topics:
• Health care reform;
• Health care access and outcome disparities, especially as they affect women and children, racial minorities, and the rural poor;
• Health care as a human right;
Articles will be selected by our Articles Selection Team and the Editor-in-Chief based on scholarly merit, originality, relevancy, and writing style. Articles should be thoroughly researched and contain appropriate footnotes in bluebook format. Please submit articles electronically to wvlrev [at] mail.wvu.edu by June 30, 2010. Any questions regarding the call for articles or article submissions generally should be sent to wvlrev [at] mail.wvu.edu. mw
The International AIDS Society holds the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) (”Rights Here, Right Now) in Vienna July 18-23, 2010. Details about the Policy, Law, Human Rights and Political Science track are here.
Abstracts are due Feb. 10, 2010. (There is a window for “late breaker” abstract submission April 20 - May 20, 2010.) mw
Capital University Law Review presents the 6th Annual Wells Conference, The Future of the Family: Modern Challenges in Adoption Law, March 11, 2010. Topics may include:
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The Animal Legal Defense Fund’s “Future of Animal Law” conference will be held at Harvard Law School April 9-11, 2010. mw
Yale Law School presents Developing Food Law April 16-17, 2010.
Food policy implicates a broad range of pressing humanitarian, public health, and environmental challenges. These challenges include, among many others: ending hunger, promoting rural economic development, protecting the safety of the food supply, reversing the obesity and diabetes epidemics, and averting catastrophic climate change. Addressing any and all of these challenges requires the development of healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems. The aim of Developing Food Law is to help participants bring about patterns of food production that honor the universal right to food, the health and well-being of communities, and the preciousness of natural resources. The conference will bring together leading policymakers, scholars, activists, students, and farmers to discuss strategies for achieving food systems guided by those values.
Developing Food Law will explore two distinct “tracks” for reform through two concurrently-run series of panels. The U.S Track will focus on interconnections among U.S. agricultural policy, public health, and the environment, while considering avenues for pushing food law in healthier and more sustainable directions. The International Track will examine reform strategies, both on local levels and in transnational fora, aimed at ensuring food access in the developing world. The conference keynote, issue lunches, and a concluding conversation will bring these two “tracks” together to reflect on common themes, such as the impact of technological innovation and the importance of a systemic approach to reform.
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The Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice (Berkeley Law) presents its fall symposium, ReProducing Justice, Nov. 12-13, 2009.
The regulation of bodies, sexualities, and reproduction by the state has traditionally been addressed through a “reproductive rights” lens. In practice, however, the reproductive rights movement, with its emphasis on individual “choice” and rights to specific practices such as abortion, has neglected the needs and demands of people of color, poor people, and those whose bodies are marked as inappropriate or incapable of reproducing or enjoying sexuality. Now, a new generation of lawyers and activists, under the new framework of “reproductive justice,” seek to eradicate the reproductive oppressions that have exploited the bodies, sexualities, and reproduction of our most marginalized individuals and communities for decades.The reproductive justice movement — a movement recognizing that power inequities inherent in our society’s institutions, environment, economics and culture affect people’s abilities to exercise self-determination in their reproductive lives — is burgeoning, yet legal scholarship, pedagogy, and advocacy lags behind. We are inviting you to participate in the conference and help us to galvanize a new generation of lawyers and legal scholars who are committed to uniting all those whose reproductive agency is endangered by enforcement of oppressive stereotypes and economic and cultural inequities. The conference will bring activists together with scholars from within law and outside law to address a host of interconnecting social justice and human rights issues that affect people’s bodies, sexuality, and reproduction.
The event is cosponsored by Law Students for Reproductive Justice (Boalt Chapter & National Office), Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice, Berkeley Law Critical Race Scholars Society, Law Students of African Descent, Women of Color Collective. mw
The Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held at the USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles Nov. 20-21, 2009. The preliminary program is here. Paper abstracts are available on SSRN.
Panel topics address a wide range of legal areas and institutions, including:
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The World Response Conference on Global Outbreak will focus on worldwide public health on pandemic influenza and to contribute to the advancement of the global community thru the aspect of Prevention, Protection, Response, and Recovery. The conference will take place on November 12-13, 2009 in Las Vegas. jv
Notre Dame Law School will host the 2009 Midwestern Law & Economics Association (MLEA) annual meeting on October 9-10, 2009 at Eck Hall of Law. Topics to be covered at the conference include: torts and health care, criminal law and welfare economics, and intellectual property and competition law. jv
The Center for Reproductive Rights and Columbia Law School announce a two-year fellowship (CRR-CLS Fellowship) “designed to prepare recent law school graduates for legal academic careers, with a focus on reproductive health and human and human rights. Fellows will be affiliated with the Center and the Law School and will participate in the intellectual life of both programs.” The application deadline for the current cycle is Feb. 1, 2010. mw
The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (Arizona State University) Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology, in partnership with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI), presents Personalized Medicine in the Clinic: Policy, Legal, and Ethical Implications March 8-9, 2010. mw
The University of Washington Disability Studies Program presents a public symposium, Eugenics and Disability: History and Legacy in Washington, Oct. 9, 2009.
In 1909, Washington became the second state to pass a law allowing for the forced sterilization of people with disabilities and other citizens in the name of improving society. Why was eugenics so widely popular during the early 20th century? What is the significance of the hidden and complex history of eugenics in 2009? This one-day symposium will provide a forum for dialogue about Washington’s eugenic past and its present-day implications for the lives of people in our communities. The roundtable format will feature local and national speakers, with ample time for audience discussion.
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Michael Perlin (New York Law School), The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Future of Institutional Mental Disability Law in the United States: The Dawn of A New Era.
This paper is not publicly available.
The Widener Law Review, in partnership with the Widener University School of Law Health Law Institute, Delaware Hospice, the Delaware End-of-Life Coalition, and others, announces its Symposium titled Health Law and the Elderly: Managing Risk at the End of Life, to be held March 26, 2010, on Widener’s Wilmington, Delaware campus.
Abstracts are due Sept. 30, 2009. Details are here.
Georgia State University College of Law presents “Interdisciplinary Collaborative Education: Partnerships Between Law Schools and the Health Professions” Sept. 24-25, 2009
DISCOUNTED EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS Tuesday, September 1.
DISCOUNTED HOTEL RATE GUARANTEE ENDS Thursday, September 3.
After September 3, the discounted hotel rate will only be offered based on room availability.
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Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics offers a post-doctoral fellowship to help emerging young scholars produce top-rate work in our shared fields.
The 2010-2012 post-graduate Academic Fellowship Program provides substantial full-time support for two years to candidates already holding a graduate degree in law or another allied field aiming to begin an academic career in the areas covered by the Center. The application period for the post-graduate Academic Fellowship Program will be from September 1, 2009, through November 15, 2009, and awardees will be notified on a rolling basis. For more information and the complete call for applications please consult www.law.harvard.edu/programs/petrie-flom.
Indiana University School of Law — Indianapolis hosts the 7th Annual Conference on Health, Disability, and the Law, Autism and Vaccines, June 12, 2009.
The Stanford Law & Policy Review is planning a symposium on Food Policy & Health and seeks articles or short essays “on any subject relating to United States food policy and health.” Review of submissions will begin on June 15, 2009. For details, see this post at Agricultural Law.
The University of Washington School of Law presents Three Degrees: The Law of Climate Change and Human Rights Conference May 28-29, 2009. The Climate Project is a partner.
The Law of Climate Change and Human Rights Conference will bring legal practitioners and scholars from a range of disciplines together with an international body of relief organizations and peoples impacted most heavily by climate change, to discuss the application of human rights law to the impending climate crisis. Numerous scholars have suggested that human rights law may provide the most adequate and responsible remedy for climate-related impacts, and this conference will create an international forum to thoroughly test the available remedies, raise the legal issues associated with these remedies, and collaborate over necessary advancements in the law.Through the lens of a fictitious disaster scenario, The Law of Climate Change and Human Rights Conference will offer an opportunity for creative problem-solving and collaboration for lawyers engaged in the historically separate fields of environmental, human rights, refugee, and public health law, and scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy and geography. Panels will address topics such as the forced migration of climate refugees, the disproportionate impacts of climate change on the world’s poor, the national security implications of climate change, as well as reforms to the governance structure overseeing climate mitigation.
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
Mario L. Barnes (Connecticut Law)
Allison Hoffman and Christopher Robertson (Harvard Law), Oil and Water: The Trouble with Individual Mandates. Fragmented Markets, and Health Reform and The Blind Expert: A Litigant-Driven Solution to Bias and Error
David Tanenhaus (UNLC History), Gerald’s Story: Children, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice
Roger Alford (Pepperdine Law), Arbitrating Human Rights
Kate Baicker (Health Economics), Expanding Public Health Insurance
Northwestern Law and Political Economy
Vanessa Baird (Colorado Poli. Sci.) and Tonja Jacobi (Northwestern Law), How the Dissent Becomes the Majority: Using Federalism to Transform Coalitions in the U.S. Supreme Court
Deborah Dinner (NYU Law), Debating Protective Legislation: The Origins of the Legal Sex/Gender Distinction, 1964-1974
Kathy Cerminara (Nova Southeastern Law), Open-Access Hospice: Compassionate Reimbursement Rules in Medicare
Matthew Kramer (Cambridge Law), Freedom and the Rule of Law
Neil Buchanan (George Washington Law)
Philip Hamburger (Columbia Law), Beyond Protection
Jayanth Krishnan (William Mitchell Law), (Un)wanted Outsiders: The Debate over Excluding American and British Law Firms from a Thriving Capital Market
Richard Brooks (Yale Law), Groups and Individuals
Theodor R. Marmour (Yale Management), Reflections on Medicare Across the North American Border
The Legal Scholarship of Richard Epstein
Eric Barendt (University College London), Conflicts between right to Freedom of Speech and Privacy
Christine Desan (Harvard Law), Beyond Commodification: Contract and the Credit-Based World of Modern Capitalism
Lawrence A. Cunningham (George Washington Law), Reimagining Financial Regulations
Michael Chernew (Harvard Medical), The Financial Effects of a Value Based Insurance Design Program
Allison Christians (Wisconsin Law), Networks, Norms, and National Tax Policy
The DePaul University Journal of Health Care Law, the legal publication for the DePaul University College Law’s Health Law Institute, is seeking submissions from students, professors, practitioners, and health care professionals for an upcoming issue on social justice issues in health care. Submissions should be e-mailed to depaul_hlj@yahoo.com no later than April 1, 2009.
Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA Economics), Understanding the Relationship between Education and Health
Hofstra Human Rights and International Law
Hans Correll (United Nations)
Northwestern Law and Political Economy
Betsy Sinclair (Chicago Poli. Sci). The Party Line Vote: Legislative Power, Networks of Agreement, and Term Limits in California
Michael Willrich (Brandeis History)
The University of Manchester School of Law project on the Impact of the Criminal Process on Health Care Ethics and Practice will host Good, Bad or Indifferent: Medicine and the Criminal Process on Nov. 3-4, 2009.
Day 1 will focus on the prosecution of doctors; in the afternoon there will be workshops on Tainted Blood; The Role of the Criminal Process, The Role of the Coroner, Assisted Dying, Tourism and Covert Acceptance; and lastly a workshop on the Selling of Body Parts. Day 2 will focus on Ethical Conflicts in Criminal Courts.
The deadline for submissions is April 17, 2009.
Michelle Oberman (Santa Clara Law)
Anup Malani (Harvard Law), Do advertisements affect the physiological efficacy of branded drugs?
Clark Lombardi (Washington Law), Church and State in Nineteenth Century America
Northwestern Law and Political Economy
William G. Howell (Chicago Poli. Sci.), War-Time Judgments of Presidential Power: Striking Down but Not Back
Jefferson Decker (NYU Law), Governing from the Right: The Conservative Litigation Movement and the Reagan Revolution”
Charles H. Brower (Mississippi Law)
Robert Gatter (St. Louis Law), Constitutionalization of State Informed Consent Law
Mary Bilder (Boston College Law), The Authenticity of Madison’s Notes
Daphne Barak-Erez (Tel Aviv Law), The Institutional Aspects of Comparative Law
David Brink (U.C. San Diego Philosophy)
Ted Marmor (Yale Management), Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of Health Care
Oren Bracha (Texas Law), The Ideology of Authorship, Revisited
Michael Klarman (Harvard Law), Backlash: The Occasionally Perverse Consequences of Court Decisions”
Stanford Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Tim Quinn (Association of California Water Agencies), Water Supply Reliability in a World of Shortages
Justin Long (Connecticut Law), Against Certification
Francesco Parisi (Minnesota Law)
Ben Roin (Harvard Law), The Perverse Incentives Created by the Patent Term for Drugs
Darren Hutchinson (American University Law), Sexuality, Politics, and Doctrinal Evolution
Northwestern Law and Political Economy
Daniel B. Rodrigues (Texas Law), Is Administrative Law Inevitable
James Whitman (Yale Law), Western Legal Imperialism: Thinking About the Deep Historical Roots
Amy Coney Barrett (Notre Dame Law)
Amy Adler (NYU Law), Medusa: A Look at Women in First Amendment Law
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Kim Krawiec (UNC Law), Sunny Samaritans and Egomaniacs: Price Fixing in the Gamete Market
Michael Vanderbergh (Vanderbilt Law), The Logic of Climate Change Governance: Boundaries and Leakage
Michelle Jacobs (Florida Law), Virtual Education
John Mikhail (Georgetown Law), Bentham’s Theory of Fictions and Critique of Natural Rights
Georgetown Statutory Colloquium
William Eskridge (Yale Law), The Supreme Court’s Deference Continuum, an Empirical Study (from Chevron to Hamdan)
Joseph Doyle (MIT Management), Returns to Physician Human Capital: Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams
Dr. William Schulz (Center for American Progress)
Hofstra
Robert C. Post (Yale Law), Demcracy and Knowlege: Opinion and the First Amendment
Northwestern Law and Political Economy
Richard Brooks (Yale Law), Groups and Individuals
Felice Batlan (Chicago Kent Law), The Birth of Legal Aid: Knightly Attorneys and Damsels in Distress
Elizabeth G. Thornburg (SMU Law)
Dr. Thomas Eilmansberger (Salzburg)
Chris Dranozel (Kansas Law), Arbitration and Litigation as Competitors in the Pre-Dispute Market for Binding Dispute Resolution
Stanford Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Brian Gray (Hastings Law), The Future of Environmental Protection for Aquatic Ecosystems
Michell Kane (NYU Law), Bootstraps and Poverty Traps: Treaties as Novel Toos for Development Finance
Brian Simpson (Michigan Law), Lacey: A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream
Risa Goluboff (Columbia Law), Vagrancy, Crime Control, and Judicial Anxiety
Jebediah Purdy (Duke Law), American Earth: The Public Language of Environmental Commitment
Alan Lerner (Penn. Law), From Socrates to Langdel, From Freud to Dewey: The Role of Emotion in Modern Legal Education
Kimberly Ferzan (Rutgers Law), Beyond the Special Part
Richard Chused (Georgetown Law)
Katherine Sikkink (Minnesota Law), Do Human Rights Trials Make a Difference
Constance MacIntosh (Dalhousie Law), Dirty Water, Dirty Hands: Public Health Deficits and Water Quality Debacles on First Nation Reserves
Sari Kisilevsky (UCLA Fellow), Hard Cases and Legal Validity
Jill Hasday (Minnesota Law), Protecting Them from Themselves: Sex and Race Inequality as Shared Benefits
The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University presents Hooked: Legal and Ethical Implications of Recent Advances in Alcohol and Drug Addiction Research. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, April 10, at the Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse, 401 W. Washington St., in downtown Phoenix. It is co-sponsored by the College’s Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology and the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at ASU.
The conference will offer a balanced, multidisciplinary set of leading national and local experts providing a range of current scientific, legal and ethical perspectives on addiction and how the problem is and should be addressed by the courts. In recent years, scientists have made substantial progress in understanding, diagnosing, predicting, treating and monitoring drug and alcohol addiction, especially pertaining to genetic and neuroscience evidence, which would be helpful to the courts.
The free conference is intended for judges, attorneys, scientists, mental health and addiction specialists, scholars and educators. In addition, free continuing legal education credits will be offered. The conference is the third in a series of biennial programs organized by the Center on subjects relating to the brain and the law. Previous topics were “Abnormal Brains,” in 2005, and “Brain Scanning,” in 2007. For more information, go to www.law.asu.edu/lst or contact Andrew Askland at (480) 965-2465, Andrew.Askland [at] asu.edu.
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
Rusty Park (Boston University Law)
Alexandra D. Lahav (Connecticut Law), Portraits of Resistance: How Lawyers Respond to Unjust Proceedings
David Schizer & Thomas Merrill (Columbia Law), Advancing Energy Policy Goals in an Economic Downturn: A Proposed Petroleum Fuel Price Stabilization Plan
Lawrence Mitchell (George Washington Law), The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry
Minnesota Faculty Works in Progress
Catherine Sharkey (NYU Law), Agency Accountability: Federal Preemption’s Future
Northwestern Law and Economics
Eric Posner (Chicago Law), The Rights of Migrants
Kim Lane (Princeton Law and Public Affairs), The Law is the way the State Talk to Itself
Heather K. Gerken (Yale Law), Building the Election System We Deserve
Mary Wiktorowicz (York Health Policy and Management), Mental health network governance and coordination: Comparative analysis across ten regions
The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth (Northwestern University School of Law) presents a research Roundtable, Environmental, Health, and Safety Risks of Emerging Technologies, April 23-24, 2009.
Microsoft Fellowships in Law, Economics, and TechnologyThe University of Michigan Law School’s Center for Law and Economics is offering several post-graduate Fellowships in Law, Economics, and Technology. The Fellowships support research by individuals who finished graduate school (or are about to finish) and are writing on topics in the intersection between law, economics, and technology. Individuals who practiced in these areas and are interested in returning to academia are also encouraged to apply. The purpose of the fellowships is to foster research and interest in areas of Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, Internet and Cyberlaw, Health Care Law and Policy, and other areas related to information and technology, with emphasis on economics and empiricism as the disciplines of inquiry. The Fellows are expected to devote their time to their proposed course of research, to be in residence at the Law School in Ann Arbor, and to participate in the Law School’s law-and-economics activities. Fellowships are either for one or two semesters.Deadline for Application Submission: February 1, 2009.
Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics
Emily Oster (Chicago Economics), Routes of Infection: Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Steve Shavell (Harvard Law), On the Design of the Appeals Process: The Optimal Use of Discretionary Review vs. Direct Appeal
Pennsylvania Law and Philosophy
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth Philosophy), Can Neurological Evidence Help Courts Assess Criminal Responsibility? Lessons from Law and Neuroscience
Dwight Newman (Saskatchewan Law)
Yale Law, Economics and Organization
David Haddock (Northwestern Law), Bad Public Goods—CAFE—The Corporate Average Fuel Economy Mandate
Mark D. Rosen (Chicago Kent Law), From Exclusivity to Concurrency
Andrew Hanssen (Montana State Economics), Vertical Integration During the Hollywood Studio Era
Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, & Bioethics Workshop
Scott Hamphill (Columbia Law), Aggregation, Antitrust, and Complex Collusion
David Opderbeck (Seton Hill Law), Patents, Trade Secrets, and Social Relations
Jennifer Arlen (NYU Law), The Inefficiency of Contractual Liability for Medical Malpractice
Northwestern Law and Economics
Michael Weisbach (Ohio State Finance), Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis
Jonathan Berger (AIDS Law Project), Institutions Matter: The Right to Health, the Regulation of Medicines and the South African Constitution
Vanessa A. Baird (Colorado-Boulder Political Science), Answering the Call of the Courts: How Justices and Litigants Set the Supreme Court Agenda
Benjamin Spencer (Washington & Lee), Deconstructing Pleading Doctrine
Neil Kinkopf (Georgia State Law)
Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics Workshop
Ashish Jha (Harvard Public Health), How does Pay for Performance Affect Hospitals that Care for the Poor
Lori Damrosch (Columbia Law), International Law and National Law
Bernard Black (Texas Law), The Effects of Pretrial Process Reform: Evidence from Texas Malpractice Cases
Jeffery Kahn (SMU Law), International Travel, National Security, and the Constitution in War and Peace
New York University Law and Society
Justin Richland (UC Irvine Criminology), Corrupting Conversations: Ethics and Metadiscourse in Federal Lobbying Reform Legislation
Northwestern Law and Economics
Dean Lueck (Arizona Economics), The Demarcation of Land
Oregon Enviromental & Natural Resources Law
Brook Muller (Oregon Architecture), Developing Conservation
Kathy Feng (California Common Cause)
Vanessa Gruben (Ottawa Law), Privacy and the AHRA: Assisting in the Collection of Information for the Assisted Human Reproduction Agency of Canada
Yale Law, Economics and Organization
Joel Slemrod (Michigan Economics), The Coase Theorem and Tax Law
Leonard Burman (Urban Institute), A Blueprint for Tax Reform and Health Reform
Joseph Singer (Harvard Law), Normative Methods for Lawyers
Barton Gellman (Washington Post), Angler: The Cheney Vice President
Eric Feldman (Pennsylvania Law), Assuming the Risk: Tort Law, Policy and Politics on the Slippery Slopes
Christine Borgman (UCLA Information Science), Scholarship in the Digital Age
James Spindler (USC Law), Vicarious Liability for Bad Corporate Governance: Are We Wrong About 10b-5
Virginia Legal History Workshop
Reuel Schiller (UC Hastings Law)
Harvard Health Law Policy , Biotechnology & Bioethics
Anup Malani (Chicago Law), Clinical Trials, the Market for Observations and the Cost of Medical R& D
Thomas Merrill (Yale Law), The Origins of the Appellate Review Model in Administrative Law
Gregg Bloche (Georgetown Law), The Emergent Logic in Health Law
Zhang Jing (Peking University)
The World Association for Medical Law will host its 17th World Congress on Medical Law in Beijing, Oct. 18-21, 2008.
We expect 1000-1200 participants to the congress from all over the world. The theme of the congress is Legal Construction on Health Law and a Harmonious Society. The scientific program will focus on exploring various issues related to the science of health law.
Juan E. Mendez (International Center for Transitional Justice)
Michael O’Hear (Marquette Law), Explain Yourself: Procedural Reasonableness in Federal Sentencing After Rita v. United States
Harvard Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics
Darius Lakdawalla (Rand Corporation), The Welfare Effects of Medical Malpractice Liability
Matt Stephenson (Harvard Law), Political Accountability under Alternative Institutional Regimes
Christopher Springman (Virginia Law), The Emergence of IP Norms in Stand-Up Comedy
New York University Law and Society
Maneesha Deckha (Victoria Law), Racialized Animals and Animalized Cultures: Species, Intersectionality and Posthumanist Justice
Justin McCrary (Berkeley Law), Crime, Punishment, and Myopia
Santa Clara Social Justice Workshop
Joaquin Avila (Seattle University Law), Obstacles to Latina/o Political Empowerment and Solutions
National Advocates for Pregnant Women announces two writing competitions for law students.
The first contest asks for a critical analysis of the absence of birthing rights issues from gender discrimination and feminist jurisprudence textbooks and curricula (in fact, none of the top three casebooks used in law school courses dedicated to gender and the law address the issue of childbirth or midwifery). The second contest asks students to develop legal theories that can be used to challenge policies banning pregnant women from having a vaginal birth after a prior caesarean section (VBAC). This topic will encourage students to address a growing problem that has received very little attention from the feminist legal community both in academia and within the leading women’s rights legal advocacy organizations.
Essays are due May 31, 2009.
Unite For Sight’s 6th Annual Global Health Conference — “Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation” — will be held at Yale University April 18-19, 2009. Abstracts for proposed presentations are due Sept. 15, 2008.
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.
We seek papers on food, culture, and the law, written from a variety of perspectives, appropriate for presentation at one or both of the following conferences: the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (Suffolk University Law School, Boston, April 3-4, 2009) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (details for the 2009 conference TBA on the ASFS website). Although we aim to use these panels as a partial foundation for creating the edited collection, we are also happy to consider abstracts and articles from potential contributors who are unable to attend either ASLCH or ASFS. Finished essays should be of a quality suitable for publication with an established university press and reasonably accessible to a multidisciplinary audience of scholars and students of the law, social sciences, and humanities, as well as interested readers outside the academy.
J. Amy Dillard
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Baltimore School of Law
1420 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
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The British Institute of International and Comparative Law presents Innovation in Life Sciences Sept. 25, 2008.
The Campbell Law Review is putting on a Symposium entitled Practical Issues in Health Law Jan. 31, 2009, at the Sheraton in Raleigh, NC.
We will hear from lead commentators and practitioners in this field, and CLEs can be obtained. Further, we are seeking several articles on health law to fill our Symposium issue. If you are interested in either attending this Symposium as a speaker, an audience-member, or if you are interested in having an article on health law published, please contact the law review’s Editor-in-Chief, Matthew Quinn, at…
Campbell Law Review
Post Office Box 1165
Buies Creek, NC 27506
Office: (910) 893-1749
Mobile: (919) 770-0791
culawreview [at] email.campbell.edu
http://law.campbell.edu/pubs/lawrev.html
Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law), Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan
SCRIPTed - A Journal of Law, Technology & Society presents Governance of New Technologies: The Transformation of Medicine, Information Technology and Intellectual Property, An International Interdisciplinary Conference, March 29-31, 2009, at the University of Edinburgh. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 1, 2008. Jump to full post
The Erasmus University Rotterdam hosts an International Conference on Human Rights and Biomedicine Dec. 10-12, 2008.
The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (officially, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, 1997) stipulated the legal principles which are binding on the field of medicine and biology. Together with the European Convention on Human Rights, it is one of the leading treaty documents passed by the Council of Europe.
The Biomedicine Convention is the first international document formulating guiding principles on: equitable access to healthcare; informed consent; organ transplanting and the use of substances of human origin; medical research on human beings; the protection of the human embryo and fetus, and the use of medical information.Since 1997, the member states of the Council of Europe started the process of ratification that commits them to make their laws compatible with the principles and requirements of this document. Since the Dutch government is expected to ratify the Convention, the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Erasmus University Medical Center organize an international conference starting at international Human Rights Day (10 December 2008).
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School presents its Annual Conference, Our Fragmented Healthcare System: Causes and Solutions [program in pdf], June 13-14, 2008 (Fri. June 13, 2-6 p.m., and Sat. June 14, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.).
Why is our healthcare system so fragmented in the care it gives patients? Why is this so even within a single hospital, where errors or miscommunications often seem to result from poor coordination among the myriad of professionals treating any one individual patient? The conference aims to address this broad question with a highly interdisciplinary approach.
This event is open to the general public and is offered free of charge, but RSVP by June 10th is required. Please email petrie-flom [at] law.harvard.edu or call (617) 496-4662 to register.
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The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research presents Off-Label Uses of Approved Drugs: Medicine, Law, and Policy May 21, 2008.
The Center for Genetic Research Ethics and Law at Case Western Reserve University and the National Institutes of Health are hosting Translating “ELSI”: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genomics May 1-3, 2008.
Jim Fleming (Boston University Law), Traditionalism and Backlash in Constitutional Argument
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Laura Rosenbury (Washington University in St. Louis Law), Beyond Intimacy
Claire Priest (Columbia Law), Understanding the End of Entail: Information, Institutions, and Slavery in the American Revolutionary Period
Madhavi Sunder (UC Davis), The New Enlightenment: How Muslim Women are Bringing Religion Out of the Dark Ages
Sharon Dolovich (UCLA Law), Defining Eighth Amendment Deliberate Indifference
Minnesota Faculty Works
Heidi Kitrosser (Minnesota Law), The Reality Based Constitution
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Jason Furman (The Brookings Institution), Reforming the Tax Treatment of Health Care: Right Ways and Wrong Ways
Rose Villazor (SMU Law), Birthright Citizenship in the U.S. Territories
Rachel Brewster (Harvard Law), Renegotiation and Reinterpretation of Treaties
Ruti Teitel (New York Law School), Humanity’s Law
Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard Economics), Taking the Long Way Around: Real Consequences of Transport Corruption
Christopher Morris (Maryland Law), Natural Rights and Political Legitimacy & P 1-2 Declaration of Independence & Anarchy, State, and Utopia & State Legitimacy and Social Order
Eric Zolt (UCLA Law), Inequality, Collective Action, and Taxing and Spending Patterns of State and Local Governments
Alan O. Sykes (Stanford Law), Transnational Forum Shopping as a Trade and Investment Issue
Greg Mandel (Temple Law), Left Brain vs. Right Brain: Conflicting Conceptions of Creativity in Intellectual Property Law
Jean Comaroff (Chicago Anthropology), Nations with/out Borders: Neoliberalism and the Problem of Belong in Africa, and Beyond
Lauren Edelman (UC Berkeley Law) & Linda Krieger (UC Berkeley Law) & Scott Eliason (Minnesota Sociology) & Catherine Albiston (UC Berkeley Law) & Virginia Mellema (EEOC), When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Employment Structures
UC Hastings
Adam Scales (Washington & Lee Law), Insurance in the Aftermath of Katrina
Joshua Foa Dienstag (UCLA Political Science), The Promise of Pessimism
Christine Jolls (Yale Law), Mandated Medical Leave in the Workplace
Reinier Kraakman (Harvard Law), Exit, Voice, and Liability: Legal Dimensions of Organizational Structure
The second annual Transgender Lives: The Intersection of Health and Law Conference will be held on Saturday, April 19, 2008, at the UConn Health Center. “This all day conference is geared towards Service Providers, Medical and Legal Professionals, Trans and Gender non-conforming community, allies and all those interested in the Health and Law isues facing the Trans and gender non-conforming communities.”
Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law Policy and the Center for Health Law Studies presented the 20th Annual Saint Louis University Health Law Symposium, Disability, Reproduction and Parenting, April 4, 2008.
Thanks: Reproductive Rights Prof Blog.
Arti K. Rai (Duke Law), The Supreme Court (Re)Discovers Patents: Implications for the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Elizabeth Emens (Columbia Law), Intimate Discrimination: The State’s Role in the Accidents of Sex and Love
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Noah Zatz (UCLA Law), What Is a Working Family?: Revisiting the Class parity Analysis of Welfare Work Requirements & What Welfare Requires from Work
Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law), Transnational Labor Citizenship
Dr. Ellen Bassee
Laurence Helfer (Vanderbilt Law), Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community
Guy Rub (Michigan Law, Student Fellow),