Seton Hall University School of Law has issued a Call for Papers for its 15th Critical Tax Conference on March 29-31, 2012.
If you would like to submit a paper please email Pierre Bertran, pierre.bertran[at]shu.edu and Tracy Kaye, tracy.kaye[at]shu.edu.
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The Journal of Chinese Tax and Policy has issued a call for papers for its inaugural conference, which will be held on November 23-25, 2012 at Sun Yat-Sen University . The theme of the conference will be Tax Policy in China: A multilateral dialogue – Modernizing China’s Tax Laws for a Diverse Economy. The conference organizers are soliciting papers dealing with the conference theme and/or its implications. All papers accepted for the conference may be selected for publication in the Journal of Chinese Tax and Policy.
Abstract submissions of 300 words (in English) are due April 25, 2012. Subsequent deadlines apply if you need help arranging for Chinese translation.
Hat Tip: Faculty Law Conference Updates and European Association of Tax Law Professors
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The Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (International Sociological Association) invite papers for their joint annual meeting in Honolulu, HI June 5-8, 2012. The theme of the meeting is “Sociolegal Conversations Across a Sea of Islands” although other law & society topics are welcome. The call for papers deadline is Dec. 6, 2011.
In addition, the tax section of the meeting has a call for papers deadline of Nov. 29, 2011.
The University of Florida Levin College of Law’s Graduate Tax Program will hold its seventh annual International Tax Law Symposium on Oct. 7 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. It is free and Open to the Public. The symposium will be available to view via webcast here. nh
Stetson Law School will be hosting the 2011 Special Needs Trusts: The National Conference on October 19 - 21, 2011. The Conference will provide an in-depth review and discussion on both basic and advanced levels of the major issues presented in the creation, administration, and monitoring of special needs trusts. mf
The Villanova Law Review presents the Norman J. Shachoy Symposium, on taxation of offshore activity, Sept. 23, 2011.
This symposium brings together leading academics, government officials, practitioners, and journalists to discuss issues relating to the taxation of offshore activity - both individuals and MNC’s, and the role of the tax laws regulating executive compensation.
Links to the brochure and registration information are here. mw
The Winnipeg Foundation and Robson Hall, Faculty of Law - University of Manitoba present Philanthropy, Law and Social Enterprise: New Direction or Distraction?, Sept. 21, 2011. mw
The Connecticut Law Review, in conjunction with the Connecticut Insurance Law Center and the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal, will hold its 2011-2012 symposium on Nov. 11-12, 2011. Topics may include:
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Emory Law School hosts a conference on tax policy from a critical perspective Sept. 16-17, 2011. “Critical perspectives on tax policy for this workshop will be limited to a focus on at least one of the following topics: race or ethnicity, socio-economic status, gender or gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or disability.” Abstracts were due June 30, 2011. More information available on TaxProf Blog. mw
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
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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The Schulich School of Law and Dalhousie University will host The Carter Commission 50 Years Later: A Time for Reflection and Reform, Sept. 28-29, 2012. Proposals are due by Jan. 15, 2012. mw
Policy & Internet, the first major peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal investigating the impact of the Internet on public policy, is inviting submissions for a special issue on Internet taxation, to be published in October 2011. The submission deadline is May 31, 2011. sr
The Ph.D. students of the Queen Mary University School of Law present the Queen Mary PhD Conference 2011, Pushing Legal Knowledge Boundaries, June 7, 2011.
The call for papers deadline has been extended to April 25, 2011.
We invite papers from all areas of law, including:Intellectual Property | Public International | Human Rights | Criminal | Competition | Commercial & Corporate | Banking & Finance | Tax | European Union | Litigation | Constitutional | Arbitration | Information Technology
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The UNC Tax Center (University of North Carolina Kenan Flagler Business School) presents the Fifteenth Annual UNC Tax Symposium Jan. 27-28, 2012. The call for papers (available on SSRN) deadline is Nov. 11, 2011. mw
The 12th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (12th GCET) will be held Oct. 20-21, 2011, in Madrid. The theme is Market Instruments and Sustainable Economy. Papers must address one of the following thematic areas:
Abstracts are due April 30, 2011. mw
Santa Clara Law School hosts the 14th Critical Tax Theory Conference on April 8-9, 2011. Longer post on Tax Prof Blog. For more information, contact the conference organizer, Prof. Pat Cain. 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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Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center & Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, present Starving the Hidden Beast: New Approaches to Tax Expenditure Reform Jan. 14, 2011, at Loyola. The event will be webcast live.
The Maastricht University Faculty of Law will celebrate its 30th anniversary by organizing a legal conference about the challenges of teaching globalised law June 23-24, 2011. The call for papers deadline is Jan. 15, 2011.
Topics include: legal education in a global environment; skills in a legal curriculum; English as the language of law; impact of international and European law; how to compare law; development of transnational programs; lawyers as a national profession; and how to teach comparative criminal law, comparative tax law, environmental law, and private law.
Stanford and Yale Law Schools announce the twelfth session of the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to be held at Stanford Law School on June 24-25, 2011, and seek submissions for this meeting. The focus of the twelfth session will be private law and dispute resolution. The topics to be addressed are: Bankruptcy, Torts, Taxation, Contracts, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, Corporate & Securities Law, Private International Law, Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Property, The Legal Profession. The call for papers deadline is March 17, 2011. The full call is available on SSRN.
On Oct. 29, 2010, the University of Florida Levin College of Law Graduate Tax Program presented the Sixth Annual International Taxation Symposium. Presenters and their topics:
A webcast is here.
AALS Section on Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law
“The Federalization of Nonprofit and Charity Law”
2011 AALS Annual Meeting
January 4-8, 2011
San Francisco, CA
Deadline for submitting abstracts: April 30, 2010 Jump to full post
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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Fabio Arcila (Touro), The Death Of Suspicion
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David Duff (British Columbia), Carbon Taxation in Theory and Practice
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Christopher Capozzola (MIT) A Tale of Two Treasons: Adjudicating War Crimes and Collaboration in Manila, 1945
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Robert Gatter, St. Louis University
Dennis Klimchuk (Western Ontario), The Rule of Private, Common Law
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Dan Kahan (Yale),Culture, Cognition, and Consent: Who Perceives What, and Why, in ‘Acquaintance Rape’ Cases
ESTATE PLANNING: MORAL, RELIGIOUS, AND ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES
The Creighton Law Review announces the third annual multidisciplinary symposium on Friday, April 16, 2010, at Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, Nebraska. The Law Review is soliciting papers to be presented at the symposium, which will explore the theme of moral, religious, and ethical perspectives in estate planning, including issues affecting wills, trusts, estates, and taxation. Authors from legal or social science perspectives are invited to submit papers for discussion at the symposium.
Interested authors must submit their papers to the Law Review by December 15, 2009. Jump to full post
Calls for papers from AALS sections for the January 2010 meeting are listed here. Most of the deadlines have passed, but there are a few still open. Here they are, arranged in order by deadline:
Call for Articles and Essays: Recent Developments in New York Law
Proposals due October 1, 2009.
The editors of Pace Law Review invite proposals from scholars, researchers, practitioners, and professionals for contributions to our second annual issue addressing recent developments in New York law to be published in Spring 2010.
This issue will explore a wide range of recent developments in the laws of New York State, including but not limited to areas of criminal law, civil litigation, family law, property law, constitutional law, tax law, bankruptcy law, and municipal law. Authors may also discuss proposed changes to New York law, at the state or local level.
Please submit proposals of no more than 500 words by attachment to plr [at] law.pace.edu by October 1, 2009. All proposals should include the intended author’s name, title, institutional affiliation, contact information, and should relate to an area of New York State law. Authors are also welcome, but not required, to submit a CV. We expect to make publication offers by October 8. We encourage clear, concise, and accessible writing that will be of use to lawmakers, attorneys, and students.
Completed manuscripts will be due November 24, 2009.
The University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler School of Business has issued a call for papers for its Thirteenth Annual Tax Symposium to be held January 29-30, 2010. The symposium “is designed to bring together leading tax scholars from economics, accounting, finance, law, political science, and related fields.” The deadline for the call for papers is November 16, 2009.
“Papers should be well developed, but at a stage where they can still benefit from the group’s discussion. The symposium will include no more than six papers. Travel and lodging expenses for presenters will be reimbursed up to $500.”
You can submit a paper to doug_shack@unc.edu. Paper selection will be finalized by December 4, 2009.
Thanks to TaxProf Blog for this information.
On April 9-10, 2010, Saint Louis University School of Law and its Center for International and Comparative Law will host the Critical Tax Conference. The Saint Louis University Law Journal will publish a symposium issue, and seeks submissions of previously unpublished papers related to comparative or international tax law. These papers should generally be in publishable or near publishable form.
Saint Louis University School of Law will fund travel for the symposium presenters, including airfare to St. Louis, accommodations in the University Hotel, meals and miscellaneous travel expenses. Individuals wishing to present on Friday, April 9, 2010 should submit developed proposals by August 17, 2009 to Henry Ordower (ordoweh@slu.edu), Nan Kaufman (kaufman@slu.edu), or Kerry Ryan (kryan21@slu.edu).
Thanks to TaxProf Blog for this information.
Ruth Mason (Connecticut Law), Tax Expenditures and Global Labor Mobility
West Coast Law and Literature Conference. Topic: “Making Money/Faking Money: Counterfeit, Credit, and the Alchemy of Culture”
Maurer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington, hosted the 2009 Critical Tax Conference April 3-4, 2009.
Ben Depoorter (Miami Law), Law in the Shadow of Bargaining: The Feedback Effect of Civil Settlements
Dorothy Roberts (Northwestern Law)
Sally Hadden (Florida State), Lawyers’ Libraries in Colonial America: Volume and Volumes
Joel K. Goldstein (St. Louis Law), Cheney, Vice Presidential Power, and the War on Terror
Llew Gibbons (Toledo Law), Regulatory Approaches: Crisis, Danger or Opportunity for Intellectual Property Law in the United States
Mark Gergen (Texas), Why Strong Third Party Penalties are an Essential Tool for Discouraging Taxpayers from Taking Aggressive Positions in Reporting on Matters of Factual or Legal Uncertainty
Scott Washington (Princeton), The Blood of Homer Plessy: A Counterfactual Analysis of the Case of Plessy v. Ferguson
Susan Ayres (Texas Wesleyan Law), Mothers in Denial
National Security Law Junior Faculty Workshop
Allison Christians (Wisconsin Law), Tax Norms and Global Governance
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)
Pauline Kim (Washington Law), Deliberation and Strategy on the United States Courts of Appeals: An Empirical Exploration of Panel Effects
Loyola Los Angeles
Brian Galle (Florida State), Tax Incentives and the Judicial Role in Interstate Trade
George Triantis (Houston Law Center)
Arthur Hellman (Pittsburgh Law), Sex, Lies, and the Internet: The Unfinished Business of the New Federal Judicial Misconduct Rules
Benjamin Liebman (Columbia Law), A Return to Populist Legality? Historical Legacies and Legal Reform
Florida International University
Howard Wasserman (FIU Law), The Irrepressible Myth of Klein
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan (Penn Law), Do Liquidated Damages Encourage Efficient Breach? A Psychological
Anne Coughhlin (Virginia Law), Interrogation Stories
Northwestern Law and Economics
Chris Sanchirico (Penn Law), The Optimal Tax Base
Bradley C. Karkkainen (Minnesota Law)
Washington University of St. Louis
Michael D. Green (Wake Forrest Law), The Unappreciated Congruity of the Second and Third Restatements of Torts on Design Defects
Arizona Law Economics and the Environment
Shi-Ling Hsu (British Columbia Law), The Case for a Carbon Tax
Kevin Collins (Indiana Law), Should the Mind Be Patentable Subject Matter?
Alicia Davis Evans (Michigan Law)
Monica Hakimi (Michigan Law), A Theory of State Bystander Responsibility
Harry Arthurs (York University)
Mitu Gulati (Duke Law), Sticky Contracts (or Why Don’t Law Firms Have R&D Departments?)
Wisconsin Institute for Legal Studies
Michael Stein (William and Mary Law), Future Prospects for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Arizona Economics, Law, and the Environment
Paul Rhode (Arizona Econ.), The Economic Effects of Critical Habitat Designation: Evidence from the Market for Vacant Land
Susan Bryant (CUNY Law), Rounds on Teaching: Building a Faculty Learning Community
Thomas H. Lee (Fordham Law), The International Laws of War and the American Civil War
John Simmons (Virginia Philosophy), Ideal Theory and the One-State World
Tax Policy in the Obama Era, a conference today sponsored by UCLA School of Law and the Tax Policy Center today at UCLA:
Michael Vandenbergh (Vanderbilt Law), Climate Change
Richard Myers (North Carolina Law), Requiring Jury Vote of Censure to Convict
Elena A. Baylis (Pittsburgh Law), Bellwether Trials
Abraham Drassinower (Toronto Law)
James R. Hines Jr. (Michigan Law)
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Martha Nussbaum (Chicago Law), Protecting Intimacy: Sex Clubs, Public Sex, Risky Choices
Noah Novogrodksy (Connecticut Law), The Duty of Treatment: Human Rights and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Terence J. Anderson (Miami Law), Generalizations and Evidential Reasoning
Northwestern Law and Political Economy
Daniel Diermeier (Northwestern Business), Parties, Coalition, and the Internal Organization of Legislatures
David Golove and Daniel Hulsebosch (NYU Law), On and Equal Footing: Constitution-Making and the Law of Nations in Early America
Sam Jordan (St. Louis Law) and Andy Hessick (Arizona State Law)
David I. Walker (Boston University), Are Tax and Accounting Rules Discriminating Against Discounted Employee Stock Options Justified?
Ajay Mehrota (Indiana Law), Lawyers, Guns & Public Monies: The U.S. Treasury, World War One, and the Administration of the Modern Fiscal State
Michael Heise (Cornell Law), Pass or Fail: High-Stakes Testing and Educational Policy by Litigation
Yariv Brauner (Florida Law), Tax Incentives and Economic Development
Angela Onwuachi-Willig (Iowa Law)
Robert M. Chesney (Wake Forrest)
Alejandro Madrazo (Yale Law), The 2008 Mexican Supreme Court Decision on Abortion
Deborah Hellman (Maryland Law), Prosecuting Doctors for Trusting Patients
David Mednicoff (Massachusetts Legal Studies), Can Case-Management Software Facilitate Democracy? The Rule(s) of Law and US Rule-of-Law in Contemporary Arab Politics
Pennsylvania Tax Law and Policy
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law)
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
Brett Gadsden (Emory African American Studies), The Other Side of the Milliken Coin’: The Promise and Pitfalls of Metropolitan School Desegregation
Don Herzog (Michigan Law), Public Man, Private Woman
Pennsylvania Tax Law and Policy
Ruth Mason (Connecticut Law), Welfare, Tax Incentives, and Labor Mobility
Alexander Dyck and Craig Doidge (Toronto Managment)
Georgetown International Theory
Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Virginia Law)
Daniel Shaviro (NYU Law), The Long-Term U.S. Fiscal Gap: Is the Main Problem Generational Inequity?
Charles Zerner, Extraordinary Renditions: Mediating the Weaponized Insects of the United States’ Department of Defense
Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), The Problems and Promise of Public Financing
Joel Handler (UCLA Law), The Rise and Spread of Workfare, Activation, Devolution, and Privatization, and the Changing Status of Citizenship
USC Communication Law and Policy
Victor Fleisher (Illinois Law)
Larry Hamermesh (Widener Law), Rationalizing Appraisal Standards in Compulsory Buyouts
Stanford and Yale Law Schools announce the tenth session of the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to be held at Stanford Law School on May 29-30, 2009, and seek submissions for this meeting. Jump to full post
Richard Lazarus (Georgetown Law)
Harvard Health Law Policy, Bitechnology & Bioethics Workshop
I. Glenn Cohen (Harvard Law), Patients with Passports: Legal and Ethical Issues in Medical Tourism
Randy Bezanson (Iowa Law), Trespassory Art
Justin Wolfers (Pennsylvania Business), Underestimating Female CEOs
Barry Feld (Minnesota Law) and Shelley Schaefer, The Right to Counsel in Juvenile Court: Law Reform, Judicious Non-Intervention, and Unintended Consequences
Northwestern Law and Economics
John Coates (Harvard Law), Reforming the Taxation and Regulation of Mutual Funds: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis
Ruth Okediji (Minnesota Law), Beyond Fragmentation: WIPO-WTO Relations and the Future of Global IP Norms
Frederick Gedicks (BYU Law), Pluralism, Oppression, and the Ambiguous “Revival” of Religion
Ani Satz (Emory Law), Equal Protection of Animals
James Oldham (Georgetown Law), Under the Radar: Informal Law-Making by the Twelve Judges in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Mark Gergen (Texas Law), Why Strong Third Party Penalties are an Essential Tool for Discouraging Taxpayers from Taking Aggressive Positions in Reporting on Matters of Factual or Legal Uncertainty
Glenn C. Loury (Brown Economics), Incarceration Policy and the Effects on Black Men
Chris Stone (USC), Does the Climate Have Standing?
David Skeel (U. Penn Law), Governance in the Ruins
Norman Silber (Hofstra Law), Judicial Wisdom and Political Maturity: The Oral History of Judge Bernard S. Meyer
Oregon Center for Law and Politics
Justice Betty Roberts (Former Oregon Supreme Court Justice), With Grit: Breaking Trails in Politics and Law
Pennsylvania Tax Law and Policy
George Yin (Virginia Law), Temporary-Effect Legislation, Political Accountability, and Fiscal Restraint
Matthew Fletcher (Michigan State Law), Race and American Indian Tribal Nationhoon
Sagit Leviner (Tel Aviv Law), An Overview: A New Era of Tax Enforcement—From ‘Big Stick’ to Responsive Regulation
Grainne de Burca (Fordham Law)
Patricia Cain (Santa Clara Law), Taxing Families Fairly: Next Steps
Deborah Pearlstein (Princeton), Form and Function in the National Security Constitution
Orin S. Kerr (George Washington Law), Applying the Fourth Amendment to Internet Communications: A General Approach
Traci Burch (Northwesten Poli. Sci.), Trading Democracy for Justice? The Spillover Effects of Imprisonment on Neighborhood Voter Registration in Atlanta
USC Communications Law and Policy
Anthony Taussig (London), English Legal Manuscripts - Building a Collection
Kathryn F. Spier (Harvard Law), Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities
Georgia State Practitioner in Residence
Robert Keith
Steven Bank & Kirk Stark (UCLA Law), War and Taxes
Northwestern Law and Political Economy
Eileen Braman (Indiana Political Science), No Eyes but Our Own: How Political Views Influence Normative Legal Reasoning Processes
John Monahan (Virginia Law), Lawyers at Mid-Career: A 20-Year Longitudinal Study of Job and Life Satisfaction
Jules Coleman (Yale Law), Rethinking Legal Positivism
USC Communication Law and Policy
Jeffrey Lax (Columbia Political Science)
Henry Hansmann (Yale Law), Globalizing Commercial Litigation
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
Perry Bechky (Connecticut Law)
New York University Legal History
Owen Williams (NYU Law), Lincoln’s Justices: Democratic Politicians in Republican Robes
Rosanne Altshuler (Rutgers Econ.), Reconsidering Tax Expenditure Estimation: Challenges and Reforms
Philip Schrag (Georgetown Law), Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication
Marc Poirier (Seton Hall Law), Visibility, Locality, Identity: Citizenship and the Same-Sex Couple
Melissa Ledesma-Leese (Department of State)
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)
New York University Legal History
Jefferson Decker (NYU Law), The Rights Revolution on the Right: The Conservative Legal Movement and American Government 1971-87
Kyle Logue (Michigan Law), The Coase Theorem of Tax Law
David Lindsey (Monash Law), Copyright in Electronic Programing Guides: Australia/US Comparative Analysis
Steve Schwarcz (Duke Law), Complexity as a Catalyst of Market Failure: A Law and Engineering Inquiry
Howard Chang (Penn Law), Immigration Restrictions as Redistributive Taxation
Peter Clarke
Northwestern Law and Political Economy
Elizabeth Garrett (USC Law), Direct Democracy and Public Choice
Justin O’Brien (Australian National University), Barriers to Entry: Foreign Direct Investment and the Regulation of Sovereign Wealth
Kurt Lash (Loyola Law), Leaving the Chisholm Trail: The Eleventh Amendment and the Background Principle of Strict Construction
Wil Waluchow (McMaster University), Four Concepts of Validity: Reflections on Inclusive and Exclusive Positivism
USC Communications Law and Policy Paige Marta Skiba (Vanderbilt Law)Vanderbilt Jesse Fried (Berkely Law), Do VCs Misbehave? Some Evidence from Silicon Valley
Felice Batlan (Chicago-Kent Law)
Charlotte Crane (Northwestern Law), Honoring Expectations about Taxes: Are Roth IRAs Different?
Ron Harris (Tel Aviv Law), Law, Finance and the First Corporations
Kent Keihl (New Mexico Psychology), Brain Imaging of Criminal Psychopaths
Ethan Yale (Georgetown Law), A Better Way to Tax Corporate Distributions: Allow Basis Recovery on Ordinary Dividends
Lonny Sheinkopf Hoffman (Houston Law)
David A. Weisbach (Chicago Law), Climate Change and Discounting the Future: A Guide for the Perplexed
Michael Knoll (Pennsylvania Law), International Competitiveness, Tax Incentives, and a New Argument for Tax Sparing: Preventing Double Taxation by Crediting Implicit Taxes
Eric Posner (Chicago Law), Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts
UC Berkeley CSLS Speaker Series
Andreas Abegg (Freiburg Law), The Contracting State and its Courts - A Comparative Historical Inquiry
Lynn Stout (UCLA Law), Is The Homo Economicus Model a Self -Fulfilling Prophecy
Washington University in St. Louis
Melissa Murray (UC Berkeley), The Space Between: The Intersection of Criminal Law and Family Law
Minna J. Kotkin (Brooklyn Law), Diversity and Discrimination: A Look at Complex Bias
Michael Gerhardt (North Carolina Law), The Constitutional Significance of the Forgotten Presidents
Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law
Roberta Mann (Oregon Law), Do Tax Breaks for Ethanol Reduce Global Warming
The Stanford Law & Policy Review hosts a symposium on Closing the Tax Gap, Nov. 8, 2008. (The deadline for the call for papers has already passed.)
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), The Story of Murphy: A New Front in the War on the Income Tax
The Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Gomez-Acebo & Pombo, Abogados, Madrid, are hosting a colloquium on Jurisprudential Perspectives of Taxation Law on September 11 and 12, 2008. More information on TaxProf Blog.
The same topics will be addressed in an intensive LL.M. course at the University of Melbourne, Sept. 29 - Oct. 3, 2008. See course description. Information about Melbourne’s intensive courses is here.
Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law), Trimming
Washington
Bradley T. Borden (Washburn Law), A Win-Win Proposal for Analyzing Profits-Only Partnership Intererests (Including Carried Interests)
William A. Drennan (Southern Illinois Law), Tax Penalty Systems
The University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler School of Business) is organizing its twelfth annual symposium designed to bring together leading tax scholars from economics, accounting, finance, law, political science, and related fields. The symposium will be held in Chapel Hill on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, January 23 & 24, 2009, and will be sponsored by the KPMG Foundation and the UNC Tax Center. The goal is to bring together scholars from different areas who share a common interest in current tax research. Previous conferences have been very successful, and we anticipate the same this year.PAPER DETAILS:Papers should be well developed, but at a stage where they can still benefit from the group’s discussion. The symposium will include no more than six papers. Travel and lodging expenses for presenters will be reimbursed up to $500.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Please submit an electronic version of the paper no later than November 13, 2008 to:
CONTACT: Professor Douglas Shackelford, doug_shack [at] unc.edu
Postal: Kenan-Flagler Business School
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 3490, McColl Building
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3490Paper selection will be finalized by December 1, 2008.
Thanks: Nonprofit Law Prof Blog.
The Houston Business and Tax Law Journal holds its Second Annual Symposium, White Collar Crime: Issues in Tax Fraud, on October 14, 2008.
The University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler School of Business hosts its Twelfth Annual Tax Symposium Jan. 23-24, 2009. The call for papers deadline is Nov. 13, 2008.
Bar Ilan
Sagit Leviner (Bar Ilan Law), A New Era of Tax Enforcement - From “Big Stick” to Responsive Regulation
Margaret Gilbert (Connecticut Philosophy), Scanlon on Promissory Obligation & A Theory of Political Obligation Chapter 2 & 7
Frank Michelman (Harvard Law), Socioeconomic Rights in Constitutional Law: Explaining America Away
Richard Abel (UCLA Law), The Defense of Legality in post-9/11 America
Hon. Guido Calabresi (U.S. Court of Appeals), Toward a Unified Theory of Torts
USC Law, Economics, & Organization
Kevin Quinn (Harvard Government), Viewpoint Diversity and Media Consolidation: An Empirical Study of National Newspapers
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
Stephen Harp (Akron History), Au Naturel: National Decency Laws and Local Tolerance of Public Nudity in Twentieth-Century France
Alan Sykes (Stanford Law), Currency Manipulation and World Trade
Peggie Smith (Iowa Law), Home Sweet Home? Workplace Casualties of Consumer-Directed Home Care for the Elderly
James Whitman (Yale Law), The Verdict of Battle
UC Hastings
Carolyn Sale (Alberta English), The King is a Thing: The King’s Prerogative and the Treasure of the Realm in Plowden’s Report of the ‘Case of Mines’ and Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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
Georgetown International Human Rights
Peter Spiro (Temple Law), An International Law of Citizenship
New York Law School Clinical Theory
Peter Margulies (Roger Williams Law), Clinical Education and Representing Guantanamo Detainees: Identity, Efficacy, and Gatekeeping
Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt Law), Capitalism and the Tax System: A Search for Social Justice
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), The Story of Murphy: A New Front in the War Against the Income Tax
Note: Professor Caron will be blogging on this paper today here.
Scott Moss (Colorado Law), O Brave New World That Has Such Creatures Evidence: An Economic Analysis Of Courts’ Misguided Rules On Discovery Of Digital Evidence
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Richard Briffault (Columbia Law), A Special Case?: Corporations and Campaign Finance
Fernanda Nicola (American University Law), Invisible Cities: Markets, Distribution and Development in European Union Law
Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Law), The Province of Jurisprudence Revisited
Loyola
Minnesota Faculty Works
Ed McCaffery (USC Law), Towards a Unified Theory of Tax and Property
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
David Gamage (UC Berkeley Law), Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidanc: A Tentative Defense of “Double Taxation”
Diane Ring (Boston College Law), Sovereignty and International Tax
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar (Stanford Law), “Securing” the Bureaucracy: The Federal Security Agency and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 1939-1953
Sai Prakash (San Diego Law), The Seperation and Overlap of War and Military Powers
Joshua Cohen (Stanford Political Science), Politics, Power, and Public Reason
Washington
Amy Wildermuth (Utah Law), The Failed Mead Experiment - A Critical Review of the Skidmore Revival
Randy Barnett (Georgetown Law), The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions
Jose Alvarez (Columbia Law), The Empire of Law or the Law of Empire
Ray Fisman (Columbia Business), Learning Social Preferences at Yale Law School
David Yalof (UConn Law), Confirmation Obfuscation: Supreme Court Confirmation Politics in a Conservative Era
Joby Branion (Athletes First), An Insider’s Perspective
Tanya K. Hernandez (George Washington Law), The Long Lindering Shadow: Law, Liberalism and Cultures of Racial Hierarchy and Identity in the Americas
Kerry Rittich (Toronto Law), Informal Labour Markets and Development
Rachel Lyon (Lioness Media), Race and the Internet
Rachelle Adam (Israeli Environmental Ministry), Addressing Biodiversity Loss: The Elusiveness of Effective International Agreements
Notre Dame
Mike Kirsch (Notre Dame Law), Evolving Interpretations of U.S. Tax Treaties
The 9th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation will be hosted by the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL), Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS) Nov. 6-7, 2008. The conference title is “Environmental Taxation and Challenges of the Urban Environment: Role of Taxation and other Market-based Instruments – Exchange of Experiences between Developed and Developing Countries.”
Other partners include the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS; the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants in Singapore (ACCA), the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, the International Tax and Investment Centre (ITIC) in Washington DC, and the Environmental Tax Policy Institute, Vermont Law School, and the Cleveland State University in USA; and Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
The call for papers deadline is May 31, 2008.
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), The Efficiency of Contracts that Reallocate Entitlements in Creative Work: A Skeptical View
Minnesota Faculty Works
Jessica Litman (Michigan Law), Rethinking Copyright
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Alan Auerbach (UC Berkeley Law), Long-Term Objectives for Government Debt
Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law), Comparative Corporate Law and Emerging Markets
Jutta Brunnee (Toronto Law), Interactional International Law: Reflections on Obligations
Sarah Song (UC Berkeley Law), Three Models of Civic Solidarity
Ralph Steinhardt (George Washington Law), Corporate Complicity and the Alien Tort Statute
C. Fritz Foley (Harvard Business), Welfare Payments and Crime
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), International Delegation Through Treaties: The Nth Power
David Garland (NYU Sociology), Peculiar Institution: Capital Punishment and American Society
David Gamage (UC Berkeley Law), Optimal Tax Theory Meets Tax Avoidance: A Tentative Defense of “Double Taxation”
Sophia Lee (NYU Law, Golieb Fellow), Hotspots in a Cold War: The NAACP’s Postwar Workplace Constitutionalism, 1948-1964 & Chapter 4 - Almost Revolutionary: Administrative Constitutionalism, Labor Politics & Workplace Civil Rights, 1935-1978
Oregon Environment and Natural Resources Law
Kathy Cashman (Oregon Geology), Geologic Perspectives on Paleoclimate
Paul Caron (Cincinnati Law), Murphy vs. IRS: Another Front in the War Against the Income Tax
UC Hastings
John Witt (Columbia Law), Form and Substance in the Law of Counterinsurgency Damages
Joshua Blank (NYU Law), What’s Wrong With Shaming Corporate Tax Abuse
Duke International & Comparative Law
Angelos Pangratis (European Union), The Future of E.U.-U.S. Relations
William Eskridge, Jr. (Fordham Law), Vetogates, Chevron, Preemption
Gregg Bloche (Georgetown Law), The Emergent Logic of Health Care
Loyola
Tom Ginsburg (Illinois Law), The Life Span of Written Constitutions
Tom Romero II (Hamline Law), Creating and Containing the Multiracial Hetereotopia: Kelo, Parents, and the Spatialization of Color(blindness) in the Berman-Brown Postmetroplis
St. Thomas (Mn)
Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa English), Give Me a Precedent: Past, Present and Future in Victorian Fiction and Law
UCLA Law, Economics, and Organizations
Stephen Choi (NYU Law), Empirical Evidence on Securities Arbitration
Scott Moss (Colorado Law), O Brave New World That Has Such Creatures Evidence: An Economic Analysis Of Courts’ Misguided Rules On Discovery Of Digital Evidence
Paul Halliday (Virginia History), The Liberty of the Subject: Conceiving Habeas Corpus in England and Empire
Nestor Davidson (Colorado Law), Standardization and Pluralism in Property Law
Jessica Stern (Harvard Law), Producing Terror: Organization Dynamics of Survival
Dalia Tsuk Mitchell (George Washington Law), Corporate Directors: Trustees, Representatives, Agents
Loyola
Fernando Gomez (Barcelona Law), Insurance and Tort: Coordination Systems and Imperfect Liability Rules
Geoffrey Miller (NYU Law), Law Economics and Narrative in the Hebrew Bible
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Jonathan Barry Forman (Oklahoma Law), Making America Work & 2008 Tax Considerations in a Universal Pension System
David Duff (Toronto Law), Rethinking the Concept of Income in Tax Law & Policy
Seattle
Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge Economics), Bad Samaritans — The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Sionaidh Douglas-Scott (King’s College Law), The EU and Terrorism
Yair Listokin (Yale Law), Does Shareholder Voting Maximize Stock Market Value?
Jason Gillmer (Texas Wesleyan Law), Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery Times
Calvin Johnson (Texas Law), Consumption Tax for Extraordinary Returns
Washington
Ilhyung Lee (Missouri Law), Korean Parties and Korean Panelists in UDRP Decisions (and the ‘Bad Faith’ Dilemma)
Robert Frank (Cornell Management), The Status of Moral Emotions in Consequentialist Moral Reasoning
Florida State University College of Law hosts the Critical Tax Conference April 4-5.
Jane Larson (Wisconsin Law), Regulating Sex: Multiple Paradigms for Thinking About Sexual Freedom and Autonomy
CUNY
Bernard Freamon (Seton Hall Law), The Abolition of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade and the Vicissitudes of Empire
Michael Kirsch (Notre Dame Law), Taxing Citizens in a Global Economy
Alejandro Moreno (Texas Medicine), Implementation of the Istanbul Protocol - A Summary Report of the Efforts to Eliminate Torture and Ill-Treatment in Mexico
Edward Rock (Penn Law), The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting
UC Hastings
Adam Romero (The Williams Institute), When Family Falls
Josephine McDonagh (King’s College), On Settling and Being Unsettled: Motion and Emotion in Dickens’s Bleak House
Florida
Michael B. Lang (Chapman Law), What Every Tax Lawyer Should Know About Patented Tax Strategies
Steve Darwall (Michigan Law), The Nature and Value of Rights & The Second-Person Standpoint: Respect, Morality, and Accountability Chapter 1 & 2
David B. Mustard (Georgia Business) & Thomas A. Eaton (Georgia Law)
Anita Krishnakumar (St. John’s Law), Early Reflections on the Roberts Court and Statutory Interpretation
Roberta Romano (Yale Law), Does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Have a Future?
Deborah L. Brake (Pittsburgh Law), The Invisible Pregnant Athlete and the Promise of Title IX
Ralph Porcher (Institute of Advanced Study), The Hand of Midas: When Concepts Turn Legal or Deflating the Hart-Dworkin-Debate
Stanford Law, Science, & Technology
Michael M. O’Hear (Marquette Law), Lovely Rita?: Procedural Justice and Federal Sentencing
Alexandra Kalev (Arizona Sociology), Cracking the Glass Cages? Restructuring and Ascriptive Inequality at Work
UC Hastings
Yafir Holzman-Gazit (Israel Management Law), Land Expropriation in Israel
Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA Economics), Scylla and Charybdis? Some Historical Reflections on the Two Basic Problems of Corporate Governance
USC Law, Economics, and Organization
Josh Lerner (Harvard Business), Inducement Prizes and Innovation
Stephen Choi (NYU Law), Director Elections and the Influence of Proxy Advisors
Washington University in St. Louis
Rennard Strickland (Chapman Law), Keepers of the Springs: A Defense of the American Legal Profession
A. E. Dick Howard (Virginia Law), The Changing Face of the Supreme Court: From the Warren Court to the Roberts Court
Boston College
Linda Beale (Wayne State), Tax Patents: At the Crossroads of Tax and Patent Law
Kim Ferzan (Rutgers-Camden Law), Beyond the Special Part
Elinor Ostrom (Indiana-Bloomington Cognitive Science Program)
Clayton Gillette (Columbia Law), Tacit Agreement, Investment, and Contract Design
Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Anti-Bankruptcy
Margaret Blair (Vanderbilt Law), Assurance Services as a Substitute for Law in Global Commerce
William Forbath (Texas Law), History, Memory and “Transformative Law”: Treatment Action Campaign and the Politics of Rights in South Africa
Rip Verkerke (Virginia Law), Legal Innocence and Information-Forcing Rules
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Andrea Louis Campbell (MIT Political Science), How Americans Think About Taxes: Public Opinion and the American Fiscal State
Colin Mayer (Oxford Business), Where Do Firms Incorporate: Deregulation and the Cost of Entry
Sean Murphy (George Washington Law), The Jus Ad Bellum in View of New Security Threats
Matt Adler (Penn Law), Social Facts, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Rule of Recognition
Alex Glashausser (Washburn Law), The Misbegotten Modern Doctrine of Federal Question Jurisdiction
Shameem Black (Yale English), Fiction in the Age of Transitional Justice
Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown Law), Do Insurer Reserving Practices Drive Liability Insurance Premium Cycles?: An Empirical Study at the Claim Level
Elinor Ostrom (Indiana-Bloomington Cognitive Science Program)
Marco Ottaviani (Northwestern Management), (Mis)selling Through Agents
CUNY
Honorable Richard Goldstone (Fordham Law), The South African Constitution: The Recognition of Social and Economic Rights
Martha Grace Duncan (Emory Law), The Beauty and Humor of Criminal Law
David Duff (Toronto Law), Rethinking the Concept of Income in Tax Law and Policy
Lauren Benton (NYU History), Acquiring Sovereignty Under the Law of Nations: Forman Origins and Atlantic Interpretations
St. Thomas (MN)
Paul Butler (George Washington Law), Should Progressives Be Prosecutors
UC Hastings
David Wilkins (Harvard Law), Toward A Joint Venture Model of the Attorney/Client Relationship Between Corporations and Their Outside Counsel
New York Law School presents its fourth biennial Faculty Presentation Day on April 2.
Faculty and students present their work—making the effort to offer serious and subtle ideas in an accessible and enjoyable format—and our whole community takes part in the discussions these presentations generate.
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This event is open to all members of the New York Law School community and to our colleagues on the bench, at the bar, and in academia. There is no charge for attendance and complimentary breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be served.
The New York Law Review will publish a symposium issue based on the presentations. Jump to full post
George Fletcher (Columbia Law), CORRECTING EVIL Tort Liability for Human Rights Abuses
Jae Lee (Fordham Law), Recidivism as Omission: A Relational Account
James Fleming (Boston University Law), Are We All Originalists Now? I Hope Not!
Jennifer Gerarda Brown (Quinnipiac Law), Peacemaking in the Culture War Between Gay Rights and Religious Liberty
Hendrik Hartog (Princeton), Planning for Old Age
Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law), Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Care Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Ruth Mason (UConn Law), Made in America for European Taxation: The Internal Consistency Test
Larry Zelenak (Duke Law), The Federal Retail Sales Tax that Wasn’t: An Actual History and an Alternative History
Abraham Wickelgren (Northwestern Law) & Warren Schwartz (Georgetown Law), Credible Discovery, Settlement, and Negative Expected Value Suits
Jill Horwitz (Michigan Law), What do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix
W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell Law), Government Lawyers in the Liberal State
Mark Graber (Maryland Politics), John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
CUNY
Mitchell Kane (Virginia Law), Bootstraps, Poverty Traps, and Poverty Pits: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance
Christopher Beauchamp (Samuel Golieb Fellow, NYU Law), Technology’s Trials: Patents in the United States Courts, 1860-1910
Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law
William Rossi (Oregon English) & Molly Westling (Oregon English), Reading, Rhetoric, and Climate
David Wilkins (Harvard Law), Toward a Joint Venture Model of Attorney/Client Relationship Between Corporations and their Outside Counsel
Jacques Sasseville (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), Tax Treaties: Better the Devil We Know?
Devon Carbado (UCLA Law), Acting White: What’s Sexual Orientation Got to Do With it?
Nan Goodman (Colorado English), Banishment and Jurisdictional Indentity in Seventeenth-Century New England
Washington
Mary Whisner (Washington Law Library), The Buzz about Blawgs
Wei Zhang (Peking Management), Politics of Medical Disputes in China
Laura Beny (Michigan Law), Private Regulation of Insider Trading in the Shadow of Lax Public Enforcement (and a Strong Neighbor)–Evidence from Canadian Firms
George Fisher (Stanford Law), Married to Alcohol: The Drug War’s Moral Roots
Chicago Family, Sex, and Gender
Jane Dailey (Chicago History), White Supremacy Is in Peril: Race, Marriage and Sovereignty in the New World Order
Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia Law), Beyond Deterrence: Targeting Tax Enforcement with a Penalty Default
Ayelet Shachar (Toronto Law), The Global Race for Talent
Robert Daines (Stanford Law), Rating the Ratings: How Good are the Commercial Governance Ratings?
Alexandra B. Klass (Minnesota Law) & Elizabeth Wilson (Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs), Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration: A Consideration of Tort and Property Law
Michael Knoll (Penn Law), The Tax Advantage of ‘Sweat Equity’: What it is and its Relationship to the Carried Interest Controversy
NYU Tax Policy and Public Finance
Mihir Desai (Harvard Business), Foreign-Direct Investment and Domestic Economic Activity
St. Thomas (MN)
Robert Ahdieh (Emory Law), Standardization 2.0: A New Version of the Game
Peter Smith (George Washington Law), Originalism’s Living Constitutionalism
Chidi Oguamanam (Dalhousie Law), The Future of Personalized Medicine and Personalizing the Medicine of the Future: In Search of Insights from Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Shareen Hertel (UConn Political Science), Rights in Conflict: Insights from Transnational Labor and Economic Rights
Michael Woodford (Columbia Economics), Principles and Public Policy Decisions: The Case of Monetary Policy
Yale Workplace Theory & Policy
Jacob Hacker (Yale Political Science), The Politics of Risk Privatization in U.S. Social Policy
Pauline Kim (Washington Law), Exploring Panel Effects: Deliberation and Strategy on the United States Courts of Appeals
Lloyd Bonfield (New York Law School), Lord Chief Justice King’s Reports - 1714-22: ‘Commercial Law’