August 31, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Alabama

Morgan Symposium on the Gender of Constitutional and Human Rights Law

UCLA Friday Colloquium

Daniel Cole (Indiana-Indianapolis Law), The Stern Review and Its Critics: Implications for the Theory and Practice of Benefit-Cost Analysis

Iowa Law

Tino Cuellar (Stanford Law)

Poli Sci Conference This Week in Chicago

Jeff Yates at the Voir Dire Blog lists “interesting panels on the law and courts” at the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Chicago Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, 2007.

Legal Rhetoric - DC

American University’s Washington College of Law presents “How Legal Rhetoric Shapes the Law” on Friday, November 2. James Boyd White will deliver the keynote address.

The conference is free; register here. For more information, contact Teresa Godwin Phelps.

Chief Justice Roberts at Montana

Chief Justice John Roberts will speak at the University of Montana School of Law. His public talk on Sept. 13 will be the annual address at the Law School’s William B. Jones and Judge Edward A. Tamm Judicial Lecture Series. “Although the title of his talk is not yet known, the UM lecture series is dedicated to enhancing the public’s understanding of the judicial system.” High-profile guests to visit UM, Helena Independent Record, Aug. 28, 2007.

August 30, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Brooklyn

Steven Dean (Brooklyn Law), The Incomplete Global Market for Tax Information

George Washington

Beate Gsell (Augsburg Law Faculty), Product Liability & Damage to the Product Itself: A Comparison Between Germany and the U.S.

Indiana-Indianapolis

Gerald Magliocca (Indiana-Indianapolis Law)

Iowa

Chris Guthrie (Vanderbilt Law), Inside the Trial Judge’s Mind

August 29, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

University of Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources

Mary Wood (Oregon Law), Courts as Guardians of the Global Trust

Third International Conference on Universal Digital Library

Third International Conference on Universal Digital Library
November 2-4, 2007
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

August 28, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Georgetown Law

Mike Seidman (Georgetown Law)

UC Berkeley Law & Economy

Michael Cypers (Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw), Securities Litigation: State of the Art Methods to Navigate the Civil and Criminal Minefields

Securities litigation requires the practitioner to draw on a broad range of skills, from knowledge of recent Supreme Court opinions to persuading a jury. Since Enron, there has been an explosion of developments from the courts, Congress, and the SEC, and a number of high profile executives have been sentenced to jail for criminal misconduct. This session will discuss the practical methods securities litigators use to maximize results for their clients.

Globalizing Secured Credit Law: Current Problems, New Directions

Globalizing Secured Credit Law:  Current Problems, New Directions, at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California on November 9-10, 2007.

August 27, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Hawaii

Anita Bernstein (Emory Law), The Pitfalls Approach to Lawyers’ Professional Responsibility: Forewarned, Forearmed, Ethical.

Loyola Tax Policy

David Walker (Boston University Law), Regulatory Tax Penalties.

Rutgers (Camden)

Phillip Harvey (Rutgers (Camden) Law), Income, Work and Freedom: Progressive Alternatives to Conservative Welfare Reform.

UCLA Monday Colloquium

Gary Orfield (UCLA Education & Civil Rights Project), The Louisville and Seattle Decisions and the Future of Integration in American Schools.

Law, Knowledge, and Imagination - Tuscaloosa

Austin Sarat is organizing a three-part conference at the University of Alabama School of Law: Law, Knowledge, and Imagination.

Oct. 19, 2007 - Law’s History: How Law Understands the Past 

Jan. 11, 2008 - Imagining a New Constitution for the United States in the 21st Century

April 11, 2008 - Legal Doubt of Scientific Certainty: What Scientific Knowledge Does For and to Law

Supreme Court Preview - Williamsburg

William and Mary Marshall Wythe School of Law’s Institute of Bill of Rights Law presents its Supreme Court Preview conference, Sept. 14-15, 2007, Williamsburg, VA. Participants include Joan Biskupic, Erwin Chemerinsky, Jeffrey Rosen, Kathleen Sullivan, and many more.

August 25, 2007 Deadline

CENTRAL STATES LAW SCHOOL ASSOCIATION AND JOURNAL OF LAW IN SOCIETY

JOINT CONFERENCE
October 26-27, 2007

Announcement & Call For Papers

Symposium Paper Proposal Submission Deadline:  August 25, 2007

Open Workshop Abstract Submission Deadline:  August 25, 2007

U.S. Federalism Panel - Oslo

Reprinted from lawprof|at|chicagokent.kentlaw.edu:

Greetings lawprofs. This is a call for papers and panelists, seeking proposals from senior academics and from LLM and SJD students as well.

Second Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law

Second Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law in Boulder and Denver, CO, on September 28-29, 2007. Sponsored by the University of Colorado Law School and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

Thanks: Melissa Hart.

August 24, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

Duke

W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell Law)

UCLA Friday Colloquium

Russell Robinson (UCLA Law), Perceptual Segregation.

University of Southern California

Jonathan Barnett (USC Law), Regime Change in Innovation Markets.

August 23, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

University of Alabama

Hon. Aharon Barak (Ret. President, Supreme Court of Israel; Yale Law).

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Regs - Chicago

Northwestern University School of Law’s Searle Center presents Cost-Benefit Analysis of Regulations: Lessons Learned, Future Challenges, Oct. 11-12, 2007.

International Arbitration - New York

Fordham University School of Law presents Third Annual Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation, June 16-17, 2008, New York.

Fordham University School of Law presents Symposium on International Law and the Constitution: Terms of Engagement, October 4-5, 2007, New York.