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.

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.

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.

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

Forty Years of Loving

Fordham University School of Law presents Forty Years of Loving: Confronting Issues of Race, Sexuality, and the Family in the Twenty-First Century, Nov. 2, 2007, New York, NY.

School Desegregation Cases - Louisville

“The first annual University of Louisville Law Journal Symposium will be held on January 18, 2008. This year’s symposium will cover the Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education case, which was decided on June 28, 2007. The University of Louisville Law Review will publish a special symposium issue containing articles by the following authors: Professor Reginald C. Oh, Professor Wendy Brown Scott, Dr. Gary Orfield with Liliana Garces and Erica Frankenberg, Professor Giardeau A. Spann, and Professor Bryan K. Fair.” More info here. [8/19: The links didn't work for me today, but I saw the pages last week.]

Thanks: Kentucky Law Review.

AALS Conference on Constitutional Law

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2008 AALS Conference on Constitutional Law will be held at the AALS Mid-Year Meeting on June 3-6, 2008, at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio. In recognition of the growing significance of positive legal scholarship in the development of constitutional law and theory, the Committee has designated one session of the conference for the presentation of papers devoted to this topic. Up to four papers will be selected for presentation. Papers will be presented at moderated, concurrent sessions. The faculty members chosen must register for the Conference and will be responsible for their own travel and other expenses.

Topic: Papers must discuss or (preferably) demonstrate how empirical and/or positive legal scholarship can inform constitutional theory or doctrine.

Association of American Law Schools Midyear Meeting

AALS Midyear Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio on June 1-6, 2008:

June 1-4:  Workshop for Law Librarians
June 3-6:  Conference on Constitutional Law
June 3-6:  Conference on Evidence