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)

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.

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

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).

August 21, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

University of Alabama

Mitu Gulati (Duke Law) & Sarah Ludington (Duke Law), A Convenient Untruth: Fact and Fiction in the Doctrine of Odious Debts.

August 20, 2007 Colloquia/Workshops

UCLA Monday Colloquium

Mark Grady (UCLA Law) & Steven Yeazell (UCLA Law), Classroom Clickers for Fun & Profit: How Two Aging Law Professors Made Technological & Pedagogical History.

Conference on Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights in North America

CONFERENCE ON COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS IN NORTH AMERICA

Organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in cooperation with the Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, and the International Confederation of Societies of Authors, Composers and Publishers (CISAC) and with the assistance of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) and SESAC Inc.

Vanderbilt University Law School
Nashville, Tennessee
October 17 to 19, 2007

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.