Legal Theory CalendarMonday, November 14

Legal Theory Calendar

    Monday, November 14

      Columbia Legal Theory Workshop: David Sklansky of University of California at Berkeley, “Democratic Policing Inside and Out”
      Boston College Law: William H. Simon, Arthur Levitt Professor of Law, Columbia University Law School & William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law, Stanford University School of Law.
      George Washington IP Speakers Series: Peter P. Swire, Ohio State University, “Security Market: Competitive and Security Incentives for Disclosure of Data”
      Georgetown Environmental Research Workshop: Jody Freeman, Harvard Law School, “Modular Environmental Regulation”.
      London School of Economics: Doug MacLean (Chapel Hill), Must Environmental Ethics be Anthropocentric?
      NYU Law: Rochelle Dreyfuss
      Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies: Barbara Hudson, Security, Citizenship and the Law: regulating boundaries: Justice, community and “risky citizenship” : principles of justice for divided society
      UCLA Law: Professor Yuen Huo, UCLA, Department of Psychology, Authority Relations in the Context of Diversity: A Social Psychological Perspective
      University of Alabama Law: Kent Greenfield, Boston College School of Law, Military Recruiting, Law Schools, and the First Amendment
      University of Minnesota Public Law: Don Herzog, University of Michigan Law School, The Kerr Principle, State Action, and Legal Rights.
      University of Texas Law: Siva Vaidhyanathan, “The Googlization of Everything”
      Vanderbilt Law & Business Workshop: Steve Choi, New York University School of Law, “The Market Penalty for Mutual Fund Scandals”

    Tuesday, November 15

      University of Illinois Law: Laura Rosenbury, Between Home and School.
      George Mason Law: Josh Wright, George Mason, Measuring the Impact of Slotting Allowances on Consumer Welfare.
      Georgetown Law: Carrie Menkel Meadow, Georgetown, “What’s Fair in Love and War? A Study of Professional Variations in Ethics”
      University of Colorado Law, The 32nd Annual Austin N. Scott Jr. Memorial Lecture: Phil Weiser, Telecom’s Brave New World.
      Lewis & Clark Law: Richard Brooks, Associate Professor of Law, Yale Race and Uncertainty.
      Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre: Alison Brimelow, Intellectual Property in the New Millennium: Is the IP System Working? Some Observations
      University College, London, Law Faculty: Colm O’Cinneide (UCL), ‘Poverty and Human Rights: The Law as Tool of Social Change’
      University of Chicago Law & Economics: Paul Mahoney, Virginia Law School (with Jianping Mei, Stern School of Business, NYU), Mandatory versus Contractual Disclosure: Evidence from the 1930s
      Vanderbilt Law: Bob Rasmussen, Vanderbilt Law School, “Empirically Bankrupt”

    Wednesday, November 16

      Institute of Philosophy Conference and Seminar Series (London): Terrence Horgan (Arizona), Cognitivist Expressivism.
      Northwestern Law & Economics: Henry Smith, Professor of Law, Yale University, “Modularity in Contracts: Boilerplate and Information Flow
      University College London, Mellon Foundation: Lasse Thomassen (Limerick), The Inclusion of the Other? Habermas on Tolerance
      University College London, School of Public Policy: Matthew Cramer (Cambridge), Dimensions of Objectivity in Law
      NYU Legal History: Richard Primus, Visiting Professor, NYU School of Law, “The Riddle of Hiram Revels: Retroactivity and the Civil War”
      Ohio State Center for Interdisciplinary Law & Policy Studies: Conference, Building Democracy Through Online Citizen Deliberation.
      Oxford Centre for Criminology: Didier Bigo, European Liberty and Security: What is at stake?
      University of Georgia Law: Olufunmilayo B. Arewa (Case Western Reserve University), “Piracy,” Borrowing and Global Intellectual Property Frameworks: History, Hierarchies and Conceptions of Culture
      University of Toronto Tax & Law and Economics Series: Edward J. McCaffery
      University of Southern California, Starving the Beast: The Psychology of Budget Deficits
      University of Toronto Globalization, Law & Justice Workshop Series: Harry Arthurs, Osgoode Hall Law School, The Role of Global Law Firms in Constructing or Obstructing a Transnational Regime of Labour Law

    Thursday, November 17

      University of Illinois Legal History: Willy Forbath (University of Texas), “The Morality of Borders: Race, Liberalism, and National Identity in the Law and Politics of European Immigration, 1882-1924”
      Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group: John Stanton-Ife, Harm and Autonomy
      NYU Colloquium in Legal, Political and Social Philosophy: Liam Murphy, Morality and the Concept of Law Link fixed!
      Boston University Law: Daniela Caruso, “Private Law and State-Making in the Age of Globalization”.
      Florida State Law: Tracy Higgins, Fordham University Law School.
      Georgetown Intellectual Property: Brett Frischmann, Loyola Chicago, Evaluating the Demsetzian Trend in Copyright Law
      Loyola University Chicago, Intellectual Infrastructure and Intellectual Property.
      University of London School of Advanced Study: David Owens (School of Advanced Study), Duress, Deception and the Validity of a Promise
      Loyola Los School, Los Angeles: Peter Blanck, “The Future of the Americans with Disabilities Act”
      Ohio State Law: Milton C. Regan Jr. (Georgetown), “Eat What You Kill*
      Oxford Trinity College Law Society: Hugh Laddie, “The Common Law – a system under stress”
      University College, London, Law Faculty: Professor Bruno de Witte (European University Institute), ‘Promotion and Erosion of Cultural Diversity by European Union Law ’
      University of Michigan Law & Economics: James Hines, Jr., Michigan Business School, Value-Added Taxes and International Trades: The Evidence
      Yale Legal Theory Workshop: Jürgen Habermas, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Philosophy).
      Brooklyn Law School: Eric M. Zolt (UCLA), Inequality and Taxation: Evidence from the Americas
      University of North Dakota Law, Northern Plains Indian Law Center Speakers Series: Kirsten Matoy Carlson (Michigan), “Does Constitutional Change Matter? Canada’s Recognition of Aboriginal Title.”

    Friday, November 18

      Georgetown International Human Rights Colloquium: Lori Fisler Damrosch, Columbia University School of Law, “Reflections on Medellin”
      Washington University: Conference on the Rehnquist Court & the First Amendment
      Fordlam Law: EXPLORING THE LIMITS: Recent Challenges to the Scope of IP Law.
      UCLA Law: David M. Driesen, Angela R. Cooney Professor, Syracuse University College of Law, “Regulatory Reform: The New Lochnerism?
      Columbia Law School: Conference, Shareholder Democracy: Its Promises and Perils.
      University of Georgia Law: Jedediah S. Purdy (Duke University), The American Transformation of Waste Doctrine: A Pluralist Interpretation
      University of Texas Law: Seth Chandler, University of Houston, “The Network Structure of the Law”
      Villanova Law: Marc Galanter, University of Wisconsin Law School