Legal Theory Calendar
- Monday, March 6
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Yale Workplace Theory & Policy: JACOB HACKER, Political Science, Yale University, The Politics of Risk Privatization in U.S. Social Policy
University of Texas Law: Paul Wahlbeck (George Washington) “The Influence of Oral Arguments on the U.S. Supreme Court”
UCLA Law: Professor Richard Berk, UCLA Department of Statistics, “New Claims about Executions and General Deterrence: Deja Vu All Over Again?”
NYU Law: Stephen Holmes
Hofstra Law: Andrew Schepard, Hofstra Law School, “Kramer vs. Kramer Revisited: The Divorce Lawyer’s Duty to Promote Responsible Conflict Management in the Best Interests of Children”
Columbia Law & Economics: John P. Brown, National Economic Research Association, Are Four Big Auditing Firms Enough?
Tuesday, March 7
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Lewis & Clark Law: Maureen O’Rourke, Dean ad interim and Professor of Law, Boston University Contract and Coordination Failure: Mandatory and Prohibited Terms in Intellectual Property Licenses
University of Texas Law: Mechele Dickerson, “Ideology and Bankruptcy Reform”
Northwestern Constitutional Theory: Caleb Nelson, Professor of Law and Albert Clark Tate Jr. Research Professor, University of Virginia, “Adjudication in the Political Branches”
Marquette E. Harold Hallows Lecture: Judge Diane Sykes
Georgetown Law: Gerard Magliocca (Indianapolis Indiana)
Wednesday, March 8
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University of Georgia Law: Michael Perry (Emory): Is capital punishment constitutional under the Eighth Amendment? And if it’s not, should the Supreme Court so rule?
University College, London, Colloquium in Legal and Social Philosophy: Professor Hillel Steiner, Manchester, A Famous Conflict
NYU Legal History: David Konig, Professor of Law & History, Washington University at St. Louis, “Credit, Courts, and the Formation of a Property Regime in Seventeenth-Century Virginia”
University of Cincinnati Law: Rebecca Zietlow, University of Toledo College of Law, “Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution and the Protection of Individual Rights.”
Thursday, March 9
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Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group: Bernard Harcourt, Against Prediction: Punishing and Policing in an Actuarial Age
Yale Law Economics & Organizations: Professor Cecelia Rouse, Princeton/Economics, Do Accountability and Voucher Threats Improve Low-Performance Schools?
University of Texas Law: Michael Seidman (Georgetown) “Silence and Freedom”
University of Michigan Law & Economics: Michael Meurer, Boston University, Patents and Property
USC-Caltech, Participatory Democracy Workshop: Kareem Crayton, Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science USC Gould School of Law, “When You Can’t Beat Them…” (second link for the graphs)
UCLA Tax: Robin Einhorn, U.C. Berkeley (History Department) Democracy, Slavery and Taxation: American Tax Systems in the Colonial and Revolutionary Eras
UCLA Legal Theory Workshop: Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown
UC Berkeley, Kadish Cener: Wendy Brown, Political Science UC Berkeley, SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED
Fordham Law: Robin A. Lenhardt, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law, “Rehinking Citizenship: Race
Brooklyn Law: Jeffrey Rachlinski, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, Does Unconscious Bias Affect Trial Judges?
Loyola, Los Angeles: Eric Miller, Professor of Law, St. Louis University School of Law, “Role-Based Policing: Restraining Police Conduct ‘Outside the Legitimate Investigative Sphere’”
University of Arizona Law: Mona Hymel, Professor of Law, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, “The United States’ Experience with Energy-Based Tax Incentives: The Evidence Supporting Tax Incentives for Renewable Energy”
Friday, March 10
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Lewis and Clark: Open Access Publishing and the Future of Legal Scholarship
- 9:00 a.m.
Michael Carroll –
“The Open Access Law Movement” (pre-conference draft)
Dan Hunter –
“On the Prospect of Open Access to Infinite Content (in Law)”
10:45 a.m.
Jessica Litman –
“The Economics of Open Access Publishing” (pre-conference draft)
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa –
“Open Access in a Closed Universe: Lexis, Westlaw and the Law School” (pre-conference draft)
1:45 p.m.
Lawrence B. Solum –
“Download It While It’s Hot: Open Access, Intermediaries, and the Dissemination of Legal Scholarship”
Ann Bartow –
“Open Access, Law, Knowledge, Copyrights, Dominance and Subordination”(pre-conference draft)
3:30 p.m.
Matthew T. Bodie –
“Open Access in Law Teaching: A New Approach to Class Materials” (pre-conference draft)
Michael Madison –
“Open Access and the Idea of the Law Review” (pre-conference draft)
5:00 p.m. Closing of Conference