Legal Theory Calendar
- Monday, March 13
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UCLA Law: Andrew Geddis, Professor of Law, University of Otego, New Zealand, A Dual Track Democracy? The Symbolic Role of the Maori Seats in New Zealand’s Electoral System
Georgetown Law & Philosophy: Rebecca Saxe (Cognitive Neuroscience, Harvard Society of Fellows)
Vanderbilt Law & Politics Workshop: Tim Johnson, Minnesota Political Science & Jim Spriggs, UC-Davis Political Science
University of Alabama Law: Ronald Wright, Wake Forest
Hofstra Law: John DeWitt Gregory, Hofstra Law School, “Termination of Parental Rights Under the Adoption and Safe Families Act: Hitting the Poor Where it Hurts Most”
Tuesday, March 14
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Georgetown Colloquium on Constitutional Theory: William Scheuerman (political science, Minnesota), Carl Schmitt and the Road to Abu Ghraib
University College, London, Constitutional Law Group: ‘Foxhunting, the Parliament Acts and the Courts’ with Sir John Laws, Lord Justice of Appeal, Adam Tomkins, John Millar Professor of Public Law, University of Glasgow, Chair: Sir Roger Toulson, Judge of the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division, Chairman of the Law Commission
Wednesday, March 15
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Dalia Tsuk Mitchell, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, Property without Sovereignty: The Myth Shareholder Democracy
University College, London: Adrian Blau (Manchester), Hobbesian deliberative democracy
Thursday, March 16
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Stanford Law & Economics: Bernard Black (University of Texas Law School), “Hedge Funds, Insiders, and Decoupling of Economic and Voting Ownership in Public Companies”
University of Michigan Law & Economics: Sam Vermont, Michigan (Humphrey Fellow), Independent Invention as a Defense to Patent Infringement
UCLA Tax Policy & Public Finance: Dan Shaviro, NYU School of Law, Simplifying Assumptions: How Might the Politics of Consumption Tax Reform Affect (Impair) the End Product?
Oxford Law Faculty: Oxford Colloquium on Security and Human Rights
William Mitchell Law School: Christine Ver Ploeg, Cross-Cultural Dispute Resolution
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles: Andrew Geddis, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Otago, New Zealand, “A Dual Track Democracy? The Symbolic Role of the Maori Seats in New Zealand’s Electoral System”
UC Berkeley Kadish Center: Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R. Luce Director, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, THE POLITICAL USES OF PUBLIC OPINION: LESSONS FROM THE ESTATE TAX REPEAL
Florida State Law: Robert Weisberg, Stanford Law School
Friday, March 17
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Myriam Gilles, Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Princeton University Program in Law and Public Affairs Fellow, “Exploding the Class Action Agency Costs Myth: The Social Utility of Entrepreneurial Lawyers”
Villanova Law: James Fox, Stetson University School of Law
Georgetown Law & Economics: Albert Choi, University of Virginia School of Law, “How Much Should an Acquirer Be Liable for its Target’s Wrongdoing?”