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Legal Theory Calendar

Monday, March 20
Yale Workplace Theory & Policy: JACK DENNERLEIN, Harvard School of Public Health, The Epidemic of Musculoskeletal Disorder in the Modern Workplace, Fallentin, et al., Evaluation of Physical Workload Standards Guidelines from a Nordic Perspective & Punnett & Wegman, Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders
University of Texas Law: Kate Litvak (UT), “The Effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Non-US Companies Cross-listed in the United States”
UCLA Law: Professor Donald Shoup, UCLA Department of Urban Planning, “Curb Parking as a Commons, Anticommons, or Liberal Commons”
Georgetown Law & Philosophy: Jesse Prinz (Philosophy, University of North Carolina)

Tuesday, March 21

Yale Legal History: MARY BILDER, Boston College Law School, “Repugnancy and Judicial Review”
Vanderbilt Law: Michael Van Alstine, University of Maryland School of Law, “Executive Aggrandizement in Foreign Affairs Lawmaking”
Vanderbilt Comparative Corporate Governance Seminar: Jennifer Hill, Vanderbilt Law School & Sydney Law School
University of Texas Law: David Gamage, “What Constitutes a ‘Tax Cut’ or a ‘Tax Hike’?”
University of Pennsylvania Tax Policy Workshop: Alex Raskolnikov, Tax Shelter Penalties
Marquette Law: Barrett McCormick, Marquette University, China and the Internet
Lewis & Clark Law: Brian Blum Contempt of Court and the Courts’ Inherent Power
Georgetown Law: Mitt Regan
Georgetown Constitutional Law & Theory Colloquium: Ruti Teitel (law, New York Law School), The Law of Humanity: Rule of Law for a Global Politics

Wednesday, March 22

Villanova Law: Elizabeth R. Schiltz, University of St. Thomas School of Law
University of Toronto Tax Law & Policy Workshop: Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan Taxation and Big Brother: Information, Personalization, and Privacy in 21st Century Tax Policy
University College London: The Constitutional Law Group (UK branch of the International Association of Constitutional Law), ‘Reforming and Reorganising Tribunals’
Sir Robert Carnwath, Lord Justice of Appeal and Senior President of Tribunals Designate.
Genevra Richardson, Professor of Public Law at Kings College London, Member of the Council on Tribunals.
Cheryl Saunders, Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science (University of Cambridge), Professor of Law (University of Melbourne), President of the International Association of Constitutional Law, former President of the Administrative Review Council (Australia)

University College, London: Jonathan Seglow, Multiculturalism, recognition and respect

Thursday, March 23

Brooklyn Law School: Ken Simons (Boston University) Is Knowledge a Culpable State of Mind? I always learn from Simons’s careful and illuminating papers.
University of Texas Tom Sealy Endowed Lecture: Louis Fisher, Special Assistant to Law Librarian- Library of Congress, “State of War After 9/11”
University of Texas Colloquium on Constitutional and Legal Theory: Hillel Steiner (Manchester), Freedom & Bivalence & Quantification of Freedom Steiner is a deeply interesting and articulate thinker.
University of Michigan Law & Economics: Wesley Cohen, Duke, John Walsh, Illinois-Chicago, The View from the Bench: The Patenting and Licensing of Research Tools and Biomedical Innovation
University of Arizona Law: Professor Jeff Rachlinski, Cornell Law School, “Judicial Psychology.”
UCLA Tax Policy & Public Finance Colloquium: Bob Peroni, University of Texas Law School, Exploring the Contours of a Proposed U.S. Exemption (Territorial Tax System)
NYU Colloquium on Tax Policy & Public Finance: Howell Jackson, Harvard Law School, “Counting the Ways: The Structure of Federal Spending.”
Institut Français (London): Susan James (Birkbeck), Spinoza: Politics and Imagination
UC Berkeley, Kadish Center: Philip Pettit, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University, RESPONSIBILITY INCORPORATED Pettit is a marvel!
Georgetown Intellectual Property: J.H. Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law, Duke University Law School, Treating Clinical Trials as a Public Good: The Most Logical Reform
George Mason Law: : Moin Yahya, University of Alberta School of Law and former Levy Fellow; Do You Need an Economic Theory for an Antitrust Complaint?
Fordham Law: Catherine Sharkey, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law, “Trespass in an Electronic A[ge]
Boston University: Wendy Gordon.

Friday, March 24

University of Texas Law: Louis Fisher, Special Assistant to Law Librarian- Library of Congress, “35 Years of Research for Congress: How CRS Operates”
University of Texas Law, Leon Greeen Lecture: Hillel Steiner (Manchester) “A Famous Conflict” (For the version of this paper that Steiner delivered at University College recently, follow this link.
Notre Dame Law: Professor Ellen D. Katz, The University of Michigan Law School
Suffolk Law: STEM CELLS: 2006 SCIENCE, LAW & BUSINESS, Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference
Georgetown Law & Economics: Ronen Avraham, Northwestern University School of Law
Georgetown Law, Conference on Economic and Social Inequality:The Role of Race in Law, Markets, and Social Structures.
Florida State Law: Roberto Romano, Yale Law School