Friday Calendar
- Notre Dame Law: Professor Suzanna Sherry, Cal Turner Professor of Law & Leadership
Vanderbilt University Law School
University of Texas Law: Lisa Bressman, Vanderbilt University, “Inside the Administrative State: A Critical Look at the Practice of Presidential Control”
Harvard, Berkman Center: Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship
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8:30 – 8:40 a.m.: Welcome: John Palfrey (Executive Director, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society)
8:40 – 9:00 a.m.: Introduction: Paul Caron (Cincinnati; Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Law Professor Blogs Network)
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.: Law Blogs as Legal Scholarship
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Doug Berman (Ohio State; Sentencing Law and Policy): Scholarship in Action: The Power, Possibilities, and Pitfalls for Academic Blogs
Larry Solum (Illinois; Legal Theory Blog): Blogging and the Transformation of Legal Scholarship
Kate Litvak (Texas): Law Prof Blogs: Useful, Yes; Scholarship, No
Commentators
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Paul Butler (George Washington; BlackProf)
Jim Lindgren (Northwestern; The Volokh Conspiracy)
Ellen Podgor (Stetson; White Collar Crime Prof Blog)
11:00 – 12:30 p.m.: The Role of the Law Professor Blogger
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Gail Heriot (San Diego; The Right Coast): Was Publius Our Nation’s First Blogger?
Orin Kerr (George Washington; The Volokh Conspiracy): Law Professors as Public Intellectuals
Gordon Smith (Wisconsin; Conglomerate): Bit By Bit: A Case Study of Bloggership
Commentators
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Randy Barnett (Boston University; The Volokh Conspiracy)
Michael Froomkin (Miami; Discourse.net)
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.: Law Blogs and the First Amendment
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Glenn Reynolds (Tennessee; InstaPundit) (via video conference): Libel, the First Amendment and Bloggers
Eugene Volokh (UCLA; The Volokh Conspiracy): Cheap Speech and What It Has Done
Eric Goldman (Marquette; Technology & Marketing Law Blog): Joint and Guest Blogger Arrangements
Commentators
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Betsy Malloy (Cincinnati; Health Law Prof Blog)
Dan Solove (George Washington; Concurring Opinions)
3:45 – 5:15 p.m.: The Many Faces of Law Professor Blogs
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Larry Ribstein (Illinois; Ideoblog): Bloggership as Amateur Journalism
Ann Althouse (Wisconsin; Althouse): Why a Narrowly Defined Legal Scholarship Blog Is Not What I Want: The Joys of Well-Rounded Blogging
Christine Hurt (Illinois; Conglomerate) & Tung Yin (Iowa; The Yin Blog): Pre-Tenure Blogging: Is It Worth It?
Commentators
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Howard Bashman (How Appealing)
Peter Lattman (Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog)
University of London: One-Day Conference: Questions in Feminism and Philosophy, Miranda Fricker, Gill Howie, Gudrun von Tevenar, Alice Maclachlan, Kathleen Lennon, Mari Mikkola, Alison Stone, Veronica Vasterling, Liz Disley, Clare Saunders, Pamela Anderson
Georgetown Law & Economics: Randall Thomas, Vanderbilt University Law School
University of San Diego: “The Rights and Wrongs of Discrimination.”
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“Reflections on Discrimination,” Alan Wertheimer, National Institutes of Health
-comments by Steve Smith, USD Law
“Sameness, Subordination and Perfectionism: Toward a More Complete Theory of Employment Discrimination,” Kimberly Yuracko, Northwestern University Law
– comments by Connie Rosati, University of Arizona Philosophy, and Orly Lobel, USD Law
“Defining the Anti-Discrimination Norm to Defend It,” Mark Kelman, Stanford Law
– comments by Maimon Schwarzschild, USD Law
“What is Wrongful Discrimination?” Richard Arneson, UCSD Philosophy
– comments by David Brink, UCSD Philosophy, and Andy Koppelman, Northwestern Law