Conferences and Calls
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Via Frank Pasquale, Seton Hall Law is hosting a symposium on pandemic flu this fall. Proposals for panelists are due by 4/15; here is the call for papers: Seton Hall Law School’s Center for Health and Pharmaceutical Law and the Seton Hall Law Review will be hosting a symposium on October 23-24, 2008, to examine…
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Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT) Value, Respect, and Wellbeing: Themes from the Work of Joseph Raz Friday 9 May 2008Time: 9.30am – 5.15pmVenue: The Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester Provisional Programme:9.30 – 10.00 registration10.00 – 11.15 session 1: Steven Wall (Bowling Green State University)11.15 – 11.30 coffee11.30 – 12.45 session 2: Leslie…
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It is 9:00 a.m. PDST, and I am blogging from the American Philosophical Association’s Pacific Division Meeting in Pasadena California. It’s especially nice to be here–I grew up in Monterey Park a few miles to the south and lived for many years just a few blocks from the conference hotel. If only the session could…
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The Department of Philosophy at the University of Missouri in Columbia would like to announce a conference titled "Realistic Standards for Decisions." Here is a brief description: Much of classical decision theory relies on idealizations about decision makers and their decision problems. For example, it is common to suppose that decision makers are cognitively unlimited…
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The Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association starts tomorrow. Garden of Forking Paths has some panel recommendations. And on the philosophy of law front, there is this panel: III-D. Invited Symposium: Philosophy of Law: What Determines the Content of LawThursday 9:00 a.m.-NoonChair: Deirdre Golash (American University)Speakers: Mark Greenberg (University of California–Los Angeles)“Foundations of…
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Conference: Themes from the work of Joseph RazManchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT)Value, Respect, and Wellbeing: Themes from the Work of Joseph Raz Friday 9 May 2008Time: 9.30am – 5.15pm Venue: The Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester Programme:9.30 – 10.00 registration10.00 – 11.15 session 1: Steven Wall (Bowling Green State University)11.15 – 11.30…
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The next MLEA conference is scheduled for October 3-4, 2008, at Northwestern University School of Law. Please add those dates to your schedule. MLEA Hotel info:The Allerton Hotel Chicago701 N. Michigan AvenueChicago, IL 60611 Please call the Allerton Hotel reservations department at 312-440-1500 or 877-701-8111. To receive the contracted rate, the attendees should identify the…
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Call for PapersInterpretation of Law in the Global World: from Particularism to a Universal Approach Editors Joanna Jemielniak, Ph.D., Kozminski Business School, Warsaw, Poland and Przemysław Mikłaszewicz, Ph.D., Office of the Constitutional Tribunal, Warsaw, Poland Submission guidelines and timeline Please submit a 500-1,000 words abstract by April 15, 2008. Preliminary acceptance decisions will be made…
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Symposium in Honor of Ronald Dworkin, 2007 winner of the Holberg Prize On Thursday, April 10 New York University School of Law and the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund will host a day-long symposium devoted to the work of Ronald Dworkin, to celebrate the award of the 2007 Holberg Prize. Six distinguished legal theorists and philosophers…
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Save the Date: Eighth Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference The Program in Law, Science & Technology at Stanford Law School will host the Eighth Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference on August 7-8, 2008. Please save the date! The IP Scholars Conference brings together intellectual property scholars to present their works-in-progress in order to benefit from…