The Fordham Law Review presents Against Settlement: Twenty-Five Years Later April 3, 2009.
In 1984, Owen Fiss provocatively argued that the ADR movement overvalued settlement, that adjudication serves a purpose greater than dispute resolution, and that “[c]ivil litigation is an instrument for using state power to bring a recalcitrant reality closer to our chosen ideals.” Against Settlement, 93 Yale L.J. 1073 (1984). What do we make of his arguments twenty-five years later? In the intervening years, the dispute resolution field has matured, public interest lawyering has changed, aggregate litigation has grown with comprehensive resolution as an expected endgame, and global perspectives on litigation have become more prominent, shedding new light on the arguments Fiss raised.
The Fordham Law Review has assembled a remarkable group – many of the nation’s leading voices in ADR, complex litigation, and public interest lawyering – for a one-day symposium to reconsider questions of settlement and adjudication in civil litigation.
The symposium is co-sponsored by the Fordham Conflict Resolution and ADR Program.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 6th, 2009
| Civil Procedure, Alternative Dispute Resolution, CONFERENCES |
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Fair Housing Law and Enforcement - A Basic Survey of the Law and Practice hosted by the John Marshall Law School will be held in Chicago, April 17th and 18th. This is a basic introduction to fair housing law: federal, state, and local. This course is designed especially for those who would like a review of the law.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 6th, 2009
| CONFERENCES |
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The Mexican Law Review, the new journal of the Institute for Legal Research of the National Autonomous University, is permanently open to submissions from students, professors and practitioners on issues of Latin American, Mexican and comparative law.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 6th, 2009
| Comparative Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS |
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Georgetown Law Library and Georgetown Law host The Future of Today’s Legal Scholarship: A Symposium in Honor of Bob Oakley, July 25, 2009.
The time to debate the role of blogs in legal scholarship has passed. As we approach the end of the first decade of the 21st century, one of our oldest and most conservative disciplines has clearly embraced the era of electronic publishing. Blogging has indeed transformed legal scholarship. Now it’s time to move the dialogue forward.
The Future of Today’s Legal Scholarship is a symposium that brings together academic bloggers, law librarians, and experts in preservation to tackle the bigger, more imperative challenges that will influence legal scholarship and democratic access to legal information for generations to come.
We must determine how to prioritize, collect, archive, preserve, and ensure reliable long-term access to the burgeoning amount of legal scholarship being published through new, informal channels on the Web.
The Future of Today’s Legal Scholarship aims to accomplish this objective through non-conventional means. This symposium is an active, idea-based exchange inviting the participation and contribution of attendees alongside that of expert presenters and panelists.
This unique symposium will seek answers to the questions:
1. How can quality academic scholarship reliably be discovered?
2. How can future researchers be assured of perpetual access to the information currently available in blogs?
3. How can any researcher be confident that documents posted to blogs are genuine?
The symposium will include a working group break-out session to create a uniform standard for preservation of blogs, a document to be shared by bloggers and librarians alike.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 6th, 2009
| Law and Technology, Law Librarianship, Legal Education, CONFERENCES |
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The Chinese Journal of International Law (published by Oxford University Press) has just published an “Agora: Kosovo.” The Journal invites responses to these papers as well as further papers for consideration for publication in a subsequent issue. See the list of articles here.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 6th, 2009
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, International Law |
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The University of Manchester School of Law project on the Impact of the Criminal Process on Health Care Ethics and Practice will host Good, Bad or Indifferent: Medicine and the Criminal Process on Nov. 3-4, 2009.
Day 1 will focus on the prosecution of doctors; in the afternoon there will be workshops on Tainted Blood; The Role of the Criminal Process, The Role of the Coroner, Assisted Dying, Tourism and Covert Acceptance; and lastly a workshop on the Selling of Body Parts. Day 2 will focus on Ethical Conflicts in Criminal Courts.
The deadline for submissions is April 17, 2009.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 6th, 2009
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Health Law, Criminal Law, CONFERENCES |
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Iowa
Anthony Alfieri (Miami Law)
Kansas
Pauline Kim (Washington Law), Deliberation and Strategy on the United States Courts of Appeals: An Empirical Exploration of Panel Effects
Loyola Los Angeles
Brian Galle (Florida State), Tax Incentives and the Judicial Role in Interstate Trade
Missouri
Robert Miller (Villanova Law)
Temple
George Triantis (Houston Law Center)
Posted by pittlegalscholarship on March 6th, 2009
| COLLOQUIA/ WORKSHOPS, Tax Law |
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Lexxion presents its 7th Experts’ Forum on New Developments in European State Aid Law 2009 May 14-15 (with a workshop May 13), 2009.
The agenda of the conference covers major recent developments in the field of EC State aid law with a focus on: • the Application of State Aid Rules to Banking and Financial Services (Guarantees and Loans, ecapitalizations and Toxic Assets)
• the Future of Restructuring
• Material Selectivity after Gibraltar and British Aggregates
• The Cooperation between the Commission and the National Courts - the New Enforcement Notice
and will take place on 14 & 15 May 2009, Bibliothèque Solvay, Brussels.
The preceding high-level workshop is targeted at a maximum of 25 qualified delegates who will take a closer look into State aid and the financial crisis. It is scheduled for 13 May 2009, Hotel Le Châtelain, Brussels.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 5th, 2009
| Courts, Comparative Law, Commercial Law, International Law, CONFERENCES |
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The University of Washington School Law presents a symposium honoring Judge Betty Binns Fletcher of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Judicial Circuit on March 6, 2009. Judge Fletcher “broke the glass ceiling for women in Washington when she became the first woman from Washington to join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Court, the first woman president of the Seattle Bar Association, and the first woman on the Washington Bar Association Board of Governors.” Panel topics for the symposium include the environment, anti-discrimination law, law and equality, constitutional law and federal courts.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 5th, 2009
| Law and Gender, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights Law, Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, CONFERENCES |
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The Midwest Family Law Consortium is soliciting proposals for presentations and papers for its annual conference. The 2009 conference theme is The Future of Family Law Education.
Do you have family law teaching ideas that you are willing to share? Would you like to talk with other professors about successes and frustrations related to teaching family law courses? This conference is for you!! The conference will be held on Friday, June 26 at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Please send workshop proposals to Nancy Ver Steegh at nancy.versteegh [at] wmitchell.edu (651-290-6342). (Workshop proposals should include a 200 word abstract, a one-page outline, three learning objectives, and presenter contact information.) Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Family Court Review. Please watch for more information at the conference website.
The conference is sponsored by The Midwest Family Law Consortium: Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis; University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law; and William Mitchell College of Law; with the Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Minnesota Chapter; the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts; and Hofstra University School of Law, Center for Children, Families, and the Law.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on March 5th, 2009
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Legal Education, Family Law, CONFERENCES |
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