2007-08 Presentations
Fall 2007 / Spring 2008
January 2008
January 3: Chris Brummer, “Stock Exchanges and the New Market for Securities Laws," Business Associations Section Program of AALS Annual Meeting
January 4: Tracey E. George, "Empirical Research Strategies for Understanding the Legal Profession," Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting
January 5: Paige Marta Skiba, American Economic Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans
January 7: Richard Nagareda, invited panelist for discussion of the Vioxx settlement, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.
January 11-12: Margaret Blair with Cynthia Williams and Li-Wen Lin, "The Roles of Standardization, Certification, and Assurance Services in Global Commerce," Just Supply Chains Conference, MIT Slaon School of Management
January 14: Tracey E. George, The Study of Judicial Behavior Colloquium, Duke University School of Law (invited speaker)
January 17: Margaret Blair with Cynthia Williams and Li-Wen Lin, "The Roles of Standardization, Certification, and Assurance Services in Global Commerce," Faculty Workshop, Florida State University School of Law
January 18: Richard Nagareda, invited panelist for symposium on "Perspectives on Asbestos Litigation," Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles
January 24-27: Jim Ely, invited panelist for Liberty Fund colloquium on "Federalists, Anti-Federalists, and the Constitution They Created," held in LaJolla, California
January 31: Nita Farahany, Roundtable on "Judging Genes: Implications of the Second Generation of Genetic Tests in the Courtroom," University of Maryland (invited roundtable participant)
February 2008
February 1-2: Owen D. Jones, Panelist: Meeting of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Decision Making, Vanderbilt University Law School
February 14: Frank Bloch, "The Quest forSocially Relevant Legal Education in India," Yale Law School (invited speaker)
February 15: Chris Brummer, “The Public Markets and International Financial Centers,” Virginia Law and Business Symposium, University of Virginia
February 15: Tracey E. George, Faculty Workshop, Pepperdine University School of Law (invited speaker)
February 20: Lisa Schultz Bressman, Constitutional Theory Workshop, NYU Law School, invited workshop
February 21: Frank Bloch, invited panelist at international conference on "The Future of Legal Education," sponsored by the W. Lee Burge Endowment for Law & Ethics at Georgia State University
February 21: Nita Farahany, "Neuroscience in the Criminal Justice System," invited lecture to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
February 21: Robert B. Thompson, University of Connecticut Law School Faculty colloquium
February 22-23: Paige Marta Skiba, "Payday Lending," Law and Economics of Consumer Credit Conference, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottsville, Virginia
February 23: Larry Helfer, “The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights Litigation in the Andean Community,” Fordham University Law School International Relations-International Law Colloquium
February 29: Owen D. Jones, Harm and Punishment: An fMRI Experiment, Neurolaw Conference, Amherst College
March 2008
March 4, 2008: Owen D. Jones, “Evolution and Chimpanzee Economics," guest lecture in Biology course “Evolution and Human Nature" at Amherst College
March 5: Margaret Blair with Bob Thompson, "Legal Questions at the Boundary of the Film: An Essay on the Changing Value of Forbearance," Professor Claire Hill's Law and Economics class, University of Minnesota Law School
March 19: Margaret Blair, "Boundary of the Firm," University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business
March 20, 2008: Owen Jones, “Chimpanzee Economics: Evolution, Possession, and the Endowment Effect,” Departmental Seminar, Vanderbilt University Department of Biological Sciences
March 28: Richard Nagareda, invited panelist for conference on class actions, American Constitution Society & Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York
April 2008
April 5: Nita Farahany, Law and Neuroscience Junior Scholars Workshop, Stanford Law School, invited speaker
April 10-11: Tracey E. George, "Empirical Research on Decisionmaking in the Federal Courts" Symposium, Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, Washington University in St. Louis (invited speaker/article)
April 14: Nancy King, James Otis Lecture, University of Mississippi Law School
April 17: Paige Marta Skiba, Center for Behavioral Decision Research at Carnegie Mellon University
Fall 2007 Presentations
July 2007
July 27: Rebecca Brown, "Self-Government, Change, and Justice," panelist for "Progressive Approaches to Constitutional Interpretation," American Constitution Society Annual Convention, Washington D.C.
July: Kevin Stack, "Civic Trust, the Independent Counsel, and Watergate," Law & Society Conference Panel Presentation, Berlin
August 2007
August 7: Rebecca Brown, “The Dark Side of Rights,” University of Southern California Gould School of Law Faculty Workshop
August 30: Chris Guthrie, "Inside the Trial Judge’s Mind," University of Iowa College of Law Faculty Workshop, Iowa City, Iowa
August 30: Richard Nagareda, "Class Actions in the Administrative State: Kalven and Rosenfield Revisited," James E. Rogers College of Law, faculty workshop, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
August 30: Owen D. Jones, “Law and the Brain,” Vanderbilt University Fall Faculty Assembly
September 2007
September 12: Larry Helfer, “The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights Litigation in the Andean Community: A View from the Outside,” Universidad Externado, Bogota, Colombia (lecturer)
September 16: Kevin Stack, "Morrison v. Olson: Overcoming Watergate," Workshop Presentation, Duke University Law School, Durham, NC
September 27: Paige Marta Skiba, Recent Developments in Consumer Credit & Payments Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
October 2007
October 1: Tracey E. George, "A Positive Political Theory of Majority Coalitions on the Supreme Court Panels," Northwestern’s Law & Political Economy Colloquium
October 1: Rebecca Brown, “First Monday in October: A Supreme Court Preview,” Moderator, Vanderbilt Law School
October 3: Carol Swain, moderator of a symposium highlighting her edited book, Debating Immigration, featuring two of the book’s contributors, Douglas S. Massey of Princeton University and Peter H. Schuck of Yale Law School, along with syndicated columnist Roger E. Hernandez and Robert J. Wuthnow of Princeton, at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
October 5: Rebecca Brown, “Little Rock and the Legacy of Brown,” symposium presentation in response to Childress Lecture given by David Strauss, St. Louis University School of Law
October 5-6: Richard Nagareda, "Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation," American Law Institute, meetings of the project advisers and members' consultative group, University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas
October 9: Owen D. Jones, Panelist: Challenging Current Views on Justice: The Emergence of Neuroscience (in conjunction with launch of the MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project), Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Court House, New York City
October 11: Frank Bloch, "Disability and the Contract for Income Support in the Modern Welfare State," invited speaker at workshop on "The Social Contract Revisited: The Modern Welfare State," Centre for Socio-Legal Studies & Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
October 11: Kevin Stack, "Presidential Fact Finding and Ultra Vires Review," Panel Presentation, The Role of the President in the 21st Century, Boston University Law School Conference
October 12: Chris Brummer, “International Regulation and Securities Laws” Faculty Workshop, University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
October 12: Owen D. Jones, Keynote Lecture: Evolution, Primates, Neurons, and Law, Annual Conference of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
October 19: Chris Guthrie, "Mind Games: The Psychology of Negotiation," ADR Institute, Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Atlanta
October 19: Robert B. Thompson, "Delaware's Adaptability" as part of the Dedication of the University of Illinois Law and Business Program
October 19: Chris Brummer, “Sarbanes Oxley Five Years Later,” University of Maryland Conference, Panelist
October 22: Margaret Blair, "The Roles of Standardization, Certification, and Assurance Services in Global Commerce" (presentation of a paper co-authored with Cynthia Williams and Li-Wen Li)
October 23: Nita Farahany, "Cruel and Unequal Punishments," Amherst College, invited lecture in the Evidentiary Processes in Law. and Science Series
October 24: Nita Farahany, Workshop on "Neuroethics and the Ethical Implications of Augmented Cognition," University of Florida, (invited panelist)
October 25: Lisa Schultz Bressman, "Judicial Review of Agency Inaction after Massachusetts v. EPA," ABA Administrative Law Section Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., invited panel presentation
October 25: Lisa Schultz Bressman, "The Disunitary Executive," ABA Administrative Law Section Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., invited panel presentation
October 26: Tracey E. George, "Precedent and the Roberts Court," University of North Carolina Law Review Symposium
October 26: Kevin Stack, "The President’s Statutory Powers, Roundtable Participant for The Unitary Executive Theory Revisited," ABA 2007 Administrative Law Conference, Washington, D.C.
October 26: Paige Marta Skiba, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
October 27: Daniel Sharfstein, “Sun & Shade: Three American Families Journey from Black to White,” invited panelist in seminar on “The Craft of Legal History: Micro-Histories, Macro-Projects,” American Society for Legal History annual meeting
October 27: Owen D. Jones, Harm and Punishment: An fMRI Experiment, Annual Scholarship Conference of the Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law (SEAL)
November 2007
November 2: Chris Brummer, “International Investment and Structural Inconsistency” Cardozo Law School Symposium on International Investment, Cardozo Law School
November 2: Owen D. Jones, Law, Biology, and Property: A New Theory of the Endowment Effect, Faculty Workshop, Cornell University Law School
November 8: Frank Bloch, "Access to Justice and the Global Clinical Movement," invited speaker at roundtable on "New Directions in Clinical Teaching," Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Washington University Law School, St. Louis, Missouri
November 9: Tracey E. George, "Chief Judges," New York University Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, New York
November 9: Nancy King, "Habeas Litigation in U.S. District Courts," New York University Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, New York
November 9: Margaret Blair & Bob Thompson, "Legal Questions at the Boundary of the Firm: An Essay of the Changing Value of Forbearance," Vanderbilt Law & Business Conference on "International Corporate Governance" at Vanderbilt Law School.
November 9: Chris Brummer, Panelist, Vanderbilt Law & Business Conference on “International Corporate Governance” at Vanderbilt Law School
November 12: Chris Brummer, “The Public Market for Securities Laws,” Faculty Workshop, Northwestern University
November 27: Rebecca Brown, “Equal Concern and Hate Speech” (tentative title), participant in Holberg Prize Seminar in Honour of Laureate 2007 Professor Ronald Dworkin, Dragefjell, University of Bergen, Norway
November 29-30: Margaret Blair, "Does Company Ownership Matter? Efficiency and Growth," a talk delivered as part of a panel on "Shareholder Rights in European Companies: Impact on Growth" chaired by Nobel prizewinning economist Robert Solow at a conference in Paris sponsored by Centre Cournot pour la Recherche en Economie
November 30: Chris Brummer, “Law & Economics—and Corporate Law,” International Seminar of Law & Economics in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
November 30- December 1: Larry Helfer, “International Courts and Tribunals in the 21st Century: The Future of International Justice,” The Hague, the Netherlands (panelist)
December 2007
December 1: Richard Nagareda, "Class Action Settlements under Attack" (co-authored with Samuel Issacharoff), University of Pennsylvania Law School, symposium on "Fairness to Whom? Perspectives on the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005," Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
December 8: Larry Helfer, “Ruling the World: Constitutionalism, International Law and Global Governance,” Temple University Law School (discussant)
