2008-09 Faculty Presentations
September 2008
September: Ingrid Wuerth, participant/commentator, Roundtable on Treaty Self-Execution, Duke Law School, Duke/Harvard Foreign Relations Law Colloquia
September: Ingrid Wuerth, "The Enigmatic Captures Clause," Vanderbilt International Legal Studies Program Conference on Foreign Relations
September 12: Owen Jones, "The Neural Basis of Third-Party Legal Decision Making," Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Cornell University Law School
September 12: Robert B. Thompson, Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Cornell University, (commentator on Romano paper and on Armour, Black & Cheffins paper)
September 16: Robert B. Thompson, University of Iowa College of Law Corporate Law Colloquium, presented paper on corporate voting
September 17: W. Kip Viscusi, “How to Value a Life,” Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky
September 19: Owen Jones, "The Neural Basis of Third-Party Punishment," Vanderbilt Department of Neurology, Grand Rounds
September 23: Chris Slobogin, “The Implications of Science for Juvenile Justice,” Vanderbilt Law School faculty workshop
September 23, 2008, Robert B. Thompson, University of Illinois College of Law Corporate Law Colloquium, presented paper on corporate voting.
September 25: Chris Guthrie, "Negotiation at the Mediation Table: What's Really Going On?," Tennessee Association of Professional Mediators, Nashville
September 25-27: Jim Ely, "The History of Property Rights," Free Market Forum, Hillsdale College, Dearborn, Michigan
September 26: Mark Brandon, moderator, Justice and the Law in India, Berkeley Seminar Series on Indian Democracy, University of California, Berkeley
September 26: Nita Farahany: Law, Neuroscience, and Behavioral Morality, Neuroscience, Law & Government Symposium, University of Akron School of Law
September 26: Robert B. Thompson, University of Virginia Law Review Conference on the 75th Anniversary of the Securities and Exchange Commission, , co-presented Securities Law and the New Deal Justices.
October 2008
October: Ingrid Wuerth, faculty workshop, "The Enigmatic Captures Clause," University of Illinois College of Law
October 3-6: Nita Farahany, Neuroscience and Responsibility, Law and Policy, invited speaker, Beyond Belief III, Salk Institute
October 8, 2008, Robert B. Thompson, Emory University Law School Faculty Workshop, presented paper on corporate voting.
October 9: Brian Fitzpatrick, "The End of Objector Blackmail?", Searle Center Research Symposium on the Empirical Studies of Civil Liability, Northwestern University School of Law
October 9: W. Kip Viscusi, “Punitive Damages,” Keynote Address, Research Symposium on Empirical Studies of Civil Liability, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois
October 13: Chis Guthrie, "Blinking on the Bench: How Judges Judge," National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary Annual Conference, New York, New York
October 15: Chris Slobogin, “A Preventive Approach to Juvenile Justice,” Washington University School of Law, St. Louis
October 17-18: Jim Ely, panelist, Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, College of William and Mary
October 21: Nita Farahany, Cruel and Unequal Punishments, invited Faculty Workshop, Duke Law School
October 27: Mark Brandon, Colloquium, “The Anglo-Genetic Ancestry of the American Law of Family,” Rutgers School of Law, Camden
October 27: Chris Guthrie, "Hard Bargaining or Hardly Bargaining? Getting a Good Deal," Tennessee Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Nashville, Tennessee
October 30: Chris Slobogin, panel discussant of David Faigman’s book, “Constitutional Fictions: A Unified Theory of Constitutional Facts,” Hastings College of Law, San Francisco
October 30-31: Robert B. Thompson, Vanderbilt Law & Business Annual Conference commented on Anderson, Davis-Blake & Parker, Outsourced Product Design
November 2008
November 7: Chris Guthrie, "The Risk of Bias and Cognitive Error in Decisions About Pretrial Detention and Misdemeanor Sentencing," Pretrial and Misdemeanor Sentencing Institute, Ninth Circuit Conference, San Diego, California
November 12: Chris Slobogin, “The New Government Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment,” Fordham Law School, New York
November 13: Richard Nagareda, "Steven P. Croley's 'Civil Justice in America,'" Albany Law School, Albany, New York
November 17: Daniel Gervais, Keynote address at Supreme Court of Canada for 30th anniversary of the founding of the International Literary and Artistic Association
November 21: Chris Slobogin, “Florida’s Death Penalty Process,” Elon University School of Law, Greensboro
December 2008
December: Ingrid Wuerth, commentator, International Law in Domestic Courts Conference, Temple University Law School
December 1: Mark Brandon, seminar, “Constitutionalism and the Education of American Indian Children: A Critique of Civic Education,” Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University
December 8: Frank Bloch, presenter and moderator, session on “The Global Clinical Movement,” Meeting of the Global Alliance for Justice Education, Manila, Philippines
December 9-10: Chris Slobogin, “Mental Illness and Self-Representation: Faretta, Godinez and Edwards,” Criminal Procedure Roundtable, Emory Law School, Atlanta
December 10-12: Kevin Stack, "The Statutory Fiction of Judicial Review of Administrative Action in the United States," Effective Judicial Review Conference, University of Cambridge Centre for Public Law and The Chinese University of Hong Kong
January 2009
January 3: Paige Marta Skiba, American Economic Association Conference, San Francisco
January 8: Suzanna Sherry, Panelist on “Is Constitutional Law in Crisis?” AALS Meeting, San Diego
January 9: Chris Slobogin, moderator and commentator, panel on “The Model Penal Code Sentencing Proposals,” AALS Meeting, San Diego
January 13: Paige Marta Skiba, Speaker in Research Seminar, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
January 22: Michael Vandenbergh, “The Behavioral Wedge,” University of Florida Environmental Law Colloquium
January 23: Tracey George, Santa Clara Law Review Symposium: Big Business and the Roberts Court
January 23: Michael Vandenbergh, “The Logic of Climate Change Governance: Boundaries and Leakage,” faculty workshop, University of Florida Levin College of Law.
January 29: Chris Slobogin, “The ABA’s Standards on Transaction Surveillance,” Conference on Cyberprivacy, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, Philadelphia
January 30: Richard Nagareda, The Future of Mass Settlements and Issues for Legal Reform, Mass Settlements via Contracts with Plaintiffs' Law Firms, Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program at Vanderbilt
January 30: Michael Newton, keynote speaker for the North American Regional Round, "The U.S. and the International Criminal Court: Precedents and Prospects," Pace Law School
February 2009
February 3: Nita Farahany, Neuroscience and National Security, invited speaker, Center for Law and Biosciences, Stanford University Law School
February 4: Nita Farahany, Cruel and Unequal Punishments, invited Faculty Workshop, Stanford University Law School
February 6: Mark Brandon, commentator, “Government in Opposition,” Workshop sponsored by the American Society for Comparative Law, the University of Michigan Law School and the University of Illinois Law School, Princeton, New Jersey
February 6: Tracey George, Duke Law Journal Conference on Measuring Judges and Justice
February 10: Michael Vandenbergh, “Sustainable Energy: The Intersection of Innovation, Law, and Policy," Widener Law School conference
February 11: Michael Vandenbergh, faculty workshop, “The Logic of Climate Change Governance: Boundaries and Leakage," Emory University Law School
February 12: Chris Slobogin: “The Implications of Science for Juvenile Justice,” faculty workshop, Brooklyn Law School, New York City
February 15: Tracey George, University of Texas Law School Law, Politics and Economics Workshop
February 16: Owen Jones, "Law, Biology, and Property: A New Theory of the Endowment Effect," Arizona State University College of Law - Tempe
February 18: Paige Marta Skiba, Faculty Workshop, University of California Davis Law School
February 19: Michael Vandenbergh and Jonathan Adler of Case Western University Law School, “A Conversation on Climate Change,” jointly sponsored by the Vanderbilt Climate Change Research Network and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy
February 20: Mark Brandon, Paper and Presentation, “The Anglo-Genetic Ancestry of the American Law of Family,” for a conference on The Constitution and the Family in Comparative Perspective, University of Texas at Austin
February 24: Michael Newton, The Trial of Saddam Hussein, Shreveport Bar Association
February 25: Paige Marta Skiba, Speaker in Department of Economics, University of California Santa Barbara
February 26: Daniel Gervais, keynote paper on Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights in North America, 2009, Asian Copyright Seminar, Tokyo, Japan
February 26: Chris Slobogin, “The Constitution and Surveillance by the Government,” Cohn Lecture, Wayne State University Law School, Detroit
February 26: Robert B. Thompson, Florida State University Law School Faculty Workshop
February 27: Nita Farahany, Neurosecurity, invited symposium speaker and participant, Stanford Technology Law Review Conference, Stanford University Law School
February 27: Brian Fitzpatrick, "The Politics of Merit Selection," Symposium on State Judicial Selection and Retention Systems, University of Missouri Law School
February 27: Owen Jones, speaker, Symposium on “Neuroscience and the Courts: The Implications of Advances in Neurotechnology,” Stanford Technology Law Review Conference, Stanford University Law School
February 27: Richard Nagareda, Panelist, Symposium on Agency Preemption of Tort Law, New York University School of Law
February 27: Chris Slobogin: “The Implications of Science for Juvenile Justice,” faculty workshop, Wayne State
February 27-28: Mark Brandon, panelist, Conference on Religion and Constitutionalism, Discussion Group on Constitutionalism, University of Maryland School of Law
March 2009
March 4: Richard Nagareda, Mass Litigation and Settlement Workshop, "Class Certification in the Age of Aggregate Proof," Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
March 5: Chris Slobogin, “Can Edwards, Godinez and Faretta be Reconciled?” American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference, San Antonio
March 5: Michael Vandenbergh and Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science Brooke Ackerly, “Micro-Offsets and Macro-Transformation," Harvard Law School conference on “Climate Change and Global Justice”
March 11: Paige Marta Skiba, Speaker in Accounting & Finance Seminar, Graduate School of Management, University of California Davis
March 12: Brian Fitzpatrick, “Class Action Settlements and their Fee Awards,” Faculty Workshop, University of Minnesota Law School
March 13: Michael Newton, The Coming Complementarity Crisis, Santa Clara Law School
March 16: Owen Jones, "Law and Behavioral Biology," University of Virginia Law School, guest speaker
March 17: Owen Jones, "The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment," University of Virginia Department of Psychology
March 17: Michael Newton, "Enemy of the State: From Hermann Goering to Saddam Hussein to Radovan Karadzic," Frederick K. Cox International Law Center Institute for Global Law & Policy, Cleveland, Ohio
March 19: Ingrid Wuerth, "Foreign Sovereign Immunities," presentation to Justice Ginsburg and Judicial Advisory Committee of the American Society of International Law
March 20: Erin O'Hara, faculty workshop at University of Virginia Law School
March 20: Robert B. Thompson Vanderbilt Law and Business Conference, Curacao March 2009 (panel on merger fundamentals)
March, 26: Ingrid Wuerth, panelist, "The Domestic Effects of International Judgments," Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law
March 27: Michael Newton, panelist, "The United States and the International Criminal Court," Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington D.C.
March 27: Robert B. Thompson, panelist at Notre Dame Law School Conference on Fiduciary Duty
April 2009
April 3: Chris Slobogin, “Recasting the Insanity Defense,” Conference on the Excuses, Texas Tech Law School
April 3, Owen Jones, "This Is Your Brain on Law: The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment,” Legal Studies Seminar, Brown University
April 4: Paige Marta Skiba, Speaker in Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
April 7: Chris Guthrie, "Inside the Trial Judge's Mind," Faculty Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL
April 10: Chris Slobogin, “Justice Ginsburg’s Criminal Procedure Jurisprudence,” Conference Commemorating Justice Ginsburg’s 15 Years on the Supreme Court, Ohio State Law School
April 15 – Michael Newton, “National Tribunals as an Alternative to ICC Jurisdiction," West Point Center for the Rule of Law, United States Military Academy
April 21: Chris Guthrie, "How Judges Decide Cases," Judicial Symposium on Judicial Behavior, Northwestern Law School, Chicago, IL
April 21: Paige Marta Skiba, Speaker in Department of Economics, University of California Santa Cruz
April 23: Richard Nagareda, "FDA Preemption: When Tort Law Meets the Administrative State," Faculty Workshop, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles
April 28: Chris Guthrie, "Inside the Trial Judge's Mind," Faculty Workshop, Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, NY
April 30: Jim Ely, “Is Property the Cornerstone of Liberty?”,Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, Clinton, New York
April 30: Suzanna Sherry, Swift Lecture on Constitutionalism, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
