2010-11 Presentations

Summer 2011

May 6: Tammy Lefko, "Adapting Materials for International Students," 2011 Global Legal Skills Conference, John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois

May 9: Randall Thomas, "Litigation in Mergers and Acquisitions," Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

May 16-17: Margaret Blair, "Financial Innovation, Leverage, Bubbles and the Distribution of Income," East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, China

May 18: Margaret Blair, "Financial Innovation, Leverage, Bubbles and the Distribution of Income," Jiao Tong University KoGuan Law School, in Shanghai, China

May 18: Ellen Wright Clayton, “Reservations about Return of Results,” ISBER Conference, Arlington, Virginia

May 19: Ellen Wright Clayton, “The Misguided Debate about Return of Research Results,” Should We Return Individual Research Results and Incidental Findings from Genomic Biobanks and Archives? University of Minnesota, Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, and the Life Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland

May 20: Joni Hersch, “Sexual Harassment Risks and Pay Premiums,” American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York

May 20-21: Andrew Kaufman, Moderator of Panels adressing Current Issues in China-related Merger & Acquisition Transactions and Private Equity Activity in China, "Current issues Affecting International Business Activity" Vanderbilt Law School Law & Business Program Conference, Beijing, China

May 20-21: Chris Slobogin, “Juvenile Confessions: Policy Suggestions,” A Conference on Professor Barry Feld's book, Minnesota Law School (symposium), Minneapolis, Minnesota

May 20: W. Kip Viscusi, “Policy Challenges of the Heterogeneity of the Value of Statistical Life,” American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York

May 23: Margaret Blair, "The Roles of Standardization, Certification, and Assurance Services in Global Commerce," The Development Research Center of the State Council of PRC, Beijing, China

May 23-24: Ellen Wright Clayton, “Panel on Joint Consideration of Special Complexities in Genotype-Driven Recruitment,” Ethical Approaches to Genotype-Driven Research Recruitment, Durham, North Carolina

May 24: Margaret Blair, "The Roles of Standardization, Certification, and Assurance Services in Global Commerce," The Chinese Academy of Governance, Beijing, China

May 25: Margaret Blair, "The Roles of Standardization, Certification, and Assurance Services in Global Commerce," The School of Humanity and Social Science of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

May 26: Michael Newton, keynote lecture (with Judge Howard Morrison, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, The Hague) “Terrorism and Justice,” Terrorists on Trial: Performative Perspectives, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in cooperation with the International Centre for Counterterrorism, The Hague

May 30-31: Paul Edelman, “The Apportionment of the US Congress in the 1920’s—The Role of Social Choice in Political Controversies” Workshop on Electoral Methods, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

June 3: Christopher Slobogin, “Is the Fourth Amendment Irrelevant in a Technological Age?,” Privacy Scholars Conference, Berkeley, California

June 5: Christopher Slobogin, “Empirical Desert: An Empirical Investigation,” Law and Society, San Francisco, California

June 8-9: Ellen Wright Clayton, “Legal and Ethical Obligations,” Clinical Translation of Pharmacogenetic Testing: Management of Incidental Findings & Related Issues, Durham, North Carolina

June 8-10: Nita Farahany, "Neuroscience in the Courtroom," 2011 United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judicial Conference, Lake George, New York

June 15-17: Daniel Gervais, Keynote Speaker, "Stretching borders: How far can Canada Go?" 39e Colloque Annuel International de l’AFEC, Montpellier, France

June 16-17: Andrew Kaufman, Speaker "Intercreditor Agreements:  Does Your Intercreditor Agreement Work?", ALI-ABA "Commercial Lending Today" Program, Chicago, Illinois

June 26-28: Daniel Gervais, Moderator, "A Step Ahead an International IP Law?”, Max-Planck Institute Workshop on Economic Partnership Agreements of the EU, Frauenchiemsee, Germany

June 30: Michael Newton, Speaker, "Terrorism & the Constraints of International Criminal Law," International Law Institute - African Centre for Legal Excellence annual rountable training seminar on International Criminal Law, Nairobi, Kenya

July 19-21: Daniel Gervais, Keynote speaker, “Competences in Culture,” Polish EU Presidency Conference, Warsaw, Poland

July 25: Christopher Slobogin, Panel discussion, “The Definition of Search in Fourth Amendment Cases,” SEALS Conference, Hilton Head, South Carolina

Spring Semester 2011

January: Joni Hersch, “Compensating Differentials for Sexual Harassment,” American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado

January 7-9: W. Kip Viscusi, “Promoting Recycling: Private Values, Social Norms, and Economic Incentives,” American Economic Association Conference, Denver, Colorado

January 28: Daniel Gervais, keynote address "The Landscape of Collective Management Schemes," Collective Management of Copyright: Solution or Sacrifice? Symposium, Columbia Law School, New York, New York

February 3: Brian Fitzpatrick, panelist, "The New Politics of Iowa Judicial Retention Elections: Examining the 2010 Campaign and Vote," University of Iowa Law School

February 3: Christopher Slobogin, “Short-Term Preventive Detention: Stops, Checkpoints and Post-Arrest/ Pre-Adjudication Detention,” presentation at Unsettled Foundations, Uncertain Results: 9/11 and the Law, 10 Years After, Rutgers Law School

February 11: Michael Newton, “Divided Loyalties: Professional Standards and Military Duty” Case Western Reserve University School of Law

February 11: Ed Rubin, "Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise," Symposium on Recent Books About Federalism, University of Texas Law School

February 12: Owen Jones, “ Law and Neuroscience: Capabilities, Developments, and Trends,” Twelfth Annual Conference of the Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law (S.E.A.L.), Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA

February 25: Michael Newton, "Why Warlords and Terrorists Evade the Law/Arguing for a Modernized Concept of Effective Control," Loyola University Chicago, IL

February 25: Ed Rubin, "The Obama Administration and the Rise of Positive Constitutional Rights to Sustenance, Health, Housing and Education," Conference on the Constitution in the Age of Obama, William and Mary Law School

March 2: Owen Jones, "Brain Activity During Punishment Decisions," Forum on Neuroscience and the Law, Co-Sponsored by The National Academy of Sciences & The Royal Society, Irvine, California

March 3: Brian Fitzpatrick, "Originalism and Summary Judgment," Stanford Law School

March 3: Chris Slobogin, "Empirical Desert: Ten Hypotheses,” symposium at American Psychology-Law Society, Miami, FL

March 4: Owen Jones, Keynote Speaker, Denver University Law Review Symposium on Neuroscience and Law

March 4: Chris Slobogin, Panel on Slobogin & Fondacaro, "Juveniles at Risk: A Plea for Preventive Justice," American Psychology-Law Society, Miami, Florida

March 10: Daniel Gervais, invited keynote, “The Future of International Intellectual Property Norm-Making in the Wake of ACTA”, Brussels, Belgium

March 15: Owen Jones, “Brain Imaging for (and of) Legal Thinkers: Capabilities, Findings, and Developments,” Law and the Brain Conference, co-sponsored by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives and the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania, New York, New York

March 22: Joni Hersch, speaker, topic TBA, University of Houston-Rice University Empirical Microeconomics Seminar Series, Houston, Texas

March 24: Michael Newton, Annual Benjamin Ferencz Session: Integrating the Crime of Aggression into International Criminal Law and Public International Law, American Society of International Law 105th Annual Meeting, Washington DC

March 31: Michael NewtonJustice Under Construction: Contemporary Initiatives and the Future of Efforts to Form and Reform Justice Systems, UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, California 

March 31: Chris Slobogin, “An Empirical Comparison of American and European Search and Seizure and Interrogation Law,” University of North Carolina Law School (symposium), Chapel Hill, North Carolina

April 14: James Blumstein, "The Future of Federalism: State / Federal Relations in an Era of Austerity," The Council on State Governments Virtual Summit of the States 2.0

April 15: Edward Cheng, organizer and presenter, "Actuarial Litigation: How Statistics Can Help Resolve Big Cases" a conference with the University of Connecticut Insurance Law Center.

April 29-30: Chris Slobogin, “The Morality of Preventive Restriction of Liberty,” San Diego Law School (symposium), San Diego, California

April 30: Christopher Slobogin, Comment on Gideon Yaffe, Prevention and Imminence, Pre-Punishment and Actuality, Morality of Preventive Restrictions on Liberty, San Diego Law School

May 5-6: Michael Newton, “A Synthesis of Community-Based Justice and Complementarity,” Assessing the Impact of the International Criminal Court Conference, Leiden University Campus, The Hague

May 10: Owen Jones, "Sorting Guilty Minds," Conference on Adjudicating the Guilty Mind, Duke Law School, Durham, North Carolina

May 12: Christopher Slobogin, “Juveniles and Neuroscience: Determinism, Compatibilism, or Causal Excuse Theory?” Arizona State University Law School, Phoenix, Arizona

May 20-21: Chris Slobogin, “Juvenile Confessions: Policy Suggestions,” A Conference on Professor Barry Feld's book, Minnesota Law School (symposium), Minneapolis, Minnesota

May 26: Michael Newton, keynote lecture (with Judge Howard Morrison, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, The Hague) “Terrorism and Justice,” Terrorists on Trial: Performative Perspectives, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in cooperation with the International Centre for Counterterrorism, The Hague

May 30-31: Paul Edelman, “The Apportionment of the US Congress in the 1920’s—The Role of Social Choice in Political Controversies” Workshop on Electoral Methods, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Fall Semester 2010

September 3-4: Daniel Gervais, invited speaker, “Country Clubs, Empiricism, Blogs and Innovation: The Future of International Intellectual Property Norm-Making in the Wake of ACTA,” World Trade Forum, Bern, Switzerland

September 7: Margaret Blair, “Financial Innovation, Leverage, Bubbles, and the Distribution of Income,” University of Florida Levin School of Law, Gainesville, Florida 

September 9-11: Owen Jones, organizer, Conference: Reasoning from Group Data to Individual Decision Making, September 9-11, 2010, Chicago, IL. Sponsored by the Law and Neuroscience Project.

September 10: Michael Newton, "Lawfare and the Israeli-Palestine Predicament," Case Western Reserve School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio

September 16-17: Brian Fitzpatrick, "Twombly and Iqbal Reconsidered," Tracey George, discussant, Colloquium on Business Law and Regulation in the Roberts Court, Case Western University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio

September 20-24: Michael Newton, instructor, "International and national legal aspects of mass atrocity prevention with emphasis on military issues," The Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, Oswiecim and Krakow, Poland.

September 23-24: W. Kip Viscusi, "Policy Challenges of the Heterogeneity of the Value of Statistical Life,” CREATE conference presentation, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, D.C.

September 24: Nancy King, discussant, "Discretion nad Decision Making in the Sentencing Process," Symposium on Crime and Justice: The Past and Future of Empirical Sentencing Research, School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany

September 24-25: Owen Jones, organizer, Conference: Neuroscience and Juvenile Justice, September 24-25, Chicago, IL. Sponsored by the Law and Neuroscience Project.

September 24-25: Chris Slobogin, Consultant, "Juvenile Justice and the Brain," MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project, Chicago, Illinois

September 25-26: Daniel Gervais, invited speaker, “Cloud Computing & Intellectual Property”, Bits Without Borders conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

September 30: Chris Slobogin, Distinguished Scholar in Law & Public Policy workshop, “A Technologically-Sensitive Fourth Amendment,” Brandeis School of Law, Louisville, Kentucky

October 1: Ed Rubin, "Substantive Principles, Original Intent, and the Meaning of the Constitution," Faculty Workshop, University of Southern California Law School, Los Angeles, California

October 8: Chris Slobogin, Panelist, “The Fourth Amendment in 2020,” The Constitution in 2020 Criminal Justice Conference, Florida State University Law School, Tallahassee, Florida

October 19: Margaret Blair, “Financial Innovation, Leverage, Bubbles, and the Distribution of Income,” University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois

October 22: Chris Slobogin, Moderator and Interlocutor, “The Future of the Death Penalty,” John Seigenthaler First Amendment Center, Nashville, Tennessee

October 22-23: Daniel Gervais, speaker, International Law Weekend, American Branch of the International Law Association, Fordham Law School, New York

October 22-23: Suzanna Sherry, “Politics, Popular Constitutionalism, and the Role of Courts in a Constitutional Democracy,” conference on Political Philosophy and the Constitution, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont

November 6: Michael Newton, "Drones and Their Implication for International Law," The Nanda Center for International & Comparative at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, Denver, Colorado

November 10: Owen Jones, “Law and Neuroscience: Capabilities, Developments, and Trends,” Paul Hastings, Law Firm Seminar Series, Washington, D.C.

November 15: Michael Newton, International Symposium: "Preventing Genocide and Mass Atrocities: Goals and Challenges of International Cooperation" at the Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris

November 16-18: Daniel Gervais, invited speaker, “Computer Programs and TRIPS”, TRIPS@10 Conference, Columbia University

November 19: Michael Newton, Speaker at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on the topic of the Anfal Genocide against the Kurds of Northern Iraq, Washington, D.C.

November 30: Michael Newton, "The International Criminal Court: Beyond Kampala," Professor Newton will present his commissioned paper on the concept of complementarity in the Post Kampala Review conference period.

December 3-4: W. Kip Viscusi, “Does Products Liability Law Make Us Safer?” and “Regulation by Tort Litigation,” Conference: The American Illness, George Mason Law School, Arlington, Virginia

December 8-10: Daniel Gervais, invited speaker, “Traditional Knowledge and the Ongoing Debate on the Protection of Geographical Indications”, Trade, Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Assets of Indigenous Peoples: The Developmental Frontier, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand

December 8-9: Chris Slobogin, “Technology and the Fourth Amendment,” Brookings Institute Convocation with Federal and State Judges, Montpelier, Virginia

December 10: Ed Rubin, "How Legislation Interprets the Constitution," Conference on Legislation, Yale Law School

December 11-12: Chris Slobogin, Criminal Justice Roundtable, Commentator on Orin Kerr’s “An Equilibrium-Adjustment Theory of the Fourth Amendment,” Vanderbilt University Law School 

December 13: Daniel Gervais, invited speaker, “The Monetization of File-Sharing”, Intellectual Property Institute of Australia (IPRIA), University of Melbourne, Australia