Faculty Presentations 2009-10
Fall Semester 2009
August 21: Alex Hurder, "IDEA Issues with Children in DCS Custody and the Interplay of Section 504 and the IDEA, - Mediating the 504 Case," Administrative Law Judge Special Education Training, Nashville, Tennessee
August 21: Alex Hurder, "Recent Changes in Federal Regulations – The Impact on Mediating Cases," Administrative Law Judge Special Education Training, Nashville, Tennessee
September 2: Chris Slobogin, “The Right to Self-Representation for People with Mental Illness,” Hofstra Law School
September 11: Mike Newton, "The Jurisprudence of Guantanamo," Case Western Reserve School of Law
September 11-12: Joni Hersch and W. Kip Viscusi, "The Performance of the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement," National Bureau of Economic Research Regulation through Litigation Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona
September 11-12: Chris Slobogin, Discussant on “The Fourth Amendment and Randomization,” by Tracey Meares, Vanderbilt University Law School Criminal Justice Roundtable
September 12: Robert Mikos, Discussant on “Can Checks and Balances, Penumbras and Footnote Four Improve Eighth Amendment Jurisprudence?” by Doug Berman, Vanderbilt University Law School Criminal Justice Roundtable
September 14: Ingrid Wuerth, “The Captures Clause," Foreign Relations Law Colloquium, Georgetown University Law School
September 16: Chris Slobogin, “The Death Penalty in Florida,” Press conference in Tallahassee, Florida
September 20-21: Suzanna Sherry, Workshop, Evaluating Judging, Judges, and Judicial Institutions, Duke Law School
September 24: Chris Slobogin, “The Insanity Defense,” Ground Rounds, Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry
September 26: Tracey George," Role of Law in the Study of Judicial Behavior," at the Searle Center on Law, Regulation & Economic Growth-Northwestern University Law Conference on Political Science and Law, Northwestern University School of Law (with Mitu Gulati)
September 29: Robert Mikos, “Legalizing Marijuana,” Owen Graduate School of Business, Vanderbilt University
October 1: Mike Vandenbergh, “The Logic of Climate Change Governance: Boundaries and Leakage,” Harvard Law School Faculty Workshop, Cambridge, Massachusetts
October 2-3: Suzanna Sherry, Supreme Court Preview, Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
October 9-10: Robert Mikos, “Crime Doesn’t Pay: Some Realism About State Taxation of Marijuana”, Midwestern Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, University of Notre Dame Law School
October 10: Brian Fitzpatrick, "An Empirical Study of Class Action Settlements and Their Fee Awards," 2009 Midwestern Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, University of Notre Dame Law School
October 15: Chris Slobogin, “Proportionality, Privacy, and Public Opinion,” DePaul Law School Symposium on Information Technology
October 16: Chris Slobogin, “Proportionality, Privacy, and Public Opinion,” Minnesota Law School Symposium on Cyberspace and Law
October 17: Nita Farahany, "Emerging Technology and Society," Global Women's Forum, Deauville, France
October 21, 2009: Paige Skiba, “Law & Finance Workshop and Lecture Series, Joint with ETH Zurich,” University of Zurich and University of St. Gallen
October 23-24: Robert Mikos, “Crime Doesn’t Pay: Some Realization About State Taxation of Marijuana”, University of Chicago Legal Forum on Crime, Criminal Law, and the Recession
October 24: Ingrid Wuerth, “Secondary Liability and the Alien Tort Statute,” Foreign Relations Law Workshop, Harvard Law School
October 26: Kevin M. Stack, Faculty Workshop, Queen’s University Faculty of Law, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
October 30: Chris Slobogin, “Edwards v. Indiana: Basic Rationality and Self-Regard,” Panel at American Association of Psychiatry & Law, Baltimore, Maryland
November 2: Nita Farahany, "Neuroscience & Behavioral Genetics in the Courtroom: Past, Present & Future," National Judicial College Seminar for Judges, Nashville, Tennessee
November 12: Daniel Gervais, Champagne and the Doha Round: A Solution to the International Impasse on Geographical Indications," Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio
November 13: Owen Jones, "Brain Imaging and the Law," Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina
November 13: Chris Slobogin, “Group Searches in a Technological Age”, Colloquium sponsored by the Brookings Institute, Washington, D.C.
November 16: Mike Vandenbergh, “Barriers to the Behavioral Wedge,” Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference, Panel on Behavior and Federal Policy, Washington, D.C.
November 20: Brian Fitzpatrick, "An Empirical Study of Class Action Settlements and their Fee Awards," 2009 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, University of Southern California Law School
December 11: Brian Fitzpatrick, Washington University Law School, St. Louis, Missouri
December 11: Richard Nagareda, "Dealing with the Masses – Legal and Logistical Issues of Representation and Distribution," Rotterdam Institute of Private Law, Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Spring Semester 2010
January 7: Suzanna Sherry, Panel, American Constitutional Law and the New Supreme Court, 2010 AALS Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
January 7: Ingrid Wuerth, “Rethinking Customary International Law and the Federal Courts,” 2010 AALS Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
January 8: Nita Farahany, "Neuroscience, Free Will and Agency," Criminal Law Section Presentation at AALS Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
January 8: Suzanna Sherry, Panel, The New Civil Pleading Standards, Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
January 19: Paige Skiba, Law & Economics Colloquium, NYU Law School
February 2: Paige Skiba, Law and Economics Workshop, University of Chicago
February 10: Robert Mikos, "Commandeering States' Secrets," Saint Louis University School of Law, St. Louis, MO
March (date tbd): Paige Skiba, Faculty Workshop, Washington University Law School, St. Louis, MO
March 1: Richard Nagareda, Faculty Workshop, Embedded Aggregation in Civil Litigation, University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (expected)
April 8-9 Richard Nagareda, “Normative Implications of Variance in Civil Litigation,” Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois
May 8-9: Nita Farahany, Neuroprediction, Bioprediction Conference sponsored by MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project and the Oxford Neuroethics Centre, Washington, D.C.
May 10-11: Richard Nagareda, panelist, Settlement: Is the Litigation Process Structured for Settlement Rather than Trial and Should It Be? Should the Answers Depend on the Complexity of the Case including Whether the Action is a Class Action?, Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina (expected)
Summer 2010
June 22: W. Kip Viscusi, Keynote Speaker, American Society of Health Economists Bi-Annual Conference, Ithaca, New York
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