Faculty Presentations
Spring 2012
January 6: Beverly Moran, Section on Trusts and Estates and Section on Taxation, Panel on the future of the estate tax. Topic: Reasons in support of a wealth tax, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
January 7: Christopher Slobogin, “Alternatives to Mass Incarceration: Taking Advantage of the Budget Crisis,” AALS Hot Topic Panel, Washington, D.C.
January 8: Paige Marta Skiba, "Information Asymmetries in Consumer Credit Markets: Evidence from Two Payday Lending Firms," American Economic Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois
January 14: Margaret Blair, “The Four Functions of Corporate Personhood,” Corporate Law Conference in Honor of Adolph Berle, University of Seattle Law School
January 20: Rebecca Haw, "Adversarial Economics in Antitrust Litigation: Losing Academic Consensus in the Battle of the Experts," Next Generation of Antitrust Scholars Conference, New York University Law School
January 23: Brian Fitzpatrick, “Representation Without Accountability,” Fordham Law School Corporate Law Center, New York
January 23: Owen Jones, "Law and Neuroscience," Arizona State University College of Law, Phoenix
January 26: Tracey George, “The Labor Market for Law Professors,” Faculty Colloquium, University of Houston Law Center
January 26: Owen Jones, "Law, Neuroscience, and Punishment," Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts
January 31: Michael Newton, Discussion of Jurisprudence and Jurisdiction, Office of Military Commissions, Office of the Chief Prosecutor, Washington, D.C.
February 1: W. Kip Viscusi, Kennedy Lecture Series, “Policy Challenges of the Heterogeneity of the Value of Statistical Life,” Sewanee – The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
February 2: Amanda Rose, “Policing Public Companies: An Empirical Examination Of The Role Of State Securities Regulators,” Law & Economics Workshop, University of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville
February 3: Michael Newton, "The Kurdish Genocide Trials: An Insider’s Legal and Historical Perspective," Case Western Law School, Cleveland, Ohio
February 5-20: Daniel Gervais, the first Gide Loyrette Nouel Visiting Chair will deliver a series of lectures, Institut de Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) Law School, Paris, France
February 10: Paige Marta Skiba, "Information Asymmetries in Consumer Credit Markets: Evidence from Two Payday Lending Firms" National Bureau of Economic Research, Law and Economics Program Meeting, Cambridge Massachusetts
February 13: W. Kip Viscusi, “Addressing Catastrophic Risks: Disparate Anatomies Require Tailored Therapies,” Florida State University College of Business, Tallahassee
February 16: Owen Jones, "The Neuroscience of Punishment Decisions," Law and Brain Student Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
February 20-21: Daniel Gervais, Intellectual Property Workshop on User-Generated Content, Israel Canada, Jerusalem
February 24: Owen Jones, "Law and Neuroscience," Yale Information Society Project, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut
February 24: Randall Thomas, discussant, Texas Law Review Symposium, University of Texas at Austin School of Law
February 25: Christopher Slobogin, "Mental Illness and the Death Penalty," Sixth Annual Conference on the Death Penalty, Middle Tennessee State University, Nashville
February 27: Daniel Gervais, Intellectual Property Colloquium on Collective Management of Copyright, Washington University Law School, St Louis, Missouri
March 2012: Beverly Moran, Faculty colloquium, "ERISA and religious accommodation," Boston College Law School
March 2: Randall Thomas, “Say on Pay: Empirical Evidence on the First Year of Voting,” George Washington Law Review Symposium, Washington, D.C.
March 7: Daniel Sharfstein will speak about his 2011 book, “The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White,” Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama
March 15-16: Nancy King, teaching a session on habeas cases with Judge Kent Jordan at Pepperdine University School of Law's Twelfth Annual Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr. Judicial Clerkship Institute, Malibu, California
March 16: Michael Newton, keynote speaker, Memorial Commemorating the Genocide of Halabja sponsored by the International Criminal Court and Kurdistan Regional Government in the U.S.A., Washington, D.C.
March 16: Michael Newton, "The International Criminal Court: Intervention or Interposition?" New England School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts
March 16: Christopher Slobogin, “Are False Confessions by Juveniles a Significant Problem?,” American-Psychology Law Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico
March 19: Daniel Gervais, "Enforcement of copyright in the online environment," European and International Intellectual Property Center (CEIPI), Strasbourg, France
March 22-23: Randall Thomas, “Litigation in Mergers and Acquisitions,” Law and Business Conference on The Future of Anglo-American Corporate Governance, London, England
March 23: Daniel Gervais, presentation to the faculty of the University of Nantes, France
March 23: Christopher Slobogin, “Sell’s Conundrums,” University of Southern California Law School, Los Angeles
March 28: Tracey George, "Who Will Manage Complex Litigation? The Centralization of Multidistrict Litigation," University of Chicago Law School
March 28: Daniel Gervais, Intellectual Property Enforcement and Litigation: International Enforcement of Copyright, Practising Law Institute, New York
March 28: W. Kip Viscusi, Gosnell Lecture Series, “Policy Challenges of the Heterogeneity of the Value of Statistical Life,” Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
March 29: Daniel Gervais, "International Copyright Law Developments and their Impact on the U.S. Copyright Practitioner," American Bar Association - Intellectual Property Section, Arlington, Virginia
April 9: Randall Thomas, “Say on Pay: Empirical Evidence on the First Year of Voting,” Arizona Law Review Symposium on Executive Compensation, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, Tucson
April 13: Lisa Bressman, discussant, Columbia/Stanford/Vanderbilt Administrative Law Conference, Columbia Law School, New York
April 13: Michael Newton, panelist, Global Issue Panel Discussion: When Drones Attack: The Legal and Political Implications of U.S. Policy, St. John’s Center for International and Comparative Law, sponsored by St. John’s University School of Law and The American Society of International Law, New York, NY
April 13: Christopher Slobogin, "The Implications of Jones v. United States for Technological Surveillance," Roundtable, New York University Law School
April 16: Michael Newton, speaker, Informal discussion of the draft National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Atrocities Prevention, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C.
April 17: Daniel Gervais, Intellectual Property Colloquium, University of Chicago School of Law, Illinois
April 17: Michael Newton, "The United States & International Criminal Court," Nashville Cordell Hull Chapter of the UNA-USA
April 17: Christopher Slobogin, “Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment,” Minnesota Judicial Colloquium, St. Paul, Minnesota
April 17: Michael Vandenbergh presents a Webinar, "Humans can take actions to reduce climate change and its impacts"
April 18: Christopher Slobogin, “Competencies in the Criminal Process,” American Board of Forensic Psychology, Memphis, Tennessee
April 23: Michael Newton, participant, "The Justice Initiative...the Public Forum," Den Haag, Netherlands
April 23: Randall Thomas, “Litigation in Mergers and Acquisitions,” Law and Business Workshop, University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law
April 26: Brian Fitzpatrick, “AT&T: Mobility v. Concepcion: Examining the Impact One Year Later,” Cardozo School of Law, New York
April 26: Tracey George, "Who Will Manage Complex Litigation? The Centralization of Multidistrict Litigation," University of Illinois Law School
April 26-27: Randall Thomas, discussant, Institute for Law and Economic Policy, Philadephia, Pennsylvania
April 27: Lisa Bressman, "Judicial and Presidential Control of Agencies," Center for Judicial Studies, Duke Law School, Durham, North Carolina
May 2: Michael Newton, "Lawfare in the Global Age," Tennessee Office of the Attorney General, Nashville
May 9: Nancy King will serve as a faculty member at the Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference, sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center, Washington, D.C.
May 11: Christopher Slobogin, “M. v. Germany & Kansas v. Hendricks: Two Theories of Preventive Detention,” University of North Carolina International Symposium on Preventive Detention, Ravenna, Italy
May 14: Randall Thomas, “Litigation in Mergers and Acquisitions,” Faculty Workshop, University of Ghent, Belgium
May 30-31: Randall Thomas, “Litigation in Mergers and Acquisitions,” Law and Business Conference: American-Indian Corporate Governance, Hyderabad, India
July 6: Tracey George, “The Influence of Institutional Design,” Colloquium: Civil Justice: Thinking and Deciding by Civil Courts, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam
Fall 2011
August 15-19: Nita Farahany, "Behavioral Sciences in U.S. Law: The Brainscape," 2011 United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, Carlsbad, California
August 16: Owen Jones, "Lobes and Robes: An Introduction to Neuroscience for Judges," 2011 Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, Carlsbad, California
August 18: Paige Skiba, "Information Asymmetries in Consumer Credit Markets: Evidence from Payday Loans," European Finance Association Meetings, Stockholm, Sweden
August 29-30: Andrew Kaufman, Speaker, "Negotiating and/or Renegotiating Bankruptcy Provisions" and "Issue Spotting and Negotiating Strategies in a Complex License," Law Seminars International "Digital Licensing Conference" in Seattle, Washington
September 8-9: Daniel Gervais, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Meeting on draft treaty on limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives. Columbia University Law School, New York
September 9: Michael Newton, “The Resonance and Realities of the Eichmann Trial,” at the International Law in Crisis Conference, Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Case Western School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio
September 12: Randall Thomas, "Litigation in Mergers and Acquisitions," Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
September 13: Michael Newton, "The Death Penalty and Iraqi Transitional Justice," United Nations University
September 13: Randall Thomas, "Litigation in Mergers and Acquisitions," University of Illinois, Champaign- Urbana, Illinois
September 15: Christopher Slobogin, “Putting Desert in Its Place,” Maryland Law School
September 16: Daniel Gervais, Advisory Board, Berkeley Law Digital Library Copyright Project, Berkeley, California
September 23: Paige Skiba, "Rationality and Regulation of Payday Loans," Payday Lending Roundtable, Center for Transactional Studies, Columbia Law School, New York
Sepember 23: Christopher Slobogin, Commentator on Norman Abrams, “Terrorism Prosecutions in Federal Court: Exceptions to Constitutional Evidence Rules and the Development of a Cabined Exception for Coerced Confessions,” Vanderbilt Law School Roundtable
October 2011: Beverly Moran, "Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and Islamic law," Seton Hall University Law School Faculty colloquium, South Orange, New Jersey
October 14: Owen Jones, "Law and Neuroscience," Neuroscience and Public Policy Program, U. Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
October 14: Randall Thomas, Annual Law & Business Conference, Vanderbilt Law School
October 17: Paige Skiba, "Information Asymmetries in Consumer Credit Markets: Evidence from Payday Loans," Tulane University Law School
October 20: Daniel Gervais, Speaker, The Future of Collective Licensing in the US: Google Books and Beyond, AIPLA Licensing and Management of IP Assets Committee, Washington D.C.
October 20: Christopher Slobogin, “Putting Desert in Its Place,” Brigham Young Law School
October 20-22: Daniel Gervais, Speaker, "Intellectual Property Law in National Politics and International Relations, International Law Weekend, New York, New York
October 27-28: Daniel Gervais, Invited Speaker "Individual and Collective Administration of Copyright Online," Copyright Symposium, Thoresta Herrgård, Bro, Sweden (organized by the Institute for Legal Research)
October 28: Christopher Slobogin, “Alternatives to Incarceration,” Moderator, Plenary Session, ABA Criminal Justice Section Meeting, Washington, D.C.
November 3: Daniel Gervais, "The Landscape of Collective Management," Intellectual Property Colloquium, University of Indiana
November 4: Christopher Slobogin, Discussant, Tarasoff, "Duty to Warn Laws, and Suicide," Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Northwestern Law School
November 11: Paige Skiba, "Rationality and Regulation of Payday Loans," Law Symposium, Washington and Lee University School of Law
November 20: Michael Newton, "Nation Building: When Can and Should the united States Do It?", The Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies, Lawyers Division, New York Chapter
December 2-3: Christopher Slobogin, Roundtable discussion of Model Penal Code Sentencing Provisions: Stage 3, Minnesota Law School