Faculty Presentations
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Spring 2013
January 4: Erin O'Hara O'Connor, “Preemption and Choice-of-Law Coordination” AALS Annual Meetings, Section on Conflict of Laws, New Orleans, Louisiana
January 5: Paige Marta Skiba, "The Difference a Day Doesn't Make: Does More Time to Repay Break the Cycle of Repeated Payday Loan Borrowing?" American Economic Association Meetings, San Diego, California
January 5: Chris Slobogin, panelist, “Technology and High Crime Areas: The Future of the Fourth Amendment in Public,” AALS Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
January 17: Michael Newton, "The Kurdish Genocide in the Context of Contemporary Jurisprudence," sponsored by the Kurdistan Regional Government United Kingdom representative, London, England
January 17: Chris Slobogin, “Preventive Detention Defended,” Florida State University Law School faculty workshop, Tallahassee
January 23: Paige Marta Skiba, "The Difference a Day Doesn't Make: Does More Time to Repay Break the Cycle of Repeated Payday Loan Borrowing?", Northwestern Law School, Chicago, Illinois
January 25: Joni Hersch, “Opting Out among Women with Elite Education,” University of Wyoming College of Business, Laramie
January: Erin O'Hara O'Connor, "Partial Arbitration Clauses,” George Mason University Law and Economics Center, Law and Economics of Arbitration Public Policy Workshop
February 4: Chris Slobogin, Commentator on Tracey Maclin’s book, The Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule, Boston University Law School
February 18: Erin O'Hara O'Connor, “Outsourcing, Modularity, and the Theory of the Firm” IAOP World Summit, Phoenix, Arizona
February 25: Chris Slobogin, “Technology and the Fourth Amendment,” Hoffinger Lecture, New York University Law School
February 26: Michael Newton, "The International Criminal Court: A Policy Prognosis for U.S. Cooperation," Moving Forward: The Future of the ICC in Light of Recent Developments Conference, Emory Law School, Atlanta, Georgia
February 28: Owen Jones, "Of Bits and Brains: Neurolaw, Brain Imaging, and Brain Activity During Punishment Decisions," Yale Information Society Project, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut
February 29: Nancy King, "Waiving Effective Assistance," Symposium on Plea Bargaining After Lafler and Frye, Duquesne Law School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
March 1: Erin O'Hara O'Connor, "Jurisdictional Competition for Law and Dispute Resolution," Yale Law School, Yale Arbitration Roundtable, New Haven, Connecticut
March 1: Paige Marta Skiba, "The Role of Individual Behavior in Regulatory Design," Symposium on Reflections on Responsible Regulation, Tulane University's Murphy Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana
March 7: Amanda Rose, "The Unique American Approach to Securities Fraud Deterrence," at Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey (Bilgi University, Vanderbilt Law and Business Program, Tilburg University, and Turkish Capital Markets Board Conference)
March 8: Nancy King, "Enforcing Effectiveness After Martinez," Fiftieth Anniversary of Gideon Symposium, Yale Law School, New Haven Connecticut
March 8: Chris Slobogin, “Expert Testimony and Confessions,” American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Portland, Oregon
March 12: Daniel Gervais, Speaker at Copyright Society USA & American Bar Association's "International Developments in Copyright Law: An Update" Conference, Columbia Law School, New York
March 12: Chris Slobogin, “Implications of U.S. v. Jones,” Criminal Justice Workshop, Harvard Law School
March 14: Owen Jones, "Introduction: Colloquium for Federal Judges on Law, Neuroscience, and Criminal Justice," Stanford Law School, Vanderbilt Law School, and MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, Palo Alto, California
March 22: Owen Jones, "Effects on Punishment Decisions of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation," Neurology Grand Rounds, Vanderbilt Medical School, Nashville, Tennessee – (with R. Marois)
March 26: Amanda Rose, "Better Bounty Hunting: How the SEC’s New Whistleblower Program Changes the Securities Fraud Class Action Debate," Law and Economics Colloquium, New York University School of Law
April 5: Chris Slobogin, “The Abolition of Transfer in Juvenile Cases,” Texas Tech Law School, Lubbock, Texas
April 9: Michael Newton, "Justice in Libya," Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
April 19: Amanda Rose, "Better Bounty Hunting: How the SEC’s New Whistleblower Program Changes the Securities Fraud Class Action Debate," Law and Business Conference: Contemporary Issues in Corporate and Securities Law, Vanderbilt Law School
April 25: Owen Jones, "Neuroscience and the Law," American Association for the Advancement of Science & Dana Foundation, Washington, D.C.
April 27: Owen Jones, "Law, Neuroscience, and Decisionmaking," American Bar Association, Vanderbilt Law School, and MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, Chicago, Illinois
April 27: Chris Slobogin, moderator, “Neuroscience and Criminal Justice,” The Future of Law and Neuroscience MacArthur Foundation Conference, Chicago, Illinois
April 29-30: Michael Newton, Lectures to the Supreme Court of Peru on the law of command responsibility as applied in the context of Sendero Luminoso cases, Lima, Peru
May 24: Amanda Rose, "Better Bounty Hunting: How the SEC’s New Whistleblower Program Changes the Securities Fraud Class Action Debate," Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
May 29: Michael Newton, lecturing to the judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, New York
May 30: Paige Marta Skiba, "The Behavioral Economics of Consumer Financial Regulation," Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Law Department, Barcelona. Spain
June 7: Chris Slobogin, “Lessons to Learn from Inquisitorialism,” at Criminal Law at the Crossroads Conference, USC Law School, Los Angeles, California
June 11: Chris Slobogin, moderator, “The End of Criminal Justice as We Know It?: The Impact of Science,” AALS Criminal Justice Section Conference, San Diego, California
July 11: Paige Marta Skiba, "Behavior in the Payday Loan Market," Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Washington D.C.
Fall 2013
Sept 10: Owen Jones, Keynote, "New Challenges for Law and Neuroscience, European Association for Neuroscience and Law," Bonn, Germany
November 6: Owen Jones, Keynote: "Law and Brain Sciences," Brocher Neurolaw Conference, Geneva, Switzerland
Fall 2012
August 26-28: Michael Newton, panel moderator, "Porch Sessions With the Prosecutors" at the International Humanitarian Law Dialogues 2012 annual conference, Robert H. Jackson Center, New York
September 2012: Erin O'Hara O'Connor, Brainerd Currie Lecture: “How Choice of Law Killed the Private Attorney General” Mercer Law School, Macon, Georgia
September 2012: Erin O'Hara O'Connor, “Preemption and Choice-of-Law Coordination” and “Customizing Employment Arbitration,” European Association of Law and Economics Annual Meeting
September 2012: Erin O'Hara O'Connor, “Arbitration, the Law Market, and the Law of Lawyering,” Searle Civil Justice Institute Research Roundtable: Unlocking the Law, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia and at George Mason University Law and Economics Center, Unlocking the Law: Public Policy Conference
September 7: Michael Newton, speaker "The War Powers Resolution at 40: Still Controversial After All These Years," conference on Presidential Power, Foreign Affairs, and the 2012 Election, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio
September 11: Erin O'Hara O'Connor, speaker "How Choice of Law Has Killed the Private Attorney General," for the second Annual Brainerd Currie lecture, Mercer Law School, Macon, Georgia.
September 12: James Blumstein, testimony before the Health Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee regarding the implementation of health insurance exchanges, Washington, D.C.
September 13: W. Kip Viscusi, "What's a Life Worth?" Jack Mullen Lecture, Department of Economics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
September 18: James Blumstein, participation in the panel “Obamacare and Enumerated Powers” as part of the symposium The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue presented by The Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies, Washington, D.C.
September 21: Daniel Gervais, noteable speaker, Blouin Creative Leadership Summit, hosted by the Louise Blouin Foundation in strategic partnership with the United Nations Office for Partnerships, New York
September 28-29: Michael Newton, panelist on "Charging Crimes and Modes of Liability," Grotius Expert Seminar on the ICC at Ten Years (invited speaker), Peace Palace, The Hague
October 2012: Erin O'Hara O'Connor, “Preemption and Choice-of-Law Coordination” presented at faculty workshop, University of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville and at faculty workshop, University of Kansas Law School, Lawrence
October 1: Owen Jones, Law, Brain Sciences, and Our Near Neuro-Future, The Boundless Lecture, Arizona State University College of Law, Tempe, Arizona
October 2012: Erin O'Hara O'Connor, “Independence, Impartiality and Corruption in Transnational Disputes” ABA Section on International Law, Annual Meeting, Program in Latin American Judicial Independence and Impact in Transnational and International Litigation, Washington, D.C.
October 4: James Blumstein, panel discussant, Medicaid component of the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act as part of the symposium "Health Care and the Constitution: A Forum on the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act Decision,” Fordham Law School, New York
October 5: James Blumstein, participant, invitation-only conference "21st Century Health Care Management Education: Confronting Challenges for Innovation with a Modern Curriculum," Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts
October 5: Christopher Slobogin, “Juvenile Court as an Experiment in Risk Management,” Standards in the Problem-Solving Courts, Miami Law School
October 11: Daniel Gervais, speaker, 86th Annual meeting of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia
October 18: Daniel Gervais, speaker, Congress of the International Literary and Artistic Association (ALAI), Kyoto, Japan
October 18: Owen Jones, Brain Activity During Punishment Decisions: Some New Results, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York
October 19: Christopher Slobogin, “Urban Surveillance,” Cooper-Walsh Colloquium: Urban Policy: The Effects of New Police Practices on City Life, Fordham Law School
October 19: Owen Jones, Law and Neuroscience: Will Brain Imaging Matter?, Cornell Series in Law, Psychology, and Human Development, Ithaca, New York
October 24-26: W. Kip Viscusi, "Law and Economics as an Applied Science: The Legacy of Guido Calabresi, 'The Role of Modern Tort Liability as a Risk Distribution Mechanism,'" CEVRO Institute, with Joni Hersch, Prague, Czech Republic
October 25: James Blumstein, panel participant, “NFIB v. Sebelius: Looking Forward, Who Won?” at the American Bar Association Administrative Law Fall Conference, Washington, D.C.
November 1: J.B. Ruhl, "The Political Economy of Climate Change Winners," University of Michigan School of Law
November 6: Owen Jones: Keynote: Law and Brain Sciences, Brocher Neurolaw Conference, Geneva, Switzerland
November 8-9: Christopher Slobogin, “The Relevance of Lay View on Punishment to Criminal Justice,” Notre Dame Law School
November 9: J.B. Ruhl, "Renewable Energy and the Endangered Species Act," University of San Diego School of Law
November 9: Owen Jones, Law, Neuroscience, and Human Values, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City
November 9: Amanda Rose, "State Enforcement of National Policy: A Contextual Approach (with Evidence from the Securities Realm)," Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy Junior Business Law Faculty Forum, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law
November 14-16: Daniel Gervais, co-host, Evolution and Equilibrium conference, sponsored by the New Zealand Internet Society, Wellington, New Zealand
November 16-18: W. Kip Viscusi, "Assessing the Cancer Premium for the Value of Statistical Life," with Joel Huber and Jason Bell; "On the Relationship between the Markets for Health Insurance and Medical Malpractice," with Patricia Born Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana
December 3-4: Michael Newton, conference speaker, "Conduct of Hostilities and Law Enforcement: A Contradiction in Terms?", Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
December 7: Tammy Lefko, “Writing for Today’s Partners: Teaching Students about Memos, Briefs, and Other Law Firm Writing Assignments,” Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop at Drake Law School, Des Moines, Iowa.
December 10-11: W. Kip Viscusi, "Risk Beliefs and Insurance,"Munich School of Management, Behavioral Insurance Workshop, Munich, Germany
December 13-14: W. Kip Viscusi, "Social Norms and Recycling Behavior," Université de Montpellier, Rationality and Pro-Environmental Behavior Seminar, with Joel Huber and Jason Bell, Montpellier, France