Faculty Workshops and Conferences


Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program Faculty Workshop
Randall Kiser, DecisionSet, Palo Alto
Let's Not Make a Deal:  An Empirial Study of Decision Making in Unsuccessful Settlement Negotiations
Wednesday, September 10, 2008, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

Law & Economics/Applied Microeconomics Seminar Series Faculty Workshop
Robert Pollak, Department of Economics & Olin School, Washington University
Family Bargaining and Long Term Care of the Disabled Elderly
Friday, September 12, 2008, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

International Legal Studies Program Roundtable
Vanderbilt Roundtable on Foreign Relations
Friday, September 12, 2008, Bass Berry Sims, All Day
Saturday, September 13, 2008, Bass Berry Sims, All Day

Law & Behavioral Biology Speaker Series Faculty Workshop
Kent Kiehl, Psychology Department, University of New Mexico
Brain Imaging and the Criminal Psychopath:  Assessment, Recidivism, and Neurobiology
Friday, September 19, 2008, Bennett Miller, 4:00-5:00 Reception to Follow

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
Jesse Fried, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Do VCs Misbehave?  Some Evidence from Silicon Valley
Monday, September 22, 2008, Bass Berry Sims, 12:00-1:00

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
Cally Jordan, University of Melbourne Law School
Legal Origins Revisited:  The Case of Corporate Governance
Thursday, September 25, 2008, Bass Berry Sims, 12:00-1:00

Book Panel Discussion & Celebration
Enemy of the State: The Trial & Execution of Saddam Hussein, Michael Newton & Michael Scharf

Mark Ellis, Executive Director, Int'l Bar Association, London
Judge Ra'id Juhi Hamadi Al-Saedi
Michael Scharf, Case Western University School of Law
Michael Newton, Vanderbilt University Law School
Monday, September 29, 2008, Flynn, 3:30-4:30 Reception to Follow

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
Sean Griffith, Fordham University School of Law
How The Merits Matter:  D&O Insurance and Securities Settlements
Monday, September 29, 2008, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

Law & Behavioral Biology Speaker Series Faculty Workshop
Helen Mayberg, Psychiatry and Neurology, Emory University
Neuroscience Meets the Criminal Justice System:  Functional Brain Scans as Evidence in Capital Litigation
Thursday, October 2, 2008, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
Todd Henderson, University of Chicago Law School
The Uses and Abuses of Rule 10b5-1
Monday, October 6, 2008, Bass Berry Sims, 12:00-1:00

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
James Spindler, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Vicarious Liability for Bad Corporate Governance:  Are We Wrong About 10b-5?
Monday, October 13, 2008, Bass Berry Sims, 12:00-1:00

Faculty Workshop
Grant Hayden, Hofstra University School of Law
Arrow's Theorem and the Exclusive Shareholder Franchise
Tuesday, October 14, 2008, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
Henry Hansmann, Yale Law School
Globalizing Commercial Litigation
Monday, October 20, 2008, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

Social Justice Program Lecture
Jennifer Rosenbaum, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice
Bonded Labor For a New Millennium:  Guestworkers and Indentured Servitude in Post-Katrina American Politics
Monday, October 20, 2008, Hyatt, 4:30-5:30 Reception to Follow

International Legal Studies Program Conference
Human Rights Without Freedom
Thursday, October 23, 2008, Bass Berry Sims, All Day

Social Justice Program Faculty Workshop
Susan Jones, George Washington University
The Role of Community Economic Development Clinics in Promoting Social Justice - A Critical Reflection
Thursday, October 23, 2008, Alexander, 4:00

Program in Constitutional Law & Theory Faculty Workshop
Mary Dudziak, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
"To the Edges of the Law":  The Politics of Law in the Bush Administration
Thursday, October 23, 2008, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

Book Panel Discussion & Celebration
Judgment Calls: Principle & Politics in Constitutional Law, Suzanna Sherry & Daniel Farber

Mitchell Berman, University of Texas Law School
Daniel Farber, University of California, Berkeley Law School
Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law
Suzanna Sherry, Vanderbilt University Law School
Friday, October 24, 2008, Hyatt, 3:00-4:30 Reception to Follow

Justice O'Connor, A Conversation with the Law School
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Tuesday, October 28, 2008, Flynn & Renaissance, 10:30-11:45

Law & Business Program Regulatory Program Conference
Legal Issues in the Governance of Supply Chains
Thursday, October 30, 2008, Alexander, All Day
Friday, October 31, 2008, Alexander, All Day

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
Robert Bartlett, University of Georgia Law School
The Determinants of Buyout Returns:  Does Transaction Strategy Matter?
Monday, November 3, 2008, Bass Berry Sims, 12:00-1:00

International Legal Studies Program Faculty Workshop
Ruth Okediji, University of Minnesota Law School
Beyond Fragmentation:  WIPO-WTO Relations and the Future of Global IP Norms
Thursday, November 6, 2008, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
Larry Hamermesh, Widener Law School
Rationalizing Appraisal Standards in Compulsory Buyouts
Monday, November 10, 2008, Bass Berry Sims, 12:00-1:00

Faculty Workshop
Jason Solomon, University of Georgia Scbool of Law
Tuesday, November 11, 2008, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

American Constitution Society, Federalist Society, Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program Panel
FDA Preemption of Prescription Drug Litigation:  Wyeth v. Levine in the Supreme Court

Brian Wolfman, Director, Public Citizen Litigation Group
Brian Fitzpatrick, Vanderbilt University Law School
Richard Nagareda, Vanderbilt University Law School
Tuesday, November 11, 2008, Bennett Miller, 3:30-4:30 Reception to Follow

Technology & Entertainment Law Program Conference
Virtual Worlds, Social Networking and User-Generated Content
Friday, November 14, 2008, Alexander, All Day
Saturday, November 15, 2008, Alexander, All Day

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
Howell Jackson, Harvard Law School
Toward a New Regulatory Paradigm for the Trans-Atlantic Financial Market and Beyond:  Legal and Economic Perspectives
Tuesday, November 18, 2008, Bass Berry Sims, 12:00-1:00

Faculty Workshop
Joanna Grossman, Hofstra University School of Law
Pregnancy, Work, and Equal Citizenship
Tuesday, November 18, 2008, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
Reinier Kraakman, Harvard Law School
Exit, Voice, and Liability:  The Evoluation of Organizational Law
Monday, December 1, 2008, Bass Berry Sims, 12:00-1:00

Faculty Workshop
Anthony Sebok, Cardozo School of Law
Taking Tort Law Seriously in the Alien Tort Statute
Wednesday, January 14, 2009, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

Martin Luther King, Jr. 2009 Lecture
Melvin Oliver, Dean of Social Sciences, University of California at Santa Barbara
The Housing Crisis and African-American Wealth
Thursday, January 15, 2009, Flynn, 12:00-1:00

Law & Behavioral Biology Speaker Series
Keith Chen, Yale School of Management
Behavioral Biases and the Market Behavior of Non-Human Primates
Tuesday, January 20, 2009, Covington, 4:00-5:00 Reception to Follow

Faculty Workshop
Brian Tamanaha, St. John's University School of Law
The Distorting Slant in Quantitative Studies of Judging
Thursday, January 22, 2009, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

International Legal Studies Program Winter Roundtable
Terrorism and Humanitarian Law
Friday, January 23, 2009, Bass Berry Sims, All Day AM
Saturday, January 24, 2009, Bass Berry Sims, All Day AM

Int'l Legal Studies Program/ Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program
Roger Alford, Pepperdine University School of Law
Arbitrating Human Rights
Monday, January 26, 2009, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program Conference
Mass Settlements via Contracts with Plaintiffs' Law Firms

Bruce Kuhlik, Merck & Co.
Chris Seeger, Seeger Weiss
Michael Rozen, The Feinberg Group
Howard Erichson, Fordham Law School
Charles Silver, University of Texas School of Law
Benjamin Zipursky, Fordham Law School
Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, Florida State University College of Law
Friday, January 30, 2009, Bass Berry Sims, All Day

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
Richard Squire, Fordham University Law School
The Abuse and Reform of the Common Control Guaranty
Thursday, February 5, 2009, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
Leo E. Strine, Jr., Vice Chancellor, Court of Chancery, Delaware
The Story of Blasius:  Keeping The Electoral Path To Takeovers Clear
Friday, February 6, 2009, Bass Berry Sims, 12:00-1:00

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law Symposium
Mounting Tensions and Melting Ice:  Exploring the Legal and Political Future of the Arctic
Friday, February 6, 2009, TBD, 9:00-5:00

Program in Constitutional Law & Theory Faculty Workshop
Mitchell Berman, University of Texas School of Law
Reflective Equilibrium and Constitutional Method:
The Case of John McCain and the Natural Born Citizenship Clause
Tuesday, February 10, 2009, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
Carliss Baldwin, Harvard Business School
Where do Transactions Come From?  Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of the Firm
Thursday, February 12, 2009, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
Scott Winter & Jennifer Shotwell, Innisfree Proxy Solicitors
Monday, February 16, 2009, Bass Berry Sims, 12:00-1:00

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
Yair Listokin, Yale Law School
The Pivotal Mechanism and Organizational Control
Monday, February 23, 2009, Bass Berry Sims, 12:00-1:00

Regulatory Program Faculty Workshop
Brian Galle, Florida State University College of Law
Laboratories of Democracy?  Policy Innovation in Decentralized Governments
Monday, February 23, 2009, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

Program in Constitutional Law & Theory Faculty Workshop
Frank Michelman, Harvard Law School
"Residual Freedom" and Constitutional Comparison
Thursday, March 12, 2009, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

Program in Constitutional Law & Theory Lecture
Frank Michelman, Harvard Law School
More Than One Way of Looking at a Constitution
Friday, March 13, 2009, Renaissance, 12:00-1:00

Faculty Workshop
Michelle Boardman, George Mason University School of Law
Tuesday, March 17, 2009, Alexander, 12:00-1:00

Law & Business Faculty Workshop
Lee Harris, University of Tennessee Law School, Memphis
Monday, March 23, 2009, Bass Berry Sims, 12:00-1:00

Law & Economics Program
Conference
Heterogeneity of the Value of Statistical Life
Friday, March 27, 2009, Alexander, 8:00 - 5:00

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
Andrea Zanoni, University of Genoa
Hedge Funds' Empty Voting in Mergers and Acquisitions:  A Fiduciary Duties Perspective
Monday, March 30, 2009, Bass Berry Sims, 12:00-1:00

Law School & History Department
Vanderbilt Exchanges:  A Law School-Department of History Workshop
Race, the Law, and the Atlantic World
 
Catherine Molineux, Department of History
Britain's Rebel Slaves
Daniel Sharfstein, Law School
Building a New South in the Shadow of Race:  A Story of Legal Consciousness and Racial Ambiguity in Louisiana, 1866-1878
Friday, April 3, 2009, Alexander, 3:30-5:30

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
Cindy Alexander, SEC
The Role of Advisory Services in Proxy Voting
Monday, April 6, 2009, Bass Berry Sims, 12:00-1:00

International Legal Studies Program Roundtable
The Law and Politics of International Cooperation
Friday, April 10, 2009, Bass Berry Sims, All Day AM

Law & Business Program Faculty Workshop
John Armour, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Monday, April 13, 2009, Bass Berry Sims, 12:00-1:00

Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law Conference
SEAL Conference Continued

Frans de Waal, Psychology, Emory University
Keynote Speaker
Is Man a Wolf to Man? - Morality and the Social Behavior of our Fellow Primates
Saturday, April 18, 2009, Hyatt or Flynn, 4:30-5:45 Reception to Follow

Faculty Workshop
Jeffrey Hirsch, University of Tennessee-Knoxville College of Law
Tuesday, February 16, 2010, Alexander, 12:00-1:00