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6th ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP CONFERENCE
October 3 & 4, 2003
Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington
211 S. Indiana Avenue
Bloomington, Indiana


PROGRAM
FRIDAY, October 3
     
8:00 Breakfast in the Faculty Lounge  
       
9:00

Welcome

Owen Jones, Seal President (ASU Law)
R.B. Ruhl, Co-host (FSU Law)
Jeff Stake, Co-host (IU Law)
Lauren Robel (Dean, IU Law)
       

9:30

Efficiency & Fitness in the Fee Tail

 Jeff Stake (Indiana University)
       
10:00

How scientifically valid is the use of cognitive psychology's heuristics and
biases research in legal scholarship?

 Erica Beecher-Monas (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
       
10:30 Break    
       
10:45

The Seductive Lure of Rationality:
Why Do we Prefer Spock to Hamlet?

Larry Frolik (University of Pittsburgh)
       
11:15

The Biology of the Broadcast Flag

 Susan Crawford (Cardozo School of Law)
       
Noon

General Discussion

 
       
12:05 Break  
12:15 Luncheon in Faculty Lounge J. B. Ruhl, Speaker
       
1:45

Monitoring and Trust: An Evolutionary Perspective

Claire Hill (Chicago-Kent College of Law) and Erin O'Hara (Vanderbuilt Law School)
       
2:15

The Biologically Literate Lawyer

 Owen Jones (ASU College of Law)
       
2:45 Break  
       
2:55

Panel - Intelligent Design Creationism:
An Establishment of Religion

John M. Lynch, Barbara Forrest, Dennis D. Hirsch, and Steve G. Gey, moderator
       
4:25

General Discussion

 
       
7:00  Dinner at Devault Alumni Center    
       
8:15

Keynote Presentation - Lust, Romance, Attachment: The Brain Chemistry of the Three Primary Mating Emotions and Their Impact on Crime and Punishment

 Dr. Helen Fisher (Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University) 
       
SATURDAY, October 4
       
8:30  Breakfast in the Faculty Lounge    
       
9:30

Natural Born Lawyers

 Oliver Goodenough (Vermont Law School)
       
10:00

Gaming the System IS the System: Coevolution of the Process and the Practitioner

 Barry Goldman (Wayne State University Law School)
       
10:30 Break  
       
10:40

Learning to Play Nice: Strategy Evolution
in the National Hockey League

 Marco Janssen (CIPEC, Indiana University)
       
11:10

Evaluative Dispute Resolution Under Uncertainty: Framing, Confirmatory Evidence Bias, and the Expected Value
of Imperfect Information

 Gregory Todd Jones and Douglas Yarn
(Georgia State University College of Law)
       
11:40

General Discussion

 
       
12:00 Break  
12:15 Lunch  
     
1:15

Courts' Discretion in the Evolution of Western Law

Benito Arruņada and Veneta Andonova
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
     
1:45

The role that the demands for freedom
and equality played in the ancestral environment.

 Thomas Lundmark
     
2:15

From Conflict to Performance: Progressive Legal Thought and the Evolution of
Political Action

 A. Jean Thomas
     
2:45

Radical Openness as an Evolutionary
Force in Legal Systems

 J.B. Ruhl (Florida State University)
     
3:15 Closing Remarks  
     
3:30

Reminiscences of and Tribute to Margaret Gruter

 Owen Jones and Others
     
6:00 Informal Gathering at Stake Family House  

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