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7th ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP CONFERENCE |
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THURSDAY, October 14 |
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Arrivals | (No official events.) | ||
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Breakfast on your own. | (Continental breakfast provided at the hotel.) | ||
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8:30 |
Informal gathering and conversation in Faculty Library 4th Floor, College of Law (Coffee and juice available) |
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9:00 |
Convene in Faculty Conference Room, 4th Floor, College of Law |
Welcome, logistics, agenda, and introductions |
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9:15 10:00 |
Peril Invites Rescue: An Evolutionary Perspective. Do the concepts of kin selection, reciprocal altruism and sexual selection predict the behavior of rescuers who make claims under the tort doctrine of "peril invites rescue"? |
Bailey Kuklin (Professor, Brooklyn Law School) |
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10:05 10:50 |
The Potential Relevance of Evolutionary Analysis to Workplace Sexual Harassment Law. How might evolutionary explanations of behaviors often seen in workplace sexual harassment cases aid in resolving some doctrinal and evidentiary problems in Title VII law? |
Julie A. Seaman (Assistant Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law) |
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10:50 11:05 |
Break |
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11:05 11:50 |
The Psychological Concepts Underpinning the Criminal Law. How might evolutionarily-based cognitive science help us to clean-up the psychological concepts underpinning criminal law verdicts? |
Katrina Lee Sifferd (Visiting Professor and Rockefeller Fellow in Law and Public Policy, Dartmouth College) |
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11:50 |
Lunch |
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1:00 1:45 |
Evolutionary/Biological Reasons Why University Professor Fathers Should Not Be Eligible For Post-Birth Paid Parental Leave. How might evolutionary/biological analysis contribute to an assessment of the justice of post-birth, gender-neutral paid parental leaves in academia? |
Steven E. Rhoads (Professor of Politics, University of Virginia) |
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1:50 2:35 |
Rethinking Corporate Accountability: Insights from Evolutionary Biology. How can we mitigate the agency problems created by the separation of ownership and control to achieve managerial accountability? |
Erica Beecher-Monas (Professor of Law, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law)
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2:35 2:50 |
Break |
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2:50 4:00 |
A moderated discussion on various themes. |
Owen Jones (Vanderbilt University, Professor of Law & Professor of Biological Sciences) |
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4:00 |
Adjourn |
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7:00PM |
Dinner at Daileys |
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Breakfast on your own | (Continental breakfast provided at the hotel.) | ||
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8:30 |
Informal gathering and conversation in Faculty Library 4th Floor, College of Law (Coffee and juice available) |
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9:00 |
Convene in Faculty Conference Room, 4th Floor, College of Law |
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9:00 9:45 |
The Nature of the Constitution. What, if anything, are the evolutionary implications of the design of the Constitution of the United States? |
Akiba J. Covitz (Department of Political Science & Special Assistant to the President, University of Richmond)
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9:50 10:35 |
The Evolution of Reactions to Inequity in Nonhuman Species. Is a system of justice unique to humans? |
Sarah F. Brosnan (Emory University, Department of Anthropology, Postdoctoral Fellow) |
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10:35 10:50 |
Break |
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10:50 11:35 |
The Importance of Trust: Adding Reputation and Choice to the Stochastic Spatial Prisoner's Dilemma. How might computer-based evolutionary simulations help to illuminate the roles of trust, reputation, and choice in human interaction as well as the appropriate role of legal institutions that govern this interaction? |
Gregory Todd Jones (Director of Research for the Interuniversity Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and Faculty Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgia State University College of Law)
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11:40 |
Lunch |
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12:40 1:25 |
The Evolution of
Inefficient Law. Why is modern law so enormously |
Earl Thompson (UCLA, Department of Economics, Professor) |
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1:30 3:00 |
Facilitated discussion of future plans for SEAL. |
Cheryl Hanna (Vermont Law School, Professor) |
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