Legal Scholarship Blog

4th Summer Academy on Global Food Law & Policy — Lake Como, Italy

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 24 May 2012 23:28:34 +0000

Visit beautiful Lake Como this July and engage on food law and policy issues. Last year’s participants enjoyed “…great tutors, great organization and a perfect mixture of international food law, policy and networking…” The five-day course will be held from Monday, 23 July, till Friday, 27 July 2012 at Villa la Collina.

The faculty is made up of distinguished food experts such as Catherine GESLAIN-LANÉELLE (keynote speaker), Executive Director at EFSA, Catherine ADAMS HUTT, former Chief Quality, Food Safety and Nutrition Officer at McDonald’s, Peter Barton HUTT, Lecturer on Food and Drug Law at Harvard University and Senior Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP, Susanne KETTLER, Director Regulatory Affairs at Coca-Cola, Brussels, and Lee Ann JACKSON, Counsellor at the WTO, Geneva – to name only a few.

For further information and online registration please visit the conference site. Space is limited to 25, so make sure to reserve your place today!
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“Respect” Skills & Workshop Strategy Sessions to End the School-to-Jail Track — Los Angeles, CA

uwlegalscholarship — Thu, 24 May 2012 23:10:53 +0000

The Center for Restorative Justice and The Youth Justice Coalition at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, invites you to: “Respect” Skills & Workshop Strategy Sessions to End the School-to-Jail Track. Three sessions are scheduled for May 16th, 23rd, and 30th from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

For more information or to register please call (323) 235-4243 or (626) 244-4009, or by email, danae_tapia87[at]yahoo.com, or go to this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2BFJ9TS
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Exploding Prison Populations and Drug Offenders: Rethinking State Drug Sentencing – Valparaiso, IN

uwlegalscholarship — Wed, 23 May 2012 05:05:02 +0000

Valparaiso University Law School is hosting a conference November 9, 2012, and invites submissions on the topic Exploding Prison Populations and Drug Offenders: Rethinking State Drug Sentencing. The conference will examine (1) whether the current drug sentencing system can be justified; (2) the deterrent effect on drug usage of long-term incarceration and widespread imprisonment; and, (3) whether the likelihood of apprehension and conviction affects the market for drugs.

Submissions relating to drug sentencing are welcomed, especially submissions on the following subjects:

The costs and benefits to taxpayers of incarcerating low-level drug offenders

The impact of drug sentencing laws on minority groups and other affected communities

Whether the science of addiction can inform decisions regarding optimal responses to drug use and sales

Legislative approaches to the challenges of incarceration for drug offenses

Call for Papers Deadline: August 27, 2012.

Submissions should be addressed to Melissa Mundt, Associate Director of Academic Services, Valparaiso University Law at Melissa.Mundt[@]valpo.edu. im

What Do Public and Private Sanctions in Competition Policy Actually Achieve? Norwich, England

uwlegalscholarship — Wed, 23 May 2012 04:50:34 +0000

The University of East Anglia and the Center for Competition Policy present What Do Public and Private Sanctions in Competition Policy Actually Achieve? to be held June 14-15, 2012.

Competition authorities impose fines but also criminal sanctions on firms for breaches of competition law. Alongside this, they are making concerted efforts to encourage the victims of competition law abuses to bring private actions for damages. Despite a general consensus that certain types of competition law infringements should be punished, there is limited agreement as to what form this punishment should take or what sanctions aim to achieve. The conference explores the theory and evidence on public and private sanctions and what they could achieve or have achieved in practice.

Call for Papers: Indian Yearbook of International Law and Policy

uwlegalscholarship — Wed, 23 May 2012 04:35:31 +0000

The Indian Yearbook of International Law and Policy is currently soliciting submissions for its third issue due to be published in December 2012. The editors “have a strong preference for articles that are not descriptive but prescriptive and argumentatively focused.” The Yearbook

seeks to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Indian views and practices on contemporary international legal issues. It also seeks to encourage interest in all matters relating to international law, exploring new avenues and approaches to its study and has been envisaged as a response to the longstanding demand for the documentation of national practice and policy related to international law.

Deadline: July 15, 2012

Contact information: indianyearbook.il[@]gmail.com. im

Copyright Society Mid-Winter Meeting – Hamburg, NJ

uwlegalscholarship — Wed, 23 May 2012 04:18:29 +0000

The Copyright Society of the USA will hold its annual meeting June 10-12, 2012. Topics include Section 115 of the Copyright Act, fair use, politics and the evolution of digital media, the “View from the Copyright Office” presentation, and “Recent Developments in Copyright Law.” im

Law, Business and Society—U.S./Israel/ Global Relationships – Eilat, Israel

uwlegalscholarship — Wed, 23 May 2012 04:09:46 +0000

The American Bar Association Section of International Law and the Israel Bar Association‘s 12th Annual Meeting, “Law, Business and Society—U.S./Israel/ Global Relationships,” will be held May 20-24, 2012, in Eilat, Israel. The conference will feature at least eight programs in English and many others with simultaneous translation, covering issues and events of critical and current importance to Israel.

Topics include the New Employment Relationship; the “Nuts and Bolts” of International Joint Ventures: Israel and the U.S./E.U.; Corruption, Money Laundering, Tax Fraud and Other Corporate Crimes; Women’s Rights, Civil Rights and Human Rights; Protection of Intellectual Property in an Era of Technology Collaboration; Economic Sanctions Versus Free Trade Agreements; Pre-emptive Military Actions; the “Nuts and Bolts” of International Arbitration; and International Anti-Corruption. im

Experts’ Forum on European State Aid Law – Brussels, Belgium

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 22 May 2012 20:53:29 +0000

The European State Aid Law Institute presents the 10th Experts’ Forum on European State Aid Law, which will be held June 7-8, 2012. Topics discussed include the State Aid Modernisation Initiative, Financial Services under the Scrutiny of EU State Aid Rules in the Context of the Sovereign Debt Crisis, the Notion of Aid in Fiscal Cases, the Overhaul of the Regional Aid Guidelines and the Implementation of Economic Analysis, and a Round Table of the National Judiciaries. Speakers include representatives from the General Court of the EU and national courts, the European Commission, national authorities, professors and practitioners. im

Call for Papers: New Materials: Their Social and Cultural Meanings

uwlegalscholarship — Tue, 22 May 2012 20:15:05 +0000

The Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture series of the University of Pennsylvania Press is seeking papers on “the processes (broadly defined) through which the materials of interest to commerce are distinguished, their nature and value established, and authoritative expertise in industrial settings asserted. Cases from any historical setting or period, and addressing any materials encountered or produced in industrial, scientific, technical, agricultural or medical contexts (whether in “expert” or “lay” hands) are welcome.”

Deadline: November 1, 2012.

We invite historians of science, technology, and medicine; and scholars in science and technology studies, anthropology, the visual arts, cultural studies, and related fields to submit essays for an edited volume on the historical and cultural meanings of new materials.

The processes by which materials are developed and deployed provide a powerful lens on industrial cultures. The means by which materials are regularized for production and use—their quality analyzed and controlled, their behaviors predicted—are particularly revelatory of epistemic and cultural commitments. This collection seeks to compile papers on the processes (broadly defined) through which the materials of interest to commerce are distinguished, their nature and value established, and authoritative expertise in industrial settings asserted. Cases from any historical setting or period, and addressing any materials encountered or produced in industrial, scientific, technical, agricultural or medical contexts (whether in “expert” or “lay” hands) are welcome.

We believe that the formulation of scientific and technological knowledge; organizations of factory, farm, or laboratory labor; and prevailing conceptions of efficiency, luxury, physical ability, gender, race, health, humanness, sustainability, and environmental justice are all revealed in the histories of industrial materials. Knowledge systems ranging from self-identified scientific and technical expertise to tacit aesthetic or moral criteria all shape the design and use of materials, and all that counts as useful or rigorous understanding of materials in a given setting—whether embodied in formal standards and instrumentation or in ascriptions of expertise–can be seen to reflect the social relations inherent in industrial production.

The testing of materials poses questions of particular interest for this collection. These include questions of verisimilitude: By what means are synthetic foods, textiles, building materials, skin or bone determined to be sufficiently like “naturally occurring” substances? Or: How is the test of an industrial product or process determined to replicate conditions of use? They also include questions of definition: How does materials testing help delineate one substance from another, to define a discrete object of commercial investment and distribution? An object that can be named, and subject to proprietary handling? Finally, the history of materials testing may reveal where and how a given culture defines that which it believes to be natural or artificial, safe or unsafe, precisely or imprecisely measured, real or imagined; why such binaries emerge; and who attains the authority to draw such distinctions. All of these matters and others will be welcome subjects for proposals.

When Technology Disrupts Law: How Can Intellectual Property, Internet, and Biolaw Adapt – Berkeley, CA

uwlegalscholarship — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:44:39 +0000

The 2012 AALS Mid-Year Meeting will feature a workshop on When Technology Disrupts Law: How Can Intellectual Property, Internet, and Biolaw Adapt? The workshop will be held on June 10 – 12, 2012 in Berkeley, California. Registration information is available here.