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CFP: Jaharis Health Law Symposium

The DePaul Journal of Health Care Law, Mary and Michael Jaharis Health Law Institute, and Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology (CIPLIT®) are excited to announce a Call for Papers in connection with the 2022 Jaharis Health Law Symposium.

This year’s topic, “Antitrust and Access to Care: Lessons from Market Consolidation and a Public Health Crisis,” will explore how consolidation across health care markets has impacted access to care. Prominent legal scholars, antitrust enforcers and expert practitioners will address a range of questions through four separate panels focusing on health insurance, pharmaceutical, hospital and digital health markets.

Three papers will be selected from the submissions. Each selected author will receive a $500 honorarium and their article (of approximately 10,000 words) will be published in the Symposium issue of the DePaul Journal of Health Care Law. Full article drafts will be due by June 1, 2022.

We are open to a wide range of topics consistent with the Symposium theme but are particularly interested in papers from scholars with diverse experiences and backgrounds researching health insurance or pharmaceutical markets, as well as papers from junior scholars.

The Symposium will be held both in-person and remotely at DePaul College of Law in Chicago on March 10, 2022. Presenters able to appear in person will receive reimbursement for reasonable travel expenses.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words to [email protected] by January 15, 2022, with the subject line “Jaharis Symposium: Call for Papers.” You also may submit an optional statement of no more than 500 words describing how your selection would enhance the diversity of the Symposium.

Call for Abstracts: Consuming Genetics: The Ethical and Legal Considerations of Consumer Genetic Technologies

An announcement from our friends at Harvard Law's Petrie-Flom Center

Conference date: May 17, 2019

Abstract Submissions Due: October 15, 2018

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce plans for our 2019 annual conference: “Consuming Genetics: The Ethical and Legal Considerations of Consumer Genetic Technologies.” This year’s conference is organized in collaboration with Nita A. Farahany, Duke Law School, and Henry T. Greely, Stanford Law School.

Conference Description: Breakthroughs in genetics have often raised complex ethical and legal questions. Many regard their genetic testing and sequencing as revealing something intensely personal and private. The questions raised by these technologies loom even larger as genetic testing is becoming more commonplace, affordable, and comprehensive. At the same time, advances in CRISPR and other related technologies raise anxieties about the implications of editing our own DNA. One can imagine a future when gene editing may become as widespread as genetic testing is today. As genetic technologies become more accessible to individuals, the ethical and legal questions around the consumer use of these technologies become more pressing. This conference will examine some of these issues.

The rise of genetic testing has allowed individuals to gain new insights into their unique makeup. Already the global genetic testing and consumer/wellness genomics market was valued at $2.24 billion in 2015 and is expected to double by 2025. Amazon noted that Ancestry.com’s DNA test kit was one of their best-selling products on cyber Monday of 2018. The availability of these technologies inspires patients to act proactively to avoid medical conditions, such as when actress Angelina Jolie pursued a double mastectomy after genetic testing revealed that she was in the highest risk category for developing breast and ovarian cancers. The rise of direct-to-consumer genetic testing kits raises questions about the appropriate setting for these activities, however. For example, the Food and Drug Administration expressed concern about 23 and Me’s initial product offering, noting that delivering health-related results directly to consumers might cause these individuals to draw the wrong medical conclusions.

The increased ease of genetic testing and sequencing has also led to a sharp increase in genetic data and the rise of precision medicine. The rise of genetic databases raises significant ethical questions, especially around privacy concerns. In an age where serial killers are caught because their relatives chose to submit DNA to a consumer genealogy database, is genetic privacy for individuals possible? The economics here are significant. Consider the increased value of Myriad’s database of variances of unknown significance after the Supreme Court in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics held that isolated genes cannot be patented. Does the aggregation of data from genetic testing turn people into products by commercializing their data? How might this data reduce or exacerbate already significant health care disparities?

While gene editing tools such as CRISPR are not yet as widely available as genetic testing technology, in some parts of the world their availability is already spreading. There have been reports that Chinese scientists have used CRISPR-Cas9 technology to genetically engineer the cells of at least 86 patients. Companies in the United States and Europe are expected to begin treating patients with CRISPR-based therapies this year. Many countries have drawn a line against germline modification, but this prohibition may be strained if gene editing technology is widely disseminated. Before we reach that point, this is the time to consider what ethical and regulatory safeguards should be implemented for when the time comes.

The full call for abstracts and registration information are available here.

CFP: Georgia State Law Review Symposium on Legal Analytics

 

This just in:

The Georgia State University Law Review invites legal scholars, advocates, attorneys, judges, data scientists, and other practitioners to submit pieces for its upcoming symposium issue on legal analytics. The symposium will focus on several current challenges in legal analytics, including predictive technology and market forecasting. Charlotte S. Alexander, Director of the Legal Analytics Lab at Georgia State University, along with Anne M. Tucker, Associate Professor of Law at Georgia State University, both leading scholars in the field of legal analytics, are co-chairing the symposium program which will feature Shawnna Hoffman, the IBM Global Co-leader for the Cognitive Legal Practice as the keynote speaker. Authors are invited to submit pieces on related topics.

Our format is flexible to encourage academics, advocates, attorneys, judges, data scientists, and other practitioners to participate. We welcome papers, essays, and symposium-length articles on legal analytics and related topics. Selected pieces will be published in Volume 35, Issue 4, in summer 2019. Final Articles are due from authors by December 14, 2018.

If you are interested in submitting a piece for our symposium issue, please email a short (no longer than one page) abstract of your proposed piece to [email protected] by August 15. Please write “Symposium issue abstract” as the subject line of your email and include the approximate length of your piece.

 

Interested in Joining Application for Trusts & Estates Collaborative Research Network?

Bridget Crawford (Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, New York) and Kate Galloway (Faculty of Law, Bond University, Australia) are preparing an application to the Law and Society Association for the formation of a Trusts & Estates Collaborative Research Network.  Here's a description of the function of the proposed network:

This CRN will provide a forum within the Law & Society Association for scholars from all disciplines who are interested in the effects on society of the law, practice and effects of succession (also referred to as inheritance) and wealth transfers (whether at death or during lifetime, outright or in trust). Subjects of inquiry may involve any aspect of government or social policy with respect to trusts, estates, inheritance, wealth transfer, equity or courts with jurisdiction over these issues. Participants are encouraged to apply multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to questions across the range of scholarship in this area: issues related to transfer of wealth between spouses or family members; preferences created for certain types of transfers or transfers to particular classes of individuals; the transfer of wealth to charities or non-profit organizations; generational equity; issues of social and economic inequality; comparative aspects of the law of succession and the law of trusts more broadly; the relationship between/among gender, race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, immigration, language status, disability and the law of succession and the law of trusts; the socio-linguistics of testation and wealth transfer; access to estate planning justice for low- and middle-income individuals; questions of cultural or group inheritance rights; and similar issues.

If you would like to be part of the application for the Trusts & Estates CRN, please send an email to Bridget Crawford (bcrawford at law.pace.edu) and indicate whether you are a current Law & Society member. For those who are not familiar with the operations of the LSA (very large) Annual Meeting, one principal function of the CRNs is to "bundle” papers and panels into coherent thematic programs with chairs and commentators. All who are interested are welcome to join the initial application. Non-U.S. scholars warmly encouraged to join the application.

CHANGE OF DATE: The Second Annual Equality Law Scholars’ Forum at UC Davis Law School Friday, November 16 – Saturday, November 17

 

Note:  This is a change from the earlier announced November 9-10 date. 

The date for submission of proposals (July 1) remains the same.

 

Corrected Call for Proposals:

Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Equality Law Scholars’ Forum, UC Davis Law School on Friday, November 16 – Saturday, November 17

Building on the success of the Inaugural Equality Law Scholars’ Forum held at UC Berkeley Law last fall, and in the spirit of academic engagement and mentoring in the area of Equality Law, we (Tristin Green, University of San Francisco; Angela Onwuachi-Willig, UC Berkeley; and Leticia Saucedo, UC Davis) announce the Second Annual Equality Law Scholars’ Forum to be held this fall.  This Scholars’ Forum seeks to provide junior scholars with commentary and critique and to provide scholars at all career stages the opportunity to engage with new scholarly currents and ideas.  We hope to bring together scholars with varied perspectives (e.g., critical race theory, class critical theory, feminist legal theory, law and economics, law and society) across fields (e.g., criminal system, education, employment, family, health, immigration, property, tax) and with work relevant to many diverse identities (e.g., age, class, disability, national origin, race, sex, sexuality) to build bridges and to generate new ideas in the area of Equality Law.  

We will select five relatively junior scholars (untenured, newly tenured, or prospective professors) to present papers from proposals submitted in response to this Call for Proposals. In so doing, we will select papers that cover a broad range of topics within the area of Equality Law.  Leading senior scholars will provide commentary on each of the featured papers in an intimate and collegial setting.  The Equality Law Scholars’ Forum will pay transportation and accommodation expenses for participants and will host a dinner on Friday evening.  

This year’s Forum will be held on November 16-17, 2018 at UC Davis Law School.

Junior scholars are invited to submit abstracts of proposed papers, 3-5 pages in length, by July 1, 2018.

Full drafts must be available for circulation to participants by October 19, 2018.

Proposals should be subtmitted to:

Tristin Green, USF School of Law, [email protected].  Electronic submissions via email are preferred.

Are You Willing to Ask About the Diversity of an Academic Panel Before Accepting a Speaking Invitation?

If you are invited to speak on an academic panel, are you willing publicly to commit to asking panel organizers what efforts they have made to seek "diversity" among panel members, whatever that term means to you? If yes, please add your name to the public list here.

The background to this request for a public pledge from fellow legal academics originates at least in part from a tweet I made last week via Feminist Law Professors. I tweeted a link to an article about Spanish academics who have taken a public pledge against speaking on all-male panels. I followed up with some additional tweets asking whether any male academics would be willing to take the lead on something similar in the U.S. I forwarded the tweet to ten prominent male bloggers. Here's the series of tweets sent by me:

Michael Dorf posted some thoughtful reactions on "Diversifying Academic Panels" here.  Over at Prawfsblawg, Paul Horowitz has some further contributions here. Orin Kerr and others have added constructively to the conversation in the comments to Paul's post (here).

Because there's no clear consensus on what "diversity" an academic panels might look like, my on-line list/pledge is intended to simplify things.  If you are a legal academic, and you are invited to speak on a panel, consider asking the organizers what attempts they have made to seek diversity among panel members.  For me, that means gender, race and range of schools, foremost. But whatever "diversity" means to you, if you're willing to commit to asking the question, please add your name!  All legal academics of all genders very welcome to sign.

SEALS Conference: Prospective Law Teachers Workshop

From an email message that I received in recent days:

Each year, SEALS hosts a Prospective Law Teachers Workshop, which provides opportunities for aspiring law teachers to network and participate in mock interviews and mock job talks — prior to the actual teaching market. The Committee also schedules 1-on-1 sessions for candidates to receive faculty feedback on their CVs. This year’s Prospective Law Teacher’s Workshop will be held at The Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Monday, August 6, and Tuesday, August 7, 2018. There are also many excellent panels throughout the week that are targeted to newer law professors, which prospective law professors will also find helpful. See http://sealslawschools.org/submissions/program/programwp.asp. If you are interested in participating in this year’s workshop, please send your CV and a brief statement of interest to professor Brad Areheart (Tennessee) at [email protected], who co-chairs the committee along with professor Leah Grinvald (Suffolk). Please also indicate when you are planning to go on the teaching market. Applications are due by May 15, 2018. Many of the past workshop participants have gone on to obtain tenure-track appointments and now teach at a wide variety of law schools, including Tulane, South Carolina, UNC, Cal Western, Boston College, Georgia, Alabama, Oklahoma, Boston U., Tulsa, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Maryland, Idaho, Colorado, Miami, Richmond, Louisville, and others.

Conference: The Thirteenth Amendment and Economic Justice

 

I am delighted to announce that the program has been posted for a conference on The Thirteenth Amendment and Economic Justice, which will take place on Saturday March 3 at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law.    The conference will be the inaugural event of the Thirteenth Amendment Project, an interdisciplinary association of scholars of labor, class, race, caste and poverty at law schools and universities in the United States and the wider world.  

Panelists at the conference include Mary Ann Case, William Forbath, Aviam Soifer, Fred Smith, James Gray Pope, Noah Katz, Lea Vandervelde, William Carter, Ahmed White, Courtney Lollar, Mehmet Konar-Steenberg, Andrea Freeman, David Orentlicher, Kathleen Kim, Camille Walsh, Richard Blum, Ruben Garcia, Maria Ontiveros, Charlotte Garden and myself.   They will discuss topics including economic theory, the carceral state, health, education, environment & welfare, and using the Thirteenth Amendment in court.

This is sure to be great event.  For more information, and to register for the conference, see here  or email [email protected].

 

 

 

 

18th Annual Women and the Law Conference

From our friends at Thomas Jefferson School of Law comes this announcement of the 18^th Annual Women and the Law Conference and the 16^th Ginsburg Lecture. Details are below. 

 

The Benefits and Downsides of Live Tweeting at Conferences

At legal academic conferences, as well as academic conferences in other fields, it has become increasingly common for attendees to live tweet from sessions they attend, using hashtags that they create or that have been promulgated by conference organizers, or a mix of both.  See, e.g., #AALS2016, #AALS2015, #LSMEX17.  Today's Chronicle of Higher Education has an article by Noah Berlatsky on The Dangers of Tweeting at Conferences.  Here is an excerpt:

Conference planners should also keep in mind the dangers and downsides of live-tweeting. They should alert attendees to potentially dangerous hashtags and encourage live-tweeters to use only official conference hashtags. Presenters should have the right to ask people not to live-tweet during their talk, and shouldn’t have to explain their reasons.

In short, default permission for live-tweeting should be expected at a scholarly meeting. But tweeters should be aware of the dangers, and presenters should be able to opt out easily if they wish.

Social media isn’t negative or positive in itself; it’s just a tool. As with any tool, you want to know how it works, when to use it, and where the sharp edges are. If organizers, tweeters, and presenters are careful and knowledgeable, Twitter can amplify and deepen the conference experience.

The full article is here.  The author cautions against the inadvertent use of hashtags that may attract trolls, the concern that academic work might be quoted out of context, and the possibility that a blind peer-review process could be compromised (less of a problem for law profs who publish mostly in student-edited journals).

Given how many law profs there are on Twitter (see, e.g., here for data on law prof Twitter users from 2015; anecdotally, the number seems to have increased since then), I found the Chron article to be thought-provoking. 

Journalist and historian David Perry gives this succinct advice: "If you think the paper sucks, don’t tweet it. Don’t say it’s bad; you don’t need to lie and say it’s good. Just stop tweeting. And I have done that. There have been papers about which I had nothing nice to say. So I said nothing at all, as our mothers taught us."

 

Intellectual Property Scholarship Redux Conference: UNH School of Law

From our friends at the UNH School of Law (and one of the more interesting ideas I've seen for an intellectual property scholars' conference recently) ....

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CALL FOR PRESENTATION PROPOSALS AND PAPERS: THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SCHOLARSHIP REDUX CONFERENCE @ the University of New Hampshire School of Law on Friday, April 6 and Saturday, April 7, 2018.  

 

Any intellectual property scholar who has published a significant work of intellectual property law scholarship three or more years ago in a law review is invited to revisit this article at the Intellectual Property Scholarship Redux Conference!  Pick a scholarly work you are very proud of, and convince conference participants that you were prescient!  Or choose one you wish you’d written differently, and explain to conference participants where you went wrong.  Did your piece get cited a lot? Were those citations positive? What response did the article get from law professor colleagues, and why?  Have circumstances changed since your original publication that alters the way you analyze the problem? Did a judge “borrow” your analysis?  We think this will be a really interesting conference.  Help us make sure that it is! 

 

We also invite you to submit a related short essay (10,000 words maximum) for publication consideration by IDEA: The Journal of the Franklin Pierce Center For Intellectual Property.  We will need an edit-ready draft by June 15, 2018.   Preference will be given to presentation proposals that include a related essay, which gives participating legal scholars a great opportunity to cite themselves repeatedly without shame!

 

The deadline for submitting Presentation Proposals is January 31, 2018.  Selected Proposals will be announced shortly thereafter.

 

All proposals to present (and any questions you have) should be emailed to [email protected] and [email protected]   

 

Reimbursement of reasonable travel and lodging expenses is available for intellectual property law scholars whose presentation proposals are accepted.  And we always have great food at our conferences!  We look forward to welcoming you to the University of New Hampshire School of Law in beautiful Concord, New Hampshire in April!

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Women’s Rights in America: From Early Stirrings to Third Wave Feminism

From colleagues at SMU's Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute (including Professor Lolita Buckner Inniss, who recently moved to SMU from Cleveland Marshall):

Join us in Dallas on Sept 22, 2017 for the launch of a three-year program that connects conversations in academic communities on feminist theory and history to intersectional movements in social justice and feminist activism nationwide. We welcome leading thinkers and activists from philanthropy, business, and faith communities to encourage conversations in our broader communities that excavate women’s roles in history. This will energize Americans so that we can move to equalize the legal positions of men and women by 2020, the 100th anniversary of American women achieving suffrage.

More information is available here.

Mindfulness And The Law Conference At SEALS

The ever-popular Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) annual conference has added a new dimension this year:  a conference within a conference focused on mindfulness in law.  There will be varied panels on the role of mindfulness in teaching, scholarship, the legal profession and the student experience.  Congressman Tim Ryan will be the keynote.  Information about the mindfulness conference is here.  This event is being organized by a subcommittee of the AALS and the Mindfulness in Law Society.  

Law & Markets Volume Is Out!

I’ve posted a few times about the Duke Project on Law and Markets (see here, here, and here), which was led last year by Joseph Blocher and me. Like the Custom and Law Project that preceded it, this Project culminated in an edited volume, published this time by Law & Contemporary Problems.  

Those wanting a more detailed description of the Project and papers in the volume can read the Foreword, but here’s a taste:

We started the Law and Markets Project at Duke Law School in the summer of 2015 in an effort to better understand the relationship between the legal system on the one hand and markets on the other. That relationship is central to understanding the nature and practical impact of legal rules, the degree to which those rules are shaped by economic forces, and the ways in which law and markets should or can operate independently. Further, it inevitably raises foundational and difficult questions. What are (or should be) the limits of markets? When, and through what mechanisms, should the law restrict the free exchange of goods and services? To what extent, and how, should the legal system address market driven inequalities in income, wealth, or access to goods and services like health care and education?

By addressing these questions, we hoped to generate interesting conversations that would deepen people’s understandings of their own and each other’s work and set the stage for collaboration going forward. We chose to focus our efforts on the Duke community, so as to help build those conversations and relationships. Given our colleagues’ broad and deep substantive and methodological expertise, this hardly felt like a limitation.

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We held a symposium in early May 2016, the proceedings of which are collected in this issue. Duke faculty authored or co-authored all of the pieces, and the breadth of the topics demonstrates some of the many facets of the relationship between law and markets—from the sale (and tax treatment of) body parts to moral economies in the early Chinese land market; from the supply and demand of anticorruption enforcement to evaluating financial regulation; from markets and the environment to markets for sovereignty itself.

The volume table of contents are below, and the papers can all be downloaded here. The photos throughout this post are highlights from the Project’s workshop and reading groups, which are described in prior posts: here, here, and here.

I’ll be back in due course with more to say about my contribution to the volume, coauthored with Wenhao Liu (Stanford University, Department of Management Science & Engineering; Strategic Decisions Group International) and Marc Melcher (Stanford University, Department of Surgery): Contract Development in a Matching Market: The Case of Kidney Exchange.

 

SEALS Conference: Prospective Law Teachers Workshop

From an email message which I received in recent days:

Each year, SEALS hosts a Prospective Law Teachers Workshop, which provides opportunities for aspiring law teachers to network and participate in mock interviews and mock job talks — prior to the actual teaching market. The Committee also schedules 1-on-1 sessions for candidates to receive faculty feedback on their CVs. This year’s Prospective Law Teacher’s Workshop will be held at The Boca Resort in Boca Raton, Florida on Wednesday, August 2 and Thursday, August 3. On Wednesday, there will be mock interviews between 8 and 10 AM with CV review sessions at 1:00. On Thursday, mock job talks will take place from 8 to 10 AM. And at 3:00 on Thursday, we will have a panel entitled “Navigating the Hiring Process” which will feature recent tenure track hires who will give advice about getting hired in this “new" market. There are also many excellent panels on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday that are targeted to newer law professors, which prospective law professors will also find helpful. See http://sealslawschools.org/submissions/program/programwp.asp. If you are interested in participating in this year’s workshop, please send your CV to professor Brad Areheart (Tennessee) at [email protected], who co-chairs the committee along with Leah Grinvald (Suffolk). Applications are due by May 15, 2017. Many of the past workshop participants have gone on to obtain tenure-track positions in legal academia and now teach at a wide variety of schools, including Tulane, South Carolina, UNC, Cal Western, Oklahoma, Boston U, Idaho, Colorado, Louisville, and others.

Morality, Markets, and Contract Law at William & Mary

I’m looking forward to this upcoming event at William & Mary, Morality, Markets, and Contract Law, celebrating the publication of Nate Oman’s new book, The Dignity of Commerce: Markets and the Moral Foundations of Contract Law (University of Chicago Press 2017). I used Nate’s book in my contracts law seminar this year and recommend it for those interested in contract law theory and, in particular, for those interested in the intersections among contract law, markets, and morality.

The event is free and open to the public.

Hope to see you there!

Illinois Law Review Call For Symposium Proposals

This just in from the EIC of the Illinois Law Review:

In May, the Illinois Law Review intends to select a Symposium for publication in the 2017-2018 volume of the journal. If you are organizing a conference or have an idea that could function as a Symposium, please submit a proposal in electronic form to the Law Review no later than April 29, 2017 by emailing Sam Zuidema at [email protected]. Symposium applicants should prepare a written proposal including the following:

1. A background discussion of the area of scholarship in which the symposium is situated
2. A description of the subject matter of the symposium
3. A discussion of the contribution the symposium will make to legal scholarship
4. A preliminary list of contributors, attendees, or invitees

The Symposium will be selected by a majority vote of the Board of Editors. The Board intends to announce its decision by May 15, 2017.

If you would like to hold a Symposium at the University of Illinois Law School in addition to publication, expenses for travel and accommodation must be assumed by the submitter.

We look forward to considering your submissions. Please do not hesitate to contact Benjamin Paulsen, Editor-in-Chief of Law Review, at [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns.

Understanding Moral Repugnance in Markets at AEA 2017!

For those who decided to freeze themselves in Chicago over the next few days rather than attend the much more pleasant AALS venue, make sure to check out this session tomorrow morning: Understanding Moral Repugnance in Markets.  It features some great speakers (and there's me!) and discussants. 

I've copied the program below (which may or may not work, given the idiosyncrasies of typepad) but you can follow the link to the program, with papers and abstracts, here.  

 

Understanding Moral Repugnance in Markets

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

 

Hyatt Regency Chicago, Grand Ballroom CD North

Hosted By: AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION

• Chair: Kimberly Krawiec, Duke University

 

The impact of pathogen-disgust sensitivity on vaccine and GM food risk perceptions: Some evidence for skepticism

Dan Kahan

Yale University

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Repugnance and Transactions in the Body

Kieran Healy

Duke University

 

Kimberly Krawiec

Duke University

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The Ethics of Incentivizing the Uninformed. A Vignette Study

Sandro Ambuehl

Stanford University

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Sacred versus Pseudo-Sacred Values

Philip E. Tetlock

University of Pennsylvania

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• Download PowerPoint (PPT, 493.50 KB)

Discussant(s)

Brigitte Madrian

Harvard University

 

Luigi Zingales

University of Chicago

 

Deirdre McCloskey

University of Illinois-Chicago

 

Muriel Niederle

Stanford University

JEL Classifications

• D4 - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design

IntLawGrrls! Tenth Anniversary Conference

From Diane Ammon of the University of Georgia:

The blog IntLawGrrls: voices on international law, policy, practice, will celebrate its first decade with“IntLawGrrls! 10th Birthday Conference” on Friday, March 3, 2017. The daylong event will be held at the Dean Rusk International Law Center of the University of Georgia School of Law, which is hosting as part of its Georgia Women in Law Lead initiative.

Organizers Diane Marie Amann, Beth Van Schaack, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, and Kathleen A. Doty welcome paper proposals from academics, students, policymakers, and advocates, in English, French, or Spanish, on all topics in international, comparative, foreign, and transnational law and policy. In addition to paper workshops, there will be at least one plenary panel, on “strategies to promote women’s participation in shaping international law and policy amid the global emergence of antiglobalism.” The deadline for submissions will be January 1, 2017, though papers will be accepted on a rolling basis. Thanks to the generosity of the Planethood Foundation, a fund will help defray travel expenses for a number of students or very-early-career persons whose papers are accepted. For more information, see the call for papers/conference webpage and organizers’ posts, or e-mail [email protected].

Symposium: 20 Years After the 1996 Immigration Laws: Revisiting an Experiment in Comprehensive Severity

Today, the Drexel Law Review is hosting 20 Years After the 1996 Immigration Laws: Revisiting an Experiment in Comprehensive Severity.  The symposium futures a truly fabulous array of speakers:

Eleanor Acer, Senior Director of Refugee Protection, Human Rights First
Professor T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Columbia Law School
Professor Caitlin Barry, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Professor Jason A. Cade, University of Georgia School of Law
Professor Jennifer Chacón, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Professor Angélica Cházaro, University of Washington School of Law
Professor Jill E. Family, Widener University Commonwealth Law School
Professor Lucas Guttentag, Stanford Law School and Yale Law School (on leave) and Senior Counselor to the Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Professor Anil Kalhan, Drexel University Kline School of Law
Professor Annie Lai, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Professor Nancy Morawetz, New York University School of Law
Alison Parker, Director, U.S. Program, Human Rights Watch
Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales,Temple University Beasley School of Law
Professor Wadie Said, University of South Carolina School of Law
Professor Rebecca Sharpless, University of Miami School of Law
Frank Sharry, Founder and Executive Director, America's Voice
Professor and Deputy Dean Michael J. Wishnie, Yale Law School

Details and the schedule are here. 

 

 

Stream here.  

 

 

 

Upcoming Conference: Human Rights and Tax in an Unequal World

From the NYU website:

On September 22-23, 2016, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at NYU School of Law will host an international conference entitled Human Rights and Tax in an Unequal World. The conference is the centerpiece of CHRGJ’s broader initiative to promote scholarship and public debate on the relationship between inequality, the global economy, and human rights. It will bring together an interdisciplinary group of leading practitioners and scholars, international officials and activists to discuss the ways in which tax policy can be viewed as a form of human rights policy, and to consider how the international human rights framework might contribute to bringing greater equity and justice to the global tax regime. The conference is particularly timely given mounting public concern that tax abuses are widening the gap between the rich and the poor and broad recognition that growing economic inequality threatens the human rights of all. Corporate tax scandals and tax avoidance schemes, such as those revealed by the Panama Papers, have fueled demands that the wealthiest pay their fair share and that States play their part in tackling abuses both domestically and transnationally. Public budget shortfalls, which result in part from these tax abuses, weigh disproportionately on the poorest and most vulnerable populations. Globally, developing countries lose more public revenues through tax loopholes and outflows to financial secrecy jurisdictions each year than they earn in aid and foreign investment. Moreover, when corporations and wealthy individuals skirt tax payments, they shift the tax burden onto lower-income taxpayers who cannot engage in sophisticated tax avoidance schemes, entrenching inequalities within a given State and across the global North-South divide. Studies have shown that taxation can be an important tool for redressing inequality and reducing poverty. But if poorly designed or implemented, tax laws can entrench disparity and exacerbate discrimination. When States seek to fill resource gaps by adopting easily administered but regressive tax measures, the disadvantaged suffer even more. Rectifying the unequal distribution of income and wealth is thus both a tax problem and a human rights imperative.

For years, resource constraints have been cited as the principal limitation on the ability of States to fulfill their human rights obligations, particularly when it comes to economic, social and cultural rights. Yet with few exceptions, human rights scholars and practitioners have shied away from core economic and financial debates, leaving the policies that shape resource availability and allocation largely in the hands of economists, tax and investment lawyers, and development experts. Those technocrats, in turn, have rarely paid heed to the expanding corpus of human rights law and its implications for State and non-State actors. There has been very little dialogue between tax and human rights experts, and even less scholarship on the intersection of these fields. This conference aims to help fill that gap, asking whether the disciplines of tax law and human rights law— unlikely bedfellows—can learn from and inform one another, particularly as they confront common challenges.

More information is here.