The University of Texas at Austin

University Of Texas School Of Law Faculty Colloquia

Spring 2004 Colloquia Schedule

Date Speaker / Institution Event / Title Time / Location
Jan. 23
Fri.
Oren Bracha,
UTLaw
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium &
Mtg. of the Committe of the Whole Person:

"The Transformation of American
Copyright Law 1789-1909"
Introductory Note  and  Full Paper
3:00p.m. Townes Hall
Faculty Lounge, 3.214

3:00 p.m. Bracha's Faculty Colloquium
4:30 p.m. Meeting of the Whole Person

Jan. 30
Fri.

Ariela Gross,
USC

Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium:
"Administering Citizenship, Identity
and Land in Indian Territory, 1865-1907"
Introductory Readings  and  Full Paper

3:00 p.m. Townes Hall
Faculty Lounge, 3.214

Feb. 5
Thurs.
John Ferejohn,
Stanford

Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium:
"Super-Statutes," Part I  and Part II 

3:30 p.m. Townes Hall
Sheffield Room 2.111
Feb. 6
Fri.
Sam Bagenstos,
Harvard

Legal Studies Luncheon:
“The Future of Disability Law”

12:00 p.m. Townes Hall
Sheffield Room 2.111

12:00 p.m. Lunch
12:30 p.m. Presentation.

Feb. 6
Fri.

Margo Schlanger,
Harvard

Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium:
"Damage Action Deterrence"

3:00 p.m. Townes Hall
Faculty Lounge, 3.214

Feb. 9
Mon.

Kip Viscusi,
Harvard

Legal Studies Luncheon:
"Punitive Damages:
How Judges and Juries Perform"

11:45 a.m. Townes Hall
Sheffield Rom 2.111

Feb. 10
Tues.

Joni Hersch,
Harvard

Legal Studies Luncheon:
"Jury Demands and Trials"

11:45 a.m. Townes Hall
Sheffield Rom 2.111

Feb. 13
Fri.

Nina Pillard,
Georgetown

Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium:
"The Constitution in Executive Hands"

3:00 p.m. Townes Hall
Faculty Lounge, 3.214

Feb. 17
Tues.

Les Green,
UTLaw/York

Drawing Board Luncheon:
"Strategy and Ultimate Legal Rules"
Condensed  or  Full Length Version

11:30 a.m. Connally Center
Eidman Jury Room 2.310

Feb. 19
Thurs.
Fred Schauer,
Harvard

Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium:
“The Limited Domain of the Law”

3:30 p.m. Townes Hall
Sheffield Room 2.111

Feb. 20
Fri.

Michael Abramowicz,
George Washington
University Law School

Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium
"Copyright Redundancy"

3:00 p.m. Townes Hall
Faculty Lounge, 3.214

Feb. 24
Tues.

Michael Hoeflich,
Univ. of Kansas

Legal Studies Luncheon:
"Lawyer Poets"

11:45 a.m. Townes Hall
Sheffield Room 2.111

Feb. 27
Fri.

William Forbath, Larry Sager & Guests

TLR Symposium:
"Avenues in Comparative Constitutional Law"

9:00 a.m. Connally Center
Eidman Courtroom

Feb. 28
Sat.

William Forbath, Larry Sager & Guests

TLR Symposium:
"Avenues in Comparative Constitutional Law"

10:00 a.m. Connally Center
Eidman Courtroom

Mar. 4
Thurs.
Richard Primus,
Michigan

Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium:
"Bolling Alone"

3:30 p.m. Townes Hall
Sheffield Room 2.111

Mar. 9
Tues.

Jane Stapleton
UTLaw/ANU

Drawing Board Luncheon:
"Causation and Scope:
Putting Flesh on the Skeleton"

11:30 a.m. Connally Center
Eidman Jury Room 2.310

Mar. 19
Fri.

No Colloquia

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Spring Break

Apr. 1
Thurs.
John Gardner,
Oxford

Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium
"Backwards and Forwards with Tort Law"

3:30 p.m. Townes Hall
Sheffield Room 2.111
Apr. 2
Fri.
John Gardner,
Oxford
Leon Green '15 Lecture in Jurisprudence:
"Some Types of Causal Relations"
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall
Sheffield Room 2.111

April 9
Fri.

Henry Hansmann,
NYU

Legal Studies Luncheon:
“Legal Entities, Asset Partitioning, and
the Evolution of Organizations”
Condensed  or  Full Length Version

11:45 a.m. Townes Hall
Sheffield Room 2.111

11:45 a.m. Lunch
12:00 p.m. Presentation.

Apr. 9
Fri.
Julian Bond,
NAACP
TMLS Distinquished Speaker Series:
"How Affirmative Action Affects Race Relations
in this Country: Brown to Now"
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall
Francis Auditorium 2.114

April 13
Tues.

Hans Baade,
UTLaw

Drawing Board Luncheon:
"Transplants of Laws and Lawyers"

11:30 a.m. Connally Center
Eidman Jury Room 2.310

April 19
Mon.

Michael Dowdle,
Chinese University
of Hong Kong

Legal Studies Luncheon:
"Visiblizing the Invisible Hand: Notes
Towards a Non-Regulatory Constitutionalism"

11:45 a.m. Townes Hall
Sheffield Room 2.111

April 23
Fri.

David Sugarman,
Princeton

Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium:
“Pursuing Pinochet: A Global Quest for Justice”

3:00 p.m. Townes Hall
Faculty Lounge, 3.214

April 26
Mon.

David Sugarman,
Princeton

Legal Studies Luncheon:  “ 'LA Law'
Encounters 'Rumpole of the Bailey': The Impact of Americanization, Europeanization and Globalization
on English Legal Culture and 'Englishness' ”

11:45a.m. Townes Hall
Sheffield Room 2.111

Apr. 29
Thurs.
Seana Shiffrin,
UCLA

Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium:
“What is Really Wrong with
Compelled Association?”

3:30 p.m. Townes Hall
Sheffield Room 2.111
Apr. 30
Fri.
Larry Sager, Mitch
Berman & Guests

Conference on Constitutional Concepts:
Session I: "Distinguishing Constitutional Meaning"
Session II: "The State Action Problem(s)"

9:45 a.m. Townes Hall
Sheffield Room 2.111
9:45 a.m. Session I
1:15 p.m. Session II
May 1
Sat.
Larry Sager, Mitch
Berman & Guests

Conference on Constitutional Concepts:
Session III: "Motive, Purpose, and
Expressive Meaning"
Session IV: "Methodology"

9:45 a.m. Townes Hall
Sheffield Room 2.111

9:45 a.m. Session III
1:15 p.m. Session IV

May 11
Tues.

Louise Weinberg,
UTLaw

Drawing Board Luncheon:
"Back to the Future:
The New General Common Law"

11:30 a.m. Connally Center
Eidman Jury Room 2.310

May 18
Tues.

John Robertson
UTLaw

Time-Share Tuesday:
Research Seminars: Teaching Methods and Models

11:30 a.m. Connally Center
Eidman Jury Room 2.310