SCHOOL OF LAW

Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium:
"Just Work"

CLBE Law and Economics Workshop:
"Using the Veil of Ignorance to Ensure Distributive Justice in Class Actions"

Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium:
"Equal Liberty"

Texas Law Review Symposium on Water Law
"Of Water Banks, Piggybanks, and Bankruptcy: Changing Directions in Water Law, a Symposium on New Approaches to Institutional Management and Design"

1:00 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

Connally Hall
Eidman Courtroom
2.306

9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.,
1:00 to 5:30 p.m.

Connally Hall
Eidman Courtroom
2.306

CLBE Law and Economics Workshop:
"Beyond Competition for Incorporations"

CLBE Law and Economics Workshop:
"Political Economy of International Sales Law"(co-authored with Robert E. Scott)

Constitutional Studies Luncheon:
"Al Qaeda: A View From the Inside"

Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium:
The Constitutional Status of Tort Law
Goldberg Note
Paper

Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium:
"The Slave Power Theory of the Fourteenth Amendment"

Kate Litvak
UT School of Law

CLBE Law and Economics Workshop:
"Governance Through Exit: Default Penalties and Walkaway Options in Venture Capital Partnership Agreeements"

Drawing Board Luncheon:
Personal Conflicts of Interest (work in progress) (11:30)
Case Studies in Professional Responsibility (12:30)

11:30 a.m.to 12:20 p.m. and
12:30 p.m. to 1:20 p.m.

Townes Hall
Sheffield Room 2.111

Ronald J. Mann, UT Law
Seth Belzley, UT Law student

Center for Law Business and Economics Luncheon:
"The Promise of Internet Intermediary Liability" 

Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium:
"The Notion of Solidarity and the Secret History of American Labor Law" 

Legal Studies Luncheon:
"Non-Citizen Citizenship: Rights Talk and Immigrant Political Participation"

Book Fête
Justice in Plainclothes

Charles Silver and Bernard Black
UT School of Law

Tom Baker,
University of Connecticut

CLBE Law and Economics Workshop:
"What Medical Malpractice Crisis? Evidence on Claim Outcomes in Texas, 1988-2002"

"Making Sense with Numbers: The Uses and Abuses of Empirical Research on the Validity of Medical Malpractice Claims"

Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium:
"Criminalization as Regulation"

Leon Green Lecture /Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium:
"Analytical Jurisprudence versus Descriptive Sociology Revisited"

3:00 p.m.
Townes Hall Sheffield Room, 2.111

Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium:
"The Almighty and the Dollar"

Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium:
"Is Freedom of Expression a Human Right?"

Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Georgetown University

Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium:
"The Lawyer's Role(s) in Deliberative Democracy"

Doron Teichman
UT School of Law

Sir Neil MacCormick,
University of Edinburgh

Sovereignty Symposium:
" The Contemporary Relevance of Sovereignty"

"Is European Democracy Possible? Reflections on the Proposed European Constitution"

5:30 p.m.
Eidman Courtroom
(Lecture followed by reception in Jamail Pavilion)

Michael Gillespie (Duke University);
Michael Lind (Washington, D.C.);
Philip Bobbitt (UT);
David Law (University of San Diego Law School);
Alex Alienikoff (Georgetown University Law Center);
Francesco Francioni (EUI);
Sanford Levinson (UT School of Law);
Ken Anderson (American University);
Jed Rubenfeld (Yale);
Sarah Cleveland (UT); Richard Markovits (UT)
Scot Powe (UT);
Gary Jacobsohn (UT)

Sovereignty Symposium:
"The Contemporary Relevance of Sovereignty"

9:00-11:00 Conceptualizing Sovereignty:
Michael Gillespie (Duke University); Michael Lind (Washington, D.C.); Philip Bobbitt (UT); David Law (University of San Diego Law School), Alex Alienikoff (Georgetown University Law Center)

11:15-12:30 Law and “The Emergency”:
"Sovereignty: Use of Force and Human Rights" (Francesco Francioni, EUI); “Constitutional Norms in a Time of Permanent Emergency,” Sanford Levinson (UT)

12:30-1:30 Lunch: Connelly Center
Jamail Pavilion

1:45-3:30 On the Idea of Popular (or “Democratic” Sovereignty:
I. The debate over looking to foreign materials in interpreting the United States Constitution

On the meaning of “Democratic Sovereignty”: Ken Anderson (American University); Jed Rubenfeld (Yale); Sarah Cleveland (UT); Richard Markovits (UT)

3:45-5:00
II. “Popular Constitutionalism”: Scot Powe (UT), Gary Jacobsohn (UT)

First session:
9:00-11:00 a.m.

Second session:
11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Lunch:
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Connelly Center
Jamail Pavilion

Third sesssion: 1:45-3:30 p.m.

Fourth session:
3:45-5:00 p.m.

Ernest Young (UT);
Les Green (Osgood Hall and UT);
Neil MacCormick (University of Edinburgh); Victor Ferreres (Barcelona, UT)
Arthur Cockfield (Queen's University, Ontario, Canada);
Fabrizio Cafaggi (EUI);
Jay Westbrook (UT);
Patrizia Vigni (Siena); Prof. Montini; Tom McGarity (UT)

Sovereignty Symposium:
"The Contemporary Relevance of Sovereignty"

9:30-11:30 On the Meaning of “Dual Sovereignty” Within Federal Systems: Ernest Young (UT); Lynn Baker (UT); Neil MacCormick (Edinburgh)

11:30-12:15 Lunch

12:15-1:15 Arthur Cockfield, Queens University, Ontario, Canada: "The Rise of the OECD as Informal 'World Tax Organization' through the Shaping of National Responses to E-commerce Taxation"

1:30-3:00 "The Privatization of Sovereignty" (Fabrizio Cafaggi, EUI); Jay Westbrook (UT)

3:15-4:45 "Negotiated Sovereignty over Common Spaces: The Case of Antarctica" (Patrizia Vigni); "Shared Sovereignty in the External Environmental Policies of the European Union" (Prof. Montini); Tom McGarity (UT)

First Session:
9:15-11:15 a.m.

Lunch:
11:30-12:15 Jamail Pavilion

Second session:
12:15-1:15 p.m.

Third session:
1:30-3:00 p.m.

Fourth session: 3:15-4:45 p.m.

April 15^th
Friday

Arthur Cockfield
Queens University, Ontario, Canada

11:30 a.m.-12:15 (Luncheon)
Connally Center
Jamail Pavilion
12:15-1:15 (Talk) Eidman Courtroom

Sovereignty Symposium:
"What Americans Should Know About the European Union"

9:45-11: 45 The “sovereignty” of native peoples. "Parallel Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples" (F. Lenzerini, Siena); "A Narrative of Sovereignty: Illuminating the Paradox of the Domestic Dependent Nation," Sarah Krakoff (University of Colorado); "Shared Sovereignty and Community Interests in the Management of Cultural Heritage" (R. Pavoni, Siena; Karen Engle (UT); Gerald Torres (UT)

Lunch

First Session:
9:45-11:45 a.m. Jeffers courtroom

Lunch

Reinier Kraakman
Harvard University

Salameh Nematt, Washington Bureau Chief of Al-Hayat

Constitutional Studies Luncheon
"Terrorism, Democracy, and U.S. Policy in the Middle East"

Rick Hills
University of Michigan

Adrienne Davis
University of North Carolina (Visiting professor at UT Law)

Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium:
"Manumission, Miscegenation & Marriage: Managing Caste Through Interracial Intimacy Law"
 

John Mayer
CALI

Michael Heise
Cornell

Will E. Orgain Lectureship:
"Healing or Justice: Has Civil War Memory Divided or Unified America?"

3:30 p.m.
Townes Hall Jeffers Courtroom
3.140 (Reception to follow in Sheffield Room)

Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium:
"The Theft of Lincoln in Scholarship and in Public Memory" (Review of Lincoln's Constitution by Daniel Farber, University of Chicago Press, 2003)

Guhan Subramanian
Harvard University

David Faigman
University of California, Hastings School of Law

Constitutional Studies Luncheon:
"Fact-Finding in Constitutional Cases"

Bill Eskridge
Yale University Law School

Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium:
"Dishonorable Passions: The Crime Against Nature in America"

3:30 p.m.
Townes Hall
Faculty Lounge
3.214

Sam Buell, Visiting Professor, UT Law

Drawing Board Luncheon:
"White Collar Mistakes"