The University of Texas at Austin

University Of Texas School Of Law Faculty Colloquia

Spring 2009 Colloquia Schedule

Date Speaker / Institution Event / Title Time / Location

Faculty moderator/ Coordinator

Jan. 26
Monday

Georg Vanberg
UNC (Dept. Political Science)

Does the Median Justice Control the Content of Supreme Court Opinions?

Law, Economics, and Politics

 

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Daniel Rodriguez

Jan. 28
Wednesday

John Bellinger, Benjamin Wittes, and Steven Vladeck

How to Close Guantanamo

Panel Discussion

 

Eidman Courtroom

5:30 - 7:00 p.m.

Robert Chesney

Feb. 2
Monday

Paul Collins
U of North TX (Dept. Political Science)

Cognitive Dissonance on the Supreme Court

Law, Economics, and Politics

 

Townes Hall, 2.137

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Daniel Rodriguez

Feb.3
Tuesday

Hannah Wiseman

Rule-bound communities: informing consumers in Tiebout's new world

Drawing Board Lunch

 

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

11:30 - 12:30

Mitchell Berman

Feb. 5
Thursday

Chris Elmendorf
UC Davis

Empirical Legitimacy and Election Law

Constitutional and Legal Theory

 

Faculty Lounge

Townes Hall, 3.214

3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Mitchell Berman

Feb. 6
Friday

David Sklansky

Berkeley

Anti-Inquisitorialism

Friday Faculty Colloquium

 

Faculty Lounge

Townes Hall, 3.214

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Charles Silver

Feb. 9
Monday

Alexander Volokh
Emory (Law)

Why Do Judges Read Statutes?

Law, Economics, and Politics

 

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Daniel Rodriguez

Feb. 13
Friday

Maximo Langer

UCLA

A Sisyphean Task?  An Empirical Assessment of the Managerial Judging Reforms to Expedite ICTY's Criminal Process.

Friday Faculty Colloquium

 

Faculty Lounge

Townes Hall, 3.214

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Charles Silver

Feb. 13
Friday

Liam Murphy
NYU
Leon Green '15 Lecture in Jurisprudence

"Where Legal Disagreement Runs Out"

Law and Philosophy Program

 

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

John Diegh

Feb. 16
Monday

Tracey George
Vanderbilt (Law)

Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts of Appeals Image

Law, Economics, and Politics

 

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Daniel Rodriguez

Feb. 19
Thursday

Adam Samaha
U Chicago

Randomization in Adjudication

Constitutional and Legal Theory

 

Faculty Lounge

Townes Hall, 3.214

3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Mitchell Berman

Feb. 23
Monday

Tom Clark
Emory (Law & PS)

Judicial Selection Methods and Judicial Independence

Law, Economics, and Politics

 

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Daniel Rodriguez

Feb. 27
Friday

Doron Teichman

Old Habits are Hard to Change: Evidence from Israeli Real Estate Contracts

Friday Faculty Colloquium

Sheffield Room

12:30 - 2:00 pm

Charles Silver

March 2
Monday

Ronen Avraham and Daniel Statman

Relational and Non-Relational Notions of Justice

Law and Philosophy Workshop

Jury Room

2.310

10:30 - 12:30 p.m.

John Deigh

March 2
Monday

Nuno Garoupa
U. Illinois (Law)

Judicial Audiences and Reputation: Perspectives from Comparative Law

Reputation, Information, and the Industrial Organization of the Judiciary

Law, Economics, and Politics

 

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Daniel Rodriguez

March 3
Tuesday

Bernard Black
UT

Due Diligence

Drawing Board Lunch

 

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

11:30 - 12:30 p.m.

Mitchell Berman

March 9
Monday

Bernard Black
UT

How Corporate Governance Affects Firm Value: Evidence on Channels from Korea

Law, Economics, and Politics

 

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Daniel Rodriguez

March 12
Thursday

Michael Kang
Emory

Voting as Veto

Constitutional and Legal Theory

 

Faculty Lounge

3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Mitchell Berman

March 23
Monday

Kirk Stark
UCLA (Law)

Rich States, Poor States: American Federalism and the Politics of Fiscal Equalization

Law, Economics, and Politics

 

Townes Hall, 2.137

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Daniel Rodriguez

March 24
Tuesday

Garrick Pursley

Some Questions About Structural Constitutional Norms

Drawing Board Lunch

 

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

11:30 - 12:30 p.m.

Mitchell Berman

March 30
Monday

William Howell
University of Chicago

War-Time Judgments of Presidential Power: Striking Down but Not Back

Law, Economics, and Politics

 

Sheffield Room

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Daniel Rodriguez

April 2
Thursday

Lisa Bressman
Vanderbilt

Chevron's Mistake

Constitutional and Legal Theory

 

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Mitchell Berman

April 3
Friday

Hans Baade

Fatwa and Responsum: Parallels Between Islamic and Roman Jurisprudence

Friday Faculty Colloquium

Faculty Lounge

12:30 - 2:00 pm

Charles Silver

April 7
Tuesday

Denise Gilman

A “Bilingual” Approach to Language Rights: 
How Dialogue between the Languages of the U.S. Legal System and International Human Rights Law May Aid in the Development of a More Coherent and Just Language Rights Paradigm

Drawing Board Lunch

 

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

11:30 - 12:30 p.m.

Mitchell Berman

April 10
Friday

Tom McGarity

Laissez Faire Legal Scholars

Friday Faculty Colloquium

Faculty Lounge

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Charles Silver

April 13
Monday

Larry Alexander

What Are Constitutions?

Workshop

 

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

11:30 - 12:30 p.m.

Mitchell Berman

April 13
Monday

Matthew Stephenson
Harvard

Judicial Deference to Inconsistent Agency Statutory Interpretations

Law, Economics, and Politics

 

Sheffield Room

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Daniel Rodriguez

April 16
Thursday

Gerald Postema
UNC

Positivism and the Separation of Realists from Their Skepticism: Normative Guidance, the Rule of Law, and Legal Reasoning

Constitutional and Legal Theory

 

Faculty Lounge

Townes Hall, 3.214

3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Mitchell Berman

April 17
Friday

Amanda Frost

The Limits of Advocacy

Friday Faculty Colloquium

Faculty Lounge

Townes Hall, 3.214

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Charles Silver

April 20
Monday

Stefanie Lindquist

The Strategy of Judicial Review

Law, Economics, and Politics

 

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Daniel Rodriguez

April 24
Friday

Anup Malani

Do advertisements affect the physiological efficacy of
branded drugs?**

**Please note this paper is only available in hard-copy form

Friday Faculty Colloquium

Faculty Lounge

Townes Hall, 3.214

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Charles Silver

April 27
Monday

Lydia Tiede
U. Houston (Dept. Political Science)

Legal Reform and Good Governance:
Assessing Rights and Economic Development in Chile

 

Law, Economics, and Politics

 

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Daniel Rodriguez

April 30
Thursday

Tom Colby
GW

The Paradox of the New Originalism

 

Constitutional and Legal Theory

 

Faculty Lounge

Townes Hall, 3.214

3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Mitchell Berman

May 1
Friday

9:00    Review and Update on ESC Science

10:00  Ethics

11:15   Ethics and Politics

2:00  Regulatory Structures

3:45  Intellectual Property Issues

Law and Innovation in Bioscience: The Case of Embryonic Stem Cells

 

Eidmann Courtroom

John Robertson

May 2
Saturday

9:00 AM   Translating Research into Clinical Practice

10:45     Social and Health Policy Issues

12:15   Concluding Remarks

Law and Innovation in Bioscience: The Case of Embryonic Stem Cells

Eidmann Courtroom

John Robertson

May 4
Monday

Charles Silver
UT

The Quasi-Class Action Method of Managing Multidistrict Litigations: Problems and a Proposal

Law, Economics, and Politics

 

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Daniel Rodriguez

May 8
Friday

Neil Netanel
UCLA Law School

From Maimonides to Microsoft: The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print

Friday Faculty Colloquium

Sheffield Room

Townes Hall, 2.111

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Charles Silver

May 12
Tuesday

Emily Kadens

The Last Bankrupt Hanged

 

Drawing Board Lunch

 

Sheffield Room

11:30 - 12:30 p.m.

Mitchell Berman