Law Talk #5: Dan Markovits on Contract Theory

Date: 9/30/2007
Title: Law Talk Episode 5 (29:21)
Speaker(s): Nathan Oman, Daniel Markovits
Location: podcast
Presentation type(s): audio (.mp3) / podcast

The newest episode of Law Talk, a podcast by Nathan Oman of William and Mary, is now up. Oman interviews Dan Markovits, on application of his collaborative theory of contract law to contracts of adhesion.

Ruth Colker, Doug Berman 2007 term

Date: 9/29/2007
Title: on Bd. of Ed. of City of New York v. Tom F.
Speaker: Ruth Colker
Location: Ohio State
Presentation type: audio (.mp3)

Professor Ruth Colker speaks on the IDEA case on the Court’s docket.

Date: 9/29/2007
Title: on Kimbrough v. United States and Gall v. United States
Speaker: Doug Berman
Location: Ohio State
Presentation type: audio (.mp3)

Professor Douglas Berman speaks on two federal sentencing cases on the Court’s docket this term.

Today @ Georgetown: 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Division

Date: 9/29/2007
Title: Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice: Law Enforcement Role of the Civil Rights Division, Past & Future

• Welcome and Introduction – Stephen Pollak
• Panel I: Voter Registration & the Path to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – John Doar, Charles McDew, John Siegenthaler
• Panel II: School Desegregation in Alabama – Jack Bass, Brian Landsberg
• Keynote – Jack Nelson
• Panel III: Looking to the Future of Federal Civil Rights Enforcement – Samuel Bagenstos, Julie Fernandes, Vicki Schultz, Mark Tushnet, Sherrilyn Ifill
• Closing Remarks

Speaker(s): (above)
Location: Georgetown
Presentation type(s): (live link at page linked above)

War Crimes Research Symposium @ Case Western

Date: 9/28/2007
Title: War Crimes Research Symposium: To Prevent and to Punish: A Conference Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Genocide Convention
Speaker(s): Robert Petit, Juan E. Méndez
Location: Case Western
Presentation type: streaming video (Windows Media Player)

note: this was broadcast live; archived video to appear here.

Fred Zacharias @ Case Western

Date: 9/26/2007
Title: The Robert P. Lawry Lecture in Legal Ethics: Fitting Lying to the Court into the Central Moral Tradition of Lawyering
Speaker: Fred C. Zacharias
Location: Case Western Reserve
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Windows Media Player)

 

From the announcement:

Should lawyers ever lie to the court? Professor Monroe H. Freedman – the modern-day guru of client-centered advocacy – recently has suggested that they sometimes should. Professor Zacharias will locate Freedman’s claim within modern scholarship debating the role of lawyers. Looking to the work of legal ethicists, moral philosophers, and Bob Lawry himself, Zacharias will challenge Freedman’s conclusions and, in Lawry’s terms, make an effort to “get the paradigm straight.”

Antitrust Lecture Series @ WCL

Date: 9/26/2007
Title: Anti Trust Lecture Series: China’s Proposed Antimonopoly Law (1:54:53)
Speaker(s): Sheng Jiemin, Yee Wah Chin, Todd Miller
Location: Washington College of Law
Presentation type(s): streaming / downloadable audio (.mp3)

Part of WCL’s podcast of events and speakers [iTunes] [rss]

WCL has inaugurated an international antitrust lecture series during which leading governmental officials, academics and practitioners will discuss antitrust policy and procedural issues in an international and comparative setting. On August 30, 2007, China enacted a comprehensive competition law. This law is likely to raise numerous procedural and substantive questions and will undoubtedly have far-reaching consequences. WCL is honored to have Professor Sheng Jiemin, Peking University, one of the participants in the drafting process, visit from Beijing to speak about the law, its likely implications and the development of enforcement mechanisms. Commenting on the law will be Yee Wah Chin, Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti, LLP, New York who has been closely following its enactment and has lead several efforts to provide comments on the law to the Chinese Government. The panel will be moderated by Todd Miller, Baker & Miller PLLC, who has also participated in commenting on the law during the legislative process and teaches International and Comparative Antitrust Law at WCL.

Yet another Supreme Court Roundup: ACS

Date: 9/26/2007
Title: Supreme Court 2007-08 Preview
Speaker(s): Thomas C. Goldstein, Neal Katyal, Christopher Landau, Virginia Seitz, Paul M. Smith, Carol Steiker
Location: Nat’l Press Club
Presentation type: Streaming video (Windows Media Player or Real Player), audio (.mp3)

A group of scholars and attorneys gathered at the National Press Club last week to look at a handful of cases on the Supreme Court’s upcoming docket. Thanks to the Law Librarian blog for the tip.

State Supreme Court webcasts

A surprising number of states are offering live and archived webcasts of their court proceedings. So far, I’ve found 29 states offering webcasts in some form. See the link at the top of the page labeled “State Courts” for the list. Comments open on this one, in case anyone knows of any I’ve missed.

A Look at the new SCOTUS term from Washington College of Law

Date: 9/25/2007
Title: Ninth Annual Looking Ahead at the New Supreme Court Term (1:21:41)
Speaker(s): Steve Wermiel, Mary Siegel, Steve Vladek, Cynthia Jones
Location: Washington College of Law
Presentation type(s): streaming / downloadable audio (.mp3)

Wermiel notes that of the 67 decisions handed down last term, 24 were decided by 5-4 votes, and 23 of those decided by the conservative majority (Kennedy making the difference).

Probably won’t see abortion or affirmative action, but other hot-button issues..

Aging court – 3 justices in 70s, one in 80s. Chief only 52. Low caseload year so far.

Siegel talks about a securities case (Stoneridge Investment Partners v. Scientific Atlanta); Vladek talks about two habeas cases; Jones talks about a case involving peremptory challenges (Snyder).

Copyright lecture @ WCL

Date: 9/25/2007
Title: The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy
Speaker(s): Peter Jaszi, Renee Hobbs, Pat Aufderheide, Kenneth Crews, Dale Allender, Shay Taylor, Karen Zill
Location: Washington College of Law
Presentation type(s): streaming / downloadable audio (.mp3)

Part of WCL’s podcast of events and speakers [iTunes] [rss]

From the announcement of the release of the report and presentation:

A new report on copyright and creativity from the Center for Social Media, American University; Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Washington College of Law, American University, and Media Education Lab, Temple University

September 25, 2:00 PM

Washington College of Law, Room 603, 4801 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC

Please join Professors Renee Hobbs of Temple University, Peter Jaszi of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University’s Washington College of Law and Pat Aufderheide of the Center for Social Media in the School of Communication at American University on Tuesday, September 25, for the release of their report, The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy. The event starts at 2pm, followed by a reception.

Participants include will include high school teachers affected by copyright regulations, representatives from the media literacy movement, and leading legal scholars in the area of copyright, fair use, and education. Panelists will explore such issues as:

• What do teachers know (and don’t know) about copyright?
• How does copyright confusion limit the quality of student learning?
• What are effective solutions to this problem?

Who: Pat Aufderheide will moderate the event.

A panel of scholars, including Hobbs, Jaszi, and Kenneth Crews, a legal scholar at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and author of Copyright Law for Librarians and Educators, will discuss the findings of the report. Following the panel, the following people will discuss the meaning of the report for their organizations and work:

• Dale Allender, Associate Executive Director of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the leading professional membership organization for English language arts educators.
• Shay Taylor, media teacher at Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland.
• Karen Zill, on the board of directors of the Alliance for a Media Literate American (AMLA), the national membership organization for media literacy

We look forward to seeing you there and chatting with you at the reception!

Where: American University, Washington College of Law, Room 603_4801 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC Driving Directions and Parking information available at: http://www.wcl.american.edu

When: Tuesday, September 25, 2:00 p.m. Reception to follow.