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21 May 2013, 6:25 am
Editor's Note: Matteo Tonello is managing director at The Conference Board. This post relates to an issue of The Conference Board’s Director Notes series authored by Dr. Tonello and available here.
In a Director Note recently published, The Conference Board reviews current corporate practices on risk oversight by members of the board of directors of U.S. public companies. The study is based on findings from a survey of 359 SEC-registered business corporations conducted by The Conference… [read post]
20 May 2013, 3:02 pm
Exploring New Directions in the Islamic Legal Tradition:
Human Rights and Legal Reform in the 21st Century
Tue 18 June 2013
9.30 am- 6:30pm
Day Conference
BRUNEL LAW SCHOOL
Telford Room, Hamilton Centre
Brunel University Campus,
Kingston Lane, Uxbridge
Brunel academics & students: Free
Non-Brunel academics: £20
Non Brunel students: £10
Public: £20
Price includes refreshments & lunch
I received the following information… [read post]
20 May 2013, 10:00 am
The American Bar Association will be hosting a Trust & Estate Webinar entitled, What’s the Encore: Correcting and/or Amplifying Family Wealth Transfers on June 6, 2013 from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM CT. A description of the webinar is below:... [read post]
19 May 2013, 8:05 pm
May 21, 2013 - Ethics in IP Practice (Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago) - Chicago, IL May 21-23, 2013 - Pharma Legal Affairs (IBC Life Sciences) - Shanghai, China May 27, 2013 - A Harmonized Patent World -- Are We Getting There? (Intellectual Property Owners Association) - Brussels, Belgium May 29, 2013 - AIA and Patent Due Diligence Understanding the AIA Impact and Best Practices for the Due Diligence Process (Strafford) - 1:00 - 2:30 pm (ET) May 30, 2013 - Harmonization of USPTO… [read post]
19 May 2013, 4:42 pm
Bob Lawless (Ill.) asked me to post the following Call for Papers for the 2013 MLEA, and I am delighted to do so. University of Illinois College of Law will host the conference and the deadline for proposals is August 1, 2013. A brief description of the conference follows (more details here).
"The University of Illinois College of Law and the Illinois Program on Law, Behavior & Social Science are hosting the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Midwest Law & Economics Association on October 11… [read post]
19 May 2013, 12:49 pm
I recently received the following message:
A l'occasion de la prochaine réunion de l’Association Internationale des Revues
de Droit Social / International Association of Labour Law Journals
(IALLJ), le COMPTRASEC organise un colloque international sur la thématique de
l’accès à la justice sociale en droit international et en droit comparé, qui se
déroulera du 6 au 7 juin 2013 à Bordeaux.
Les thèmes abordés porteront sur… [read post]
19 May 2013, 6:00 am
The American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law will sponsor a CLE entitled, When Good Benes Go Bad or Missing Beneficiary Designation Problems with Qualified Plans and IRAs: How to Identify, Avoid and Fix Them, on... [read post]
19 May 2013, 5:00 am
by An Hertogen
Calls for Papers
The Centre on Human Rights in Conflict is organising a workshop on Law, Faith and Historical Memory to take place in London (Stratford Campus, University of East London) on June, 12. More information is here
The University of Wisconsin is inviting internationally acclaimed women scholars and advanced PhD candidates to the second conference on the Creation of International Law: Exploring the International Law Components of Peace, on April 4-5, 2014… [read post]
17 May 2013, 9:30 pm
On June 27, 2013, Morehead State University will host a Federalism Symposium featuring "academic presentations of research from scholars across the nation with expertise on federalism and intergovernmental relations." For information on how to submit a proposal, follow the link. (Hat tip: H-Law) The latest issue of the Journal of Legal Education contains several reviews of interest: Laurie L. Levenson (Loyola Law School, Los Angeles) reviews The People's Courts: Pursuing Judicial Independence in… [read post]
17 May 2013, 8:10 pm
The Chisum Patent Academy will be offering its next Advanced Patent Law Seminars from July 31 to August 2, 2013 and from August 5-7, 2013 in Seattle, WA. The three-day seminar will focus on the following patent law topics: • Patent Practice Gone Wrong: Lessons from Recent Cases on Patent Malpractice and Rule 11 Sanctions • CLS Bank v. Alice Corp.: Making Sense Out of Nonsense • Blockbuster Supreme Court and en banc Federal Circuit cases: Myriad (patent eligible subject… [read post]
17 May 2013, 8:07 pm
The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) will be offering a program on "Ethics in IP Practice" on May 21, 2013 from 12:00 to 5:00 pm (Central) at the offices of Winston & Strawn LLP in Chicago, IL. Wendy Muchman, Chief of Litigation/Professional Education, ARDC; Michael Barrett, Director of Risk Control, CNA; and William Covey, Deputy General Counsel and Director for Office of Enrollment and Discipline, USPTO will discuss the new professional code of conduct and other ethical… [read post]
17 May 2013, 7:02 pm
From the Legal Scholarship Blog:
Call for Papers and Conference: “Wills, Trusts and Estates Meets Gender, Race and Class,” hosted by Oklahoma City University School of Law on Sept. 27-28, 2013.
This conference seeks to bring the insights of progressive property theory to the area of inheritance and succession law and will address the many points of intersection between inheritance law, gender and race, social structure, wealth inequality, domestic violence, indigenous people’s… [read post]
17 May 2013, 2:17 pm
The following is our summary of the Supreme Court’s actions on petitions for review in civil cases from the Court’s conference on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The summary includes those civil cases in which (1) review has been granted, (2) review has been denied but one or more justices has voted for review, or (3) the Court has ordered depublished an opinion of the Court of Appeal.
Review Granted
Conservatorship of McQueen, S209376—Review Granted—May 15, 2013
The question… [read post]
17 May 2013, 12:54 pm
Over lunch, Mayor Annise Parker told the audience touching personal stories of her own children adopted out of foster care.
We are now enjoying 7 amazing breakout sessions over 3 hours. Only 2 more hours until the conference concludes!
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17 May 2013, 12:00 pm
The State Bar of Texas is presenting the 24th Annual Estate Planning and Probate Drafting Course in Houston, TX on October 24-25, 2013. The course provides 13 hours of MCLE credit, including 2 hours of ethics. A description of the... [read post]
17 May 2013, 11:49 am
NACDL's 3rd Annual West Coast White Collar Conference, titled “Turning the Tables on the Government will be held at the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort on June 6-7, 2013. (esp) [read post]
17 May 2013, 11:13 am
UC-Hastings hosts the Spring 2013 Northern California Tax Roundtable today with these papers: Heather Field (UC-Hastings), Tax Planning and the Ethical Tax Lawyer Commentator: Caroline Chen (Santa Clara) David Gamage (UC-Berkeley), On Double-Distortion Arguments, Distribution Policy, and the Optimal Tax Mix Commentator: Susie Morse (UC-Hastings) Stu Karlinsky (Pacific Rim Tax... [read post]
17 May 2013, 8:23 am
Abstracts have been posted of papers presented at the Conference: The Many Faces of Contemporary Philosophy and Theory of Law, held 23-24 March 2013, at Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland. The conference included a special working group on Bayesian analysis in law, abstracts of papers of which begin on page 6 of the abstracts volume and are excerpted below:
Dr Jeroen Keppens: Bayesian Perspectives on the Value of Evidence. Abstract:
Given the interdisciplinary audience, I would like to introduce… [read post]
17 May 2013, 7:41 am
Frankie Guzman, a Soros Fellow at the National Center for Youth Law, starts off this morning’s session with his life story of overcoming years in juvenile prison in California and later attending Berkeley and UCLA Law. Most striking to me was the disparity in armed robbery sentences that he received as a Hispanic man (15 years) and two white women he knew (2 weeks). Even as experienced juvenile defenders it is good to have a reminder of the potential of our young clients. How… [read post]
17 May 2013, 7:06 am
A call for papers has been issued for a conference on "Creation of International Law: Exploring the International Law Components of Peace," to be held April 4-5, 2014, at the University of Wisconsin Law School, in Madison. Here's the call:Call for Papers
Creation of International Law: Exploring the International Law Components of PeaceWisconsin International Law Journal Annual Symposium, April 4-5, 2014, University of Wisconsin Law School, USA
We invite internationally acclaimed women scholars and… [read post]