Law Faculty Workshops
For additional information about Law Faculty Workshops, contact Errol Meidinger.
Current Faculty Workshops: 2009-10
Past Faculty Workshops:
2008-09
2007-08,
2006-07,
2005-06,
2003-04,
2002-03,
2001-02
2008-2009 |
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| Fri. Sept. 5 12:00-1:30pm 509 O'Brian |
David Westbrook | From "Between Citizen and State" to "Working Together": Corporations, Development, and the Imagination of Civil Society after Globalization |
| Fri. Sept. 12 12:00-1:30pm 509 O'Brian |
Mark Bartholomew | Cops, Robbers, and Search Engines: The Role of Criminal Law in Contributory infringement Doctrine (PDF / SSRN) |
| Fri., Sept. 26 12:00-2:00pm 509 O'Brian |
Nancy Staudt, Northwestern University School of Law | Does the Court Cycle? Cosponsored by the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy. |
| Fri. Oct. 17 12:00-1:30pm 509 O'Brian |
Winnifred Sullivan | Religion Naturalized: The New Establishment |
| Fri. Oct. 24 2:00-3:30pm 509 O'Brian |
John Schlegel | More Crabs, But Still No Barrel |
| Fri. Nov. 21 12:00-1:30pm 509 O'Brian |
Anver Emon, Univ. of Toronto Faculty of Law | Techniques of Rights Reasoning in Islamic Law, Cosponsored by the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy |
| Fri. Feb. 6 12:00-1:30pm 509 O'Brian |
Mateo Taussig-Rubbo | Sacred Property: Searching for Value in the 9/11 Rubble |
| Fri. Feb. 13 12:00-1:30pm 509 O'Brian |
Susan Mangold | Follow the Money: the Impact of State and Local Funding Strategies on Child Welfare Policies |
| Fri. Feb. 20 12:00-1:30pm 509 O'Brian |
Ruqaiijah Yearby | Civil Rights in Health Care |
| Fri. Apr. 3 12:00-1:30pm 509 O'Brian |
Jim Gardner and Antoni Abad i Ninet | Sustainable Federalism: Constitutional Power, Extraconstitutional Influence, and Subnational Symmetry |
| Fri. Apr. 10 12:00-1:30pm Room 5, O'Brian |
Stuart Lazar | Accounting for Human Capital in the Area of Education: The Basis for an Amortization Expense for the Deduction of Higher Education Expenditures |
| Fri. Apr. 17 12:30-2:00pm 509 O'Brian |
Irus Braverman | Civilized Borders: A Study of Israel's New Crossing Administration |
| Fri. Apr. 24 12:00-1:30pm 509 O'Brian |
Robert J Steinfeld | The Early Anti-Majoritarian Rationale for Judicial Review |
2007-2008 |
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| Nov. 16 | Errol Meidinger | Competitive Supra-Governmental Regulation: How Could It Be Democratic? |
| Dec. 5 | Guyora Binder | The Culpability of Felony Murder |
| Feb. 5 | Mateo Taussig-Rubbo | Outsourcing Sacrifice: The Labor of Private Military Contractors |
| Feb. 15 | William Greiner | Location, Location, Location: A Special History of The University of/at Buffalo Co-authored by William Greiner and Thomas E. Headrick, Center Working Papers 2007. Copies for preview in Faculty Lounge |
| Feb. 29 | James Wooten | Inequitable Distributions: Does N.Y. Marital Property Law Shortchange Women in Dividing Pensions upon Divorce? |
| Apr. 4 | John Schlegel | On the Many Flavors of Capitalism or Reflections from Confronting Schumpeter's Ghost |
| Apr. 11 | Robert Steinfeld | The People or the Courts? Conflicting Visions of Constitutional Order, Customary Constitutionalism, and the Emergence of American Judicial Review (10 minute introduction by Rob; manuscript circulated in advance) |
| May 2 | Martha McCluskey | A Critical Field Guide to Law and Economics |
2003-2004 |
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| Sept. 12 | Presentor: Shubha Ghosh, Comments: Jose Plehn-Dujowich | Culture, Economics, and the Public Domain (pdf) |
| Sept. 26 | James Milles | Leaky Boundaries and the Decline of the Autonomous Law School Library (pdf) |
| Oct. 3 | Lauren Edelman, Berkeley, Comments: Lucinda Finley and James Johnson, Rochester | Law at Work: An Institutional Approach to Civil Rights (pdf). An Institutionalism Seminar - Baldy |
| Oct. 10 | John Schlegel | The Place of the Disciplines in the Contemporary University (pdf) |
| Oct. 17 | Athena Mutua | Kenya's Regime Change and Constitutional Review Process: Prospects for Women's Solidarity Across Religious Difference and Increased Political Participation (pdf). A Joint Baldy-UB Law School Seminar |
| Oct. 31 | Presentor: Errol Meidinger, Comments: Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Guyora Binder | Property Law for Development Policy and Institutional Theory: Problems of Structure, Choice, and Change(pdf). An Institutionalism Seminar - Baldy |
| Nov. 7 | Charles Ewing | Ethical Dilemmas Faced by Psychologists Working for the Government in Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism Work |
| Nov. 14 | Presentor: Ed Rubin, Penn. Comments: Mark Hurwitz and David Westbrook | Rethinking Politics and Law for the Administrative State: From Legitimacy to Compliance (pdf). An Institutionalism Seminar - Baldy |
| Nov. 21 | Makau Mutua | Taming Leviathan. A Joint Baldy - UB Law School Seminar |
| Dec. 5 | Presentor: Ernesto Laclau. Comments: Guyora Binder and Elizebeth Mensch | Empty Signifiers and the Logic of Representation. An Institutionalism Seminar - Baldy |
| Feb. 6 | Presentor: David Rohde, Michigan State Univ. Comments: James Wooten | The Consequences of Party Organization in the House: The Role of Majority and Minority Parties in Conditional Party Government (pdf). An Institutionalism Seminar - Baldy |
| Feb. 20 | Presentor: Helju Bennett. Comments: David Engel and Errol Meidinger | Naming the Ephemeral: Considering "the Rights to Move" Managed by the Russian Governments Past and Present. An Institutionalism Seminar - Baldy |
| Feb. 27 | Presentor: Nicola Lacey, LSE | Causation and the Limits of Linguistic Philosophy in Anglo-American Law (pdf). Sponsored by Buffalo Criminal Law Center |
| Mar. 8 | Presentors: David Chambers, Michigan, Charles Daye, North Carolina, Margaret Montoya, New Mexico, Marjorie Shultz, Boalt Hall, Frank Wu, Howard | 2004 Mitchell Lecture Who Gets In? The Quest for Diversity After Grutter |
| Mar. 12 | Robert Goodin, Australian National Univ. Comments: James Gardner and Ken Shockley | Democratic Accountability: The Third Sector and All (pdf). An Institutionalism Seminar - Baldy |
| Mar. 26 | Presentor: Elisabeth Clemens, Chicago. Comments: Bob Granfield, Wesley Sine, Cornell, James Wooten | Making a Market in Education? Arizona's Charter Schools as an Experiment in Institutional Change(pdf). An Institutionalism Seminar - Baldy |
| Apr. 9 | Barry Boyer and Lynda Schneekloth | Hydropower and Empowerment: Community Participation in Alternative Licensing Proceedings. A Joint Baldy - UB Law School Seminar |
| Apr. 16 | Presentor: Yoram Barzel, Univ. of Washington. Comments: Stanley Engerman, Rochester and Lesley Jacobs, York | The Law of One Price, Costly Information and the Law of Price Convergence, followed by panel discussion of Theory of the State. An Institutionalism Seminar - Baldy |
| Apr. 22 | Presentor: James Gardner. Comments: Lynn Mather | Self-sustaining Constitutional Systems. An Institutionalism Seminar - Baldy |
| Apr. 23 | Rebecca French | Holes and Disciplinarity: Why the Field of Buddhist Legal Studies Doesn't Exist. A Joint Baldy - UB Law School Seminar |
| Apr. 30 | John Schlegel | Notes Toward a General Theory of Civil Liability and the Escape from the Plaintiff's Lawyer's Nose |
2002-2003 |
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| Sept. 13 | John Schlegel | But Pierre, If We Can't Think Normatively, What Are We To Do? |
| Sept. 20 | Shubha Ghosh | Manufacturing Law: The Citizen Author, Merger Doctrine, and Copyright Treatment of Legal Code and Other Functional Expression |
| Sept. 27 | David Engel | Injury Narratives: Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand |
| Oct. 4 | James Atleson | Challenged Premises: New Ambiguities and Dislocations in Labor Law |
| Oct. 25 | James Gardner | State Courts as Agents of Federalism: Power and Interpretation in State Constitutional Law |
| Nov. 1 | Robert Reis | Emerging Imaging Technologies, Evidence, and Authentication |
| Nov. 15 | Teresa Miller | Citizenship and Severity |
| Nov. 22 | Guyora Binder | The Rhetoric of Motive and Intent in Criminal Law |
| Dec. 6 | Martha McCluskey | From Husband Care to Worker Care: Rethinking Support for Family Caretaking Labor |
| Feb.7 | Susan Mangold | Reforming Child Protection in Response to the Catholic Church Child Sexual Abuse Scandal |
| Feb.14 | Shubha Ghosh and David Driesen | The Benefits of Transaction Costs: Rethinking Transaction Cost Minimization |
| Feb.28 | Lynn Mather | How Does What Clients Want Link to What Lawyers Should Do? An Empirical: Look at Lawyer-Client Relations |
| Mar. 7 | Elizabeth Mensch | Religious Perspectives in Conceptualizing the Market |
| Apr. 4 | Ed Baker, University of Pennsylvania Law School | 2003 Mitchell Lecture - Media, Markets and Democracy |
| Apr. 11 | Errol Meidinger | The Ontology of Property: Reflections of an Unreconstructed Constructionist |
2001-2002 |
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| Oct. 12 | Athena Mutua and Stephanie Phillips | The World Conference Against Racism: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? |
| Oct. 19 | Markus Dubber | Police, Law, and Punishment |
| Oct. 26 | James Gardner | One Person, One Vote, and the Possibility of Political Community |
| Nov. 9 | Teresa Miller | Mass Incarceration in Immigration Detention |
| Nov. 16 | Isabel Marcus | Dark Numbers: Domestic Violence, Law and Public Policy in Poland, Russia, Rumania and Hungary |
| Feb. 1 | Barry Boyer | Telling River Stories |
| Feb. 8 | Guyora Binder | |
| Feb. 15 | Rebecca French | Shopping for Religion |
| Feb. 22 | David Engel | Injury Narratives, Legal Consciousness, and Cultural Dislocation: Voices from Northern Thailand |
| Mar. 15 | Errol Meidinger | Regulating in the Shadow of Law |
| Apr. 5 | Barry Cushman, Neal E. Devins, Mark A. Graber, Isabelle Katz Pinzler, William G. Ross | The Reconfiguration of Liberty in American Law. 2002 Mitchell Lecture Series - Mr. Dooley and Mr. Gallup: Public Opinion and Constitutional Change in the 1930s. |
| Apr. 19 | Shubha Ghosh & David Driesen | The Value of Transaction Costs |
| James Atleson | The 'New Four' Questions in Labor Law -- Domestic Issues in a Global Context | |