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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

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

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


2006-2007

Oct. 4 James Wooten A Historical Perspective on the Pension Funding Crisis
Nov. 1 Thomas Headrick & John Schlegel Understanding Buffalo’s Economic Development—a book review of Power Failure: Politics, Patronage and the Economic Future of Buffalo by Diana Dillaway
Nov. 8 Rebecca French et al Roundtable Discussion: Educating for Compassion: Conversations about law following the Dalai Lama's visit
Nov. 29 John Schlegel Those Weren't the Good Old Days, Just the Old Days (review of Kalman, Yale Law and Sixties)
Dec. 7 Rebecca French, Susan Mangold, Anthony Szczygiel, & Suzanne Tomkins Roundtable Discussion: Educating for Compassion (2): Examples of Pedagogy and Classroom Strategies
Mar. 2 Winnifred Sullivan The Bible, the Koran, and Dr. Seuss: Prison Reform in the 21st Century
Mar. 9 Susan Mangold Poor Enough to be Eligible? Child Abuse, Neglect and the Poverty Requirement
Apr. 13 David Engel Reading the Landscape of Injury: The Lost Pathway to Law
May 9 James Milles Blogging as Social Scholarship: An Introduction For Those Who Don't Know Their RSS from Their Elbow


2005-2006

Sept. 30 John Schlegel CLS Wasn't Killed by a Question
Oct. 21 Elizebeth Mensch Jonathan Edwards' Legacy: The Problem of "Tradition"
Oct. 28 Martha McCluskey The Substantive Politics of Formal Corporate Power
Nov. 18 Martha McCluskey Left Legal Theory After the Right's Rise
Feb. 10 Errol Meidinger The Administrative Law of Global Private/Public Regulation: the Case of Forestry
Mar. 31 James Gardner Representation without Party: Lessons from State Constitutional Attempts to Control Gerrymandering


2003-2004

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

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

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
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