Thursday is Workshop Day
Here is the roundup of workshops from hither and yon:
- At Penn's law and philosophy series, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is presenting Rational Agency and Normative Concepts with comments by Hans Oberdiek.
Also at Penn, Martha Nussbaum (Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Economics, University of Chicago) is giving the JUDITH R. BERKOWITZ ENDOWED LECTURESHIP IN WOMEN'S STUDIES. Her title is Gender Justice, Human Rights, and Human Capabilities.
At Boston University law, Susan Koniak (BU) presents How Like a Winter? The Plight of Absent Class Members Denied Adequate Representation.
At Florida State, Jennifer Mnookin, University of Virginia School of Law, presents Atomism, Holism and the Law of Evidence.
At Georgetown's Colloquium on Intellectual Property & Technology Law, Rosemary J. Coombe, York University, presents The Globalization of Intellectual Property: Informational Capital and Its Cultures.
At Stanford's Olin series, Terry Fisher (Harvard Law School) presents An Alternative Compensation System for the Entertainment Industry.
At the University of Michigan's law and economics series, Omri Ben-Shahar, Michigan, presents "Agreeing to Disagree": Filling Gaps in Deliberately Incomplete. The title on the website is "incomplete," but not deliberately so.
At George Mason, Craig Lerner, GMU School of Law, presents “Accomodations” for the Learning Disabled: A Level Playing Field or Affirmative Action for Elites?
At Oxford's Public International Law Discussion Group, Robert Volterra presents The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf: Technical Science, Star Chamber, or Quasi-Judicial Tribunal?
At the Australian National University's RSSS, Norva Lo (La Trobe University) presents Humpty Dumpty Analysis of 'Valuing', Empty Analysis of 'Valuable'.
At UCLA's legal history series, Sally Gordon, University of Pennsylvania, presents Parochial School Funding: Catholics, Protestants, and Legal Activism at Mid-Century.
