2008
List of all events (pdf)
Selected Conferences, Workshops and Speaker Series:
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Ideas & Innovations in Legal Scholarship - Spring 2008
- Ideas
& Innovations in Legal Scholarship - Fall 2008
- Feb. 15-16, 2008 Contracts: Law in Action
Workshop. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Contracts Group and
hosted by Jean Braucher (Roger Henderson Professor of Law at the
James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona and
Distinguished Scholar at the Institute for Legal Studies) who is
chair of the project to revise the textbook, Contracts: Law in
Action.
- March 14-15, 2008 Working From the
World Up: Equality's Future -- A New Legal Realism Conference
Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory
Project. Hosted by Professor Victoria Nourse and sponsored
by the Institute for Legal Studies, the Feminism and Legal Theory
Project at Emory University, the New Legal Realism Project, and the
Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender and Society. Featuring a keynote
address by Professor Patricia Williams, Columbia University Law
School.
Program and Selected Papers - Sept. 19-20, 2008 Midwest Law and Society
Retreat
Biennial interdisciplinary event that brings together faculty and graduate students from the region's diverse social science and law programs for a weekend of intellectual exchange. More information - Oct. 24-26, 2008 Interdisciplinary Conference
The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law.
This interdisciplinary conference, which has multiple sponsors, brought together leading academics, authors and intellectuals to examine the Weimar period in European history, culture, and law and to trace the continuity of Weimar thinkers and their impact on the continued viability of liberal democracy in today’s world. Program and Registration Information