Congratulations to Jeannie Suk!

Now tenured at Harvard Law School.

New Issue of the Revista Argentina de Teoría Jurídica: "Law and Development"

Revista Argentina de Teoría Jurídica´s new issue is now available online. Revista celebrates its 11th year with an issue entirely devoted to "Law and Development."
Revista Argentina de Teoría Jurídica is the law review at the School of Law, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Changing Job Market

Boston College recently hosted Indiana law professor William Henderson for a public lecture on the legal profession. Though I cannot provide a link to his remarks, here is a short piece Professor Henderson wrote on the subject.

Santa Clara Law School

Happy 100th anniversary!

$4 Billion

That's how much Columbia University is on-track to raise in its capital campaign.

Amartya Sen on his "The Idea of Justice"

A short and very interesting talk by Sen on his book, here.

Louise Arbour and Self-Determination

The former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former Canadian Supreme Court Justice gives her thoughts on the complicated question of self-determination and independence.

Federal Clerkships

Are the clerkship hiring rules being bent? Yes, according to the National Law Journal.

Law Firm Apprenticeships

Could this be a sign of things to come?

Yale Undergraduate Law Review

It is now live, with an interesting first edition that includes an article on Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.

Good luck to the staff.

Most Powerful Women

Two of the top five most powerful women in the world are lawyers, according to Forbes Magazine. See who those two women are here.

Joint Degree at BC and Tufts

Boston College Law School and the Tufts Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are now offering a joint degree program, giving students a Master of Arts in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning and a Juris Doctor in four, instead of five, years.

Canadian Law Schools in 2025

How will they look? A former Dean makes five predictions here.

Law Reviews

How should they be ranked? ATL weights in here.

The Upcoming Supreme Court Term

Dean Minow and Professor Feldman analyze the forthcoming SCOTUS term, evaluating the importance of several big cases that are likely to make legal headlines when they'll be decided.

Officer´s Uprising at Ecuador: Standoff or Coup?

President Correa captive for more than 10 hours

Call for Papers: Terrorism, Law and Democracy: 10 Years after 9/11

Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice
2011 Annual Conference
October 13 & 14, 2011
Montreal, Quebec

Terrorism, Law and Democracy: 10 years after 9/11


About the Conference

The conference will focus on how Canadian law has changed with the threat of terrorism in the decade since 9/11. Many of these changes have been controversial, especially in the way in which they reconcile (or not) civil liberties and human rights with enhanced state power to combat terrorism. At the same time, the last decade has been one of several public inquiries, investigating the actual practice of anti-terrorism by Canada’s security services. Key questions arising from the 2011 conference include, at the broadest level, whether Canadian law has successfully preserved fundamental rights and values of substantive and procedural justice while at the same time contributing to anti-terrorism.

More specifically, the CIAJ 2011 conference will grapple with the practice and law of anti-terrorism, focusing on themes such as:

Anti-terrorism in Context
o Understanding the Threat Environment 10 years after 9/11
o The Challenge of Intelligence Collection and Sharing
o Overview of Recent Canadian and Comparative Legal Developments

Developments in Substantive Anti-Terrorism Law
o Developments in Canadian Criminal Law and Anti-terrorism
o Developments in Canadian Administrative Law and Anti-terrorism

Procedure and Accountability in Anti-terrorism Matters
o Due Process and the Adjudication of Terrorism Cases
o Oversight and Review of Security and Intelligence Agencies

Call for Papers

Panels on these themes will comprise judges, government and private practitioners and academics. By this call for papers, the CIAJ welcomes expressions of interest from academic participants. Expressions of interest should consist of a brief cover letter explaining the applicant’s research interest in the area, a curriculum vitae and an abstract of one page or less describing the paper the applicant proposes delivering. Successful applicants will deliver a fully analytical paper offering a perspective on one of the themes listed above, or a subset of it.

Papers will be submitted to a peer-reviewed process for possible publication in a volume produced by the CIAJ after the conference.

Deadlines

Expressions of interest: By Friday, October 29, 2010, via email to Christine.Robertson@ciaj-icaj.ca

Notice to successful candidates: By end of December 2010

Draft conference paper: By Friday, May 27, 2011

Final pre-conference paper: By Friday, September 9, 2011

Contact persons for further information: Christine Robertson, Christine.Robertson@ciaj-icaj.ca

Parliamentary Elections in Venezuela: What´s at Stake?

Tomorrow, Parliamentary elections will be held in Venezuela. Here´s an explanation of what´s at stake.

Call for Papers

Civil Litigation as a Tool for Regulating Climate Change -- February 18, 2011

The purpose of this conference is to explore the interlinked policy, science, legal and political questions of utilizing the American litigation system, and particularly its tort theories of liability, to regulate climate change. Attempts to employ the courts as a tool for regulation are exemplified by cases such as Comer v. Murphy Oil, Connecticut v. American Electric Power, Co., and Native Village of Kivalina v. Exxon Mobil Corporation. Key presentations at the conference will be made by Professor Daniel Farber, Director of the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, University of California at Berkeley; Professor Michael B. Gerrard, Director of the Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia University School of Law; and Professor Daniel Bodansky of the Schools of Sustainability and of Law, Arizona State University. Scholars and practitioners in the fields of environmental science, litigation, and tort law, among other areas, are encouraged to attend and present papers that will generate debate and discussion concerning the desirability of such litigation, strategies concerning it, and the impact it might have on efforts to bring about national legislation and international cooperation on global warming and related problems.

Valparaiso University School of Law issues this call for papers as part of the 25th Annual Monsanto Lecture/Conference on Tort Law and Jurisprudence, to be held at the School of Law on February 18, 2011. If you are interested in presenting, please submit an abstract of your proposed paper to Associate Dean and Professor of Law JoEllen Lind (JoEllen.Lind@valpo.edu). Abstracts are due on or before December 1, 2010. A limited number of stipends are available to defray travel and lodging costs of some participants.

A DEFENSE OF FREE SPEECH BY AMERICAN AND CANADIAN MUSLIMS

A timely statement released by leaders and academics from the North American Muslim community.