The Annual Kleh Lecture: Carceral Journeys of Feminist Activism: Global Patterns and Rape Law Reforms in India
Monday, November 18th 12:45pm – 2:00pm Boston University School of Law 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215 Barristers Hall, First Floor Lunch will be served in Barristers Hall starting at noon, please register. Please join us for the Annual Kleh Lecture where Professor Dash will critically examine the transfer of carceral feminist politics from the […]
Annual Health Law Lecture
Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law is excited to announce the 2024 Health Law Lecture, featuring Professors Seema Mohapatra (SMU Dedman School of Law) and Lindsay Wiley (UCLA Law). Mohapatra and Wiley will lead a discussion on their co-edited book, Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten (Cambridge University Press, 2022), which reimagines pivotal health law cases […]
Colorado Law Feminist Cyberlaw Symposium: Participatory Access and Governance
On November 8th, Ngozi Okidegbe will attend the Colorado Law Feminist Cyberlaw Symposium. She will present Revisioning Algorithms as a Black Feminist Project at the “Impacted Communities and Governance of Data, Algorithms, and AI” panel. For more information, visit the Colorado Law event webpage.
NYU Law Conference: Recent Legislative Responses to Litigation Finance
Maya Steinitz will speak at NYU Law’s “Recent Legislative Responses to Litigation Finance” Conference on Monday, October 28th. The conference will consist of three panels, of which Maya will speak on the “Disclosure of Commercial Litigation Financing Agreements” panel from 9:30am to 11:00am, and will discuss how certain recent legislation will impact the commercial funding […]
Access & Accountability 2024
The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic and the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression annually bring together transparency advocates of all stripes to identify current impediments to government openness and to develop strategies for addressing them. Law school clinicians from around the country, together with investigative journalists, academics, practicing lawyers, and law students, explore […]
Taxation without Borders – Contemporary and Future Challenges for the Power to Tax
The CATS Network, initiated by scholars from Swedish universities, will address the inadequacies of traditional taxation regimes in our rapidly changing world. This initiative responds to the urgent need for innovative fiscal solutions in the face of retreating democracy, rising inequality, and climate change. Placing debates of tax law within the broader ambits of history, […]
Leavey Professor Michael Santoro Launches New Speaker Series on AI and Human Rights
As artificial intelligence integrates more deeply into daily life, its impact on human rights has drawn increasing scrutiny. While AI offers tremendous potential for innovation and economic growth, it also poses risks to privacy, equality, and personal freedoms. AI systems used in areas like law enforcement, hiring, and healthcare can produce biased or discriminatory outcomes […]
Thirty-Fifth Economics Institute for Law Professors
The Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, invites applications for the Thirty-Fifth Economics Institute for Law Professors to be held at the Grand Summit Hotel in Park City, Utah. The program will run from Sunday, June 1 to Friday, June 13, 2025. The goal of the Economics Institute for […]
Book Symposium: Aziz Rana’s “The Constitutional Bind”
Robert L. Tsai and Zohra Ahmed will speak at The Program on Law and Political Economy at Harvard Law School’s Book Symposium: Aziz Rana’s “The Constitutional Bind” on Friday, October 25. As the United States approaches a pivotal presidential election, the symposium aims to spark meaningful dialogue about US constitutionalism, its contradictions, and alternative constitutional […]
Property Works in Progress
“Property Works in Progress” brings together leading property scholars who are invited to present and discuss to discuss papers on a variety of topics, including property theory, land use, takings, the history of property law and intellectual property. It features seven panels devoted to the discussion of advanced “works in progress” and two roundtables on “early-stage” […]