18th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies at Emory University
Weijia Rao will present at the 18th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, as hosted by Emory University from November 8th to November 9th. She will be on the International and Law & Development panel, and will present “Bilateral Treaties and Foreign Policy Convergence: Evidence from Bilateral Investment Treaties.” For more information, visit the official […]
Biennial Conference on International Law and Social Science at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law
Weijia Rao will co-present “Thwarting Diplomacy by Treaty: Evidence from the U.S. Response to Chinese BITs” with Adam Chilton at ASIL’s International Law and Social Sciences Interest Group Biennial Workshop. The event will be hosted at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, and Weijia Rao’s presentation will be held in Session 2 on Friday, September […]
Business Law Workshop at University of Oxford: “Signalling and China’s National Security Lawmaking”
Professor Weijia Rao will present her draft paper, “Signalling and China’s National Security Lawmaking”, from 1:00pm to 2:00pm UK time at the University of Oxford. The workshop will take place in the Law Board Room, St Cross Building. For more information, visit the official event page.
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 […]