Agenda

Friday, June 27 


8:15 – 9:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast 

Stanford Law School, Manning Faculty Lounge

9:00 – 9:10 a.m. Welcome 

Joseph Bankman, Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business Stanford Law School

9:15 – 10:30 a.m. Session 1: Environmental Law


Room 280B 

Commentators:

Ralph Cavanagh, Senior Attorney and Co-Director, Natural Resources Defense Council’s Energy Program

Holly Doremus, James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation, University of California, Berkeley

“Interdisciplinary Research and Environmental Law”

David Owen, Professor of Law, University of Maine School of Law (co-author, Caroline Noblet, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Maine School of Law)

“Trading Dams”

David Owen, Professor of Law, University of Maine School of Law (co-author, Colin Apse, Scientist, The Nature Conservancy)

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Morning Break – Manning Lounge

10:45-12:00 a.m. Session 2: Law and the Humanities 


Room 280B 

Commentators:

Richard Thompson Ford, George E. Osborne Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Bernadette Meyler, Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law School

Glorious Precedents: When Gay Marriage Was Radical

Michael Boucai, Associate Professor of Law, State University of New York Buffalo Law School

Adoption and the Limits of Contract

Sarah Marie Abramowicz, Assistant Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch – Manning Lounge 

1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Session 3: Administrative Law 


Room 280B 

Commentators:

David Freeman Engstrom, Associate Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Anne Joseph O’Connell, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and

Research and George Johnson Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

“Power to Privilege”

Mila Sohoni, Assistant Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law

“Public Compensation for Private Harm: Evidence from the SEC’s Fair Fund Distributions”

Urska Velikonja, Assistant Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law

2:15 – 3:00 p.m. Session 4: Family Law 


Room 280B 

Commentator:

Michael S. Wald, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Emeritus, Stanford Law School

Liberated Patriarchs: Fathers’ Rights Activism and the Revolution in Family Law, 1960-2000

Deborah Dinner, Associate Professor of Law and Israel Treiman Faculty Fellow for 213-2014, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, MO

3:00 – 3:15 p.m. Afternoon Break – Manning Lounge 

3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 5: Constitutional Law – Historical Foundations 


Room 280B 

Commentator:

Robert W. Gordon, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Bernadette Meyler, Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law School

“Judicial Review and Non-Enforcement at the Founding”

Matthew Steilen, Associate Professor of Law, State University of New York Buffalo Law School

Administrative Equal Protection: Cooperative Federalism in the Shadow of the Fourteenth Amendment

Karen Tani, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

6:00 p.m. Reception and Dinner 

Stanford Park Hotel, Menlo Park

Joseph Bankman, Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School

Ian Ayres, William K.Townsend Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Adriaan Lanni, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Saturday, June 28, 2014


8:15 – 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast – Manning Lounge 

9:00 – 10:20 a.m. Session 6: Constitutional Law – Theoretical Foundations 


Room 280B 

Commentators:

Daniel A. Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

Daryl Levinson, David Boies Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

“The State as Witness: Credibility and the Democratic Process”

Bertrall L. Ross, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

“A Dynamic Theory of Judicial Role”

David E Landau, Assistant Professor of Law, Florida State University College of Law

10:20 – 10:40 a.m. Morning Break – Manning Lounge 

10:40-12:00 a.m. Session 7: Labor Law and Social Welfare Policy 


Room 280B 

Commentators:

Ian Ayres, William K.Townsend Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Joseph Bankman, Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School

“Police Labor Unrest and Lengthy Contract Negotiations: Does Police Misconduct Increase with Time Spent Out of Contract?”

Andrea Cann Chandrasekher, Acting Professor of Law, University of California, Davis School of Law

“Employment-Based Systems”

Brendan A. Maher, Associate Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch – Manning Lounge 

1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Session 8: Public International Law 


Room 280B 

Commentator:

Jenny S. Martinez, Associate Dean for Curriculum, Professor of Law and

Warren Christopher Professor in the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy, Stanford Law School

“Human Torts”

Lisa J. Laplante, Associate Professor of Law and Director, Center for International Law and Policy, New England School of Law

“General Principles of Law as Gap-Fillers”_Law_6-15-14

Neha Jain, Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota School of Law

2:15 – 3:30 p.m. Session 9: Jurisprudence and Philosophy 


Room 280B 

Commentators:

Barbara H. Fried, William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Gregory Keating, William T. Dalessi Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law

“Reasonable Precaution for the Individual”

Dov Waisman, Associate Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School,

“Systemic Lying”

Julia A. Simon-Kerr, Associate Professor of Law, Ralph and Doris Hansmann Scholar, University of Connecticut School of Law

3:30 – 3:45 p.m. Afternoon Break – Manning Lounge 

3:45 – 5:00 p.m. Session 10: Criminal Law 


Room 280B 

Commentators:

Robert Weisberg, Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Mark G. Kelman. James C. Gaither Professor of Law and Vice Dean, Stanford Law School

“Timing Brady”

Miriam H. Baer, Associate Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

“Disqualifying Defense Counsel: The Curse of the Sixth Amendment”

Keith Swisher, Associate Professor of Law, Arizona Summit Law School

6:00 p.m. Dinner – Il Fornaio Restaurant 

520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto