Agenda

STANFORD INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR FACULTY FORUM
October 9-10, 2015 . Stanford Law School, Stanford California

 

Thursday, October 8

6:30 pm   Dinner at IL Fornaio:  520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto

 


Friday, October 9

All sessions, lunches, and breaks will be held in the Manning Faculty Lounge (2nd floor of the old law school building)

8:00 – 8:45 am   Continental breakfast

8:45 – 9:00 am  Welcome and opening remarks by conference convenor Lawrence M. Friedman, Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law

9:00 – 10:15 am    Session #1

Moderator: Stewart Macaulay, Malcolm Pitman Sharp Hilldale Professor Of Law, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin

Discussion of: Fragmented Laws, Contingent Choices: The Tragicomedy of the Village Commons in China, Shitong Qiao, Hong Kong

Comments by: Anupam Chander, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law, University of California, Davis; and Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo, Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford University School of Law

10:15 – 10:30 am   Break

10:30 – 11:45 am   Session #2

Moderator: Xingzhong Yu, Anthony and Lulu Wang Professor in Chinese Law, Cornell University Law School

Discussion of: Market Definition in Innovative Environments: Perspectives of US Antitrust and EU Competition Law, Viktoria Robertson, Austria

Comments by Eric Talley, Isidor & Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School; and Stewart Macaulay, Malcolm Pitman Sharp Hilldale Professor Of Law, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin

11:45 am – 1:00 pm   Session #3

Moderator: Nora Engstrom, Professor of Law, Stanford University School of Law

Discussion of: Re-Engineering a Venture Capital Market: The Case of China, Lin Lin, Singapore

Comments by Xingzhong Yu, Anthony and Lulu Wang Professor in Chinese Law, Cornell University Law School; and Anupam Chander, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law, University of California, Davis

1:00 – 1:50 pm   Lunch

1:50 – 2:00 pm   Welcome from Dean Elizabeth Magill, Stanford University School of Law

2:00 – 3:15 pm   Session #4

Moderator: Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo, Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford University School of Law

Discussion of: Moral Dilemma and Political Reality – Rising Popularity of Life without the Possibility of Parole in an Age of Abolition, Michelle Miao, United Kingdom

Comments by Eric Feldman, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School; and Stewart Macaulay, Malcolm Pitman Sharp Hilldale Professor Of Law, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin

3:15 – 4:30pm   Session #5

Moderator: Eric Feldman, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Discussion of The Fascination of Interdisciplinary: Reading Two Seminal Theses on the Global Commons Context, Surabhi Ranganathan, United Kingdom

Comments by Nora Engstrom, Professor of Law, Stanford University School of Law; and Stewart Macaulay, Malcolm Pitman Sharp Hilldale Professor Of Law, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin

4:30 – 4:45 pm   Break

 4:45 – 6:00 pm   Session #6

Moderator: Kjell Modeer, Professor Emeritus, Legal History, Lund University, Sweden

Discussion of Quotas, Shay Lavie, Israel

Comments by Helen Irving, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Australia; and Amalia Kessler, Lewis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies, Stanford University School of Law

7:00 pm   Dinner: Chef Chu, 1067 N San Antonio Rd, Los Altos

 


Saturday, October 10

8:00 – 9:00 am   Continental breakfast

9:00 – 10:15 am   Session #7

Moderator: Setsuo Miyazawa, Professor of Law, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo Japan, and Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings, San Francisco

Discussion of: The Faceless Court, Angela Zhang, United Kingdom

Comments by Kjell Modeer, Professor Emeritus, Legal History, Lund University, Sweden; and Helen Irving, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Australia

10:15 – 10:30 am   Break

10:30 – 11:45 am   Session #8

Moderator: Gillian Hadfield, Richard L. and Antoinette Kirtland Professor of Law and Economics, University of Southern California

Discussion of: Access to Error, Michal Shur-Ofry, Israel

Comments by Nora Engstrom, Professor of Law, Stanford University School of Law; and Deborah Hensler, John J. Ford Professor of Dispute Resolution, Stanford University School of Law

11:45 am – 12:45 pm   Lunch

12:45 – 2:00 pm   Session #9

Moderator: Anupam Chander, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law, University of California, Davis

Discussion of: International Investment Law, Government Behaviour and Domestic Change: Between Reform, Reticence and Resistance, Mavluda Sattorova, United Kingdom

Comments by Gillian Hadfield, Richard L. and Antoinette Kirtland Professor of Law and Economics, University of Southern California; and Setsuo Miyazawa, Professor of Law, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo Japan, and Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings, San Francisco

2:00 – 3:15 pm   Session #10

Moderator: Xingzhong Yu, Anthony and Lulu Wang Professor in Chinese Law, Cornell University Law School

Discussion of: The Theory and Practice of Interest (Share) Transfer Restriction, Suren Gomtsyan, Netherlands

Comments by Eric Talley, Isidor & Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School; and Gillian Hadfield, Richard L. and Antoinette Kirtland Professor of Law and Economics, University of Southern California

3:15 – 3:30 pm   Break

3:30 – 4:45 pm   Session #11

Moderator: Deborah Hensler, John J. Ford Professor of Dispute Resolution, Stanford University School of LawDiscussion of: Forensic Culture in the Age of Empire: Colonialism’s Role in Shaping Forensic, Binyamin Blum, Israel

Comments by Kjell Modeer, Professor Emeritus, Legal History, Lund University, Sweden; and Setsuo Miyazawa, Professor of Law, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo Japan, and Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings, San Francisco

4:45 – 5:15 pm   Closing Remarks, Comments, and General Suggestions