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