The Pyle Center - 702 Langdon Street - Madison
Program 8/27/04
Friday Afternoon and Evening
Opening Session at The Pyle Center followed by
Dinner at the Law School
3:15-4:00 Registration / Refreshments in the lobby area
4:00-5:45 Opening Session in Main Meeting Room
(325/326)
Welcome: Howie Erlanger, Director, Institute for Legal
Studies
Introductory Remarks: Karl Shoemaker, History and Law,
Wisconsin
Plenary Presentation: "Towards a Reflexive
Sociology of Law"
Jonathan Simon, Professor of Law/Jurisprudence
and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley
About Jonathan Simon: Before joining the Boalt Hall
faculty in 2003, Jonathan Simon was a professor at the University
of Miami School of Law. He also has been a visiting professor at
Yale Law School and New York University School of Law, and an
assistant professor at the University of Michigan from 1990-92.
Prior to teaching, he clerked for Judge William C. Camby Jr. of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Simon is the author of
Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the
Underclass, 1890-1990 (1993) and the co-editor of
Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and
Responsibility (with Tom Baker, 2002) and Cultural
Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal
Realism (with Austin Sarat, 2003). He has also published
numerous articles and book chapters covering a variety of legal
topics. In 2003 Simon joined the Law and Society Association's
board of trustees and executive committee.
Announcements: Honor Sachs, 2003 Legal History Fellow at
Wisconsin
5:45-6:00 Break - walk to Law School
6:00-7:30 Reception and Buffet Dinner
in Lubar Commons (Law School Room 7200)
Group Introductions: Karl Shoemaker
7:30-8:30 Postprandial Discussions on Professional Development
Faculty Discussion Leaders:
Beth Hoffmann (Purdue: Sociology and Anthropology)
Surviving the Job Market and Transition from Grad Student to
Professor
Art McEvoy (Wisconsin: Law and History)
Perfect Conference Papers Every Time: The McEvoy
Method
Jonathan Simon and Karl Shoemaker
Scholarship and Jobs in Criminal Justice
Saturday Morning Sessions
(All sessions take place at The Pyle
Center)
8:30-9:00 Coffee in the Lobby
9:00-10:45 Concurrent Research Panels #1-2
Panel #1 Crime and Punishment
Chair: Jacqueline Ross (UIUC: Law)
Panelists:
Chana Barron (Iowa: Sociology)
"How Gender Roles and Expectations Influence Appellate Reasoning
and Decisionmaking in Capital Murder Cases"
Ryan King (Minnesota: Sociology)
"Dormancy and Implementation in Criminal Law: Community Context,
Institutions, and the Enforcement of Hate Crime Law"
Joachim Savelsberg (Minnesota: Sociology)
"Collective Memory, Hate Crime, and its Enforcement Comparing
Germany and the
United States"
Kam C. Wong (UW-Oshkosh: Public Affairs)
"Police Reform in China in 2000s and Beyond"
Panel #2 Legal History - Part I
Chair: Karl Shoemaker (Wisconsin: History and Law)
Panelists:
Victor Jew (Wisconsin: History and Legal Studies)
"At the Law's Suture: The Everyday Practices of Administering Asian
Exclusion in the U.S. Midwest During the Progressive Era"
Richard Ross (UIUC: Law and History)
"Legal Communications and Imperial Governance in Colonial British
and Spanish America"
William Thomas (Wisconsin: Legal History)
"Dissent in the U.S. Justice Department"
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:15 Concurrent Workshops #1-2-3
Workshop #1 Environmental/Natural Resources
Moderator: Sumudu Atapattu (Sri Lanka &
Wisconsin: Law)
Presenters:
Anna-Maria Marshall (UIUC: Sociology)
"Help or Hindrance: The Ambivalence About Law in the Environmental
Justice Movement"
Larry Nesper (Wisconsin: Anthropology & American Indian
Studies)
"The Tribal Court and an Emerging Ojibwe Tribal State in Wisconsin"
Ken Salo (UIUC: Environmental Policy)
"Transnational Law, Anti-privatization Social Movements, and the
Pursuit of Justice in the Postcolony"
Workshop #2 International Rights and Politics
Moderator: Greg Shaffer (Wisconsin: Law)
Presenters:
Maureen Ittig (Wisconsin: Human Development and Family Studies)
"The Power in the Process: an Examination of the U.S. Intercountry
Adoption Process in a Globalized World"
Christina Rivers (DePaul: Political Science)
"Caught Between the Cracks: Reconciling the Doctrinal Tensions
Between Racial and Partisan Interests in Vieth v.
Jubelirer"
Trina Smith (Minnesota: Sociology)
"International Discourse of Global Reproductive Rights"
Workshop #3 Discourse Framing and Issue
Interpretation
Moderator/Presenter: Beth Quinn (Montana State & Wisconsin:
Sociology)
"The Organizational Life of Discrimination Law: Exploring the
Decision Making of Human Resources Personnel"
Presenters:
Daniel Hillyard (SIU Carbondale: Crime Studies Center)
"Three Paths to Innovation: Human Cloning and Public Policy"
Adam Jacobs (Wisconsin: Sociology)
"Up in Smoke: The Disappearance of Marijuana Decriminalization,
1977-1979"
12:15- 1:30 Lunch in The Pyle Alumni Lounge
Saturday Afternoon Sessions
1:30-2:45 Concurrent Research Panels #3-4
Panel #3 Legal History - Part II
Chair: Art McEvoy (Wisconsin: Law and History)
Panelists:
Dan Hamilton (Chicago Kent: Legal History)
"The Limits of Sovereignty: Legislative Property Confiscation in
the Union and the Confederacy"
Honor Sachs (Wisconsin: Legal History)
"Women, Land and Law in the 18th Century Backcountry"
Panel #4 Cause Lawyering
Chair: Jerry Van Hoy (Toledo: Sociology/Law and
Social Thought)
Panelists:
Sandy Levitsky (Wisconsin: Sociology)
"To Lead with Law: Reassessing the Influence of Lawyers in
Progressive Reform Movements"
William B. Turner (Wisconsin: Law)
"Lobbying for Lawrence: The LGBT Social Movement and the End
of Sodomy Statutes"
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:15 Concurrent Workshops #4-5-6
Workshop #4 Constitutional Culture
Moderator: Howard Schweber (Wisconsin: Political Science)
Presenters:
Jacqueline Battalora (St. Xavier: Sociology, Anthropology &
Criminal Justice)
"Exclusion: The Legal Making of Difference 'By God'"
Ayeshah Iftikhar (Wisconsin: Anthropology)
"In the Shadow of the USA PATRIOT Act: Imaginings of Identity, Race
and Citizenship Among Muslim Students at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison"
Workshop #5 Methods of Comparative
Approach
Moderator: Mark Suchman
(Wisconsin: Sociology and Law)
Presenters:
Shawn Boyne (Wisconsin: Political Science & Law)
"The Culture of German Prosecution: The Legalitätsprinzip in
Practice"
Brian Gran (Case Western Reserve: Sociology)
"The Children's Ombudsperson from a Comparative Perspective"
Workshop #6 Economic Regulation
Moderator: Stewart Macaulay (Wisconsin: Law)
Presenters:
Nicholas Georgakopoulos (Indiana: Law)
"Contract-Centered Veil Piercing: A Transaction Cost Tool"
Joseph Hinchliffe (UIUC: Political Science)
"Toward Understanding Regulatory Failure: Implementing A Law of
Punch Presses, Housewares, Automobiles, Explosives and Oral
Contraceptives"
Patricia Strach (SUNY Albany: Political Science)
"Taxing the Family: Implementing America's Tax Laws"
4:15-4:30 Break
4:30-5:15 Final Session for Everyone in Main Meeting
Room (325/326)
Host: Karl Shoemaker
Closing Remarks: Stewart Macaulay,Malcolm Pitman Sharp
Professor & Theodore W. Brazeau Professor, University of
Wisconsin Law School
Stewart Macaulay, a graduate of Stanford Law School, is
internationally recognized as a leader of the law-in-action
approach to contracts. He pioneered the study of business practices
and the work of lawyers related to the questions of contract law.
Professor Macaulay has written extensively on subjects ranging from
lawyers and consumer law to private government and legal pluralism.
He has been published in such places as the Wisconsin Law Review,
Law & Society Review, and Law & Policy. He authored Law
and the Balance of Power: The Automobile Manufacturers and Their
Dealers, and co-authored Law & Society: Materials on
the Social Study of Law with Lawrence Friedman and John
Stookey, and Contracts: Law in Action, with John Kidwell,
Bill Whitford and Marc Galanter. In 1996, he published Organic
Transactions: Contract, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Johnson
Building. Macaulay was President of the Law and Society
Association from 1985 to 1987, and in 1995, he won LSA's Harry
Kalven Prize. He was the Director of the Chile Law Program of the
International Legal Center in Santiago during 1970 and 1971. He was
a member of the Board of Advisors to the Reporter for the
Restatement (Second) Contracts of the American Law Institute. He is
a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In February
2004, he won the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation Annual
Outstanding Scholar Award.
Final Discussion: All
5:15 Closing Reception in the Pyle Alumni Lounge
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