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ILS Events

Additional Information: Pam Hollenhorst pshollen@wisc.edu
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2009 Conferences, Workshops & Speakers

2010 Conferences, Workshops and Speakers

  • Feb. 26, 2010 Ideas & Innovations: Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of Information Management, Chancellor's Professor and Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, University of California, Berkeley School of Law / Boalt Hall.
    Hosted by Professor Shubha Ghosh.
  • Apr. 16, 2010 Ideas & Innovations: M. Elizabeth McGill, Joseph Weintraub-Bank of America Distinguished Professor of Law and Horace W. Goldsmith Research Professor, University of Virginia School of Law. Hosted by Professor Jason Yackee.
  • Oct. 8-9, 2010 Midwest Law and Society Retreat  Biennial event bringing together faculty and graduate students from the Midwest's diverse law and society programs for a weekend of intellectual exchange and community building. A call for proposals will be announced in early 2010.
  • Oct. 22-23, 2010 Legal Education Conference
    Hosted by Professor Elizabeth Mertz. Details pending.

Recent Past Events

2008 Events List (pdf)

Selected Conferences, Workshops and Speaker Series:

  • Feb. 15-16, 2008 Contracts: Law in Action Workshop. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Contracts Group and hosted by Jean Braucher (Roger Henderson Professor of Law at the James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona and Distinguished Scholar at the Institute for Legal Studies) who is chair of the project to revise the textbook, Contracts: Law in Action.
  • March 14-15, 2008 Working From the World Up: Equality's Future -- A New Legal Realism Conference Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project. Hosted by Professor Victoria Nourse and sponsored by the Institute for Legal Studies, the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Emory University, the New Legal Realism Project, and the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender and Society. Featuring a keynote address by Professor Patricia Williams, Columbia University Law School.
    Program and Selected Papers 
  • Sept. 19-20, 2008 Midwest Law and Society Retreat
    Biennial interdisciplinary event that brings together faculty and graduate students from the region's diverse social science and law programs for a weekend of intellectual exchange. More information
  • Oct. 24-26, 2008 Interdisciplinary Conference
    The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law. 

    This interdisciplinary conference, which has multiple sponsors, brought together leading academics, authors and intellectuals to examine the Weimar period in European history, culture, and law and to trace the continuity of Weimar thinkers and their impact on the continued viability of liberal democracy in today’s world. Program and Registration Information

Past Events 2006 & 2007

Past Events 2000-2005