Some events hosted by ILS qualify for CLE credit for Wisconsin attorneys as noted in the lists below.
A few of these events require a registration fee for which a waiver may be requested.
Additional Information: Pam Hollenhorst pshollen@wisc.edu
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Spring 2012
- Feb. 9, 2012 Aardvark: Class Participation in Seminars. Faculty workshop hosted by Professor Howard Erlanger at noon in Lubar Commons.
- Feb. 16, 2012 Aardvark with Students: How to Improve Class Participation. Collaborative faculty-student
workshop on class participation, hosted by Professor Howard Erlanger at noon in Lubar Commons. Seven students, representing a diversity of backgrounds, will convene to discuss with faculty how to enrich class participation in mid- to
large size traditional courses.
- April 12, 2012 Faculty Workshop: The Dimensions of Judicial Impartiality with Charles Geyh, Associate Dean for Research and John F. Kimberling Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Hosted by Professors Jason Yackee and Alexandra Huneeus in Lubar Commons. Approved for 1.0 CLE/EPR credit for Wisconsin attorneys.
- April 27, 2012 Roundtable Discussion: The American Interventionist State with William Novak, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, and UW Law Professors Victoria Nourse and Brad Snyder. Hosted by Nancy Buenger at noon in Lubar Commons. This is also a "Law & ..." session for graduate students.
- April 30, 2012 Legal History Workshop: Law and Indigeneity Invitation-only faculty workshop with guest scholars Stuart Kirsch (University of Michigan) and
Hilary Soderland (attorney and scholar).
UW faculty participants include Sumudu Atapattu, Jimmy Klausen, Heinz Klug, Richard Monette, Larry Nesper and Jarrett Chapin. Hosted by Miranda Johnson, Assistant Professor of History. Cosponsored by the Global Legal Studies Center and the American Indian Studies Program.
Fall 2012
- Sept. 21-22, 2012 Midwest Law and Society Retreat. Details pending. A call for proposals will be circulated in March/April and program information will be posted in the summer.
- October 5-6, 2012 Constitutional Law Workshop Invitation-only "Con Law Schmooze" hosted by Associate Dean Heinz Klug and Professor Andrew Coan. Information will be posted in September.
- November 16-17, 2012 ClassCrits V Workshop: From Madison to Zuccotti Park: Confronting Class and Reclaiming the American Dream Hosted by Professor Tonya Brito; sponsored by the UW Law School, the Institute for Legal Studies, Southwestern Law School, and UC Davis School of Law.
Spring 2013
- April 5-6, 2013 Conference for family law educators: Teaching "Real" Family Law. Program Chairs are Professors Tonya Brito and Marsha Mansfield. Event will take place at the Pyle Center. Details pending.
- June 9-22, 2013 Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History. Biennial two-week summer session for early-career legal historians. Additional details will be provided when the application period opens in Fall 2012; application deadline Jan. 15, 2013.
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2011 Events
- Jan. 27, 2011 Aardvark: What IS Law in Action? Faculty and student discussion hosted by Professor Howard Erlanger and Mike Hall, Director of Student Life.
- Feb. 11, 2011 Ideas and Innovations: Unmasking Project Finance: Risk Mitigation, Risk Inducement, and An Invitation to Development Disaster? by Shalanda Baker, UW Hastie Fellow. Hosted by Associate Dean Heinz Klug.
- Feb. 18, 2011 Ideas and Innovations: Testing the Ossification Thesis: An Empirical Examination of Federal Regulatory Volume and Speed, 1950-1990 by Jason Yackee, UW Law Faculty.
- Feb. 25, 2011 Ideas and Innovations: Four Questionable Rationales for the Patent Misuse Doctrine by Thomas Cotter, Briggs and Morgan Professor of Law, University of Minnesota. Faculty workshop hosted by Professor Peter Carstensen. Approved for 1.0 CLE credit - no fee.
- March 25, 2011 Ideas & Innovations: The Vermont-Karelia (Russia) Partnership for Legal Reform: Reflections on Two Decades of Experience by Hon. John Dooley, Associate Justice, Vermont Supreme Court.
- March 29, 2011 Aardvark on Alumni Fundraising with guest speaker Eric Salisbury, UW Foundation.
- April 8, 2011 Ideas & Innovations: Do Constitutions Matter? by Tom Ginsburg, Professor of Law, University of Chicago. Faculty workshop hosted by Prof. Alexandra Huneeus.
- April 14, 2011 Aardvark on Memorable Teaching Moments.
- April 27, 2011 Is Health Care Reform Unconstitutional? Short presentation by Professor Andrew Coan followed by informal discussion by Professor Anuj Desai.
- (canceled) April 27, 2011 The Displaced and Dispossessed of Darfur: Explaining the Sources of a Continuing State-Led Genocide by John Hagan
John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern
University and Co-Director of the Center on Law & Globalization at
the American Bar Foundation in Chicago.
- April 29, 2011 Ideas & Innovations: The New "Public" Corporation by Hillary Sale,Walter D. Coles Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. Faculty workshop hosted by Prof. Darian Ibrahim at noon in Lubar Commons (7200 Law).
- May 9, 2011 Faculty and Early Career Scholar Workshop: Colonial/Postcolonial Law in Asia and the Pacific. Hosted by Nancy Buenger, Law and Society Postdoctoral Fellow at the UW Law School and cosponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Center and the Institute for Legal Studies. Contact nbuenger@wisc.edu for information.
- June 6, 2011 (Cosponsored event at Stanford Law School) Comparative Legal Histories Workshop: Colonial/Postcolonial India and Mandatory Palestine/Israel. Organizers include Professor Mitra Sharafi. Link to program.
- June 12-25, 2011 Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History. Biennial two-week summer session for early-career legal historians. Apply by Jan. 15, 2011. Application Information
- June 15, 2011 Hurst Institute Special Event at the Law School:
Legal Historians Lawrence M. Friedman and Robert W. Gordon
(Stanford University) at 3:30 in Lubar Commons. Followed by faculty reception and
dinner with Professor Barbara Welke and the Hurst Fellows.
- Sept. 15, 2011 Aardvark on Academic Integrity with guest speaker Tonya Schmidt, UW Assistant Dean of Students. Hosted by Professor Howard Erlanger.
- Sept. 23, 2011 The Causes of Compliance in International Relations: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Financial Transparency by Shima Baradaran,
Associate Professor of Law, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young
University. Invitation-only faculty workshop hosted by Professor Jason
Yackee and cosponsored by the Business Law Initiative.
- Oct. 5, 2011 Workshop on Gay Marriage and the Courts
hosted by Professor Donald Downs and sponsored by the Center for the
Study of Liberal Democracy and the Mosse Program. Guest speakers include: Jonathan Rauch, Brookings Fellow and
nationally known journalist and author, and Even Gerstmann, professor of
political science and law at Loyola Marymount University. For more
information about this event, please contact Prof Downs at
dadowns@wisc.edu or Deborah Hunt at dkhunt@charter.net.
- Oct. 13, 2011. Russian Legal History: Does It Matter?
by William E. Butler, John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law
and
International Affairs at Penn State University School of Law. Sponsors: The Center for Russia, East Europe, and
Central Asia (CREECA),
Global Legal
Studies Center, the Madison Committee on Foreign Relations (MCFR), the
Institute for Legal Studies, and the Legal History Working Group.
- October 21-22, 2011 Empirical and Lyrical: Revisiting the Contracts Scholarship of Stewart Macaulay. Two-day
conference hosted by the Wisconsin Contracts Group featuring
presentations by distinguished contracts scholars. Approved for 11.5
general CLE credits for Wisconsin attorneys.
- November 4-5, 2011 Constitutional Law Workshop Invitation-only "Con Law Schmooze" hosted by Associate Dean Heinz Klug and Professor Andrew Coan.
- November 18-19, 2011 Wisconsin Law Review Symposium: Who's in the House? The Changing Role and Nature of In-House and General Counsel. Hosted by Professor Jonathan Lipson and the Wisconsin Law Review
Staff, with multiple cosponsors. CLE Approved in Wisconsin (up to 12
CLE Credits, including 5 EPR) and in Illinois (9.5 MCLE credits,
including 4.5 professional responsibility).
- Dec. 1, 2011 Awareness: A Workshop on Mindfulness for Mediators, Lawyers, and Other Conflict Resolvers by Leonard L. Riskin,
University of Florida College of Law. Sponsored by ILS, the Dane County
Bar Association - Case Mediation Program, and the Economic Justice
Institute’s Mediation Clinic. Approved for 2 general CLE credits per
Donna Erez-Navot, event organizer; cosponsored by ILS.
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