Contracts Law scholars from across the nation gathered at the University of Wisconsin Law School on February 15 and 16, 2008, for a Contracts Workshop to discuss current teaching and scholarship in the field.
Hosting the event were three prominent contracts scholars on the UW law faculty, John Kidwell, Stewart Macaulay, and William Whitford, who are co-authors of the widely-used casebook Contracts: Law in Action, now in its second edition. Chair of the workshop was Professor Jean Braucher of the
Joining several UW law faculty participants were the following out-of-town guests:
Rachel Arnow-Richman (Assistant Professor of Law, University of Denver College of Law); Jean Braucher (Roger Henderson Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, ILS Distinguished Scholar and Chair of the Wisconsin Contracts Law in Action Project); Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt (Willard and Margaret Carr Professor of Labor and Employment Law and Co-Director, Center for Law, Society and Culture, University of Indiana-Bloomington); Peter D. Enrich (Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law); Robert W. Gordon (Chancellor Kent Professor of Law & Legal History, Yale Law School); Alan Hyde (Professor of Law and Sidney Reitman Scholar, Center for Law & Justice, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark); Peter Linzer (Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center); Angela Littwin (Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School); Joel M. Ngugi (Assistant Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law); Kate ONeill (Associate Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law); Robert Eli Rosen (Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law); Amy Jean Schmitz (Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado School of Law); D. Gordon Smith (Professor of Law, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University); Lea VanderVelde (Josephine Witte Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law); W. Mark C. Weidemaier (Assistant Professor of Law, University of North Carolina Law School); Alan M. White (Assistant Professor of Law, Valparaiso University School of Law); William J. Woodward, Jr. (Professor of Law, James E. Beasley School of Law, Temple University).
A Faculty Author Reception honored authors Stewart Macaulay, Lawrence Friedman, and Elizabeth Mertz for the publication of Law in Action: A Socio-Legal Reader and Elizabeth Mertz for The Language of Law School: Learning to Think Like a Lawyer.
The workshop was sponsored by the UW Law School’s Institute for Legal Studies and supported by the Wisconsin Contracts Project.
Submitted by on February 14, 2008
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