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Thirty Years of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Improving Student Well-Being Inside and Outside the Classroom

The Genes Speak: Reifying Race, Gender and Sex in the New Biopolitics

Democracy and the Public Trust: Equality, Integrity, and Suppression in the 2012 Election

Qualitative Empirical Research Workshop ( Fri 2-5 pm-Sat 9am-5:15 pm. Addtl registration fee $100, includes box lunch. Advance registration required; optional homework to be assigned.)

Quantitative Empirical Training Workshop (Fri 2-5 pm-Sat 9am-5:15 pm. Addt'l reg fee of $100, includes box lunch. Advance registration required and homework will be given.)

Workers After the Ascendancy of Global Financial Capital

40 Years After Rodriguez, 35 Years After Bakke: Education, Equality and Fundamental Rights

The Regulation of Financial Markets Intermediaries: The Making and Un-Making of Markets

Challenges, Uncertainty, and Change: Best Practices Collaboration for Development, Alumni Services, and Communications Professionals

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Socio-Economic Strategies for Economic Prosperity

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Classic Film Night

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Presidential Power Under the George W. Bush and Barack Obama Administrations

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Field Trip to the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) at Chauvin, Louisiana

Congress and the Modern Administrative State

Environmental Law Conflict Resolution (ECR): A Report Card

A Global Perspective of Animal Law

Evolving Responsibilities: The Impact of Recent Global Trends on Children and Families

iBooks, eBooks, ePubs, Oh My! The Emerging Role of Electronic Books in Legal Education

The Law of Contract or Laws of Contracts?

Me @ the Zoo: Privacy, Celebrity, and Modern Media

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American Exceptionalism, Health Reform and the Persistence of Employer-Based Benefits

Racial and Gender Bias in Legal and Equitable Remedies: At the Crossroads of Doctrine and Social Science

Challenges, Uncertainty, and Change: Best Practices Collaboration for Development, Alumni Services, and Communications Professionals

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Qualitative Empirical Methods (Addtl registration fee for 1½ day program)

Empirical Training Workshop (Part II and Part II) (Additional registration fee for this 1½ day program)

The Debt Crisis and the National Response: Big Changes or Tinkering at the Edges?

Freedom of the Church

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New Voices in Administrative Law

Trusts and Estates, and an Aging Population: What We Need to Know and Teach

Google and Antitrust

The Civil Rights Consequences of State and Local Responses to Immigration and Immigrants

Defining and Supporting the Parent-Child Relationship: Comparative and International Perspectives

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Social Welfare Functions: A Roundtable on Matthew Adler’s Well-Being and Fair Distribution

The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005: Perspectives and Predictions

New Developments in Attorney-Client Privilege

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iPad and iPhone Apps for Legal Practice

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Structural Reform in the Political Process: Getting Beyond Deadlock

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Exploring the Links Between Food and Agriculture Policy and Obesity

Art in an Age of Digital Convergence

75th Anniversary of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

"The Times They Are A’Changin:” Leveraging Library Services and Resources to Respond to Evolving Faculty Scholarly and Curricular Needs

Technology and Crime: The Future of the Fourth Amendment in Public

Interpretation and Uncertainty

Pro Bono Without Borders: Public Service Projects in an International Context

Cities in Recession

Researching and Teaching Transactional Law and Skills in an Increasingly Global World

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Business Associations and Governance in Emerging Economies

The Great Deleveraging: Bankruptcy After the Crisis, Formal and Informal

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The Future of Frameworks

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Politics and the Media, New and Old

Law, Humanities and the Vulnerable Subject

Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts

Beyond “Diversity”: Negotiating Racial and Gender Identities on the Path to Tenure

Sharing Methods and Materials for Collaborative Teaching Methods

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Documentary Film Night

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Open Session on Global Engagement: How Can We Help?

Aberrant Contracts: Fringe Economy Lending and Other Atypical Consumer Agreements

Retirement Planning After the Election

40 Years of Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law – A Retrospective Look

Neuroscience and Law: The Science, the Scholarship, the Courtroom, and the Classroom

Non-Article III Courts: Problems of Principle and Practice

Deaning in the “New Normal”

Human Rights in Times of Conflict: New Voices in Human Rights

Mental Health Courts and Their Uses of Therapeutic Jurisprudence: International Perspectives

Speed Mentoring

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Challenges, Uncertainty, and Change: Best Practices Collaboration for Development, Alumni Services, and Communications Professionals

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AALS Statement of Good Practices for the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Faculty Members and Ways of Enhancing Diversity in Legal Education

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Reconsidering the Institutional Role and Purpose of the Research Dean (or "Who Are We, and Why are We Here?")

Lesson from Africa on Legal Pluralism: Customary Law, Constitutional Provisions and International Norms

Capstone Courses

Deans’ Forum: An Open Discussion of Current Issues

Legal Education and Legal Reform in South Asia

“Jobs,” the JOBS Act, and the Future of Small Business Finance and the U.S. Equity Markets

Indian Gaming and the Future of Tribal Sovereignty

Insurance and Consumer Protection

Exploring Paradoxes and Anomalies in Jewish and Comparative Law

Social Science Approaches to Legal Scholarship

Understanding Search Engine Algorithms: Can We Effectively Teach Research Without Them?

Law for the End of the World as We Know It: Planning for Dystopia

Continuity and Change in Legal Scholarship: Plain Talk for New Law Professors

Advance ticket purchase is necessary. Tickets may be purchased at On-site Registration until 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 5.

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The Scholarship of Professor Larry Ribstein

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Global Corporate Rights and Responsibilities: Reflections on Kiobel and Citizens United

The Concussion Crisis in American Sport

New Directions in Southern Legal History

The Past, Present, and Future of Appellate Briefs

Best Practices in Online LL.M. Programs

Reignite and Renew: How to Rebuild Your Brand in a Down Economy and Bad Press

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Straight Supremacy in the Name of God: Examining Religious Liberty from the Standpoint of Its Victims

Does the U.S. Need a VAT?

Tort and Compensation Principles in Related Fields

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Assessing Our Students, Our Successes, and Ourselves

Gathering to Consider Formation as an AALS Section

In Memoriam: Choice of Law Methodology and the Work of Larry Ribstein

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Rethinking Alexander v. Choate in the Wake of the Supreme Court and the Affordable Care Act

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Intellectual Property and Social Media

Remaking the Islamic State after the Arab Spring

Human Rights, Culture and Indigenous Development

Nonprofits and Social Enterprise

The Globalization of European Privacy Law? and Gathering to Consider Formation as an AALS Section

Gathering to Consider Formation as an AALS Section

Unbundling Part-Time Programs from Full-Time Programs

Keeping It Real: Lessons in the Structuring, Handling and Teaching of Real Estate Transactions in the Wake of the Great Real Estate Recession

How Can Legal Scholarship Be More Policy Relevant?

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A Current Project in the Lower 9th Ward, hosted by the Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement & Development (L9 CSED).

Rethinking State Intervention in Intimate-Partner Violence

Law from the Outside-In: In Honor of Jane Larson

Law Libraries of the 21st Century: Butterflies, Phoenixes, or the Same Old Thing?

The Bench, the Bar, and the Academy Unite to Discuss Legal Education

Food as “Multi-Plate Entrée” to Social Justice: Law’s Role in Access to Food in New Orleans and Beyond

Institutional Responsibility for Sex and Gender Exploitation

Outcomes, Measures and Assessment in International Legal Exchange

40 Years of Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law – A Prospective Look

Redefining the Student Affairs’ Role in Designing Structures to Address Current Global and Emerging Societal Changes Impacting Legal Education