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Faculty Activities 18 19 yale law report winter 2010 faculty activities • 2009 Distinguished Speaker Luncheon of the young • francis Lieber colloquium Series, columbia Law Lawyers Section, connecticut Bar Association, School, “Vestiges of the common Law/civil Law hartford, keynote speech Divide” • festival del Diritto (festival of Law), Piacenza, Italy, “Is other professional highlights Equality a Matter of Public or Private Law?” • Lifetime Achievement Award, American Society of • XXI International conference of the “Giordano Dell’ comparative Law Amore” observatory, Milan, Italy, on “The Day After the crisis: Economic, financial and Social Issues,” delivered Drew S. Days, III introductory speech, and was commentator on the lectures and addresses Jules L. Coleman Bruce Ackerman • Museum of jewish heritage, New york, “The Black/ presentation given by Professor Guido rossi on the • The Pacific Islander Asian and Native American Law publications jewish Alliance: Shared Vulnerability” desirability of global legal standards Students Association of yLS Third Annual Alumni • Second Annual rosenkranz Debate and Luncheon, • The Citizenship Agenda, in The Constitution in 2020 • Seminario en Latinoamerica de Theoria constitucional Banquet, New haven, “Introduction of Goodwin Lui” Washington, D.c., debated The honorable frank 109 (j. Balkin & r. Siegel eds., 2009) y Politica (SELA), Asuncion, Paraguay, “regulating • Thinking about Law and justice with the Teen justice Easterbrook, with Professor john Manning moder- • My Debt to Mirjan Damasˇka, 118 Yale L.J. Pocket Sexuality: on Liberty versus Equality” court, New haven, “justice, fairness and Impartiality” ating, at the National Lawyers convention of The Part 171 (2009), available at http://thepocketpart. • yale National Initiative, New haven, “civil rights for • Admitted Student Dinner, New haven federalist Society, resolved: “The United States org/2009/03/23/ackerman.html African-Americans, Women, and Same-Sex couples: • New haven Legal Assistance Breakfast, New haven, “A constitution requires federal courts to interpret stat- • Abolish the White House Counsel, Slate, April 22, 2009 Some Parallels, Some Differences” firm Stand for justice” utes as honest agents of the enacting congress” Bruce Ackerman • Section Five and the On-going Canonization of the Civil publications • The colorado Lawyers committee 30th Annual Mirjan R. Dama˘kas Rights Revolution, Balkinization, june 22, 2009, avail- • Constitutional Constraints on the Regulation of other professional highlights Luncheon Keynote Speaker, Denver, CO, “Past able at http://balkin.blogspot.com/2009/06/section- Cloning, IX Yale J. Health Pol’y, Law & Ethics 495 • recipient, with wife Anne T. calabresi, of the United Transgressions, Present challenges and the obama five-and-on-going-canonization.html (2009) Way of Greater New haven 2009 Alexis de Tocqueville justice Department” • America Needs to Prepare for Early Iraq Pullout (with o. • chapter in In Memoriam: Jay Katz 31 (2009) Society’s herbert h. Pearce Award for contributions to • United States Senate Democratic Policy committee, hathaway), Financial Times, August 24, 2009 philanthropy, New haven Washington, D.c., confirmation of justice Sotomayor • A General’s Public Pressure, Wash. Post, october 2, Guido Calabresi • American Bar Association 2009 Annual Meeting, 2009 lectures and addresses Jules L. Coleman chicago, IL, panelist, “The roberts court - Three’s a • federalist Society, yale Law School, debate with lectures and addresses charm?” • Boconni University, “Law and Morality” • Practicing Law Institute Annual Supreme court Jack M. Balkin Jack M. Balkin The honorable richard A. Posner, 7th circuit court Drew S. Days III lectures and addresses of Appeals, on “Are federal Appeals judges Legal • The University of Michigan Law School, “The review, New york, panelist • American constitution Society convention, realists?” Normative Structure of Tort Law” • Quinnipiac University School of Law Symposium on Washington, D.c., “The constitution in 2020” • American constitution Society and The federalist • Stetson Law School, Nichols Lecture on Torts and The Life of constance Baker Motley, hamden, cT, pan- • Aspen Arts and Ideas festival, Aspen, “The National Society, University of chicago Law School, panelist on responsibility elist Surveillance State” Legal Education with judges robert A. Katzmann, 2nd • NyU, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and • Berkeley college fellows’ Meeting, New haven, “Strip • National Press club and American constitution circuit court of Appeals, and Milan Smith, 9th circuit Northwestern University: “Torts” Searches, Angry firefighters, DNA Tests and Elected Society, Washington, D.c., “constitutional court of Appeals • University of Antwerp conference on jurisprudence judges” Interpretation in 2020” • Presided over hinton Moot court finals, University of • University of Michigan Law School conference on • DrI 14th Annual conference, chicago, IL, panelist, “The • American Political Science Association, Toronto, chicago Law School jurisprudence Supreme court - changes and challenges” Robert A. Burt John J. Donohue III “constitutional Dictatorship” • AALS Workshop for New Law School Teachers, • University of San Diego Law School conference on • yale federalist Society Luncheon Series, New haven, • National Archives, Washington, D.c., “The future of the Washington, D.c., keynote speech Tort Law oral Advocacy Lecture constitution” • cNPDS (centro Nazionale di Prevenzione e Publications • featured, c-SPAN, United States Supreme court publications Difesa Sociale) Workshop and Meeting, cariplo • Theories of Tort Law, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Documentary • The Constitution in 2020 (with r. Siegel) (2009) headquarters, Milan, Italy, “Ways of Supporting the Philosophy (with G. Mendlow) 2009 • Framework Originalism and the Living Constitution, 103 Economy Without Distorting competition” • Beyond Inclusive Legal Positivism, in Ratio Juris, 20th John J. Donohue III Nw. U. L. Rev. 549 (2009) • International Meeting of “The Global Standard of Anniversary Issue of the journal devoted to Professor lectures and addresses • What to Do About the Court?, American Prospect, the XXI century,” in cooperation with Aspen Institute coleman’s contributions to jurisprudence • NBEr Summer Institute Pre-conference, Economic october 2009 Italia and the Italian Ministry of the Economy and other Professional Highlights crime control, “rethinking America’s Illegal Drug Guido Calabresi • Supreme Court Justices Have It Too Good, The finance, rome, Italy, opening remarks; panelist • Visiting Distinguished Professor of the Philosophy Policy” Guardian Online (UK), May 2009 • judged final Moot court Tournament, University of of the Social Sciences, herdecke-Witten University, • Whitney center Lecture Series, hamden, cT, • Jon Stewart and the Crisis of Journalism, The Guardian Turin Law School, Turin, Italy Germany “rethinking America’s Illegal Drug Policy” Online (UK), March 2009 • Delivered two “Inaugural” Lectures of the Third Term • Nichols Distinguished Professor, Stetson University • Law and Economics Workshop, University of chicago • A Body of Inquiries, N.Y. Times, january 2009 of the Master of Science course in comparative Law, Law School, “rethinking America’s Illegal Drug Policy” Economics, and finance, International University Mirjan R. Damasˇka • 1st Paris and Bonn Workshop on Law and Economics: Robert A. Burt college of Turin lectures and addresses The Empirics of crime and Deterrence, University of lectures and addresses • yale Law School Association of Washington, D.c. Area • Toronto conference of the International Association of Paris ouest Nanterre, keynote address, “The Evolution of Econometric Evaluation of crime and Deterrence” • Bioethics and Law Symposium, connecticut Bar Alumni Dinner, remarks and introduction of Dean Procedural Law, Keynote Address foundation, “Decision Making at the Very End of Life” robert Post 20 21 yale law report winter 2010 faculty activities • NBEr regulation and Litigation conference, The publications • Revitalizing Global Environmental Governance for • Localism and Democracy Panel, The constitution in Boulders, carefree, Arizona, comment on cook, • The Mediocrity of Government Subsidies to Mixed- Climate Change, Global Governance, vol. 15 (2009) 2020 conference, yale Law School, “federalism All the Ludwig, and Samaha, “Gun control after heller: Income Housing Projects, in Property Rights and Land other professional highlights Way Down” Litigating Against regulation” Policies (G. K. Ingram & yu-hung hong eds., 2009) • Inc’s 30 Best Business Books Every Business owner • Duke Law School, “The Legacy of David Souter” • faculty Workshop, Universitat Pompeu fabra, Should read, for Green to Gold: How Smart • Midwest Democracy Network, columbus, ohio, “four Barcelona, Spain, “Impact of the Death Penalty on William N. Eskridge, Jr. Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Approaches to redistricting reform” Murder in the U.S.” lectures and addresses Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive • Election reform Agenda conference, University of • Latin American caribbean Law and Economics • congressional Testimony Supporting the Employment Advantage Iowa, “Getting from here to There in Election reform” Robert C. Ellickson Association Plenary Session, Universitat Pompeu Non-Discrimination Act, Before the house committee publications Owen M. Fiss fabra, Barcelona, Spain, “can you Believe Econometric on Education and Labor, 111th congress, first Session Owen M. 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