Friday, May 6, 2022
New Scholarship on Contract in Crisis
Temple Law School's Professor Jonathan Lipson and Interim Dean Rachel Rebouché organized a conference last year addressing the various ways in which contracts law has responded to the pandemic. It was a deep dive into waters that we merely tested in our online symposium from 2020.
The published version is now out in Law and Contemporary Problems. You can read all of the contributions here.
May 6, 2022 in Conferences, Recent Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (2)
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
CALL FOR PAPERS: 6th Annual Penn-NYU Empirical Contracts Workshop (June 2, 2022)
Paper Submission Deadline: March 1, 2022
The 6th Annual Penn-NYU Empirical Contracts Workshop is scheduled to place in person at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law on June 2, 2022.
The Workshop is a forum for the presentation and discussion of early and mid-stage projects analyzing contract law and practice from a variety of empirical perspectives. Papers are selected through a peer review process. Attendees of the conference are expected to cover their own travel and lodging costs, but there are no conference fees.
Submitted papers must be unpublished (and expected to be unpublished at the time of the conference). If accepted, authors will have an opportunity to submit a revised draft prior to the conference for presentation and discussion. Please note that accepted papers will be made available to all conference participants.
Organizing committee: Dave Hoffman (top left, Penn); Florencia Marotta-Wurgler (right, NYU) and Tess Wilkinson-Ryan (bottom left, Penn). Please email submissions to dhoffman@law.upenn.edu
November 17, 2021 in Conferences, Contract Profs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, October 1, 2021
Reminder: KCON Zoom Panel Today!
Post-employment restrictions are in the news. President Biden mentioned them in his July 9 executive order. In July, the Uniform Law Commission approved a uniform act governing covenants not to compete. Illinois, Nevada, and D.C. have recently enacted legislation.
Should competition law should play a role in regulating such terms? This panel will generate wisdom in that regard.
Employment 2021: Contract v. Competition
Which Should Govern Freedom to Work?
A KCON Zoom Panel
Friday, October 1, 2021
2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Central Time
Unconscionability in Contracting for Worker Training
Jonathan F. Harris
Associate Professor of Law
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
@LawProfJHarris
Bundling Postemployment Restrictive Covenants: When, Why, and How It Matters
Non-Disclosure Agreements and Externalities from Silence
Evan Starr
Associate Professor
Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
https://sites.google.com/site/starrevan/home
Boilerplate Collusion: Clause Aggregation, Antitrust Law & Contract GovernanceOrly Lobel
Warren Distinguished Professor of Law
University of San Diego School of Law
https://www.orlylobel.com/
Remarks
Eric A. Posner
Kirkland & Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law
Arthur and Esther Kane Research Chair
University of Chicago Law School
Author of How Antitrust Failed Workers (and a batch of related articles)
Questions and Comments from the Floor
Please direct questions to Val Ricks, South Texas College of Law Houston, organizer and moderator, at vricks@stcl.edu.
To reserve a spot, please register in advance:
https://stcl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElcuGqrjooHtKMInJraeWfyac7cuWsfDdh
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
October 1, 2021 in Conferences, Contract Profs, Recent Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Announcing a KCON Zoom Panel, Employment 2021: K v. Competition
Post-employment restrictions are in the news. President Biden mentioned them in his July 9 executive order. In July, the Uniform Law Commission approved a uniform act governing covenants not to compete. Illinois, Nevada, and D.C. have recently enacted legislation.
Should competition law should play a role in regulating such terms? This panel will generate wisdom in that regard.
Employment 2021: Contract v. Competition
Which Should Govern Freedom to Work?
A KCON Zoom Panel
Friday, October 1, 2021
2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Central Time
Unconscionability in Contracting for Worker Training
Jonathan F. Harris
Associate Professor of Law
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
@LawProfJHarris
Bundling Postemployment Restrictive Covenants: When, Why, and How It Matters
Non-Disclosure Agreements and Externalities from Silence
Evan Starr
Associate Professor
Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
https://sites.google.com/site/starrevan/home
Boilerplate Collusion: Clause Aggregation, Antitrust Law & Contract GovernanceOrly Lobel
Warren Distinguished Professor of Law
University of San Diego School of Law
https://www.orlylobel.com/
Remarks
Eric A. Posner
Kirkland & Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law
Arthur and Esther Kane Research Chair
University of Chicago Law School
Author of How Antitrust Failed Workers (and a batch of related articles)
Questions and Comments from the Floor
Please direct questions to Val Ricks, South Texas College of Law Houston, organizer and moderator, at vricks@stcl.edu.
To reserve a spot, please register in advance:
https://stcl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElcuGqrjooHtKMInJraeWfyac7cuWsfDdh
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
September 1, 2021 in Conferences, Contract Profs, Recent Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, August 20, 2021
Call for Papers: AALS: Section on Contracts at the 2022 Annual Meeting
The AALS Annual Meeting in January 2022 will be held virtually. If you are writing on either of the topics below and would like to speak at the annual meeting, please send your proposal to the Section Chair, Miriam Cherry at miriam.cherry@SLU.edu on or before Monday, August 30, 2021.
Call for Papers
AALS Contracts Section
Section on Contracts – Panel
Title: “Current Events in the Contracts Course and in Contracts Scholarship”
Saturday, January 8, 2022
3:10pm-4:25pm
Description: This program will focus on the use of current events both in the contracts course and in contracts scholarship. The pandemic, protests for racial justice, and many other newsworthy events have prompted new lines of inquiry into established contract doctrines. For example, litigation around the pandemic has challenged the scope of force majeure clauses. The panelists will examine these as well as other newsworthy events, and discuss how they have been able to integrate current events into their teaching and scholarship. The use of current events can assist with student engagement in the course, and also help to spark new ideas for research. This panel also evokes larger questions: How do current events shape (or reshape) the law of contracts? Which recent events will fade away, and which will have lasting impact on practice, doctrine, and the content of the contracts course?
Section on Contracts – Pedagogy Panel (Co-Sponsored with the Section on Consumer & Commercial Law)
Title: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and the Teaching of Contracts and Commercial Law
Sunday, January 9
4:45-6pm
Description: Significant scholarship shows that diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamental to our understanding of commercial law. Yet these issues are rarely highlighted in the teaching of contracts, consumer protection, and other areas of commercial law. This panel will focus on pedagogy centered on race, gender, disability, and sexual orientation, and will explore the implications for bringing diversity into the contracts course. This panel brings together a range of expert instructors to discuss their materials, methodologies, lesson plans, and class activities, in the hopes of enriching the teaching of all commercial law topics.
August 20, 2021 in Conferences, Contract Profs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Contract in Crisis: A Two-Day Virtual Symposium
Today is the second day of the Contract in Crisis Symposium hosted by Jonathan Lipson and Rachel Rebouché of the Temple University Beasley School of Law. The conference features many of the themes and some of the people who participated in our virtual symposium and contracts and COVID last Fall.
The papers presented in this week's conference will appear as an issue of Law & Contemporary Problems.
Congratulations to the organizers and participants in this timely and stimulating event!
July 21, 2021 in Conferences, Contract Profs, Recent Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
AALS Session: New Voices in Commercial & Consumer Law, Wednesday, 4:15 EST
January 6, 2021 in Conferences, Contract Profs | Permalink | Comments (0)
AALS Section on Contracts Session: Best Efforts Clauses, Wednesday, 11:00 AM EST
Contracting for Effort: The Law and Economics of Best and Reasonable Effort Clauses
January 6, 2021 in Conferences, Contract Profs, Recent Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
AALS Panel on Teaching Commercial Law in the 21st Century, Today at 4:15 EST
Teaching Commercial Law in the 21st Century
January 5, 2021 in Conferences, Contract Profs, Recent Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0)
AALS Open Source Program The Power of Supply Chains, Today at 2:45 EST
- Moderator: David V. Snyder is professor of law and director of the Business Law Program at the American University Washington College of Law. Professor Snyder’s teaching and research interests are primarily in contracts and commercial law, including their international and comparative aspects. He has been a professor of law at Tulane, Indiana (Bloomington), and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He has been a regular visiting professor at the law school of the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) since 2012, and has also been a visiting professor at the University of Paris 10 (Nanterre La Défense), Boston University, and the College of William and Mary. He is a graduate of Tulane Law School and Yale College and clerked on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
- Speaker Call for Papers: Krisann C. Kleibacker Lee Cargill Sustainability Counsel & Bioindustrial Group Lead Lawyer, Cargill
- Speaker: Jonathan C. Lipsonm, Harold E. Kohn Chair and Professor of Law, Temple University, James E. Beasley School of Law
- Speaker Call for Papers: Trang (Mae) Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Law, Temple University, James E. Beasley School of Law
Trang (Mae) Nguyen researches and writes in the intersections of contract law, transnational business governance, comparative law, and international law. Her current projects focus on the roles of informal mechanisms in the reparation of global supply chains in the aftermaths of COVID-19, and on the roles of supply chain host countries in the international legal order. Professor Nguyen is an affiliated scholar at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, New York University School of Law and was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of International Law Unbound, the Stanford Law and Policy Review, the Harvard Human Rights Journal, and the New York University Law Review, among others. Prior to entering academia, she practiced corporate law in the Silicon Valley office of Davis Polk & Wardwell, LLP and served on the policy team of the California Office. - Speaker Call for Papers: Ashley Palmarozzo, Doctoral Student in Technology and Operations Management, Harvard Business School
- Speaker Call for Papers: Kish Parella
Kish Parella is an associate professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, where she teaches courses at the intersection of law and business, including contracts, international business transactions, and corporate social responsibility. Her research is in international economic law, with a focus on the cross-border governance of corporations. Her current research examines the interaction between law and reputational mechanisms to improve corporate conduct in global supply chains. - Speaker: Anita G. Ramasastry, Professor, Co Director, Law Technology and Arts, University of Washington School of Law
- Speaker Call for Papers: Jodi L. Short is the Associate Dean for Research and the Honorable Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of the Law. Her research is on the regulation of business, in particular, the intersection of public and private regulatory regimes and the theory and practice of regulatory reform. Recent publications appear in Organization Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, Regulation & Governance, and the Minnesota Law Review. Her ongoing research investigates private efforts to enforce labor standards in global supply chains through codes of conduct and social auditing; explores how political influences on regulatory compliance and enforcement have been operationalized in empirical scholarship; analyzes how agencies define the “public interest” when implementing their statutory mandates; and tests the efficacy of different messaging strategies on compliance with environmental regulations.
- Speaker Call for Papers: Michael W. Toffel, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, Harvard Business School
January 5, 2021 in Conferences, Contract Profs, Recent Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0)
Hot Topic at AALS Today at 11:00 AM EST
January 5, 2021 in Conferences, Contract Profs, Recent Scholarship, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Weekend Frivolity: A Letter from Babyland Amusement Company
Thanks to Dave Hoffman (aka @HoffProf), the main thing we are looking forward to in 2021, aside from the arrival of a COVID vaccine, is teaching Hanford during the second semester of Contracts. Now, he has provided, via Trang (Mae) Nguyen this letter from the company at the heart of the case. The letterhead is a great indication of why this case is so much fun!
August 23, 2020 in Conferences, Famous Cases, Teaching | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, May 22, 2020
Reading the Covid-Related News on Bloomberg
A few stories caught my eye this week.
First, Paige Smith and Robert Iafolla bring us news that refusing to wear a mask at work can cost you your job. Companies that are re-opening are following CDC guidelines by requiring that returning workers wear masks.
The story suggests that there has been little resistance from workers; on the contrary, workers are more likely to complain that their employers are taking too few precautions against contagion rather than too many. There are apparently religious and medical exemptions (don't those usually require face coverings rather than prohibit them?), but workers cannot claim a free-speech right to refuse to wear a mask. So long as the requirement that employees wear masks is generally applicable and generally enforced, with appropriate accommodations where reasonable, it is likely to survive any legal challenge.
Two quick points: first, I am always struck by the lack of outrage at private actors who do things that spark outrage when the government does them, even though the private actors are motivated by profit and the government is motivated, at least in part, by concerns like public safety or national security. The supposed difference is that workers consent to their terms of employment, but when you combine the ubiquity of at-will employment, form employment contracts that eliminate recourse, and a 15% unemployment rate, it is hard to take seriously claims that workers give meaningful consent to terms of employment. Nancy Kim and I explored this topic in the context of data-mining in connection with consumer contracting in a pre-Covid world.
Second, I wonder if the Bloomberg article underestimates the power of the argument that refusing to wear a mask is symbolic political speech. When I go shopping these days, only about half of the people in the store wear masks. Their refusal to do so puts me and other shoppers at risk. It's possible that they just don't know where to get a mask (try Etsy!), but it is hard not to view their choice not to wear mask as a statement, and perhaps they view my mask as a mark of my self-subordination to the nanny-state as well.
What do you do if you need to have someone to do some work in your home, and they show up without a mask? Do you tell them to leave and come back with a mask? Do you hide in the bathroom until they finish and then disinfect all surfaces with which they might have come in contact? Do you leave a Yelp review and give them a low rating in the public health and safety category? Confronting them seems like borrowing trouble. They have access to the same information that you have. Telling adults that they've made a poor decision (or implying that they have) rarely goes over well.
Meanwhile, Jef Feeley and Joshua Fineman report on another acquisition now on hold because of the pandemic. In Forescout Technologies Inc. v. Ferrari Group Holdings LP, 2020-0385, Delaware Chancery Court (Wilmington), Forescout, a cybersecurity company, is claiming that private equity group, Advent International, ought not to be permitted to back out of its $1.9 billion deal to acquire Forescout. Forescout claims that Advent assumed the risks associated with any possible impact that the pandemic might have on the deal. According to the report, this is one of at least nine deals that resulted in Covid-related litigation in May, including $10 billion in disputed mergers and acquisition deals that landed in Delaware's Chancery Court during one seven-day period in May. "Material adverse effect" clauses need to be carefully drafted or they will be carefully scrutinized by a court or arbiter.
May 22, 2020 in Conferences, Current Affairs, Labor Contracts | Permalink | Comments (1)
Friday, May 24, 2019
About those added convention center fees...
I spent the past few days at a conference at the Boston Convention Center, a place so cavernous that at least I easily met my step targets every day walking between meeting rooms. The conference was an expensive one to attend (it would have been waaaay out of my price range if not for the academic rate), and enormously well-attended, and I found myself doing a lot of math: how much money in registration fees? but also, how much money to use this convention center?
This post on extra convention center fees came across my social media just as I was musing on all of that. I know from other people who have dealt with convention centers that the extra fees are the real killer: You have to pay extra to use their catering, their AV equipment, etc. Even if all you've planned is a wedding, then you know how this goes with the add-ons. This is an arrangement that we seems to just be accepting, but maybe there should be more vocal outrage about it.
May 24, 2019 in Commentary, Conferences, True Contracts | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Deadline TODAY for CSLSA Conference Registration and Hotel Block
For any of you considering attending and presenting your work (at any stage) at the Central States Law Schools Association’s 2018 Annual Scholarship Conference next month, TODAY (September 20) is your last chance to register and reserve a room in the hotel block (Sheraton - Downtown Fort Worth, which is literally next door to the law school and is offering $159/night)!
If you have already registered but held off on booking your hotel accommodations, well... you should take care of that today!
The conference will be Friday, October 12 and Saturday, October 13 at Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort Worth. Those who have attended in the past can attest to the fact that CSLSA provides a friendly and constructive environment for promoting legal scholarship across the board, including strong showings in areas beloved to readers of this blog, like contracts, commercial law, teaching methods, and more.
All the conference and hotel information you need is accessible here: http://www.cslsa.us/
I (Mark, that is) hope to see many of you in Fort Worth next month. But today is your last chance!
September 20, 2018 in Conferences | Permalink
Thursday, August 30, 2018
October 12-13 CSLSA 2018 Scholarship Conference at Texas A&M University School of Law
The Registration deadline has been extended until September 20, 2018 for the Central States Law Schools Association 2018 Scholarship Conference. The conference will be held on Friday, October 12 and Saturday, October 13 at the Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort Worth, Texas. We invite law faculty from across the country to submit proposals to present papers or works in progress.
The conference hotel is the Sheraton Fort Worth Downtown Hotel, which is conveniently located immediately next door to the law school. The conference rate is $159 per night and can be accessed by going here to the special CSLSA booking site. The cutoff date for the hotel block is September 20, 2018, so please make your reservations today!
CSLSA is an organization of law schools dedicated to providing a forum for conversation and collaboration among law school academics. The CSLSA Annual Conference is an opportunity for legal scholars, especially more junior scholars, to present working papers or finished articles on any law-related topic in a relaxed and supportive setting where junior and senior scholars from various disciplines are available to comment. More mature scholars have an opportunity to test new ideas in a less formal setting than is generally available for their work. Scholars from member and nonmember schools are invited to attend.
Please click here to register.
For more information about CSLSA and the 2018 Annual Conference please subscribe to the CSLSA blog. We look forward to seeing you in Fort Worth!
August 30, 2018 in Conferences | Permalink
Friday, August 3, 2018
CSLSA 2018 Scholarship Conference at Texas A&M University School of Law: October 12-13
Registration is now open for the Central States Law Schools Association 2018 Scholarship Conference, which will be held on Friday, October 12 and Saturday, October 13 at Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort Worth, Texas. We invite law faculty from across the country to submit proposals to present papers or works in progress.
CSLSA is an organization of law schools dedicated to providing a forum for conversation and collaboration among law school academics. The CSLSA Annual Conference is an opportunity for legal scholars, especially more junior scholars, to present working papers or finished articles on any law-related topic in a relaxed and supportive setting where junior and senior scholars from various disciplines are available to comment. More mature scholars have an opportunity to test new ideas in a less formal setting than is generally available for their work. Scholars from member and nonmember schools are invited to attend.
Please click here to register and to submit a presentation proposal. Registration is FREE for faculty at CSLSA member and affiliate law schools (which is quite a lot of law schools). The deadline for registration is September 1, 2018.
For more information about CSLSA and the 2018 Annual Conference please subscribe to the CSLSA blog. Information on the conference-rate hotel block will be posted soon. We look forward to seeing you in Forth Worth!
August 3, 2018 in Conferences | Permalink
Friday, July 13, 2018
How does a "deemed effective" date affect a non-compete?
A recent case out of New York, Niznick v. Sybron Canada Holdings, Inc., 650726/2018, illustrates how ambiguity can crop up anywhere, sometimes no matter how careful you are; it's difficult to plan for every eventuality.
The parties had a contract that included a non-competition clause that prohibited competition for five years after Niznick ceased to own any units in the company. Sybron tried to exercise an option to purchase Niznick's units in the company in 2014, but Niznick disputed the validity of Sybron's actions, and the parties engaged in litigation. Eventually, a court concluded that Sybron was permitted to exercise the option and that Niznick's ownership interest terminated as of the 2014 date when Sybron had attempted to exercise its option. After this decision, in 2017, the parties entered into a purchase and sale agreement "deemed to be effective as if the transfer" had occurred in 2014. Niznick also asserted that, therefore, the non-competition clause would expire in 2019--five years after the 2014 date. Sybron contested that reading.
The parties' previous contracts had referred to the non-compete as "a material part of the consideration" of the agreement. The court, therefore, did not allow Niznick's attempt to minimize its importance. The purchase and sale agreement executed in 2017 stated that Niznick "is the owner" of the units in question (emphasis added). The "deemed to be effective" date was not considered to alter the language of the non-compete, which stated that it would commence when Niznick ceased to own units, which did not happen until the 2017 purchase and sale agreement, regardless of the "deemed effective" date.
At the time of drafting the non-compete, it was probably thought that it would be pretty clear when Niznick ceased to own the units. Sybron probably did not anticipate that they would have a dispute about the operative date this way.
July 13, 2018 in Conferences, Recent Cases, True Contracts | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, December 21, 2017
The 13th Annual International Conference on Contracts (KCON XIII) is Looking Great!
KCON, the annual International Conference on Contracts, is a favorite of this blog, having been associated with us since its inception. The 13th Annual International Conference on Contracts will be held at Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law, which is just around the corner (February 23 and 24, 2018). The conference is shaping up nicely and is well worth adding to your conference and travel plans for next semester!
For those unaware, the 13th Annual International Conference on Contracts is the largest annual scholarly and educational conference devoted to Contracts and related areas of commercial law. The two-day conference is designed to afford contracts scholars and teachers at all experience levels (including those preparing to enter the academy and those whose primary teaching appointment is not in a law school) an opportunity to present/demonstrate and discuss (formally and informally) recently-published and accepted-but-not-yet-published scholarship, works-in-progress, thought experiments, not-yet-fully-formed ideas for scholarship, and pedagogical innovations, as well as to network with colleagues — and potential collaborators or mentors — from around the country and other parts of the world.
Courtesy of conference organizer Dan O'Gorman, here are some highlights so far:
We will be honoring Professor James J. White of the University of Michigan Law School and Professor Robert S. Summers of Cornell Law School with Lifetime Achievement Awards for their contributions to the field of contract law. Professor White will be in attendance to accept the awards on behalf of both himself and Professor Summers.
The Barry Law Review has agreed to have its annual spring symposium be a panel at KCon 13. In honor of our lifetime achievement award recipients, the panel will focus on Article 2 of the U.C.C. The panel will be moderated by Victor Goldberg, and panelists include Lisa Bernstein (via Skype), Robert Hillman, Steven Walt, and James White. A second panel on Article 2 is also in the works moderated by Frank Snyder, and featuring Henry Gabriel, Reporter for the Revisions of U.C.C. Article 2, 1999-2003, and whose piece will also be included in the symposium edition.
We will have a panel on Judge Posner and his contracts jurisprudence (moderated by Michael Malloy, with panelists Bob Brain, Deborah Gerhardt, Victor Goldberg, and Jeff Harrison).
We will have a panel on the economics of contract law (moderated by Jeff Harrison, with panelists Yonathan Arbel, Peter Gerhart, Victor Goldberg, and Wentong Zheng).
We will have a panel celebrating/decrying Judge Traynor’s 1968 opinion in Pacific Gas & Electric on its 50th anniversary (moderated by Fred Jonassen, with panelists Steve Burton, Robert Hillman, and others soon to be confirmed).
Professor Tina Stark will have a show-and-tell during one of the lunch sessions about her antique English indentures. She has some going back to the 1400s, others from the Elizabethan age, some with huge regnal seals, and others of historical interest because of references to peppercorns.
We have a substantial number of international scholars who will be making presentations.
We will be having dinner at a tapas restaurant in downtown Orlando, with a trivia contest during dinner.
So if you have not done so already, we encourage you to reserve a room at the Embassy Suites by Hilton in downtown Orlando at your earliest convenience.
You can register for the conference here: http://www.barry.edu/kcon/
You can book your hotel room here: http://embassysuites.hilton.com/en/es/groups/personalized/M/MCODTES-BAR-20180222/index.jhtml
The deadline to submit an abstract was December 11, but abstracts submitted after that date will be accepted on a space available basis.
We look forward to seeing many of you in Orlando in February. Please note that the average high temperature in Orlando on February 23 and 24 is 74 degrees. (This is not a warranty, however.)
December 21, 2017 in Conferences | Permalink
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Central States Law Schools Association 2017 Scholarship Conference Coming October 6-7, 2017
Calling all scholars in contracts and commercial law! And yes, scholars in other disciplines that we on this blog may find somewhat less interesting.
Mark your calendar now. The Central States Law Schools Association 2017 Scholarship Conference will be held on Friday, October 6 and Saturday, October 7 at the Southern Illinois University School of Law in Carbondale, Illinois.
CSLSA is an organization of law schools dedicated to providing a forum for conversation and collaboration among law school academics. The CSLSA Annual Conference is an opportunity for legal scholars, especially more junior scholars, to present working papers or finished articles on any law-related topic in a relaxed and supportive setting where junior and senior scholars from various disciplines are available to comment. More mature scholars have an opportunity to test new ideas in a less formal setting than is generally available for their work. Scholars from member and nonmember schools are invited to attend.
Registration will formally open in July, but the special hotel blocks and rates are now available for reservation:
Holiday Inn Conference Center
$109/night
To reserve a room, call 618-549-2600 and ask for the SIU School of Law rate or book online and use block code SOL.
Note: SIU School of Law will provide shuttle service to and from the Holiday Inn & Conference Center for conference events.
Marion Holiday Inn Express
$107/night
To reserve a room, call (618) 993-5602 and ask for the SIU School of Law rate.
Shuttle service will not be available.
For more information as it becomes available, consult the CSLSA Website.
June 1, 2017 in Conferences | Permalink | Comments (0)