Michigan-Illinois Workshop: Comparative Law Work in Progress

University of Michigan Law School
April 21-22, 2006

Mathias Reimann (University of Michigan Law School) and Jacqueline Ross (University of Illinois College of Law) are hosting an innovative workshop to discuss comparative law work in progress. While there is a large, and growing, amount of comparative law scholarship in the United States, there is no regular opportunity for comparative law scholars to meet and discuss work in progress in any depth. The scholarly programs at other meetings usually aim at the presentation of finished papers on a given topic with very limited, if any, time for discussion. This workshop will respond to the need for a forum in which comparative law work in progress can be explored among colleagues in a serious and thorough manner that will be truly helpful to the respective authors. Professors Reimann and Ross have selected seven papers from more than 20 submissions for discussion over a two day period with a preference for more junior scholars. The papers were distributed to all participants in advance for reading. They will not be formally presented. Each paper will be critiqued by two commentators and then discussed among all the participants. Several faculty members of the host institution will also participate, either as commentators or in a more general role. The workshop is sponsored by the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Michigan Law School and by the American Society of Comparative Law. It is a pilot project and if it succeeds will become an annual event.

Aditi Bagchi - Varieties of Employee Ownership: The Unintended Consequences of Corporate Law and Labor Law

Elena Baylis - Parallel Courts

Tom Ginsburg - Law and the Liberal Transformation of the Northeast Asian Legal Complex in Korea and Taiwan

Salil Mehra - Criminalizing Internet Libel in Japan and the United States: Post a Message and Go to Jail

Jacqueline Ross - The Place of Covert Surveillance in Democratic Societies: A Comparative Study of the United States and Germany

Julie Suk - The Equality Syndrome

Michal Tamir - Public Law as a Whole: The Case of Selective Enforcement and Racial Profiling