2007-2008 Law School Workshops

Each year, the intellectual life of the Law School is enriched by national and international experts who come to Ann Arbor to present their cutting-edge research and real-world experience in workshop series that address a broad array of interests. For the 2007-08 academic year the Law School is hosting the following series:

Academic Year Workshop

International Law Workshop
The winter 2008 International Law Workshop series meets on Mondays and introduces today's most debated issues in international and comparative law.

Timely topics for this series include:

• Social Justice, Solidarity, and Economic Development: Preparing Europe's Regions for the 21st Century
• The Ideal and Practice of Democratic Legitimacy in Latin America 
• Freedom, Security, and Justice' in the European Union:  The Story so Far and (some of) the Challenges for the Future

International Workshops are open to the University community.

Winter Semester Workshops

Law and Economics Workshop
The Law and Economics Workshop meets weekly throughout the winter on Thursday afternoons. (A list of winter 2008 speakers is available.)

Law and Economics Workshops are open to the public.

Tax Policy Workshop
The Tax Policy Workshop features research presentations from scholars working in the area of tax policy. The Workshop meets on Wednesdays from 3:40 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.

Tax Policy Workshops are open to the public.

Fall Semester Workshops

Intellectual Property Workshop
The Intellectual Property Workshop features presentations from scholars conducting research on intellectual property law and policy and meets Wednesday afternoons in room 236 Hutchins Hall from 3:40 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.

Intellectual Property Workshops are open to the public.

Constitutional Law Workshop
The Constitutional Law Workshop is a semester-long workshop in constitutional law and constitutional theory. The Workshop meets on Tuesday's from 3:40 - 5:40 p.m. in room 236 Hutchins Hall. On six occasions during the semester, scholars of constitutional law from other institutions will come to discuss their works in progress.

People who are not members of the seminar (e.g., faculty, other students) are welcome to sit in on the sessions when the visitors present, but priority in participating in the conversation will go to members of the seminar.