2009-2010 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 Fall 2009 semester, the Law School is hosting the following series:
The workshops will run from 4:00-6:00 p.m. on Tuesday's in Room 236 Hutchins Hall. Workshop Coordinators: Nina Mendelson and Jill Horwitz.
The Fall 2009 International Law Workshop series meets on Mondays throughout Fall and Winter terms from 4:00 pm to 5:15 p.m. The Workshop introduces today's most debated issues in international and comparative law.
International Workshops are open to the University community.
The Law and Philosophy Workshops will take place on Thursdays from 4:00-6:00 p.m. Room 118 Hutchins Hall. Workshop Coordinators: Scott Hershovitz and Don Herzog.
The Legal History Workhop meets every Wednesday from 4-6 p.m. in 326 Hutchins Hall. The workshop features presentations by legal historians from around the country. Presentations situate legal developments in social, political, intellectual, and cultural context, exploring a wide range of substantive and methodological questions arising in the course of legal-hsitorical research and writing. This year, the papers and presenters will focus almost exclusively on American legal history.
The workshop is convened by Professors Tom Green (tagreen@umich.edu) and Bill Novak (wnovak@umich.edu) and is attended by faculty and students from the Law School, the History Department and a number of other University departments. Individual presentation papers are circulated one week in advance and may be obtained by contacting Dara Faris (darafaris@gmail.com.
The Tax Policy Workshop features research presentations from scholars working in the area of tax policy. The Workshop will open with Comparative Tax Law: Theory and Practice on October 3, 2009 in 236 Hutchins Hall from 8:30 am to 6:00 pm.
Tax Policy Workshops are open to the public.