March 27 & 28, 2015
1225 South Hall
Conference Schedule (PDF)
FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015
7:45 – 8:30 AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 8:40 AM
Opening Address (U-M Professor Daniel Crane, Associate Dean for Faculty
and Research, Frederick Paul Furth, Sr. Professor of Law)
8:40 – 9:00 AM
Keynote speaker (U-M Professor Mathias Reimann, Hessel E. Yntema
Professor of Law)
9:00 – 10:30 AM
Panel I: Confining Law with Borders?
Faculty Discussant: Professor Julian Mortenson (U-M Law School)
Secondary Commentator: Thomas Streinz (NYU)
- Max Cherem (Kalamazoo College) – "Why Location Makes a Normative Difference in Refugee Debates"
- Gil Savir (U-M Law School) – "Cloud IT and Tax IT"
- Tamar Meshel (University of Toronto) – "Reviving the Role of International Water Law in the Resolution of Trans-boundary Freshwater Disputes"
10:30 – 10:45 AM
Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 PM
Panel II: Is it "Law"? Re-conceptualizing Law and Regulatory Mechanisms
Faculty Discussant: Professor Daniel Halberstam (U-M Law School)
Secondary Commentator: Gilad Abiri (Tel-Aviv University/Yale University)
- Thomas Streinz (NYU) – "Global Administrative Law and the Search for Law in Internet Governance"
- Andreas Orator (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business) – "Look like th' innocent
flower, but be the serpent under 't? Robust soft law provisions in EU law"
- Jianlin Chen (University of Chicago) – "Immediate Implementation of Economic Regulation: Subsidiary Legislation vs. Legislation by Press Release"
12:15 – 1:30 PM
Lunch (Lawyers' Club)
1:30 – 1:45 PM
Short Tour (Roopal Shah, Assistant Dean for International Affairs) leaves from Lawyers' Club
1:45 – 3:15 PM
Panel III: Questioning Laws of War
Faculty Discussant: Professor Steve Ratner (U-M Law School)
Secondary Commentator: Sophia Henrich (University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich)
- Kirsten Stefanik (University of Western Ontario) – "International Environmental Law in Armed Conflict: Protecting Civilians and the Environment"
- Elad Gil (Duke Law) – "Making Proportionality Meaningful in Asymmetric Conflicts: Some Observations From the 2014 Gaza Conflict"
- Yahli Shereshevsky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – "The Battle over the Laws of War: Classification of Asymmetrical Conflicts"
3:15 – 3:30 PM
Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:00 PM
Panel IV: Fundaments Revisited
Faculty Discussant: Professor Margo Schlanger (U-M Law School)
Secondary Commentator: Max Cherem (Kalamazoo College)
- Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg (Bar-Ilan University) – "Criminal Law Multitasking: Expanding the Confines of Criminal Law"
- Anne Gladitz (UC Berkeley)– "The Transformative Power of Language in Shifting Concepts in Legal Education"
- Sharon Cop (University of Virginia School of Law) – "Gorillas in the Midst of a Philosophical Debate"
7:00 PM
Dinner (place TBA)
Saturday, MARCH 28, 2015
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30 AM
Panel V: When Push Comes To Shove - Morality Steps In?
Faculty Discussant, Professor Don Herzog (U-M Law School)
Secondary Commentator: Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg (Bar-Ilan University)
- Gilad Abiri (Tel-Aviv University/Yale University) – "Democratic Failures: Moral Panics in Law and Policy"
- Keren Yalin-Mor (Tel-Aviv University) – "Consistency and Change with Judicial Decision Support Systems"
- Sophia Henrich (University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich) – "Is there Room for Moral Considerations in Law? The Martens Clause and the Relationship between Morality and Law"
10:30 – 10:45 AM
Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 PM
Panel VI: Re(?)/Distribution of Wealth
Faculty Discussant: Professor James Hines (U-M Law School)
Secondary Commentator: Jianlin Chen (University of Chicago)
- Zach Pouga Tinhaga (U-M Law School) – "Fiduciary Duties of Corporate Directors: a Comparative Study of the U.S. Corporate Law and the Organization for Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA)"
- Cristiane Bena Dias (American University Washington College of Law) – "Belo Sun Mining Corp., a Case Study of Environmental Impact Assessment in Brazil"
- Ira Lindsay (Dartmouth College) – "Horizontal and Vertical Equity in Taxation: A Defense"
12:15 – 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 PM
Panel VII: Forces of Society—Transforming the Creation and Application of Law
Faculty Discussant: Professor Sherman Clark (U-M Law School)
Secondary Commentator: Keren Yalin-Mor (Tel-Aviv University)
- Olga Frishman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - "Courts and Their Audiences"
- Helene Love (University of Toronto) – "Proof of Age: Incorporating Elder Witnesses Within the Confines of the Law"
- Crescence Okah (University of Lorraine) – "The Right to Die: an Extension of the Right to Respect for Private Life"
2:30 – 3:00 PM
Closing Remarks