FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2021 (TO BE HELD REMOTELY VIA ZOOM)
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8:30 - 8:40 A.M. Welcome Remarks - Theresa Kaiser-Jarvis (Assistant Dean for International Affairs, University of Michigan)
8:45 - 10:15 A.M. Panel I - International Law
Faculty Discussant: Professor Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg (University of Michigan)
Moderator: Farshad Rahimi Dizgovin, S.J.D. candidate (University of Michigan)
10:15 - 10:30 A.M. Break10:30 - 12:00 P.M. Panel II - Human Rights
Faculty Discussant: Professor Christopher McCrudden (University of Michigan)
Moderator: Chun-Han Chen, S.J.D. candidate (University of Michigan)
- Martin Lolle Christensen (European University Institute): The Use of External Judicial Decisions Among Regional Human Rights Courts
- Stephanie Coker (University of Leicester): The Best Interests of the 'Dutiful Child': Defining the Limits on the Child's Responsibilities
- Angela Hefti (University of Lucerne): No More Impunity: Femicide and State Responsibility
12:00 - 1:00 P.M. Lunch Break
1:00 - 2:30 P.M. Panel III - Law and Society
Moderator:
Dingyurui Bao, S.J.D. student (University of Michigan)
- Luwam Dirar (Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and Rule of Law): The Emancipation Conundrum: Decolonization, Gender, and Equality Movements in the Context of African Integration
- Emily Stolzenberg (Villanova University): Nonconsensual Family Obligations
- Laura Lane-Steele (Tulane Law School): Adjudicating Identity
2:30 - 3:00 Breakout Rooms
3:00 - 3:15 P.M. Break
3:15 - 4:45 P.M. Panel IV - Constitutional Law
Moderator:
Aviram Shahal, S.J.D. candidate (University of Michigan
- Oren Tamir (Harvard Law School): Administrativizing Constitutional Law
- Joanna Langille (University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law): Legality All the Way Down: Public Policy's Role in Choice of Law Analysis
- Ziv Schwartz (University of Chicago Law School): Supplementing Supplemental Briefing
SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2021 (TO BE HELD REMOTELY VIA ZOOM)
8:45 - 10:15 A.M. Panel V - Environmental Law
- Mark Nevitt (Syracuse University College of Law): Is Climate Change a National Emergency?
- Sonya Ziaja (University of Baltimore School of Law): How Algorithm Assisted Decision Making is Influencing Environmental Law and Climate Adaptation
- Francesca Leucci (University of Bologna): Unlocking the Potential of Environmental Liability in Transformational Times
10:15 - 10:30 A.M. Break
10:30 - 12:30 P.M. Panel VI - Corporate Law
- Wanling Su (Harvard Law School): The Myth of Director Oversight
- Maria Lucia Passador (Université de Luxembourg) and Maria Lillà Montagnani (Bocconi University): Tech Committees and AI Governance: An Empirical Analysis in Europe and North America
- Aneil Kovvali (University of Chicago Law School): Countercyclical Corporate Governance
12:30 - 1:00 P.M. Discussion: Tax Law
- Nyamagaga Gondwe (New York University): The Black Tax: How the Code Reinforces Black Poverty
1:00 - 1:30 P.M. Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:00 P.M. Panel VII - Criminal Law
Moderator: Samanatha Franks, J.D. student (University of Michigan)
- Brian Murray (Seton Hall University School of Law): Privatizing Expungement
- Adam Davidson (University of Chicago Law School): Managing the Police Emergency
- Ryan Sakoda (University of Chicago Law School): Probation to Prison: Race and the Structure of Sanctions in Probation Supervision
3:00 - 3:15 P.M. Break
3:15 - 5:15 P.M. Panel VIII - Law and Technology
- Carla Reyes (SMU Dedman School of Law): Autonomous Corporate Personhood
- Muhammad Zaheer Abbas (Queensland University of Technology): Patent Rights and 3D Printing Applications in Response to COVID-19
- Federica Novello (University of Milan): Arrangements and Measure of Maintenance Allowance Helping by the Artificial Intelligence
- Hannah Bloch-Wehba (Texas A & M University School of Law): Democratizing Technology
5:15 P.M. Concluding Remarks