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March 21, 2006

7:30 a.m.
Breakfast Session with Professor Nadine Strossen

9:30–10:45 a.m.
PANEL A
Evolving Families and the Law I

Arthur S. Leonard, chair

“’Absurdity’ Doctrine in the Jurisprudence of Family Definition”
Kris Franklin, Professor of Law

“Who Can Marry Whom? Answers from South Africa and the U.S.”
Arthur S. Leonard, Professor of Law

“Deregulating Family Law: Privacy, Poverty, and Pre-Nups”
Carlin Meyer, Professor of Law

William P. LaPiana, chair

“Langdell Revisited Again”
William P. LaPiana, Rita & Joseph Solomon Professor of Wills, Trusts and Estates

“Fiduciary Academics”
Richard A. Matasar, Dean and Professor of Law

“‘Ain’t No Goin’ Back’: Teaching Mental DisabilityLaw Courses Online”
Michael L. Perlin, Professor of Law

“Publish or Perish? The Role of the Faculty Advisor to the Law Review”
Cameron Stracher, Professor of Legal Writing

Ann F. Thomas, chair

“The Continuing Problems of the Innocent Spouse Rules”
Richard C.E. Beck, Professor of Law

“Tax Treaties: A Potential Weapon to Fight Human Trafficking?”
Diane Fahey, Visiting Professor of Law

“Titling Bank and Brokerage Accounts of Same-Sex Couples”
Lisa Padilla, Adjunct Professor of Law

“Family Tax Policy Trends in Context”
Ann F. Thomas, Professor of Law

Karen Gross, chair

“Prognosticating About the New Bankruptcy Law”
Karen Gross, Professor of Law

“The Role of Judicial Review in Protecting Minority Shareholders in Going Private Deals”
Faith S. Kahn, Professor of Law

“Securitization and Its Discontents”
Kenneth C. Kettering, Associate Professor of Law

“Changing the Social Meaning of Corporate Lawyering”
Peter Kostant, Visiting Professor of Law

“The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act at 30: Disclosure as a Model for Social Change”
Richard D. Marsico, Professor of Law

Elizabeth Rosen, Associate Professor of Applied Legal Analysis, Chair

“Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant: Some Poems, and Thoughts on Law and Poetry”
Susan J. Abraham, Associate Professor of Applied Legal Analysis

“Uncovering the Past: Lessons from Doing Legal History”
Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor of Law

“Law in the Plays of Elmer Rice (NYLS 1912)” (with the movie of Rice’s play, Counsellor-at-Law, showing at other times during the day)
Randolph N. Jonakait, Professor of Law

Lawrence M. Grosberg, chair

“Fast Talking”
Stephen Ellmann, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Law

“A Sampling of Empirical Pedagogical Research”
Lawrence M. Grosberg, Professor of Law

“Some Aspects of Judicial Decision-Making”
Michael B.W. Sinclair, Professor of Law

Beth Simone Noveck, chair

“The FCC’s New Indecency Enforcement Policy: A Cautionary Tale” (via videoconference)
Michael H. Botein, Professor of Law

“The Life of the Law: Application of the New Mathematics of Biology to Arguments About Jurisdiction, Legitimacy, and Sovereign Deference to Private Ordering”
David Johnson, Visiting Professor of Law

“What Is the Law of E-Democracy?”
Beth Simone Noveck, Associate Professor of Law

“Law in the Digital Age”
Richard K. Sherwin, Professor of Law

Sydney M. Cone III, chair

“The Domestic Face of Globalization”
Alfred Aman, John Marshall Harlan Visiting Professor of Law

“Canadian Softwood Lumber and ‘Free Trade’ under NAFTA”
Sydney M. Cone III, C.V. Starr Professor of Law

“’Culture, Power and Law’: A Comment on the Continuing Relevance of Merry’s Essay in an Era of Globalization”
Frank W. Munger, Professor of Law

“Fatwa: Deconstructing an Islamic Legal Opinion”
Sadiq Reza, Professor of Law

Lenni B. Benson, chair

“The Price of Commitment to the Rule of Law: Louis F. Post and the Red Scare Deportations of 1919–1920”
Lenni B. Benson, Professor of Law

“‘Beyond 1984’ Revisited: The Limits on Executive Prerogative in a Post–9/11 World”
Robert Blecker, Professor of Law

“The Rhetorical War Against the Judiciary”
Stephen A. Newman, Professor of Law