Mark Cooney, University of Georgia

Chair

M.P. Baumgartner, William Paterson University

Foreign and Familiar Justice: Immigrants and the Native Born in an American Court

Mark Cooney, James Balkwell and Alexander Scherr, University of Georgia

Sex and Style in the Law of Homicide: An Experimental Study

Kerri Smith, Lamar University

It’s for Their Own Good: The Social Control of Public Housing Residents

James Tucker, University of New Hampshire

The Spirits of the Law

Scott Phillips, University of Houston

Discussant

Quince Hopkins, Washington and Lee University

Chair

Dorothy Brown, University of Cincinnati and Washington and Lee University

Tax Benefits and Heterosexual Marriage: Only Certain Couples Need Apply

Thomas P. Gallanis, Ohio State University

Aging and the Nontraditional Family

Quince Hopkins, Washington and Lee University

The United States Supreme Court and the Parameters of “Family”: The Trap of Anglo-American Historical Models and the Promise of Cultural Anthropology for a More Principled and Culturally Inclusive Approach

E. Gary Spitko, Santa Clara University

An Accrual/Multi-Factor Approach to Intestate Inheritance Rights for Unmarried Cohabitants

Jennifer Drobac, Indiana University

Discussant

George Pavlich, University of Alberta

Chair

Peter Fitzpatrick, Birkbeck College

Sacrifice and Oblivion

Patrick Hanafin, University of London

Ghosts of Empire: Sacrificial Politics and the Untimely Death

Desiree Lundstrom, University of British Columbia

Sacrificing Justice/Justifying Sacrifice

Johan van der Walt, Rand Afrikaans University

Law: The Sacrifical Tension Between Justice and Economics

Sundhya Pahuja, University of Melbourne

Discussant

Judy Fudge, York University

Chair

Judy Fudge, York University

The Hegemony of the Employment Contract: Treating Labour as a Commodity

Vidya Kumar, University of British Columbia

Arranged Marriage? The Relationship Between Labour/Employment Regimes and Human Rights

Leah Vosko, York University

Re-Regulating the Employment Relationship in Canada? Freelance Editors’ Struggle for Collective Bargaining Rights Under the Status of the Artist Act

Katharina Heyer, University of Hawai’i and American Bar Foundation

Chair

Lee Ann Basser, LaTrobe University

Beyond the ADA:  The Australian Approach to Achieving Equality Rights for People With Disabilities

Jerome E. Bickenbach, Queens University

Disability Rights in Canada: The Social Model and Equality

Thomas Burke, University of California, Berkeley and Wellesley College

What Do (Disability) Rights Do?

Katharina Heyer, University of Hawai’i/American Bar Foundation

Where is the “Self” in Self-Determination? Mobilizing Mental Disability Rights in Japan

Frank W. Munger, State University of New York, Buffalo

Discussant

1206  Author-Meets-Reader: The Votes that Counted:—How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election by Howard Gillman

Kim Lane Scheppele, University of Pennsylvania

Chair

Howard Gillman, University of Southern California

Author

Lee Epstein, Washington University, St. Louis

Reader

Ran Hirschl, University of Toronto

Reader

Mark Tushnet, Georgetown University

Reader

1207  Economic Justice Uses of Litigation to Promote the Public Interest

Peter Carstensen, University of Wisconsin

Chair/Discussant

Stephen Meili, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Settling Consumer Class Actions: The Cy Prey Doctrine and Creative Responses

Lynn Sarko and Erin Riley, Keller Rohrback L.L.P

ERISA and the Protection of Pension in Investments

Michael C. Stumo, Organization for Competitive Markets

The Unfairness Doctrine: Uses of Litigation to Protect Farmers from Abuse of Power

Susan Burgess, Ohio University

Chair

Rachel Roth, Washington University

A “Right to Procreate by FedEx?” Men, Women, and the Reproductive Rights of U.S. Prisoners

Helena Silverstein, Lafayette College

“Our Judge Doesn't Do It”: Judicial Subversion of Alabama Abortion Law

Karen Zivi, Harvard University

Revisiting Reproductive Rights: Narratives of Motherhood in the Debate Over Mandatory HIV Testing

Elizabeth M. Schneider, Brooklyn Law School

Chair

Cynthia Grant Bowman, Northwestern University

Freedom from Domestic Violence as a Human Right: Does the African Context Demand a Different Approach?

Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara

Religion, State Power, and Domestic Violence in Muslim Societies

Sally E. Merry, Wellesley College

International Human Rights and Legal Pluralism: Examining the CEDAW Process

Elizabeth M. Schneider, Brooklyn Law School

Battered Women, Feminist Lawmaking, and International Human Rights

Clark D. Cunningham, Washington University, St. Louis

Chair/Discussant

Modhurima Dasgupta, Brown University

Labor, Development, and Social Action Litigation in the Indian Supreme Court

Julia Eckert, Max Plack Institute for Soc. Anthropology

If Only We Knew the Law: Making Tools Out of Rules in Urban India

Marc Galanter, University of Wisconsin and London School of Economics and Political Science, and Javanth Krishnan, William Mitchell College of Law

Debased Informalism: Lok Adalats and Legal Rights in Modern India

Richard Messick, World Bank

Discussant

David T. Johnson, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Chair

Robert A. Kagan, University of California

Author

Charles R. Epp, University of Kansas

Reader

David Nelken, University of Macerata, Italy and University of Wales, UK

Reader

Joseph Sanders, University of Houston

Reader

Richard Abel, University of California, Los Angeles

Chair/Discussant

José Antonio Caballero, Stanford University and UNAM, Mexico

An Alternative Approach to Access to Justice: Mexican Immigrants in Northern California

Paula L. Hannaford and Nicole Mott, National Center for State Courts

No Lawyers!? How Courts Can Assess and Respond to Self-Represented Litigants’ Need for Justice

Rosemary Hunter, Griffith University

The Reach and the Grasp of Law

Pascoe Pleasence, Legal Services Commission, and Aoife O’Grady, Legal Services Research Centre

Comparative Legal Needs: Findings from the United Kingdom

Noga Morag-Levine, University of Michigan

Chair/Discussant

Ian Dobinson, City University of Hong Kong

The Criminalization of the Falun Gong

Shona L. Leybourne, University of Texas, Dallas

Mapping Geographies of Rule of Law Inside the Zimbabwean Civil Rights Movement

Jonathan Marshall, University of California, Berkeley

As Japanese as Baseball: Taxpayer Suits as a Late-Blooming American Transplant

Jonathan M. Miller, Southwestern University

Peron’s Impeachment of the Argentine Supreme Court and Its Implications for Societies Encountering Rapid Social Change

Leigh B. Bienen, Northwestern University

Chair

Linda L. Ammons, Cleveland State University

Why Do You Do the Things You Do? Clemency for Battered Incarcerated Women, A Decade’s Review

Joanne Klineberg, University of British Columbia

Emergence of Moral Involuntariness as a Principle of Fundamental Justice Requiring an Acquittal

Richard Leo, University of California, Irvine

Thinking About Miscarriages of Justice

Dianne L. Martin, York University

Lessons About the Reach of Law from the “Laboratory” of Wrongful Convictions: Noble Cause Corruption and Tunnel Vision

Darryl K. Brown, Washington & Lee University

Discussant

Julie Novkov, University of Oregon

Chair

Susan Carle, American University

Reviving the Pragmatists’ Theory of the Self in U.S. Legal Scholarship

Jean-Francois Gaudreault-DesBiens, McGill University

Gaston Bachelard and Legal Theory

Kevin Olson, University of California, Irvine

States of Language: Rethinking the Normative Foundations of the Welfare State

Claire E. Rasmussen, University of Washington

Man is a Political Animal: Rethinking Rights from the Ethical Position of Animals

Sara L. Rushing, University of California, Berkeley

Rights, Identity, and the Political Potentials of Poststructuralism

Jeremy Webber, University of Sydney

Discussant

Mary G. Condon, York University

Chair

Lori Gruen, Wesleyan University

Toxic Responsibility and Moral Luck

Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State University, and Paul Brace, Rice University

Winners in State Supreme Courts: Institutions and Context in the Politics of Tort Reform

Thomas Koenig, Northeastern University, and Michael Rustad, Suffolk University

Tort Law and the Internet in Post-9/11 America

Stephan Landsman, DePaul University

A Chance to Be Heard: Thoughts on Grids, Caps, and Collateral Source Deductions in the September 11th Compensation Fund

1218 The Death Penalty: Politics and Process (CRN 3)

Jennifer L. Culbert, Johns Hopkins University

Chair/Discussant

William J. Bowers and Michael E. Antonio, Northeastern University

The Old and New Capital Jury Project: Findings on the Role of Jurors’ Race in the Life or Death Decision and an Invitation to Join the Research

Susan F. Hirsch, Wesleyan University

Analyzing Victim Impact Testimony in a Capital Terror Case: The Negative Impact on Victims

Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, Whitman College

Legal Lynching

1219 Law and Narrative in the Constitution of (Legal) Identity and Culture

Adelaide H. Villmoare, Vassar College

Chair/Discussant

Rose Corrigan, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Are Sex Offenders Born or Made? Why Identity Matters for Sexual Predator Laws

Dicle Kogacioglu, State University of New York, Stony Brook

What Does Complaining About Corruption in the Law Do? Notes on the Discursive Construction of Everyday Life Legal Strategies in Turkey

Yofi Tirosh, University of Michigan

Semiotic Domains of Identity as Sites of Politics in Law

Victoria Saker Woeste, American Bar Foundation

Suing Mr. Ford: Rhetorics of Persuasion and Conversion Narratives in Anti-Semitism and Libel, 1920-1929

1220  Law and Politics

David Brody, Washington State University, Spokane

Chair

Roger A. Hanson and Fred Cheesman, National Center for State Courts

The Effects of Congressional Legislation on Prisoner Litigation

Menachem Hofnung, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

The Politics of Compulsory Military Service

Roman David, University of Witwatersrand

Exchange for Truth: The Polish Lustrations and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Process

Daniel Stepniak, University of Western Australia

Populist Conservatism Takes on Reformist Elites in Australia: A Consideration of Some Implications for Social and Political Reform Agendas

Alyce Jean Thomas, St. Thomas University

Factionalism and the Organization of Interests, Ideas and Events in American Law

1221 Historical Perspectives on the Reach of Law In The Workplace

Catherine Fisk, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

Chair

Paul Craven, York University

Master and Servant in Canada, 1765-1935: Symbolic Enforcement

Catherine Fisk, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

Working Knowledge: Intellectual Property in the 19th Century Employment Relationship

Paul Frymer, University of California, San Diego

Court Capacity, Electoral Politics and Civil Rights Enforcement: Racial Integration in U.S. Labor Unions, 1935-1880

Michael E. Manley-Casimir, Brock University

The Administrative Regulation of Teacher Education: The “Reach” of the College of Teachers vs. the “Role” of the University

1222  Author-Meets-Reader: Law's Reach—A Comparison of Canada and the United States: Consequences—The Impact of Law and Its Complexity by W.A. Bogart

Joan Brockman, Simon Fraser University

Chair

W. A. Bogart, University of Windsor

Author

Nathalie Des Rosiers, Law Commission of Canada

Reader

Roderick A. Macdonald, McGill University

Reader

Chidi Oguamanam, University of British Columbia

Reader

Andrew Petter, University of Victoria

Reader