2401  The Court and Rights: The New Federalism and the Undermining of Civil Rights Law

Theresa M. Beiner, University of Arkansas

Chair

Theresa M. Beiner, University of Arkansas, and Patricia Stanley, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

The Supreme Court’s Shifting Discrimination Paradigm

J. Stephen Clark, Albany Law School

Progressive Federalism?

Lori A. Johnson, University of California, Berkeley

Congress Versus the Judicial Branch in the Battle Over the Scope of Federal Court Jurisdiction

Rebecca E. Zietlow, University of Toledo and Denise Morgan, New York Law School

Federalism and Belonging


2402  Roundtable: Case Studies in Asian Legal Consciousness

Rebecca R. French, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Chair

David M. Engel, State University of New York, Buffalo

Participant

Shigong Jiang, Columbia University and Peking University

Participant

Takanori Kitamura, Tokai University

Participant

Kobkun Rayanakorn, Chang Mai University

Participant

Yoshitaka Wada, Kyushu University

Participant

Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore

Participant


2403  Law in Action

Paula L. Hannaford, National Center for State Courts

Chair

Zuzanna Gorska, Intern’l Institute for the Soc. of Law

Environmental Concerns During the Process of Transition from “Shortage Economy” to “Consumer Society”: The Case of Implementation of the EU Environmental Acquis Communautaire in Poland

Joanna Grossman, Hofstra University

The Clash Between Law and Reality: Employer Liability for Sexual Harassment

Scott Lemieux, University of Washington, Seattle

Countermobilization, Litigation, Division? Assessing the Potentially Counterproductive Effects of Roe v. Wade

Michael Selmi, George Washington University

The Price of Discrimination: The Effect of Large Class Action Employment Discrimination on Firms

George I. Lovell, University of Washington

Discussant


2404  Theorizing Terrorism II: Immigration and Refugee Implications

Sharryn J. Aiken, York University

Chair/Discussant

Michael J. Churgin, University of Texas

Changes in Canadian and United States Immigration Cooperation as a Result of September 11

Robert J. Foss, CARECEN

Immigrants, Patriotism, and the National Security State: Re-Traumatizing Refugees

Gerald Heckman, York University

Securing Procedural Protections for Asylum Seekers: An Expanding Role for Globalized Human Rights Law?

Haley Hinda Seif, University of California, San Diego

Undocumented Mexican Immigrants as Legislative Actors: The Struggle for the California Driver’s License

Anna Williams Shavers, University of Nebraska

Counter-Terrorism and the Effect on U.S. Immigration Policy


2405  CLSA Special Initiatives II: Legal Dimensions—What is a Crime?

Nathalie Des Rosiers, Law Commission of Canada

Chair

Jean-Paul Brodeur, Université de Montréal

Y a-t-il un novau dur dans la notion de crime? (Is There a Hard Core of Permanent Features of Crime?)

Wendy Chan, Simon Fraser University

Undocumented Migrants and Bill C-11: The Criminalization of Race

Richard V. Ericson and Aaron Doyle,, University of British Columbia

What is Fraud?

Laureen Snider, Queen’s University

Zero Tolerance Reversed: Constituting the Non-Culpable Subject in Walkerton

Stuart Henry, Wayne State University

Discussant


2406  Roundtable: Redefining the Fields—Responsive Regulation Meets Governmentality II (CRN 5)

Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chair

Joseph DiMento, University of California, Irvine

Participant

Carol A. Heimer, Northwestern University and American Bar Foundation

Participant

Clark A. Miller, University of Wisconsin

Participant


2407  Roundtable: Labor Rights and International Standards—Questions for the ILO’s World Commission on Social Dimensions of Globalization (CRN 8)

Marley S. Weiss, University of Maryland

Chair

James B. Atleson, State University of New York, North Campus

Participant

Brian Langille, University of Toronto

Participant

Jianyong Li, Shanghai University

Participant


2408  Roundtable: Corporate Lawyers in Transnational Practice—The Rule of Law and the Creation of Markets

Tanina Rostain, New York Law School

Chair

Bryant Garth, American Bar Foundation

Participant

Terence C. Halliday, American Bar Foundation

Participant


2409  Corporate and Commercial Law: New and Critical Perspectives

Claire Hill, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Chair

Claire Hill, Chicago-Kent College of Law

The (Un)Importance of Agency Costs

Jonathan C. Lipson, University of Baltimore

Debt (or) Duty: Volition, Cognition, and Exit in the Financially Distressed Corporation

Poonam Puri, York University

The Role of the Auditor in Corporate Governance

Toni Williams, York University

Collateral Forms and Relational Norms: Exploring the Role of the Family Surety in Debt-Financing of Small Business

James Gillespie, Illinois Institute of Technology

Discussant


2410  Author-Meets-Reader: Multicultural Jurisdictions—Cultural Differences and Women’s Rights by Ayelet Shachar

Jack M. Balkin, Yale University

Chair

Ayelet Shachar, University of Toronto

Author

Abner Greene, Fordham University

Reader

Geoffrey Brahm Levey, University of New South Wales

Reader

Iris Young, University of Chicago

Reader


2411  Dangerousness and Social Control

Michael Antonio, Northeastern University

Chair

Mona Lynch, San Jose State University

Risk Management or Pain Delivery? A Case Study of Post-Rehabilitative Penal Practices

Darcy Purvis, University of California, Irvine

International Perspectives of the Law’s Control Over Sex Offenders Released into the Community

Harry Wilson, Roanoke College

Public Opinion and Gun Control Utility: Not As Simple Nor Coherent As We Thought?


2412  Politics and Judges: Judicial Backgrounds, Judicial Selection, and the Reach of Courts

D. Marie Provine, Arizona State University

Chair/Discussant

Paul Frymer, University of California, San Diego, and Malcolm M. Feeley, University of California, Berkeley

Two Party Politics and Judicial Independence: An Empirical Test of the American States

Kathy Mack and Sharyn Roach Anleu,, Flinders University

Magistrates Courts in Australia: Law’s Reach and Law’s Limits in Lower Courts

Jennifer A. Robinson, University of California, Santa Barbara

Judicial Decision-Making in the Federal Appellate Courts: The Case of Sexual Harassment

Nancy Scherer, University of Miami

Diversity on the Federal Bench: Do Black and White Judges Adjudicate Cases Differently

Amy Steigerwalt, University of California, Berkeley

Senators, Interest Groups, and Judicial Confirmations: The Effects of Partisan Politics


2413  Innovations in Legal Education

John C. Kilwein, West Virginia University

Chair

Jon Gould, George Mason University

Dead On: Clinical Education for Undergraduates on Capital Punishment

Jay G. Hook, Harvard University

True Experimental Tests of the Effect of Law School Instruction on Moral Intuitions

Jae-Won Kim, Dong-A University

American Law Schools in Japan and Korea: A Reform or Mockery?

Kuk-Woon Lee, Handong University

The Ennobling of Legal Education for the Global-Cyber World: Insights from the European Medieval Experience

Thomas M. Hilbink, New York University

Discussant


2414  Equality, Autonomy, and the Mythologies of Law

Claire E. Rasmussen, University of Washington

Chair

Thomas S. DeLuca, Fordham University

Free Speech or Political Equality: A Paradox for Democracy?

Kimberlee B. Holland, Purdue University

Does Gender Impact the Path from Bill to Law? Another Test of Donald Black’s Theory of the Behavior of Law

Tsachi Keren-Paz, College of Management Academic Studies Law School

Egalitarianism as Justification: Why and How Should Egalitarian Considerations Reshape the Standard of Care in Negligence Law

Roland Pierik, Tilburg University

“Choice” and “Endowment” in Non-Ideal Theory: On the Neglect of Social Categorization in Liberal Egalitarianism

Andrew Robertson and Patrick Doyle, University of Melbourne

Contract, Voluntariness, and the Autonomous Subject of Law

Bradley W. Bryan, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant


2415  Regulating Tobacco

W. A. Bogart, University of Windsor

Chair

Leonard G. Buckle and Suzann R. Thomas-Buckle, Northeastern University

The Limits of Legal Reach: Tobacco Use as a Test of the Abilities of Formal Institutions of Social Control

Gerald J. Thain, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Selling Addiction: Tobacco Marketing and the Law—The View from 2002

Suzann R. Thomas-Buckle and Leonard G. Buckle, Northeastern University

Implementation of Legal Change: Tobacco Control and the Enduring Quasi-Autonomy of Local Legal Realms


2416  Challenges Facing Law Practice: Globalization, Law Reform, and Changing Clientele

Lynn C. Jones, Northern Arizona University

Chair

Kay-Wah Chan, Macquarie University, Australia

Globalization: A Challenge Faced by the Lawyers’ Profession in Japan—An Analysis from the Perspectives of the Culture of the Profession

Kay L. Levine, University of California, Berkeley

The Enforcement of Statutory Rape in California

Robert E. Rosen, University of Miami

From Counselors to Technicians to Consultants: Transformations in Emotional Labor

Rebecca L. Sandefur, Stanford University

Discussant


2417  Corporate (Non) Accountability for Environmental and Occupational Hazards

Valerie Braithwaite, Australian National University  

Chair

Garry C. Gray, University of Toronto

The Right to Refuse Dangerous Work: Individual Option or Individual Responsibility?

Neil Gunningham, Australian National University

Social License, Community Empowerment, and Regulatory Flexibility

Judyth A. Swingen, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, and Christine Andrews, Florida Gulf Coast University

Corporate Environmental Accountability: A U.S. EU Comparison

Hitoshi Ushijima, Fukuoka University

The Absence of Enforcement Powers in Soil-Contamination Remediation Regulations in Japan: Cooperation, Mallegislation, or the Developing Process of Law?

Jamie Benidickson, University of Ottawa

Discussant


2418  The Social Construction and Regulation of Private Property and Ensuing Disputes

Edward Ziegler, University of Denver

Chair

Richard A. Brisbin, Susan Hunter and Kevin M. Leyden,, West Virginia University

Adversarial Legalism in Planning, Zoning, and Land Use Regulatory Practice

Jasmine Martirossian, Northeastern University

The Social Construction of Community in the World of Condominiums and Their Laws: A Comparative Study Between U.S. and Canada

Charu Sharma, City University of Hong Kong

Environment vs. Development: The Examination of EIA Process in Hong Kong

Jerry Van Hoy, University of Toledo

Working Around the Iron Cage: Decision-Making in a Residential Homeowners’ Association

David Delaney, Amherst College

Discussant


2419  Law, Gender, and Society in International Perspective

Mary R. Rose, American Bar Foundation 

Chair

Erin Dolan, University of Melbourne

Legal Expectations and Gender Norms: Leila Khaled and the 1970 Hijacking of El-Al Flight 219

Haesook Kim, Long Island University

Dangerous Memory: The Death and Silence of Judge Hwang Yun-Suk (1929-1961)

Ann M. Lucas, San Jose State University

Gender, Stalking, and the Privatization of Risk

Allegra McLeod, Yale University

Constellations of Complicity


2420  Discrimination in the Workplace

Roberto Corrada, University of Denver

Chair

Ravi A. Malhotra, Harvard University

The Duty to Accommodate Unionized Workers with Disabilities in Canada and the United States

Laura Beth Nielsen, American Bar Foundation, and Robert L. Nelson, American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University

The Legal Construction of Discrimination: A Socio-Legal Theory of Anti-Discrimination Law as a Social System

Beth Quinn, Montana State University

Managing the Law: The Role of the Human Resources Profession in the Social and Organizational Construction of Anti-Sexual Harassment Law

Gayle Binion, University of California, Santa Barbara

Discussant


2421  The Image of Justice: Media Representations of Crime and Justice

Norman L. Rosenberg, Macalester College

Chair/Discussant

Catherine O’Sullivan, York University

Homolka, Letourneau, and the Scapegoat Effect: Representations of Criminal Women in the Law and Media

Peter Robson, University of Strathclyde

The Jury in Film


2422  The Criminal Justice System and Defendants’ Rights

Rosalie Young, State University of New York, Oswego

Chair

Robin Adler, Northeastern University

Indigent Defense Research: We Still Don’t Know About Sleeping Lawyers

Marianne Constable, University of California, Berkeley

Signs of Silence: Miranda’s Brave New World

Seung Heum Hwang, Sungshin Women’s University

Mandatory Probono Obligation of Lawyers: Korean Experience

Christopher D. Maxwell and Steven B. Dow, Michigan State University

An Empirical Study on Effectiveness of Counsel in Criminal Cases


2423  Author-Meets-Reader: The Social Construction of Sexual Harassment Law by Mia Cahill

Joseph Sanders, University of Houston

Chair

Mia L. Cahill, New York University

Author

Charles Epp, University of Kansas

Reader

Marcia A. Mahoney, Northwestern University

Reader

Phoebe Morgan, Northern Arizona University

Reader

Vicki Schultz, Yale University

Reader