UM Law School Faculty Members Take Berlin By Storm
From Wednesday, July 25th to Saturday, July 28, 2007, an impressive delegation from The University of Miami School of Law faculty traveled to Berlin to participate in the 2007 Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (International Sociological Association) at Humboldt University. The theme of the meeting, Law and Society in the 21st Century: Transformations, Resistances, Futures, was to encourage debate on the transformations that are redefining law and society in the new century.
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 Professor Bradley |
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 Professor Coombs |
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 Professor Jones |
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 Professor Twining |
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Listed below are the UM Law School faculty members that participated in the conference, and the topics that they discussed:
David Abraham- Professor Abraham participated in two roundtable discussions and a panel presentation. The first roundtable was titled “Labor, Migration, and Social Welfare.” and the second roundtable “The Social Problematique of the Europeanization Process: What is Left?” in the panel titled, “Empire’s Law: American Exceptionalism, the Bush Regime, and Legality.” In addition, Professor Abraham presented a paper titled “The Bush Regime from Elections to Detentions: A Bootstrapped Moral Economy of Carl Schmitt and Human Rights”.
Mario Barnes- Professor Barnes participated in two sessions. He chaired the Service Panel titled “How to Thrive as a Junior Faculty Member.” He also chaired the session titled “Race, Law, and Performance Identity,” and presented his paper; “Lakisha and Jamal Get Dressed for Work: Analyzing Workplace Appearance and the Grooming Standards as ‘Racial Stereotyping’ under the Mixed Motive Standard of Discrimination” (Co-authored with Prof. Angela Onwuachi-Willig).
Caroline M. Bradley- Professor Bradley participated in a session titled “Securities Regulation, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Finance: Global Markets, Law and Culture.” Also, she presented a paper titled “Gaming the System: Virtual Worlds and the Securities Markets," which addresses two questions: First: To what extent do real world (RW) rules of securities regulation apply to the issuance of “securities” in virtual worlds; Second: Should securities regulators be concerned that player-inhabitants in virtual worlds who invest in virtual securities may develop false expectations about RW securities markets?
Kenneth M. Casebeer- Professor Casebeer participated in a session titled “Evasion of Labour Law by Employers and the Law’s Response: Comparative and Historical Perspectives.” He presented a paper titled “Of Service Workers, Contracting Out, Joint Employment, Legal Consciousness, and the University of Miami.”
Donna Coker- Associate Dean and Professor Coker participated in an interdisciplinary roundtable discussion titled “Feminism, Restorative Justice, and Violence Against Women.” She also presented a paper, “The Story of Wanrow: The ‘Reasonable Man’ and the Law of Self-Defense,” in a session titled “The Impact of Hidden Racism and Sexism.”
Mary I. Coombs- Professor Coombs participated in a session titled “Alternative Regulation in Health Care II: Current Issues.” She presented a paper titled “How Not To Do Medical Malpractice Reform: A (Mostly) Florida Case Study.”
Ben Depoorter- Professor Depoorter participated in a session titled “Media Reach:How Popular Conceptions of Law Shape Legal Processes.” He presented a paper titled “Means End Litigation: Winning by Losing,” which addresses strategic purpose litigation.
D. Marvin Jones- Professor Jones organized a session titled “Author Meets Reader- The Theoretics of Race in the Post-Civil Rights Era," which reviewed his book “Race, Sex, and Suspicion: The Myth of the Black Male.”
Robert E. Rosen- Professor Rosen participated in two sessions. The first one was titled "Legal Plurality in Unexpected Circumstances," and he presented a paper titled “Legal Pluralism and Corporate Behavior.” He also chaired and was the discussant in a session titled "Mapping the Experiences of the U.S. Bar by Practices Setting."
William Twining- Professor Twining participated in a session titled “Legal Development and Institutional Reform.” He presented a paper titled “Law and the Millennium Development Goals.”
About The Law and Society Association
The Law and Society Association, founded in 1964, is a group of scholars from many fields and countries, interested in the place of law in social, political, economic and cultural life. Members bring training in law, sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, economics, and history as well as in other related areas to the study of sociolegal phenomena. Among its activities, the Association publishes the Law & Society Review, sponsors annual conferences and educational workshops, and fosters the development of academic programs in law and society around the world. For students and new scholars, the Association encourages participation in its workshops and mentorship program. Click here for The Law and Society Association Homepage
Related Links
- International Conference Law and Society in the 21st Century at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
- UM Law School Professor Biography's:
posted 30-July-2007
