Category Archives: Talks & Conferences

One of my first research interests was the regulation of cryptography, and this quickly led me to the equally interesting topic of the regulation of anonymity. So I'm just delighted to be attending On the Identity Trail: Understanding the Importance and Impact of Anonymity and Authentication in a Networked Society in Ottawa today, as it's jammed packed with interesting people doing great work.

The conference is joint venture of a muldisciplinary team headed by Ian Kerr that works under the rubric On the Identity Trail and faculty from the Law and Technology Program at the University of Ottawa. Talk about critical mass!

The organizers asked me to report on legal developments in the US relating to anonymity, so I'll be giving a somewhat gloomy — and uncharacteristically doctrinal — presentation at this morning's session.

Did I mention it is about 60-70 degrees colder in Ottawa than Miami?

Here's an interesting conference that I will be attending right here at UM: The Global Governance Symposium coming up this Friday. Full details below — come join us! If you can't make it in person, there's a high likelihood that it will be webcast; I'll post the details if and when they become available.

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This sounds both fun and useful: TaxProf Blog: Indiana To Host April 15 Symposium on The Next Generation of Law School Rankings

One of the many things that bugs me about US News's highly arbitrary law school rankings is the weight they put on graduates' starting salaries. One could well ask whether salaries are even relevant to rankings as the jobs that are hardest to get — public interest jobs — tend to pay the least. But even if one accepts the idea that money is relevant to ranking, it's weird to look only at nominal salary without any adjustment for cost of living. This is an enormous boost to the ranking of New York schools and a real downer for Miami's rankings. A very large fraction of our graduates fall in love with South Florida (or came here because they already love South Florida) and decide to stay. The large supply of entry-level lawyers — many Harvard grads seem to want to work here too — only worsens the historically low entry-level salaries in this town at all but the largest national firms. Yet, overall, with the exception of housing the cost of living isn't dire here, and there's no state income tax. None of that gets reflected in USN&WR's survey.

Duke is offering a webcast of the Duke Law Journal Thirty-Fifth Annual Administrative Law Conference panel on “The Role of the Internet in Agency Decisionmaking” available from Duke's webcast page.

I'm off to Duke today. Tomorrow I'll be speaking at the Duke Law Journal Thirty-Fifth Annual Administrative Law Conference as part of a panel on “The Role of the Internet in Agency Decisionmaking”.

This sounds fun.

The Yale Law School and the American Constitution Society are sponsoring a conference on The Constitution in 2020. We've invited some of the foremost progressive constitutional scholars in the United States to come to New Haven on April 8-10th and talk about the future of the Constitution and our country. This is going to be one of the most exciting conferences in recent years. You can find out the details here and here

(via Balkinization)

Alas, I have a schedule conflict and can't go. And anyway, I'm going to be in New Haven the week before, attending another contender for cool conference of the season.