Upcoming Symposium at Cardozo Law and Rutgers Law: The Abolition of War--February 20-21, 2015

The Symposium on the Abolition of War takes place February 20-21, 2015 and is co-sponsored by Cardozo School of Law, Rutgers School of Law--Newark, and the Law and Humanities Institute. The February 20 event  takes place at Cardozo, begins at 9:30 a.m.,  and features talks by Stanley Fish, Mark Kurlansky, Elaine Scarry, and Richard Weisberg. The luncheon speaker is  Krzysztof Wodiczko. The February 21 event takes place at Rutgers, begins at 10 a.m., and will present talks by Michael Braff, Sarah Cole, Mark Kurlansky, Paul K. Saint Armour, Brian Soucek, Maria Stephan, Krzysztok Wodiczko, and Ekow Yankah,  There will also be a special musical performance by Ensemble Pi: (Eleanor Cory, Idith Meshulam, Katie Schlaikjer, Cheryl Weisberg, and Sam Weisberg). Ensemble Pi will also discuss antiwar sentiment in music. Wonderful bringing together of law and humanities!

A Symposium on the Abolition of War

From Richard Weisberg, President of the Law and Humanities Institute, comes this announcement of a two day symposium on the topic:

WHY HAS WAR NEVER BECOME A TABOO?  This topic and others connected to the experience of war will be explored at a 2-day symposium called "The Abolition of War". Speakers on the first day include Elaine Scarry, Mark Kurlansky, Richard Weisberg, and Stanley Fish. The event will take place at the Cardozo Law School, Moot Court Room, beginning at 9:30 and ending at around 3. It will include lunch to all in attendance as well as an extensive Q & A on the subject involving the audience inter-actively. The remaining panels, which will take place on Feb 21 at the Rutgers Law School in Newark (easily available by Path train from NYC), include "War and Art: Do They Need Each Other?", "Promoting the Alternative to War (or peace-making for Fun and Profit", and a Musical Interlude with talks and performances relating to the theme of Abolition and Pacifism. Speakers include Sarah Cole, Brian Soucek, Paul K. Saint Amour, and Ekow Yankah; Maria Stephan, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and Michael Braff. Performers include Eleanor Cory and Idith Korman, with Cheryl Weisberg singing some folk songs from the French and American traditions. RSVP for further details to ellii.cho@law.cardozo.yu.edu.

The event is organized by the Law & Humanities Institute, the Rutgers Law School, and the Jacob Burns Foundation and the Institute of Holocaust and Human Rights Studies of the Cardozo Law School.

Reminder: Law and Magic Conference, June 6, 2014: Registration and Hotel Information

Reminder: The Conference on Law and Magic, co-sponsored by the Law and Humanities Institute and Thomas Jefferson School of Law, takes place on June 6, 2014 at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, 1155 Island Avenue, San Diego CA 92101. For additional information, please contact Stephanie Marquez at smarquez at tjsl.edu. CLE is being applied for.

Conference hotels are the Hotel Indigo and the Marriott San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, both a short walk from the law school. Click on the links for access to the hotels' reservations pages.

Registration is free for TJSL faculty, alumni, staff, and students, and $20 for all others. Registration includes lunch and the closing reception.

Here is the final schedule of presentations for June 6.

Revealing the Links Between Law and Magic:

A Conference Co-Sponsored by the Law and Humanities Institute 

and the Thomas Jefferson School of Law

June 6, 2014

8:00                 Breakfast and Check-in

8:30-10:00      Panel 1

                        First Amendment and Magic

                        Christine Corcos, LSU Law

                        Paul Finkelman, Albany Law

                        Rob McQueen, University of London

                        Julie Cromer-Young, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Chair and Discussant

10:15-11:45    Panel 2

                       

                        Law, the Humanities, and Magic

                        Anthony Farley, Albany Law School

                        Richard Weisberg, Cardozo Law School

                        Annette Houlihan, St. Thomas University, New Brunswick (Canada)

                        Christine Corcos, Chair and Discussant

12:00-1:15      Lunch

                        Entertainment by Curt Frye

1:30-3:30        Panel 3

Intellectual Property and Magic

                        Jay Dougherty, Loyola (Los Angeles) Law School

                        Jennifer Hagan, Hagan and Hagan, P.A.

                        Mark Tratos, Greenberg Traurig (via Skype)

                        Pierre Fleury-LeGros, University of LeHavre

                        Guilhem Julia, University of Paris XIII

                        Jay Dougherty, Chair and Discussant

                       

3:45-5:30        Panel 4

                        Magic in the Courtroom

                        Sydney Beckman, Duncan School of Law

                        Curtis Frye, Independent

                        Rostam Neuwirth, University of Macao Faculty of law

                        Julie Cromer Young, Chair and Discussant

5:30-6:30        Closing reception for panelists and attendees

A June Conference Sponsored by the Law and Humanities Institute and the Thomas Jefferson School of Law

News of an Upcoming Conference

Revealing the Links Between Law and Magic

A Conference Sponsored by the Law and Humanities Law Institute and

Thomas Jefferson School of Law

June 6, 2014

Thomas Jefferson School of Law

1155 Island Avenue, San Diego CA 92101

Preliminary Information

This conference, co-sponsored by the Law and Humanities Institute (New York), and Thomas Jefferson School of Law (San Diego, CA), examines the many ways in which law and magic interact. Not only can the law influence the practice of magic, such as in the areas of freedom of speech and religion and intellectual property. Magic can also influence the law, such as in trial tactics and evidence. In addition, magic illuminates the crossroads of other law and humanities fields, such as the emerging area of law and neuroscience, rhetoric, and law and popular culture. Several of our panelists plan to include (magical!) demonstrations as part of their paper presentations.

Attendees will enjoy a full day on June 6 of panel presentations and discussions on IP, evidence, trial tactics, rhetoric, beginning at 8:30 and running until 5 p.m.

Some of our confirmed speakers and moderators include Sydney Beckman, Duncan College Of Law, Christine Corcos, Louisiana State University Law Center, F. Jay Dougherty, Loyola (Los Angeles), Law School, Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School, Pierre Fleury-Legros, Faculté de droit et des affaires internationales, Université du Havre, mentalist Curtis Frye, Jennifer Hagan, Hagan & Hagen, San Francisco, Annette Houlihan, St. Thomas University (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada), Rob McQueen, Goldsmiths College, University Of London, Rostam Neuwirth, University Of Macao, Richard Weisberg, Cardozo Law School, and Julie Cromer Young, Thomas Jefferson School of Law. More information, including specific information about panels, CLE, and the conference hotel, will be available soon.

Date                June 6, 2014    7:30 a.m. (Registration and breakfast); 8:30 to 5 p.m.

                        Breakfast, snacks, lunch provided.

Place                Thomas Jefferson School of Law, 1155 Island Avenue, San Diego CA  92101

Extended Deadline: Call For Papers, Law and Magic Conference, June 5-6, 2014

We have extended the date for the call for papers for this conference to January 6, 2014. We encourage interested persons to submit proposals, particularly in the areas of law and magic where they intersect other disciplines such as history, literature, film, freedom of expression, religion, architecture or anthropology. 

Revealing the Links Between Law and Magic

A Conference Sponsored by the Law and Humanities Law Institute and

Thomas Jefferson School of Law

June 5-6, 2014

Thomas Jefferson School of Law

1155 Island Avenue, San Diego CA 92101

Call For Papers

On June 5 and 6, 2014, the Law and Humanities Institute, New York, New York (USA) and Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA (USA) will sponsor a Conference on Law and Magic.

Law and magic interact in many ways. Not only can the law influence the practice of magic, such as in the areas of freedom of speech and religion and intellectual property; but also magic can influence the law, such as in trial tactics and evidence. In addition, magic illuminates the crossroads of other law and humanities fields, such as the emerging area of law and neuroscience, rhetoric, and law and popular culture. Papers discussing or developing these or any aspect of the relationship between law and magic are welcome, especially those that further an understanding of the theory, underpinnings, and/or philosophy of the field. 

Materials and presentations will be in English. The organizers of the conference are Christine Corcos, Louisiana State University Law Center (christine.corcos@law.lsu.edu) and Julie Cromer Young, Thomas Jefferson School of Law (jcromer@tjsl.edu).

We invite you to submit an abstract of a 20-minute paper that you would like to deliver at the conference. Abstracts should be between 250 and 500 words and sent to Christine Corcos at the email address above accompanied by the author’s brief biographical statement. Please put “Law and Magic Conference June 2014” in the email subject line and submit the abstract and biographical statement no later than January 6, 2014.  We will send notifications regarding acceptance of presentations by February 1, 2014.

If you would like us to consider your paper for publication,  please indicate that in the body of your email.  Conference papers accepted for publication will appear in the Spring 2015 issue of the Thomas Jefferson Law Review.

Please address questions to Christine Corcos at the email address above.

More On the LHI/Cardozo Blood Libel Conference

More on the Blood Libel Conference, sponsored by the Law and Humanities Institute and Cardozo Law School, here. The Conference takes place at Cardozo, November 14-15.

In Memoriam: Penelope Pether

We are saddened to report the passing of Penelope Pether, Professor of Law at Villanova University, and a former member of the Board of Governors of the Law and Humanities Institute. Professor Pether was a distinguished member of the legal academy, and a noted scholar in the areas of criminal law and constitutional law, as well as in law and literature.

Professor Pether received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Sydney, and later her Ph.D. in English from the same university. In addition, she practiced as an attorney in Sydney, and then in the New South Wales Ombudsman's Office.

During her extensive academic career, Professor Pether taught at the Universities of Sydney and Wollongong, at Southern Illinois University Law School, at American University Law School, and finally at Villanova Law School. She was also a beloved teacher and mentor. Included in her extensive and influential bibliography are articles published in the Stanford Law Review, the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, the Washington & Lee Law Review, the Cardozo Law Review, the Sydney Law Review, Law & Critique, Law and Literature, Social Semiotics, and The Australian Feminist Law Journal. Her essays appear in collections published by such publishers as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Edinburgh University Press. Lexis recently published the second edition of her Criminal Law casebook. She was also an editor of the SSRN online journal Law and Literature and the journal Law and Literature, and served on the editorial boards of the Waikato Law Review, Social Semiotics, and Law and Critique.

Professor Pether was also active in many conferences and associations, and was a gracious and generous colleague who made new members of the academy feel welcome in what can be a challenging environment. She was with us for far too short a time, and we will miss her.

Villanova Law School has published a remembrance of Professor Pether, with more information about her life and legacy, here.

Call for Papers: Law and Humanities Institute Conference, Spring 2014

Revealing the Links Between Law and Magic

A Conference Sponsored by the Law and Humanities Law Institute and

Thomas Jefferson School of Law

June 5-6, 2014

Thomas Jefferson School of Law

1155 Island Avenue, San Diego CA 92101

Call For Papers

On June 5 and 6, 2014, the Law and Humanities Institute, New York, New York (USA) and Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA (USA) will sponsor a Conference on Law and Magic.

Law and magic interact in many ways. Not only can the law influence the practice of magic, such as in the areas of freedom of speech and religion and intellectual property; but also magic can influence the law, such as in trial tactics and evidence. In addition, magic illuminates the crossroads of other law and humanities fields, such as the emerging area of law and neuroscience, rhetoric, and law and popular culture. Papers discussing or developing these or any aspect of the relationship between law and magic are welcome, especially those that further an understanding of the theory, underpinnings, and/or philosophy of the field. 

Materials and presentations will be in English. The organizers of the conference are Christine Corcos, Louisiana State University Law Center (christine.corcos@law.lsu.edu) and Julie Cromer Young, Thomas Jefferson School of Law (jcromer@tjsl.edu).

We invite you to submit an abstract of a 20-minute paper that you would like to deliver at the conference. Abstracts should be between 250 and 500 words and sent to Christine Corcos at the email address above accompanied by the author’s brief biographical statement. Please put “Law and Magic Conference June 2014” in the email subject line and submit the abstract and biographical statement no later than November 1, 2013.  We will send notifications regarding acceptance of presentations by February 1, 2014.

If you would like us to consider your paper for publication,  please indicate that in the body of your email.  Conference papers accepted for publication will appear in the Spring 2015 issue of the Thomas Jefferson Law Review.

Please address questions to Christine Corcos at the email address above.

Edward de Grazia Dies

Edward de Grazia, the distinguished First Amendment lawyer, civil rights advocate, and  Law and Humanities Institute founding board member, has died. Mr. de Grazia handled important cases for publisher Barney Rosset of Grove Press, and wrote several influential books about free speech, including Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius (Random House, 1992). Mr. de Grazia also helped found the Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University. More here from the Washington Post.