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Fifteen Minutes of Equity
For those who persist in the incorrect belief that equity is of antiquarian interest only, equity is now on YouTube. Recently Christophe Gösken of ETH Zurich interviewed Henry Smith about two of his papers on equity as meta-law. Video here. The papers can be found here and here.
Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Apply to be a Postdoctoral Fellow We are now accepting applications! Materials are due by 9:00 am on February 28, 2023. See the call for applications for additional details and requirements. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Private Law – Description Postdoctoral Fellowship in Private Law – Call for Applications
Apply to be a Student Fellow
We are now accepting applications for student fellows for the academic year 2022-2023! Applications will be accepted until Friday, September 16, 2022. See the call for applications for additional details and requirements: Student Fellowship in Private Law – Call for Applications
Call for Papers: AALS Remedies Section
The AALS Section on Remedies invites paper submissions for a panel on “Remedies in the Restatements” at the January 3–7, 2023 Annual Meeting. Please note that this meeting is currently planned to be held wholly in person. The Remedies session is scheduled for 3 to 4:40 pm on Thursday, January 5. The session, which is […]
Call for Applications: Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowships for U.S. Citizens at Bar-Ilan University
Call for Applications Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowships for U.S. Citizens at Bar-Ilan University: For an international research group on Voluntary Compliance, funded in part with an ERC Advanced Grant Title of the Project: “Generating Voluntary Compliance Across Doctrines and Nations: Integrating the Behavioural and Regulatory Aspects of Governments’ Ability to Trust the Public’s Cooperation, Ethicality […]
Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Private Law at Harvard Law School
The Project on the Foundations of Private Law at Harvard Law School is seeking applicants for full-time, one- to two-year residential appointments as Postdoctoral Fellows in Private Law, starting in the fall of 2022. Application materials are due to Bradford Conner ( conner at law.harvard.edu) by 9:00 a.m. on February 28, 2022. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Private […]
Call for Applications: Safra Center Post-Doc at Tel Aviv University
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University is happy to announce its call for Post-Doc Fellowship applications for the academic year 2022-23. We encourage applicants from all disciplines and fields, including economics, social sciences, business, the humanities, and the law. Please check our website — or a PDF version of the announcement — […]
Wells – The Personification of the Partnership
Post by Andrew Verstein As Paul Miller recently observed, New Private Law scholars have largely hewed to tort, property, contract, or fiduciary law. Comparatively little attention has been devoted to business entities such as corporations and partnerships. Yet without the NPL label, there is fascinating work underway that is well worth the attention of this […]
New Book—Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago, by Joseph D. Kearney and Thomas W. Merrill
Post by Henry Smith I have just read and greatly enjoyed this wonderful new book by Joe Kearney and Tom Merrill about the shaping of the Chicago Lakefront. Sometimes this shaping is literal (or littoral?), because Kearney and Merrill embed a highly expert and engagingly written history of the legal controversies surrounding the Lakefront with […]
CFP: Workshop on Private Law & Emerging Technology
We are excited to invite legal scholars to participate in a virtual Workshop on Private Law and Emerging Technology cosponsored by Harvard’s Project on the Foundations of Private Law, Yale’s Information Society Project, and Yale’s Center for Private Law. This Workshop will be a forum for in-depth engagement with works-in-progress at the intersection of private law, technology policy, […]