Schedule

YALE LAW SCHOOL DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIP CONFERENCE

Fri, Dec 2

Yale Law School, 127 Wall St, New Haven CT

1.00 – 1.30

Registration (Room 122)

1.30 – 2.15

Keynote Address, Room 129
Professor Douglas Kysar
Deputy Dean and Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law

Group A, Room 122

Group B, Room 129

2.30 – 3.50

Sovereignty, Aggregation and Disaggregation
Moderator:  Stefanie Egidy

• Karin Loevy (NYU):

Change and Continuity in Emergencies: a Theoretical Introduction

• Han Liu (Yale):

Land Aggregation and Secession in the Rise of Territorial Sovereignty

Crime and Punishment
Moderator:  Kyle Kirkup

• Conor Hanly (Yale):

The Rise of Summary Jurisdiction: Juvenile Offenders

• Lisa Coleen Kerr (NYU):

Solitary Confinement and the Question of Judicial Control of Punishment

4.20 – 6.20

International Law and Transformation
Moderator:  Aleksandar Marsavelski

• Guy Fiti Sinclair (NYU):

‘Constitutional’ Transformation in an International Organization: The Emergence of United Nations Peacekeeping

• Seunghyun Sally Nam (UPenn):

Accountability of Non-State Actors for International Crimes under the New Global Governance Regime

• Hanna A. Haile (Cornell):

Climate Change Induced Migration: Legal and Practical Challenges to International Law

Crime and Punishment (Continued)

• Maja Munivrana Vajda (UZagreb):

Questioning the Law of Genocide: Ethnic Cleansing as Genocide? Croatian and International Perspective

• Sarah Swan (Columbia):

Triangulating Rape: Tort, Commodification and Civil Recourse Theory

6.45 - 8.30

Welcome Speech by Dean Robert C. Post
Dean and Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of Law

Sat, Dec 3

Group A, Room 122

Group B, Room 128

9.00 - 11.00

Law and Philosophy
Moderator:  Leora Katz

• Helen Eenmaa (Yale):

Normative Differences among Forms of Liability and the Limits of the Economic Analysis of Law

• Emily Kidd White (NYU):

Change of Heart

• Gustavo Sampaio de A. Ribeiro (Harvard):

No Need to Toss a Coin: Conflicting Scientific Expert Testimonies and Intellectual Due Process

Law and Social Justice
Moderator:  Patricio Nazareno

• Richard Stacey (NYU):

Legislating Change: Coming to Terms with the Tension Between the Rule of Law and Commitments to Social Justice

• Sabrina Germain (Cornell):

Chronic Disease and the Law: Just Distribution of Health Resources for Chronically Ill Employees

• Patrick Luff (Oxford):

Legal Innovation as Court-Based Risk Regulation

11.15-12.35

Human Rights and Enforcement
Moderator:  Scott Stephenson

• Buhm-Suk, Baek (Cornell):

Why has Asia Failed to Establish Regional Human Rights Institutions so far? : The Development of International Human Rights Law and Resistance against It

• Itamar Mann (Yale):

The Legal Structure of Europe’s Human Rights Crisis: a Preliminary Outline

Dialectics of Law and Society
Moderator:  Gabriela Bueno

• Diego Gil McCawley (Stanford):

The Challenges of Community Building: Land Use Regulation and Residential Segregation in Santiago, Chile

• Sergio Latorre (Cornell):

The Hidden Legal Infrastructure of Land Ownership: An Aesthetical Analysis of a Public Deed Title in Rural Colombia

Sat, Dec 3

Group A, Room 122

Group B, Room 128

1.45 – 3.45

Judges, Agents of Change
Moderator:  Nathaniel Khng

• Aparna Chandra (Yale):

The Contours of ‘Complete Justice’: Article 142 and the Shifting Forms of Adjudication in the Supreme Court of India

• Adedokun Ogunfolu (Obafemi Awolowo U):

Can Socio-Economic Rights Make the Nigerian State More Accountable?

• Anne-Claire Jamart (Cornell):

Internet Freedom in the Making: Continuity and Change in Internet Governance

Rule of Law and Administration
Moderator:  Aditya Singh

• Athanasios Psygkas (Yale):

Constructing and Transforming Administrative Democracy in Europe: The Influence of EU Law

• Jing Qian (UVic):

Corporatist Representation via People’s Congress: An Aspect of the State-Society Relationship in Contemporary China

• Natasha Salinas (USao Paolo):

Procedure versus Substance in Statutory Policy-making in Brazil: Why the Former Always Wins and What Implications Arise From It

4.00 – 6.00

Constitutional Law and Constitutional Politics
Moderator:  Thomaz Pereira

• Fernando Muñoz L. (Yale):

‘Unchangeable by Ordinary Means’: The Chilean Educational System through Constitutional Conflict, Codification and Entrenchment

• Nkatha Kabira (Harvard):

A New Dawn: Reflections on Kenya’s New Socio-Legal Order

• Or Bassok (Yale):

The Two Countermajoritarian Difficulties

Commercial Models and Transplants
Moderator:  Adrian Kuenzler

• Charlie Xiaochuan Weng (UPenn):

Chinese Shareholder Protection and the Influence from the US Law: the Idiosyncratic Economic Realities and Misplaced Agency Problem Solutions

• Eugenio J Cárdenas (Stanford):

Globalization of Securities Enforcement: A Shift towards Enhanced Regulatory Intensity in Brazil’s Capital Market?

• Hano Ernst (UZagreb):

The Curious Case of Continuing Reform of Personal Property Security in CEE Countries