We’ve posted a program for Jotwell’s 5th anniversary conference on “Legal Scholarship We Like and Why It Matters” and also have opened up registration. The conference will be Nov 7 & 8, 2014 at the University of Miami School of Law.
If you are planning on coming, you can take advantage of the UM rate at local hotels. The main conference hotel is the Sonesta in Coconut Grove, but the UM discount also applies to the other hotels on the list.
In case you are rationing clicks, here’s the program:
JOTWELL 5TH anniversary Conference
Legal Scholarship We Like and Why It Matters
University of Miami School of Law
Nov 7-8, 2014
Register To Attend
“Legal Scholarship We Like and Why It Matters”
Friday Nov 7
1pm Welcome
Dean Patricia White, Welcome
A. Michael Froomkin, A Little About Jotwell
1:15 – 2:00
Raizel Liebler, Jessica de Perio Wittman and Kim Chanbonpin. Collaboration, Knowledge Production, and Legal Scholarship
2:15- 3:00
Patrick Gudridge, Past Present
3:15 – 4:30 Counterpoint
Jeanne Schroeder and David Carlson, Improving Oneself and Ones Clients; Not the World
Neil Buchanan, Legal Scholarship Makes the World a Better Place
4:45 – 5:30 Keynote Address
Margaret Jane Radin, Then and Now: Developing Your Scholarship, Developing Its Audience
5:30- 6:30
Reception, Student Lounge
7:00 ->
Conference Dinner
Sat Nov 8
9:30 – 10:45 Counterpoint:
James Chen, Modeling Law Review Impact Factors as an Exponential Distribution
Patrick Woods, Stop Counting (Or At Least Count Better)
11- 11:45
Benjamin Keele, Taking Lessons from Science to Improve Digital Legal Scholarship
[via remote participation]
12-12:45
Steven L. Winter, When Things Went Terribly, Terribly Wrong Part II
12:45-1:45
LUNCH
1:45 – 2:30
David Millon, Legal Scholarship and the Delaware Judiciary
2:45- 3:30
Frank Pasquale, Reviving Political Economy: A Case Study in Legal Academics’ Dialogue with the Social Sciences
3:45 – 4:30
James Grimmelmann, Scholars, Teachers, and Servants
4:30-4:45
Envoi
Accepted papers from scholars unable to attend:
Angela Mae Kupenda, Personal Essay–On the Receiving End of Influence: Helping Craft the Scholarship of My Students and How Their Work Influences Me
All papers will be posted at Jotwell.com
