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Cardozo Intellectual Property Law Program
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law – Yeshiva University
Calendar of Events – Spring 2006
Members of cyberprof who will be in the New York area on any of these dates are welcome to attend Cardozo's IP program events. Please contact, Brisette Gantt, administrative director, Cardozo Intellectual Property, at gantt (at) yu.edu.

FEBRUARY
February 14-15
Burns Senior Lecturer David Nimmer Residency
David Nimmer, Author, Nimmer on Copyright

(Professor Nimmer visits classes and meets with LLM and JD students during his annual visit)

February 15, 6:00pm
Evening Symposium
Improving – and Creating Procedures for Fair Use
David Nimmer and Marjorie Heins (Brennan Center for Justice), Presenters; Hugh Hansen (Fordham University) and Margaret Jane Radin (Stanford University), Commentators

MARCH
March 6, 4:00pm
Intellectual Property Speaker Series
Michael Meurer, Boston University
Contract Externalities, Intellectual Property

March 9,10, and 12
Annual BMI-Cardozo Entertainment Law Moot Court Competition
Judge Raymond C. Clevenger (Fed. Cir.), Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw (9th Cir.), presides for the final round

March 20, 6:00pm
Bauer Fellow Lecture
Tom Rubin, Senior Microsoft Intellectual Property Counsel
Combating Digital Piracy
(Mr. Rubin will be visiting classes and meeting with students March 20-21 as
a visiting Bauer Fellow.)

March 27, 4:00pm
Intellectual Property Speaker Series
Jane Winn, University of Washington
Ambivalence & Authority within the Free & Open Source Software Community

APRIL

Evening Symposium
China and Cultural Property: Who Owns the Past?
co-sponsored by the Cardozo Intellectual Property Law Program
The Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, New York

Magnus Fiskesjo (Cornell University),
Marc F. Wilson (Director, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City),
Nancy Murphy (WaterMoon Gallery, New York),
James Lally (President, J.J. Lally & Co. Art Dealers, New York),
Justin Hughes (Professor, Cardozo Law School), Moderator, and
Jo Laird (General Counsel, Christies and Adjunct Professor, Cardozo Law School), Rapporteur

April 10 - 4:00pm
Intellectual Property Speaker Series
Srividhya Ragavan, University of Oklahoma
Replacing Sticks with Carrots: Is the Enforcement Mechanism under the WTO working?

April 24
International Intellectual Property -- A Roundtable on Current Developments
Professors Katsuya Tamai (U Tokyo), Coenraad Visser (U South Africa), Susy Frankel (Victoria U of Wellington)

April 26 - noon
Intellectual Property Speaker Series
Madhavi Sunder, University of California at Davis
I P3: The Convergence of Identity Politics, the Internet Protocol, and Intellectual Property





Intellectual Property Law Program, Cardozo Law School

55 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 1003
Justin Hughes, Director
Brisette Gantt, Administrative Director

Minnesota

FACULTY WORKSHOPS
ALL LECTURES WILL BE AT NOON
Spring 2006

1/26 (Thr) Jim Chen, University of Minnesota
Room 318 Topic: There is No Such Thing as Biopiracy
Coordinator: Schneider

1/31 (Tu) Eric Goldman, Marquette University Law School
Room 334 Topic: Placing and Marketing Scholarship

2/7 (Tu) Gary Gildin, Penn State—Dickinson School of Law
Room 334 Topic: The Sanctity of Religious Liberty of Minority Faiths Under State Constitutions
Coordinator: Schneider

2/16 (Th) Mark Umbreit, Univ. of Minnesota & Boden Prof.
Room 334 Topic: RJ Movement: Int’l Developments
Coordinator: Schneider

2/21 (Tu) Coleen Barger, University of Arkansas at Little Rock,
Room 334 William H. Bowen School of Law
Topic: In-Classroom Assessment of Students
Coordinator: Julien

3/7 (Tu) E. Harold Hallows Lecture, Judge Diane Sykes

3/21 (Tu) Barrett McCormick, Marquette University
Room 334 Topic: China and the Internet
Coordinator: Schneider

3/28 (Tu) Laurel Oates,
Room 334 Topic: Reading Skills & Law School Performance
Coordinator: O’Hear

4/4 (Tu) Jason Czarnezki, Marquette University Law School and
Room 334 Sara Benesh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Topic: Ideology or Interpretative Philosophy: Testing the Legal and Attitudinal Models of the Seventh Circuit

4/17 (Mo) Dan Capra, Fordham Law School
Room 245 Topic: The Relationship Between Supreme Court Decision Making and Federal Evidence Rulemaking: Crawford and Other Interruptions
Coordinator: Moss

Notre Dame Law School
Faculty colloquium series
Spring 2006

Friday, February 2
Professor Ernest A. Young
Judge Benjamin H. Powell Professorship
University of Texas School of Law

Friday, February 10
Professor William H. Page
Marshall M. Criser Eminent Scholar
University of Florida Fredic G. Levin College of Law

Friday, February 24
Professor Lisa Heinzerling
Georgetown University Law Center

Friday, March 3
Professor Douglas Kysar
Cornell Law School

Friday, March 24
Professor Ellen D. Katz
The University of Michigan Law School

Friday, April 7
Professor Jacqueline Lipton
Associate Director, Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Friday, April 21
Professor Heather Gerken
Harvard Law School

Friday, April 28
Professor Suzanna Sherry
Cal Turner Professor of Law & Leadership
Vanderbilt University Law School

Hofstra Spring 2006

Monday, January 23Herbie DiFonzo, Hofstra Law School“The Family Law Education Reform Project”
Monday, January 30 Seth Harris, New York Law School“Law, Economics, and Accommodations in the Internal Labor Market”
Tuesday, February 21 Anita Allen, University of Pennsylvania Law School“Disrobed: The Constitution of Modesty”Monday, February 27Suzanne Goldberg, Rutgers School of Law – Newark“Constitutional Adjudication, Civil Rights, and Social Change”
Monday, March 13John DeWitt Gregory, Hofstra Law School“Termination of Parental Rights Under the Adoption andSafe Families Act: Hitting the Poor Where it Hurts Most”
Monday, March 20Tristin Green, Seton Hall University Law School“Locating Employer Wrong: A Structural Approachas Antidiscrimination Mandate”
Monday, March 27Ahmed White, University of Colorado Law School“Criminal Syndicalism Laws, the Industrial Workersof the World, and the Criminalization of EconomicRadicalism, 1917-1927”
Monday, April 17Barton Beebe, Cardozo Law School“An Empirical Analysis of the Multifactor Tests for Trademark Infringement”

George Washington University IP Series
Monday, September 12, 12:00 noon
Professor Arti Rai
Duke University School of Law
“University Software Ownership: Trends and Determinants”
Faculty Conference Center, 5th Floor Burns
Building, The George Washington University Law School, 2000
H Street, N.W.

Monday, September 26, 12:00 noon
Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
“Collateralizing Intellectual Property”
Faculty Conference Center, 5th Floor Burns
Building, The George Washington University Law School, 2000
H Street, N.W.

Monday, October 17th, 12:00 noon
Professor Andrew Chin
University of North Carolina Law School
“Artful Prior Art and the Quality of DNA Patents”
Faculty Conference Center, 5th Floor Burns
Building, The George Washington University Law School, 2000
H Street, N.W.

Monday, October 24th, 12:00 noon
Professor Adam Mossoff
Michigan State University College of Law
“Who Cares What Thomas Jefferson Thought About Patents:
Reconsidering the Patent 'Privilege' in Historical Context”
Faculty Conference Center, 5th Floor Burns
Building, The George Washington University Law School, 2000
H Street, N.W.

Monday, November 14th, 12:00 noon
Professor Peter P. Swire
Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University
“Security Market: Competitive and Security Incentives for
Disclosure of Data”
Faculty Conference Center, 5th Floor Burns
Building, The George Washington University Law School, 2000
H Street, N.W.

Harvard Public Law Workshop
September 16 -- Heather Gerken, HLS (but visiting at Yale Law School)
September 23 -- Kathleen Sullivan, Stanford Law School
October 7 -- Randy Barnett, Boston University Law School
October 14 -- Harvard Constitutional Law Conference
November 11 -- Bruce Ackerman, Yale Law School
December 2 -- David Strauss, U. of Chicago Law School

February 17 -- Reva Siegel, Yale Law School
February 24 -- Lee Epstein, Washington University (St. Louis), Law and
Political Science
March 10 -- Samuel Issacharoff, NYU Law School
April 7 -- Vicki Jackson, Georgetown Law School
April 14 -- Kenji Yoshino, Yale Law School

George Washington University: IP Series

Thursday, January 13th, 4:00 p.m.
Ronald Mann, University of Texas School of Law
"Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?"


Thursday, January 27, 4:00 p.m.
F. Scott Kieff, Washington University - St. Louis School of Law
"Introducing a Case Against Copyright: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Intellectual Property Regimes"


Thursday, February 17th, 4:00 p.m.
Glynn Lunney, Tulane University Law School
"Patents and Growth: Empirical Evidence from the States"


Thursday, March 3rd, 4:00 p.m.
David Nimmer, Irell & Manella, LLP; revision author of Nimmer on Copyright
"Codifying Copyright Comprehensibly"


Thursday, March 24th, 4:00 p.m.
Sara K. Stadler, Emory University Law School
"How Copyright Is Like a Moebius Strip"