Schedule

Friday, November 16, 2012:

8:15 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. – Breakfast and Meet-and-Greet with the speakers

9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. – Opening Remarks

9:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. – Delivering Competent Lawyers to Meet the Demands of Today’s Legal Market

• Chester Paul Beach, Jr., Associate General Counsel, United Technologies Corporation
• Ann Marie B. Cavazos, Director of Clinical Program and Associate Professor of Law, Florida A&M University, College of Law
• Jeffrey Lipshaw, Associate Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School
• Judith Welch Wegner, Burton Craige Professor of Law,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law

• David H. Blankfein-Tabachnick, Penn State The Dickinson School of Law
• George A. Critchlow, Associate Professor, Clinical Law Programs, Gonzaga University School of Law
• Renee Newman Knake, Associate Professor of Law, Co-Founder and Co-Director of ReInvent Law; Co-Founder and Co-Director of 21st Century Law Practice Summer Program in London; Co-Director of the Kelley Institute of Ethics and the Legal Profession, Michigan State University College of Law

Schedule

Friday, November 11, 2011:

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. – Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. – Introductory Remarks

• Jeremy Paul, Dean, University of Connecticut School of Law
• The Honorable Kevin Lembo, Comptroller, State of Connecticut

9:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. - Implications for Veterans’ Healthcare Following Reform

• Susan Schmeiser (moderator), Associate Dean for Student Life and Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
• Julian D. Ford, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
• Lewis Kazis, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health
• Efthimios Parasidis, Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law

10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Comparative Health Law and Policy

• Peter Kochenburger (moderator), Interim Director, Insurance Law Center, University of Connecticut School of Law
• Amy Campbell, Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Humanities, Upstate Medical University
• Charles Klippel, Aetna Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Adjunct Professor, University of Connecticut School of Law
• Stephen Latham, Director, Yale University Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
• John Nyman, Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health

12:30 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. – Break

12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. – Lunch and Keynote Speaker

• Timothy Jost , Robert L. Willett Family Professor of Law, Washington & Lee University School of Law

1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Break

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. – Challenges in State Implementation of Federal Healthcare Reform

• Susan Schmeiser (moderator), Associate Dean for Student Life and Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
• Patricia Baker, President and CEO, Connecticut Health Foundation
• Jeannette B. DeJesús, Special Advisor to the Governor on Healthcare Reform and Deputy Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Public Health
• Kevin Galvin, Advisory Committee Chairman, Small Business for a Healthy Connecticut
• John McDonough, Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health
• Jason Perillo, Representative, 113th District, State of Connecticut, and Ranking Member, Public Health Committee

3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. – Break

3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. – Disparities in Access to Healthcare

• Kaaryn Gustafson (moderator), Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
• Michael J. DeBoer, Associate Professor of Law, Faulkner University Jones School of Law
• Allison Hoffman, Acting Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
• Brendan Maher, Assistant Professor of Law, Oklahoma City University School of Law
• Jessica Roberts, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center
• Ruqaiijah Ayanna Yearby, Professor and Associate Director of the Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

5:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. – Break

5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. – Reception, Janet M. Blumberg Hall

6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. – Dinner, Janet M. Blumberg Hall

Saturday, November 12, 2011:

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. – Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – 8:50 am. – Welcome and Opening Remarks

• The Honorable Joseph D. Courtney ’78, U.S. Congressman for Connecticut’s 2nd District

8:50 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. – Constitutional Concerns Surrounding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

• Willajeanne McLean (moderator), Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
• Frank Askin, Distinguished Professor of Law, Robert E. Knowlton Scholar and Director, Constitutional Litigation Clinic, Rutgers School of Law – Newark
• Loftus Becker, Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
• Stewart Jay, Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law
• Steven Schwinn, Associate Professor, John Marshall Law School

10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. – Break

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Tax and Economic Policy Considerations

• Aviva Abramovsky (moderator), Associate Dean for Special Projects and Associate Professor of Law, Syracuse University School of Law
• John V. Jacobi, Faculty Director & Dorothea Dix Professor of Health Law & Policy, Seton Hall Law School
• Theodore Ruger, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Rex Santerre, Professor of Finance and Healthcare Management, University of Connecticut School of Business
• Stephen Utz, Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law

12:00  p.m. – 12:15 p.m. – Break

12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. – Lunch and Keynote Speaker (Janet M. Blumberg Hall):

• Norman Daniels, Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics, and Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Friday, October 15, 2010

8:00 am – 4:00 pm

William F. Starr Hall – William R. Davis Courtroom

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”

Patrick Henry

Two hundred and twenty-three years after the signing of the U.S. Constitution, it is essential to continue the examination of its function.  In a fast-changing society, we must examine the Constitution to ensure we are not following a system that is either structurally or doctrinally dysfunctional.

The time is right for a critical discussion of:

• The use of the filibuster and potential Senate reform;
• Presidential, congressional, and judicial term limits, their effect on the country, and whether they should be abandoned;
• The practice of gerrymandering and its consequences; and
• The implications of structural federalism and the tensions it creates between federal and state governments.

Participants will address the constitutionality of current practices, possible reformations of those practices, and their social and cultural impacts. This symposium will spark debate, highlight changes needed to improve the functioning of our society, and challenge the purported benefits of change versus the status quo.

Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided to those who RSVP by October 9, 2010 to connlrev@law.uconn.edu.  For more information, please contact the Connecticut Law Review at connlrev@law.uconn.edu or (860) 570-5331.  If you require reasonable accommodations for a disability, please contact Jane Thierfeld Brown at (860) 570-5130.

On Friday October 30, 2009, the Connecticut Law Review hosted its annual symposium in the William R. Davis Courtroom at the University of Connecticut School of Law.  This year’s topic was Redefining Work: Implications of the Four-Day Work Week.  A diverse group of legal scholars, economists, and other professionals examined the four-day work week as a potential vehicle for achieving a variety of economic and social benefits, including:

• reducing the conflict between work responsibilities and family/community commitments;
• improving workplace morale and reducing absentee and stress-based injury rates;
• reducing unemployment;
• reducing energy use and costs;
• improving the environment and the quality of community life by reducing commuting times.

Click here for the Symposium Publication: Volume 42, Issue 4 (May 2010)

Click here for the Symposium’s Schedule of Events 

Below are links to some of the participants’ powerpoints presented at the symposium:

• Rachel Arnow-Richman: Incenting Flexibility: The Relationship Between Legal Rules and Voluntary Action in Redressing Work/Family Conflict

• Robert Bird: The Four-Day Work Week: Old Lessons, New Questions

• Rex L. Facer & Lori L. Wadsworth: Four-Day Work Weeks: Current Research and Practice

• Lonnie Golden: A Purpose for Every Time?: The Timing and Length of the Work Week and Implications for Workers’ Well Being

• Michael Z. Green: Four-Day Work Weeks and Efforts Aimed at Reducing Work Time: Employer Sympathy or Circumventing Unions and Wage Hour Laws?

• Deborah Epstein Henry: The Case for Flexible and Reduced Hours: Making Work/Life Balance a Win/Win Economic Solution for Lawyers and Legal Employers

• Jennifer Hunt: If the Four-Day Work Week is so Good, Why Don’t We Have it Already? And Other Economic Reflections

Co-sponsored by Connecticut Law Review and Connecticut Journal of International Law. Wal-Mart is the world’s largest retailer and the largest private employer in the United States. Due to its size and dominance, the company touches nearly every aspect of our economic and legal systems. Every day new reports surface that describe the far-reaching effects of Wal-Mart’s influence, in areas as diverse as banking, ERISA, civil rights, and fashion. The symposium will focus on the effects of Wal-Mart’s business practices on law, the national and global economy, business culture, and society more broadly. The symposium will bring together a diverse group of scholars, practitioners, and other experts to explore and debate the virtues and vices of Wal-Mart and to discuss how law should respond to its phenomenal growth and influence. Topics to be addressed include: the Dukes class action lawsuit, Wal-Mart’s global reach, organized labor, immigration, banking and anti-trust. The symposium, to be published in Connecticut Law Review, will be the first of its kind summarized in a law review publication.

 Friday, October 20, 2006: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

• Keynote SpeakersRon Galloway, Producer/Director of Why Wal-Mart Works
  Bob Ortega, Author of In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and Wal-Mart, the World’s Most Powerful Retailer, Journalist, and Assistant Professor at the Ryerson University’s School of Journalism, Toronto
• Something in Common? Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.Joseph M. Sellers, Partner, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld, & Toll, PLLC
  Evelyn Becker, Partner, O’Melveny & Myers, LLP
• Wal-Mart: The New SuperpowerLarry Catá Backer, Professor of Law, The Penn State Dickenson School of Law
  Chris Jochnick, Director of Private Sector Engagement, Oxfam America
  Vijay Prashad, Professor of International Studies, Trinity College
  René Reich-Graefe, Associate Professor of Law, Western New England School of Law
  Chris Tilly, Professor of Regional Economic and Social Development, University of Massachusetts Lowell
• Getting Organized: Wal-Mart and LaborRichard Michael Fischl, Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
  Erin Johansson, Research Associate, American Rights at Work
  John Stout, Barrister & Solicitor, Cavalluzzo, Hayes, Shilton, McIntyre & Cornish, LLP
• Crossing Boundaries: Wal-Mart and Immigration LawGilberto M. Garcia, Attorney, Garcia & Kricko
  Maurice Hew, Jr., Assistant Clinical Professor, Thurgood Marshall School of Law
  M. Isabel Medina, Ferris Family Distinguished Professorship, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
  Michael Wishnie, Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Saturday, October 21, 2006: 8:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

• The “Wal-Mart Effect”: How It Affects IndividualsNelson Lichtenstein, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Orly Lobel, Assistant Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law
  Katharine Silbaugh, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
  Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Ohio University, Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and Author of The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy
• Breaking Up the Big Box: Trade Regulation and Wal-MartAlbert A. Foer, President, American Antitrust Institute
  Barry W. Poulson, Professor of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder
  Mark Williams, Associate Professor of Law, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Regulating Wal-Mart: Is Bigger Better in Banking?Anna Gelpern, Professor of Law, The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers-Newark
  Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School

For information, please contact Connecticut Law Review at (860) 570-5331 or via email.

If you are interested in purchasing the Wal-Mart Matters Symposium issue to be published by the Connecticut Law Review, please call (860) 570-5331.

If you require reasonable accommodations for a disability, please contact Jane Thierfeld Brown at (860) 570-5132 at least two weeks in advance.

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