FACULTY NEWS AND BRIEFS …
In 2014
In February MICHAEL GILBERT presented “Insincere Rules” at the Law and Economics Workshop at Berkeley’s Law School. He will present the same paper at the annual meetings of the American Law and Economics Association in May. Gilbert presented “The Problem of Voter Fraud” at the Constitutional Law Schmooze at the University of Maryland in February. He presented the same paper at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association in April. He also participated in a symposium titled “The Future of Campaign Finance Reform” at Duke Law School.
In the fall RISA GOLUBOFF gave her John Allan Love Chair Lecture at the Law School, “People out of Place: A Constitutional History of the Long 1960s.” She gave the same lecture at the American History Seminar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the American Historical Association, which was aired on CSPAN, and at George Washington University. Goluboff was a guest on the radio show Backstory with the American History Guys, discussing the history of the Fair Labor Standards Act. In June Goluboff will moderate a discussion with Todd Purdham on his book on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for the Aspen Institute’s monthly lunchtime book series. And in September she will moderate a seminar on constitutional history for the Congressional Research Service’s launch of “The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation” (CONAN), at the Library of Congress.
DEENA HURWITZ received grants from the UVA Center for Global Inquiry & Innovation to pursue research with a colleague in the Politics Department, Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, on women’s rights, Islam, and the rule of law. They will begin this research in Palestine this May. Hurwitz taught a session on Human Rights and Islam for the Judge Advocate General Legal Center & School Emergent Topics Course in March, and she has been invited to be a UVA Center for Global Health Faculty Fellow. She is participating in the UVA-Department of State “Diplomacy Lab” Project, supervising three inter-disciplinary student teams on Assessing the Efficacy of Transitional Justice Mechanisms; Mapping and Analysis of Pro-LGBT Work by Religious Organizations; and Legal Reform Under Shari’a Law. Hurwitz is supervising students in the Human Rights Clinic who have drafted a training module on maternal health rights for the Guatemala based Women’s Justice Initiative (founded by Kate Flatley ’08); writing an amicus brief for the African Commission on Human Rights on the violations of the rights of Eqyptian women protesters who were subjected to forced virginity tests in the custody of the Egyptian military; working on a legislative project concerning government accountability for corporate human rights violations, and a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in a Virginia case involving access to justice, gender, race and socio-economic discrimination, in the context of contested custody and child sexual abuse.
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ANDREW HAYASHI has published three articles: “Property Taxes and their Limits: Evidence from New York City” will be appearing in the Stanford Law and Policy Review; “The Legal Salience of Taxation” will be published in the University of Chicago Law Review; and the third is a short response piece to Ryan Bubb and Richard H. Pildes’s piece: “How Behavioral Economics Trims Its Sails and Why” Hayashi wrote with Michael Livermore and Quinn Curtis that will appear in the Harvard Law Review Forum. Hayashi is currently working on three other projects; the effects of state mortgage foreclosure laws on household credit use; developing an economic analysis of legal rules that incorporate subjective intent; and a third that explores the potential benefits of setting off, or “netting,” government taxes and transfers to individuals across different programs and different levels of government.
In January Penn Press published Does Regulation Kill Jobs? (edited by Cary Coglianese, Adam M. Finkel & Christopher Carrigan), which included a chapter authored by MICHAEL LIVERMORE (with Jason Schwartz) titled “Analysis to