A Great Day For Contracts Law

Today, October 24, 2014, is a banner day for contracts law because today is the date for two major conferences honoring two giants in the field.

First UC Hastings is hosting a Symposium to Honor Professor Chuck Knapp’s 50th Year of Law Teaching.  Here is the schedule for that.

8:15 – 8:45  Registration and Breakfast

8:45 – 9:00 Introduction & Welcome

9:00-10:30   Panel I — The State of Contract Law

Professor Jay Feinman, Rutgers University – Camden

Professor William Woodward, Santa Clara University

Professor Danielle Kie Hart, Southwestern Law School

Moderator – Professor Harry G. Prince, UC Hastings College of Law

10:30-10:45  Break

10:45-12:15  Panel II — The Role of Casebooks in the Future of Contract Law

Professor Deborah Post, Touro Law Center

Professor Carol Chomsky, University of Minnesota

Professor Thomas Joo, UC Davis

Moderator – Professor Nathan M. Crystal, University of South Carolina

12:15-1:15  Lunch:  Marvin Anderson Lecture – Professor Keith Rowley, UNLV 

1:15-1:30  Break

1:30-3:00 Panel III — The Politics of Contract Law

Professor Peter Linzer, University of Houston

Professor Judith Maute, University of Oklahoma

Professor Emily M. S. Houh, University of Cincinnati

Moderator – Professor Jeffrey Lefstin, UC Hastings College of Law

3: 15-4:45 Panel IV — The Future of Unconscionability as a Limit on Contract Enforcement

Professor David Horton, UC Davis

Professor Hazel Glenn Beh, University of Hawaii

Moderator – Professor William S. Dodge, UC Hastings College of Law

4:45-5:00  Concluding Remarks

In addition, the Temple Law Review is hosting a symposium in honor of Bill Whitford:

And here is the schedule for that:

9:00 – 9:30 Introductory Remarks9:30 – 10:45The Bankruptcy Research Database – Its Development and Impact

Moderator:

Speakers:

• Douglas Baird: The Transformation of Large Corporate Reorganizations 1979-2014 Seen Through the Lens of the BRD
• Bob Lawless: What Legal Empiricists Do Best
• Lynn LoPucki: Measuring Bankruptcy Success
• David Skeel: Rediscovering Corporate Governance in Bankruptcy: The LoPucki and Whitford Studies

11:00 – 12:15 The Lifecycle of Consumer Transactions: Consumer Contracting, Protection, and Bankruptcy

Moderator:

Speakers:

• Melissa Jacoby: Superdelegation
• Ethan Leib: Contra Proferentem and the Role of the Jury in Contract Interpretation
• Angela Littwin: Why Process Consumer Complaints? Then and Now
  
• Katherine Porter: The Ideal of Rough Justice: Consumer Protection as Business, and Business in Consumer Protection

12:30 – 1:45Lunch Break

• Brief video-presentation from a special guest
• Talk: Bob Hillman: Precedent in Contract Cases and The Importance(?) of the Whole Story

2:00 – 3:15 Mixed Methods: Comparative Law, Comparative Methods

Moderator:

Speakers:

• Stewart Macaulay: Bill Whitford: A New Legal Realist Seeking to Understand Law Outside the Law School’s Doors
• Iain Ramsay: US Exceptionalism and the Comparative Study of Consumer Bankruptcy
• Jay Westbrook: The Application of the Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom
• Jean Braucher: Examination as a Method of Consumer Protection

3:30 – 4:00 Free for All: What Don’t You Know That You Should Know?