KCON XII Schedule for Friday, February 24 (Day One)
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The Twelfth International Conference on Contracts kicks off this Friday! This year’s model of ContractProf Blog’s favorite conference, better known as KCON, will be held at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, and yours truly will be blogging from the event. While I hesitate to promise true live blogging, I’m confident–having recently taught my 1Ls the concept of quasi-contractual obligations–that “quasi-live blogging” is well within the realm of possibility. I look forward to the fun and quality time with our readers and colleagues this weekend.
Below, for your reading pleasure, is the final schedule for the first day of the conference. Day one highlights include the presentation of the KCON Lifetime Achievement Award to Deborah Post. You can find the Saturday schedule in a subsequent post.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24
8:15 – 8:45 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast (3rd Floor Lobby)
8:45 – 9:00 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks (BW 390) Susan Westerberg Prager Dean and CEO, Southwestern Law School
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Panel Session 1:
Reconsidering Remedies (BW 370)
Shawn Bayern, Florida State University College of Law “The Limitations of the Expectation Interest in Contract Law”
Jean Powers, South Texas College of Law “Paying for What You Get—Restitution for Breach of Contract”
Dov Waisman, Southwestern Law School “The Hadley Rule and After-Arising Risks”
Moderator: Moshe Gelbard, The Netanya Academic College School of Law
Taking a Second Look (BW 390)
Sidney DeLong, Seattle University School of Law “The Farmer and the Cowman Should Be Friends: Coase, Cows, Corn, and Coercion”
Hila Keren, Southwestern Law School “Emotional Value and the Value of Emotions”
Meredith Miller, Touro Law Center “One Judge’s Legacy and the New York Court of Appeals: Mr. Justice Cardozo and the Law of Contracts”
Guy Rub, The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law “Copyright Survives: The Copyright-Contract Conflict Revisited”
Moderator: Keith Rowley, UNLV Boyd School of Law
10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break (3rd Floor Lobby)
10:45 – 12:15 p.m. Panel Session 2
Comparative & International Perspectives (BW 370)
Reza Beheshti, University of Nottingham School of Law (unfortunately banned from participating in person by Executive Order; participating via Skype) “Whether the Doctrine of ‘Adequate Assurance’ Should Be Introduced Into English Contract Law”
Charles Calleros, Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law “U.S. Unconscionability and Article 1171 of the New French Civil Code: Achieving Balance in Statutory Regulation and Judicial Intervention”
Robert E. Lutz, Southwestern Law School “The Role of ‘Contracts’ in International Law: Treaties and Arbitration”
Moderator: Lauren Willis, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
The Challenges of Teaching: Materials and Tricks (BW 390)
Carol Chomsky, University of Minnesota Law School Materials: “Casebooks and the Future of Contracts Pedagogy”
Benjamin Templin, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Materials: “The Future of Casebooks”
David Epstein, University of Richmond School of Law Tricks: “Teaching Conditions”
Sean Scott, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Tricks: “Parol Evidence Rule”
Robert Brain, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Tricks: “Parol Evidence Rule”
Moderator: Charles Knapp, UC Hastings College of the Law
12:30 – 1:45 p.m. Lunch and Keynote Panel (Salle Moderne, 5th Floor) “Negotiating Complex Contracts: Behind the Scenes of the La Guardia Project” Harout Dimijian (Associate), M. Elizabeth Dubeck (Partner), Denise Raytis (Partner), Eric A. S. Richards (Partner), O’Melveny & Myers, LLP
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Panel Session 3
Application of Contract Principles in the Entertainment Industry (BW 390)
Michael Blaha, Law Offices of Michael R. Blaha “Protection of Idea Disclosures by Implied-in-Fact Contracts”
Kia Kamran, Attorney at Law “The Esoteric Nature of Music Agreements”
Robert Lind, Southwestern Law School “Contracts and the Intersection with Copyright Termination”
Moderator: Danni Hart, Southwestern Law School
Contracts in the Corporate Setting (BW 370)
Michael Dorff, Southwestern Law School “Assessing the Assessment: B Lab’s Effort to Measure Companies’ Benevolence”
Pamela Edwards, CUNY School of Law “Have Public Benefit Corporations Benefitted the Public? The Rise of PBCs in the Service of Social Justice”
Mark Gergen, UC Berkeley School of Law “Privacy, Privity, and Collective Private Ordering”
Moderator: Summer Kim, UC Irvine School of Law
3:30 – 3:45 p.m. Break (3rd Floor Lobby)
3:45 – 5:15 p.m. Panel Session 4
The Contracting Process: Behavioral & Experimental Perspectives (BW 390)
Eyal Zamir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law “Marketing Techniques, Pricing Methods, and the Law of Consumer Contracts”
Russell Korobkin, UCLA School of Law “Bargaining with the CEO: The Case for ‘Negotiate First, Choose Second’”
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan, University of Pennsylvania Law School “The Perverse Consequences of Disclosing Standard Terms”
Dave Hoffman, University of Pennsylvania Law School “From Promise to Form: How Contracting Online Changes Consumers”
Moderator: Deborah Post, Touro Law Center
5:15 – 5:25 p.m. Short Break (3rd Floor Lobby)
5:25 – 5:55 p.m. The Legacy of Deborah Post: Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient (BW 390)
Meredith Miller, Touro Law Center Deborah Zalesne, CUNY School of Law Moderator: Danni Hart, Southwestern Law School
6:00 – 6:30 p.m. Reception
6:30 – 9:00 p.m. Dinner, Lifetime Achievement Award, Live Music (Louis XVI Room, 2nd Floor)
