Stanford and Yale Law Schools announce the eighth session of the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to be held at Stanford Law School on May 18 to 19, 2007.

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The Forum's objective is to encourage the work of young scholars by providing experience in the pursuit of scholarship and the nature of the scholarly exchange. Meetings are held each spring, at Yale one year and Stanford the next.

Between twelve and twenty scholars (with one to seven years in teaching and who are not yet tenured) are chosen on ablind basis from among those submitting papers to present. Two senior scholars, not necessarily from Stanford or Yale, comment on each paper. The audience will include the invited young scholars, faculty from the host institutions, and invited guests. The goal is discourse on both the merits of particular papers and on appropriate methodologies for doing work in that genre. We hope that comment and discussion will communicate what counts as good work among successful senior scholars and will also challenge and improve the standards that now exist. The Forum also hopes to increase the sense of community among American legal scholars generally, particularly among new and veteran professors.

Each year the Forum invites submissions on selected topics in public and private law, legal philosophy, and law and humanities -- alternating loosely between public law and humanities subjects in one year, and private and dispute resolution law in the next. The focus of the eighth session will be private law and dispute resolution. The topics to be addressed are:

• Antitrust
• Remedying Trade Remedies
• Antitrust Antifederalism
• Bankruptcy
• Bargaining Around Bankruptcy: Small Business Workouts and State Law
• Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution
• An Empirical Investigation Into Appellate Structure And The Perceived Quality Of Appellate Review
• Overcoming Procedural Boundaries
• Contracts and Commercial Law
• Contracting for Cooperation in Recovery
• Public Symbol in Private Contract: A Case Study
• Corporate & Securities Law
• VCs and the Expropriation of Entrepreneurs
• Unpacking Backdating: Economic Analysis And Observations On The Stock Option Scandal
• Intellectual Property
• Clicking and Cringing: Making Sense of Clickwrap, Browsewrap and Shrinkwrap Licenses
• Propertizing Thought
• Legal Profession
• Degenerate Certification: The Opinion Puzzle and other Transactional Curiosities
• Fear, Filters, and Fidelity: Judicial Elections and the Making of American Tort Law
• Private International Law
• Strengthening Tort Remedies In International Environmental Law
• Property
• The Pushy Pedagogy of Pierson v. Post and the Fading Federalism of James Kent
• Property Rights and Contract Form in Medieval Europe
• Taxation
• Taxing Privilege, Not Success: Replacing the Estate Tax with an Inheritance Tax
• Two and Twenty: Taxing Partnership Profits In Private Equity Funds
• Torts
• Cap-for-Performance: One Proposal For Improving Healthcare Quality
• Letting Good (and Bad?) Deeds Go Unpunished: Volunteer Liability Protection Laws and Volunteering