February 2-4, 2012
Junior Faculty Fed Courts Workshop
The Fourth Annual Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop will be held at FIU College of Law.
The conference is open to non-presenters, both junior and senior; the cost for attendance is to read the papers and be ready to ask questions and make comments. For those attending, a block of rooms has been reserved at the Hampton Inn & Suits Miami/Brickell-Downtown, 50 SW 12th Street, Miami. The block is for Thursday, February 2 through Saturday, February 4, although anyone wanting to stay over until Sunday morning can request the extra night. The conference rate is $ 209 per night. To reserve rooms, contact Christine Joo at (305) 377-9400 or c.joo@hospitalityamerica.com; tell her you are with this conference. Please call to reserve your room by January 5, 2012.
Dinner on Thursday evening will be at 8 p.m. at Oceanaire Seafood Restaurant, 900 South Miami Avenue, about a two-block walk from the conference hotel. We will gather in the lobby of the hotel at 7:45 p.m. There will be a dinner reception at the College of Law on Friday evening, following the last panels. The College of Law will provide transportation between the hotel and campus.
Papers can be downloaded by clicking on the links below.
Friday, February 3
Panel I: Judicial Decisionmaking (Mentor: Lee Epstein)
Margaret Thomas, The Federalism Canons of Statutory Interpretation as a Constraint on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Nancy Leong, Making Remedies
Elizabeth McCuskey, Clarity and Clarification: Grable Federal Questions in the Eyes of Their Beholders
Paul Gugliuzza, Patent Law’s Uniformity Principle and the Consequences of Judicial Specialization
Panel II: Judicial Capacity and Executive Action (Mentor: Susan Bandes)
Saul Zipkin, A Common Law Court in a Regulatory World
John Greabe, Making Use of Small Spaces: Re-Conceptualizing Rights as Sources of Judicial Lawmaking Authority
Sandra Sperino, Statutory Proximate Cause
Panel III: Structuring Litigation (Mentor: Theodore Eisenberg)
Corey Yung, Judging Styles
Josh Douglas, Procedural Fairness in Election Contests
Mark Spottswood, Evidence-Based Litigation Reform
Shay Lavie, The Malleability of Collective Litigation
Panel IV: State-Federal Relations (Mentor: Suzanna Sherry)
Verity Winship, Aligning Choice of Law and Choice of Forum
Sergio Campos, Erie as Enforcement Default Law
Samuel Jordan, Reconceptualizing Judicial Federalism
Charlton Copeland, Race, Trust and American Federalism
Saturday, February 4:
Panel V: Interpretation (Mentor: Janet Alexander)
Robin Effron, When the Perfect Becomes the Enemy of the Good: The Relatedness Problem in Personal Jurisdiction
Paul Stancil, Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Congressional Silence and the Statutory Interpretation Game
Robert Jones, Lessons from a Lost Constitution
Panel VI: Article III Jurisdiction (Mentor: Martin Redish)
Matt Hall, Standing to Defend
Alex Glahausser, The Extension Clause and the Independence of the Supreme Court’s Jurisdiction
Justin Pidot, Rethinking Jurisdictional Procedure: Promoting Justice, Efficiency and Separation of Powers




