Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Navigating the Legal Career Climate (March 9, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48148 48148-11180778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

What can you do with a law degree? How secure is the legal job market? Join us for a Q&A session with Assistant Dean for Career Planning at UM Law, Ramji Kaul, as he talks us through the current legal job landscape and emerging fields within the industry.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:54:35 -0500 2018-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2018-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar pre-law image
The 17th Annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities presents... (March 13, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50842 50842-11881901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Center for the History of Medicine

Pandemics pose a significant risk to security, economic stability, and development, costing the global economy an estimated $60 billion per year. Despite the certainty and magnitude of the threat, the global community has significantly underestimated and underinvested in preparing for pandemic threats. In his lecture, Prof. Gostin will make the case for fundamental reform of the international system to safeguard global health security.

Light refreshment to follow the lecture
FREE and Open to the public

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Mar 2018 12:06:31 -0500 2018-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Center for the History of Medicine Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
Fair Use in the Media (March 15, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50618 50618-11816531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: University Library

Please join us for the Fair Use Week keynote lecture! Ashley Messenger, Senior Associate General Counsel at NPR, will discuss how Fair Use impacts major news organizations. Lunch will be provided.

Fair Use Week is an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. It is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities presented by fair use and fair dealing, celebrate successful stories, and explain these doctrines.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Mar 2018 17:29:34 -0500 2018-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall University Library Lecture / Discussion Fair use week logo
Law and Economics Workshop: The Party Structure of Mutual Funds (March 15, 2018 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50959 50959-11930594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 4:10pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Law & Economics

ABSTRACT.

We show that a parsimonious spatial model with two dimensions can explain the bulk of mutual fund voting. We estimate the model using a comprehensive dataset of the 5,332,353 votes cast on 33,262 proposals from 3,844 portfolio companies from 2010 to 2015 by 3,617 mutual funds that in total hold almost 80% of mutual fund industry assets. The two dimensions of funds’ corporate governance preferences reflect the role of the two leading proxy advisors. Mutual funds are clustered into three ‘parties’—the Managerialist Party, the Shareholder Intervention Party, and the Shareholder Veto Party—that follow distinctive philosophies of corporate governance and shareholders’ role. We use our methodology in turn to construct measures of the individual distributions of preferences of public companies’ shareholder bases. Our preference measures for mutual funds and for public companies’ shareholder bases generate a range of insights about the broader system of corporate governance.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:16:19 -0400 2018-03-15T16:10:00-04:00 2018-03-15T18:10:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Law & Economics Workshop / Seminar Hutchins Hall
Winter 2018 Colloquium- Alexandra D'Arcy ~ University of Victoria (March 16, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49779 49779-11532469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Drawing on findings from dialect acquisition, historical linguistics, and variationist sociolinguistics, this talk addresses one of the most long-standing and central questions in the study of language change: How does change advance across successive generations of speakers? Past research has engaged in post-hoc theorizing about the continuous advancement of change but it has never addressed it directly. Because children must speak differently from their parents for any change to both survive and progress, only real time observation of the same speakers can provide answers to this question. I introduce a project that explicitly sets out to observe the onset and early progression of change in order to track the diachronic evolution of specific linguistic features, zeroing in on the period when children begin to participate in change by shifting their language model along an apparently pre-set direction of change.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:29:30 -0400 2018-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T17:30:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
Law and Economics Workshop: Alpha Duties: The Search for Excess Returns and Appropriate Fiduciary Duties (March 22, 2018 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50960 50960-11930595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 4:10pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Law & Economics

Modern finance theory and investment practice have shifted toward “passive investing.” The current consensus is that most savers should invest in mutual funds or ETFs that are (i) welldiversified, (ii) low-cost, and (iii) expose one’s portfolio to age-appropriate stock-market risk. The law governing trustees, broker-dealers, 401(k) plan managers and other investment fiduciaries has evolved to push them gently toward this consensus. But these laws still provide broad scope for fiduciaries to recommend that clients invest instead in specific assets which they believe will produce “alpha” by outperforming the market. Seeking alpha comes at a cost, however, in giving up some of the benefits of the well-diversified, low-cost, appropriate risk baseline. Too little attention has been given in fiduciary law to this tradeoff and thus to when seeking alpha is prudent and beneficial for savers, and when it is not.

This Article begins to fill that gap by making two contributions. First, we provide the first benchmark estimates of how much alpha is required before ordinary investors would be better off departing from the consensus. For example, we estimate that a person of average risk aversion would annually need to beat the market by (i.e., obtain alpha of) between 5% and 15% before being willing to entirely forego the benefits of diversification and hold an individual stock (and that during a financial crisis a person would need an annual alpha between 9% and 18%). Second, we consider the implications of our results for the various branches of law governing investment fiduciaries. We propose generally that fiduciaries should be informed about these alpha tradeoffs and explain them to their clients before recommending (or executing) investments that deviate from the low-cost, well-diversified, age-appropriate exposure standard. We argue that through new technology this kind of information can be given to retirement savers and others at quite low cost. Our results also have a variety of more specific applications. For example, our work shows that the value of diversification increases during periods of market upheaval, and therefore duty to diversify of trustees of personal trusts and of employee retirement plans should likewise strengthen during such periods.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:20:03 -0400 2018-03-22T16:10:00-04:00 2018-03-22T18:10:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Law & Economics Workshop / Seminar Hutchins Hall
Justice Albie Sachs: Getting to Know Nelson Mandela (March 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51087 51087-11961987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Please join us for the 2018 William W. Bishop Lecture in International Law: Getting to Know Nelson Mandela, to be presented by Justice Albie Sachs, formerly of the South African Constitutional Court.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Justice Albie Sachs has devoted his life to the defense of human rights, both in his home country of South Africa and throughout the world. As a young attorney, Justice Sachs defended people charged under the racist statutes and repressive security laws of apartheid. Forced into exile in 1966, he worked with the African National Congress from abroad, where his criticism of apartheid made him the victim of a car bombing in Mozambique in 1988. Justice Sachs lost an arm and the sight of one eye in the attack, but recovered and returned to South Africa as a member of the Constitutional Committee to assist South Africa’s transition into a constitutional democracy. He was later appointed by President Nelson Mandela to serve on the South African Constitutional Court.

The Bishop Lecture was established by the friends and family of Professor Bishop following his death in 1987.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Mar 2018 09:01:28 -0400 2018-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-27T17:30:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion Bishop lecture Poster
Law and Economics Workshop: Noncompetes in the US Labor Force (March 29, 2018 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50961 50961-11930596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 4:10pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Law & Economics

Abstract
Using nationally representative survey data on 11,505 labor force participants, we examine the use, implementation, and effects of noncompete agreements. Nearly 1 in 5 labor force participants were bound by noncompetes in 2014, and nearly 40% had signed at least one in the past. Noncompetes are more likely to be found in high-skill, high-paying jobs, but they are also surprisingly common in low-skill, low-paying jobs. We document that less than 10% of employees negotiate over noncompetes, that roughly one-third of noncompetes are signed after accepting the job offer, and that nearly two-thirds of job applicants had no alternative job opportunities when they were asked to agree to a noncompete. Differences in the competitive circumstances under which noncompetes are signed are associated with starkly different outcomes for employees: those presented with a noncompete before they accept a job offer and those who have alternative employment options earn 19% higher wages, receive 14% more training, and are 13% more satisfied in their job than those not bound by noncompetes. However, those asked to sign after accepting an offer and/or without other employment options are 15% less satisfied in their job and experience no wage and training benefits. In contrast to the existing literature, we find little role for the enforceability of noncompetes in explaining their use and their association with wages and training.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:28:06 -0400 2018-03-29T16:10:00-04:00 2018-03-29T18:10:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Law & Economics Workshop / Seminar Hutchins Hall
Law and Economics Workshop: A Fundamental Error in the Law of Torts: The Restriction of Strict Liability to Uncommon Activities (April 5, 2018 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50963 50963-11930597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 5, 2018 4:10pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Law & Economics

Abstract

Courts generally insist that two criteria be met before imposing strict liability. The first––that the injurer’s activity must be dangerous––is sensible because strict liability possesses general advantages in controlling risk. But the second––that the activity must be uncommon––is ill-advised because it exempts all common activities from strict liability, no matter how dangerous. Thus, the harm generated by the large swath of common dangerous activities––from hunting, to construction, to the operation of railroads––tends to be socially excessive. After developing this theme, the Article addresses the question of how the uncommon activity requirement could have arisen and finds that its legal pedigree is problematic: it was invented by the authors of the first Restatement of Torts. The conclusion is that the uncommon activity requirement for the imposition of strict liability should be eliminated.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:29:57 -0400 2018-04-05T16:10:00-04:00 2018-04-05T18:10:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Law & Economics Workshop / Seminar Hutchins Hall
Voter Registration Week! (April 6, 2018 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51449 51449-12170483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 6, 2018 2:30pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

The Big Ten Voting Challenge is a nonpartisan initiative to increase student voter registration and turnout rates.

We will be registering students in-person the week of April 2-6. You can get the registration process started anytime online at umich.turbovote.org

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Other Mon, 02 Apr 2018 14:53:44 -0400 2018-04-06T14:30:00-04:00 2018-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Ginsberg Center Other Big Ten Voting Challenge
Law and Economics Workshop: The Adaptive Contract: Innovation and Collaboration in an Uncertain World (April 12, 2018 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50965 50965-11930600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 12, 2018 4:10pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Law & Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Apr 2018 09:49:08 -0400 2018-04-12T16:10:00-04:00 2018-04-12T18:10:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Law & Economics Workshop / Seminar Hutchins Hall
Winter 2018 Colloquium (April 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49781 49781-11532472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

details forthcoming

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Feb 2018 14:03:29 -0500 2018-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-13T17:30:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
Law School Admissions 101 (October 9, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56107 56107-13832578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Join the law school admission deans from the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan for a thorough look at how applications are reviewed. The panelists, with a combined four decades of law school admissions experience, will discuss every element of the application, allowing lots of time for Q&A from student participants. You'll learn what works, and what doesn't, in the competitive law school admissions process.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:31:23 -0400 2018-10-09T18:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T19:30:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar Hutchins Hall
Diversity of Thought and Respecting the Other Side of the Argument: Insights from the Office of the U.S. Solicitor General (October 11, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55170 55170-13696036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

A star-studded group of former members of the U.S. Solicitor General’s Office will explore the possibility of drawing lessons from that institution for how to approach the hardest discussions on campus. The panel will draw on the framework, ethos, and practice of the Solicitor General’s office to explore insights on how students, faculty, and staff can approach controversial issues on campus—and in particular listening, analyzing, tackling, and responding to arguments on the other side. The panel will seek to offer meaningful reflections on the lifelong process of understanding and responding to deeply controversial arguments, even those that are—to some or many—odious.

Panelists:
- Paul D. Clement, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, and Distinguished Lecturer in Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Solicitor General, 2005-08
- Charles Fried, Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Solicitor General, 1985-89
- Gregory G. Garre, Partner and Chair of the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group, Latham & Watkins
Solicitor General, 2008-09
- Ian H. Gershengorn, Partner and Chair of the Appellate and Supreme Court Practice Group, Jenner & Block
Acting Solicitor General, 2016-17
- Nicole A. Saharsky, Partner and Co-Chair of the Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group, Gibson Dunn
Assistant to the Solicitor General, 2007-17

Moderated by Julian Davis Mortenson, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

This event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception in the Lawyers Club Lounge.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:57:58 -0400 2018-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
Navigating the Legal Career Climate (October 23, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56112 56112-13832581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

What can you do with a law degree? How secure is the legal job market? Join us for a Q&A session with Assistant Dean for Career Planning at UM Law, Ramji Kaul, as he talks us through the current legal job landscape and emerging fields within the industry.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Oct 2018 10:26:54 -0400 2018-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar Hutchins Hall
Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Academic Freedom Lecture (November 28, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52809 52809-13081674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Faculty Senate

"Academic Freedom, New Politics, Old School Censorship, and Meaningful Constitutional Review"

Nichol will explore the challenge of assuring intellectual liberty and academic freedom from outside political interference in flagship public universities. He will focus, particularly, on legislative and administrative suppression and penalization of research and publication which is critical of public policies embraced by governmental authorities. He will address both internal and external pressures on free expression and academic independence in state universities. He will argue, as well, that as freedom of speech, more broadly, is being deployed, or weaponized, for economic ideological purposes, it is being weakened as an essential component of democratic government.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:12:05 -0400 2018-11-28T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Faculty Senate Lecture / Discussion Gene Nichol
Title IX Comment Writing Event (December 3, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57893 57893-14366721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 3, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Department of Education proposed new regulations on Title IX and campus sexual violence. You can read them here: https://bit.ly/2A4POhD.

The Department of Education solicits public input on their proposed regulations (it's called a “notice and comment” period). The Department is required to respond to this input before issuing its final regulations. A court can strike down a regulation if the Department cannot explain its reasoning, or if the regulation is inconsistent with Title IX.

Join students and professors as we mobilize and write responses to the Department of Education's new sexual violence regulations, and make our voices heard. Dinner and event support will be provided by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

Please RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/4ADthWq8MwRNAm0x1

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 27 Nov 2018 09:58:40 -0500 2018-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 2018-12-03T20:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Workshop / Seminar banner with event title and information
Litigating Trump's Environmental Deregulation (February 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60985 60985-15000012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join us for the latest installment of the ELPP Lecture Series, featuring Sean Donahue of the law firm Donahue, Goldberg & Weaver, LLP.

This event is free and open to the public.

Sean Donahue, of Donahue, Goldberg & Weaver, LLP, a small DC-based firm whose practice focuses on representing environmental organizations in Clean Air Act and federal climate litigation, as well as cases involving state climate and clean energy initiatives. Donahue will discuss some of the major Trump Administration deregulatory actions in which he and his colleagues are involved: proposed repeal of Clean Power Plan and revision of carbon dioxide standards for new power plants; rollbacks of greenhouse gas emissions standards and fuel economy standards for motor vehicles and withdrawal of California’s authority to adopt and enforce separate greenhouse gas standards, and EPA’s proposed finding that Clean Air Act that regulation of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from power plants is not appropriate or necessary. Donahue will address recurring legal issues and practical challenges involved in litigating such cases, some cross-cutting features of the Trump Administration’s deregulatory efforts in the environmental area, and what to look for as the Administration’s major initiatives move from agency rulemaking to the courts. While dealing with complex administrative law questions and daunting health and environmental hazards, the talk may be punctuated by moments of uplifting humor and cautious optimism.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:05:22 -0500 2019-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall