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: PrawfsConference on Fiss, Against Settlement
By Dan Markel, Ethan Leib, Rick Garnett, Matt Bodie, Paul Horwitz , Steve Vladeck, and Orly Lobel
Fordham Law School and Fordham Law Review will host a terrific symposium, Against Settlement: 25 Years Later, a look at Owen Fiss' groundbreaking argument against the increasing focus on settlement, especially in public-law litigation. It will be on Friday, April 3, all day, at Fordham Law School. (H/T: Program organizer Howard Erichson).
Speakers include:
John Bronsteen, Loyola University Chicago School of Law; Amy Cohen, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law; Howard Erichson, Fordham University School of Law; Kenneth Feinberg, The Feinberg Group, LLP; Owen Fiss, Yale Law School; Samuel Issacharoff, New York University School of Law; Pamela Karlan, Stanford Law School; Michael Moffitt, University of Oregon School of Law; Jackie Nolan-Haley, Fordham University School of Law; Susan Sturm, Columbia University School of Law; Hon. Jack Weinstein, Eastern District of New York;
Full post as published by Prawfs on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).
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