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CENTERS > CSLS > Conference to Honor the Work of Robert A. Kagan

The Virtues and Vices of Legalism:
A Conference to Honor the Work of Robert A. Kagan

Friday, September 19, 2008

in The Goldberg Room
        

WELCOME  8:45am - 9:00am

Lauren Edelman, Director, Center for the Study of Law and Society, UC Berkeley

Christopher Edley, Jr., Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law

SESSION I   9:00 - 10:30
REGULATORY ENFORCEMENT AND COMPLIANCE

David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley (Chair)

Cary Coglianese, University of Pennsylvania
“Organizational Personality and Regulatory Compliance”

Neil Gunningham, Australian National University
“Internal Regulation, OHS & the Mining Industry: Overcoming the Disconnect”

Keith Hawkins, University of Oxford
"Regulatory Encounters of the Green Kind, An Appreciation of Robert Kagan's Recent Work"

Lesley McAllister, University of San Diego & UC San Diego
“Regulatory Style in the Global South”

SESSION II   11:00 - 12:30
ADVERSARIAL LEGALISM

Terri Peretti, Santa Clara University (Chair)

Tom Burke, Wellesley College & John (Jeb) Barnes, USC
"How Adversarial Legalism Affects American Politics, a Preliminary Inquiry"

Michael McCann, University of Washington
“Seeing Through the Smoke: Adversarial Legalism and U.S. Tobacco Politics”

R. Shep Melnick, Boston College
“Adversarial Legalism and the Civil Rights State”

SESSION III   2:00 - 3:30
COMPARATIVE LEGAL INSTITUTIONS

Gordon Silverstein, University of California, Berkeley (Chair)

Kathryn Hendley, University of Wisconsin
“Mobilizing Law in Contemporary Russia”

Diana Kapiszewski, University of California, Irvine                     
“Dual Transition & the Judicialization of Economic Policy in Argentina & Brazil”

Noga Morag-Levine, Michigan State University
"Common Legalism: On the Common Law Origins of American Legal Culture"

SESSION IV  4:00 - 5:00
THE VIRTUES AND VICES OF LEGALISM

Martin Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley (Chair)

Malcolm Feeley, University of California, Berkeley
"Bob Kagan's Diagnosis of Legalism and its Discontents"

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Bob Kagan, University of California, Berkeley
"Reflections"



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