Legal Commentary

Thanks to the PR people at UM, you can see these nice people up close. Here's the official announcement.

The University of Miami School of Law will host the 4th Prawfsfest! from December 8-10, 2008. The event, to feature 11 sessions, will bring up-and-coming scholars from various areas of legal scholarship together to discuss their working papers on public law and legal theory and foster scholarship in those areas of law. 



UM Law Professor Ben W.F. Depoorter co-organized the December 2008 conference with Dan Markel from the Florida State University College of Law. 



"This is perhaps the most collegial type of conference in academia. Everyone reads every paper, leading to very deep and constructive discussion. The goal is to help each other get the best possible placement for their papers," said Professor Depoorter.

Markel was a visiting professor at the Law School in 2006, when he and former UM Law Associate Professor Stephen Vladeck organized the inaugural Prawfsfest! Since then, conferences have been held at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California and Hofstra University School of Law in Hempstead, New York.

"I'm excited and grateful to return to the Prawfsfest! birthplace at UM Law. In the past, the scholarship incubated at Prawfsfest! has appeared in many top law reviews and peer-reviewed journals and we are hopeful that the same will be true of the 11 papers we will workshop next week at UM Law," said Markel.



Among those participating in the conference are UM Law Professors Ben Depoorter and Charlton Copeland; Dan Markel andLesley Wexler from Florida State University College of Law; Tommy Crocker from the University of South Carolina School of Law; Dave Fagundes from Southwestern Law School; Jessie Hill from Case Western Reserve University School of Law; Chad Oldfather from Marquette University Law School; Stephen Vladeck from Washington College of Law at American University;Howard Wasserman from Florida International University College of Law; and Verity Winship from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.