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Announcing Two New Sponsored LSN Subject Matter eJournals

We are pleased to announce two new Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Sponsored Subject Matter eJournals — Law & Religion, sponsored by Pepperdine University Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, & Ethics; and Risk, Regulation, & Policy, sponsored by Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Technology at Arizona State University at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.

LAW & RELIGION
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Editor: Robert F. Cochran, Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law and Director, Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics, Pepperdine University School of Law

Sponsor: The purpose of Pepperdine University’s Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics is to explore the nexus between the three disciplines in its name. It provides students and faculty the opportunity to explore these areas through interdisciplinary seminars, conferences, and symposia. Recognizing the great value in ecumenical exploration of an understanding of law and religion, we seek to draw from a broad range of religious and legal voices on the relationship between law and religion. While affirming Pepperdine University’s Christian identity, the Institute attempts to draw from the diverse range of religious voices represented by our faculty and student body, seeking dialogue and common ground among faith traditions.

Description: This eJournal welcomes articles that explore the intersection of Law and Religion, including articles on:

1. The Religion Clauses of the United States Constitution and Analogous Law in Other Countries.
2. Critiques of Law from the Perspective of Religious Traditions.
3. The Religious Lawyering Movement - what our religious traditions tell us about law practice.
4. Religious Freedom and International Human Rights.
5. Religious law Issues (e.g., Canon Law, Islamic Law, and Jewish Law).
6. United States and International Religion/State Issues (e.g., Church/State Issues).

RISK, REGULATION, & POLICY
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Editors: Adam Finkel, Fellow and Executive Director, Penn Program on Regulation, University of Pennsylvania Law School; and Douglas J. Sylvester, Associate Dean for Faculty Research & Development, Professor of Law, Faculty Fellow, Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology, Arizona State University College of Law

Sponsor: The Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Technology is the first and largest academic center focused on the intersection of law and science. The Center bridges law and science by fostering the development of legal frameworks for new technologies and advancing the informed use of science in legal decision-making. The Center facilitates transdisciplinary study and dialogue among policy-makers, academics, students, professionals and industry; it is committed to principles of balance, innovation, competitiveness and sustainability.

Description: This journal distributes working papers, forthcoming articles, and submitted articles on all topics related to the regulation of risk. Risk is broadly defined in this journal as real, imagined, or potential threats to human health and safety, environmental risks, or financial catastrophes. This journal is necessarily interested in, but not confined to, discussions of emerging technologies and their potential risks. The approach of this journal is interdisciplinary and should encompass the work of lawyers, political scientists, anthropologists, economists, psychologists, historians, and sociologists whose work encompasses formal or informal processes to regulate, understand, or govern potential risks. This journal welcomes empirical and experimental, work on perceptions of risk as well as theoretical or practical applications of legal or non-legal concepts to control potential risks.(View full announcement)

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NYU-POLY Gerstein Fisher Research Center for Finance and Risk Engineering Joins FEN Research Paper Series

We are pleased to announce that NYU-POLY Gerstein Fisher Research Center for Finance and Risk Engineering has started a Research Paper Series within the Financial Economics Network (FEN).

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The Gerstein Fisher Research Center for Finance and Risk Engineering undertakes theoretical and applied research rooted in the fundamental principles of economics, finance and risk engineering. The Center is interdisciplinary and seeks to bridge a gap between theory and practice. Its research projects are currently focused in four areas, spanning: Personal Finance - a finance that cares for the individual; Risk Engineering and Finance; Finance and Risk Management of the Unlikely; and Alternative Finance. (View full announcement)

Announcing Two New LSN Subject Matter eJournals

We are pleased to announce two new Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Subject Matter eJournals under Environmental & Natural Resources Law Journals — Climate Change Law & Policy and International Environmental Law.

CLIMATE CHANGE LAW & POLICY

Editors: Daniel A. Farber, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Patrick A. Parenteau, Vermont Law School

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Description: Climate Change Law and Policy distributes abstracts of articles dealing with all aspects of environmental law and policy research relating to climate change.

INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Editors: David D. Caron, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Tseming Yang, Vermont Law School

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Description: International Environmental Law distributes abstracts of articles dealing with research in the field of law and policy regarding international environmental and global challenges whether approached at a private, national, regional or global level. (View full announcement)

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Loyola University Chicago School of Law Joins LSN Research Paper Series

We are pleased to announce that Loyola University Chicago School of Law has started a Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).

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Founded in 1908, Loyola University Chicago School of Law is a community of engaged scholars and students inspired by the Jesuit tradition of academic excellence, intellectual openness, and a commitment to justice and the rule of law. The articles and papers in its Research Paper Series serve that tradition by contributing to a deeper understanding of law, legal institutions, and legal theory through faculty research and scholarship. (View full announcement)

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Legislative Repeal of Capital Punishment in New Jersey Online Proceedings

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On April 14, 2008, principal actors in the 25-year capital punishment drama gathered at Seton Hall Law School. The symposium reflected on the judicial, legislative, and popular efforts to sustain, limit, and ultimately abandon capital punishment. (View full announcement)

CASE - Center for Social & Economic Research Research Paper Series

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The CASE - Center for Social & Economic Research Research Paper Series contains abstracts and papers focused on the results of research in the broader field of social and economic studies and undertaken as part of research and technical assistance projects. (View full announcement)

Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship Growth & Renewal Research Paper Series

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The Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship Growth & Renewal at the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business contains abstracts and papers from this institution focused on the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, growth, and renewal. (View full announcement)

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Vermont Law School Research Paper Series

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The Vermont Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series contains a wide range of papers from scholars at the Vermont Law School. Vermont is particularly known for its work in Environmental Law and related subjects such as Natural Resources, Energy and Land Use, and papers on these topics are well represented. Vermont’s scholarship also embodies a diverse spectrum of additional doctrinal and interdisciplinary interests, and the papers in this series reflect this diversity as well. (View full announcement)

New ERN Subject Matter eJournal & 3 Expanded Subject Matter eJournals

We are pleased to announce a new Economics Research Network (ERN) Subject Matter eJournal — Game Theory & Bargaining Theory — as well as the expansion of three Subject Matter eJournals — Institutional & Transition Economics, Microeconomics, and Organizations & Markets. (View full announcement)

New Corporate Governance Network

CGN is sponsored by the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) Institute, whose mission is to provide thought leadership at the intersection of corporate responsibility and the informational needs of investors. While the Institute is a relatively new non-profit organization, formed with the proceeds of the sale of the Investor Responsibility Research Center in 2006, it continues the tradition and standards of objective research for which IRRC has been known since 1972. For more information, please see http://www.irrcinstitute.org.

CGN’s founding director is Lucian A. Bebchuk, William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, and Director, Corporate Governance Program, Harvard University - Harvard Law School; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Research Associate, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).(View full announcement)

Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference 2009 Abstracting eJournal

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The aim of this annual conference series is to improve our ability to answer the “big picture” questions and other related questions by engaging some of the world’s top researchers on competitive advantage in Atlanta for 3 days each year. You can browse abstracts and download the full text of all papers given at the Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference 2009 in the SSRN database. (View full announcement)