Seminars and Conferences

Education at the School of Law is not confined to the classroom and the Library. Members of the School of Law community, both faculty and students, organize and particip ate in academic conferences each year which enrich the educational and professional life of the law school. Beginning in the Fall of 2001, we have instituted streaming video in QuickTime format of some of our conferences, beginning with the fifth in our annual series of conferences on the work of the Supreme Court of the United States for the previous Term. Beginning in 2007, many of the video archives are presented either using Flash video or in both Flash Video and QuickTime video. The Flash Video is downloaded to your computer as it plays; the QuickTime video is being streamed to your computer and is not at any point resident on your computer.

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Speakers and Conferences 2012-2013

April 16, 2013 Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Basic Business Law for Small Businesses presents: Bankruptcy
Keynote Speakers: George I. Roumeliotis, Justin H. Dion and Kara S. Rescia
April 11, 2013 Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Speaker Series presents: The Entrepreneurship of Pharmacy
Keynote Speaker: Andrew Robinson
April 5, 2013 Clason Lecture by Wadie Said  Title:The Criminal Terrorist Prosecution
April 2, 2013 The International Law Society and Women's Law Association proudly present HUMAN TRAFFICKING - Closer Than You Think
Keynote Speaker: Alex J. Grant
March 14, 2013 The Animal Law Association Presents Helping Animals Using The Legislative Process, Featuring:Linda Huebner, Dept. Director of the MSPCA.
March 13, 2013 Center for Gender & Sexuality Studies Presents: Gay Marriage and the Supreme Court, Oral Arguments
Part one of a two part series Featured Panelists: Prof. Erin Buzuvis, Prof. Leora Harpaz, Prof. Jennifer Levi, Prof. Bruce Miller, Prof. Giovanna Shay and Chris Erchull, 2L .
March 12, 2013 Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Speaker Series presents Intellectual Property Law Basics
Panelists Include: Peter Irvine, Leah Kunkel and Steve Wheelock
March 12, 2013 Clason Lecture by Penelope Andrews  Title: Conditional Interdependence and Rethinking Strategies for Pursuing Women's Human Rights
March 5, 2013 Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Speaker Series presents Lawyer as Entrepreneur
Panelists Include: Joseph Kershenbaum and Jayson Falcone
January 29, 2013 Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Speaker Series presents Entrepreneurship in Creative Communications.
Panelists Include: Tina Stevens, Robert C. Andrews Jr. and Janine Fondon
January 29, 2013 Clason Lecture by Fionnuala Ni Aolain  Title: Rethinking Reparations for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
January 25, 2013 School of Law, Career Services Presents: Pro Bono: Capital Defense Featured Speaker: Chris Jensen, Partner, Cowan Leibowitz & Latman, NYC .
January 23, 2013 Center for Gender & Sexuality Studies Presents: Telling Amy's StoryFeatured Speaker: Detective Deirdri Fishel, State College PA .
January 22, 2013 Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship - EXTREME Business Makeover, Featured Business: BYTEBAK computers, Kimberly and Gregory Galvin. Panelists include: David Webber,Esq., April Heavens-Woodcock, Jennifer Little-Greer and Jackie Fallon '82.
January 15, 2013 Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Speaker Series 2012-2013, Contracts, Sales, Collections, and Dispute Resolution Jennifer A. Rymarski,Esq., David A.Parke, Esq. and Kyle R. Guelcher, Esq. are guest speakers.
November 13, 2012 Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Speaker Series 2012-2013, Rebecca Bouchard,Esq., Charles R. Casartello Jr., Esq. and Arnold "Al" Lizana, Esq. are guest speakers.
November 8, 2012 Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Speaker Series 2012-2013, Jackie Fallon Owner of FIT solutions was the last guest speaker for the year.
October 27, 2012

Seventeenth Annual Supreme Court Review Conference: Important Decisions of the October 2011 Term and A Look Ahead at the October 2012 Term
October 23, 2012 Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Speaker Series 2012-2013, Mike Matusczak, I.R.S., and Paul Mancinone, Esq. Title: Current Tax Issues Facing Small Businesses and How To Handle an Audit
October 22, 2012 Clason Lecture by Professor Jennifer Gordon, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law.  Title: The Public Interest Lawyer and the Quest for Immigrant Workers Rights
October 16, 2012 Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Speaker Series 2012-2013 presents Gary Bogoff, Cofounder of Berkshire Brewing Company
October 10, 2012 The Center for Gender & Sexuality Studies presents:  Title: Bullying in Schools: How Should the Law Protect Students
September 28, 2012

Building the Arc of Justice: the Life and Legal Thought of Derrick Bell
September 18, 2012 The Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship starts off the fall 2012-2013 speaker series Stanley Kowalski III, Chairman of FloDesign, Inc., Western New England University
September 13, 2012 Constitution Day 2012 by Professor Jonathan Beagle, Western New England University
August 22, 2012 Convocation Address by Diane F. Bosse, Chair of the New York State Board Examiners

Speakers and Conferences 2011-2012

April 11, 2012 Faculty Panel Discussion on the oral arguments on the constituionality of the Affordable Health Care Act before the United States Supreme Court. Presenters: Professors Leora Harpaz, Bruce Miller and Arthur Wolf; Moderator: Professor Sudha Setty.
April 6, 2012 Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship speaker Prof. Eric J. Gouvin, Director of the Center at Western New England University. Title: Insurance Risk Management - Techniques for Small Business
April 5, 2012 Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Speaker Series 2012-2013, Dr. Barry Barnes at Western New England University. Title: Everything I know about business I learned from the Grateful Dead
March 6, 2012 Clason Lecture by Professor Mary Anne Case, University of Chicago School of Law. Title: "You're telling me it's wrong to do to the prisoners what the Army does to its own soldiers?," Gender Performance Requirements of the U.S. Military in the War on Islamic Terrorism
February 14, 2012 Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop: Title: Massachusetts' New Transgender Rights Law: Strategies for Compliance and Advocacy
January 24, 2012 Law and Business Center for Advancing Entrepreneurship speaker David P. Weber, Assistant Professor of Law, Creighton University School of Law. Title: Undocumented Entrepreneurs: Business Structure and Immigration Compliance
January 19, 2012 Clason Lecture by Professor Wendy Murphy, New England School of Law Title: Campus Rape, Title IX, and the New Guidelines, New Clarity and New Controversies
November 21, 2011 Animal Law Association speaker, Professor William Baker, Professor of Law Western New England University. Title: Estate Planning for Pet Owners
November 11, 2011 Supreme Court Review Conference: Important Decisions of the October 2010 Term and A Look Ahead at the October 2011 Term
November 8, 2011 Clason Lecture by Professor Richard Wilson, Professor of Law and Anthropology, University of Connecticut. Title: Writing History in International Criminal Trials.
October 25, 2011 Clason Lecture by Dean Claudio Grossman, Washington College of Law at American University. Title: The American System for the Protection of Human Rights
September 13, 2011 Clason Lecture by Jennifer Harbury, Esq. Title: U.S. Torture Practices: The Guatemala Experience
August 23, 2011 Convocation Address by Justice Francis X. Spina, Associate Justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

Speakers and Conferences 2010-2011

March 3, 2011 Clason Lecture by Professor Robert Tsai. Title: Lessons from the Indian Stream Republic
October 16, 2010 Supreme Court Review Conference 2009-2010 Term
October 12, 2010 Clason Lecture by Wilma Liebman, Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, Title: More Rights, Fewer Jobs? Labor Law During Hard Times
September 23, 2010 Law and Business Center for Advancing Entrepreneurship Speaker Series 2010-2011, Professor W. Sherman Rogers. Title: The African American Entrepreneur Then and Now
September 20, 2010 Clason Lecture by Scott Horton. Title: The Obama Administration and the War on Terror – Continuity or Change You Can Believe In?
September 17, 2010 Constitution Day Commemoration - Professor James Gordon, Civil Liberties During the Civil War.
August 31, 2010 Convocation Address by Judge Alvin W. Thompson, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Introductions by President Anthony Caprio, Dean Arthur Gaudio, Associate Dean Beth Cohen and Student Bar Association President Maren Law.
August 24, 2010 Clason Lecture by Professor Jack Chin, the Chester H. Smith Professor of Law, Professor of Public Administration and Policy, and Co-Director, Program in Criminal Law and Policy at The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Title: Quasi-Crime and Quasi-Punishment: Criminal Process Effects of Immigration Status. If your computer can play either QuickTime or iTunes videos, you may prefer watching this video in streaming QuickTime format.

Speakers and Conferences 2009-2010

April 8, 2010 Clason Lecture by Professor Kimberley Mutcherson, Rutgers-Camden School of Law. Title: Feeling Like Makin' Babies: Mapping the Borders of the Right to Procreate in a Post-Coital World
March 4, 2010 Clason Lecture by Professor Erin Murphy, University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Title: Exploring Databases in the Criminal Justice System
February 18, 2010 Clason Lecture by Professor Robert Chesney, University of Texas School of Law. Title: Military Detention
October 14, 2009

 

 Keeping Gideon's Promise: The Evolution of the Right to Counsel, A Symposium Presented in Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Massachusetts Superior Court

Overview of the Law by Professor Arthur Leavens

Keynote Speaker Anthony Lewis: "Gideon and the Right to Counsel"

Panel Discussion - Right to Counsel in Massachusetts
October 13, 2009 Clason Lecture by Professor Michael Wishnie, Yale Law School. Title: The Immigration Debate: From the Berkshires to Washington
October 3, 2009 Supreme Court Review Conference - a Review of Important Decisions of the United States Supreme Court during its 2008-2009 Term
September 1, 2009 Convocation Address by Chief Justice Chase Rogers, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut. Introductions by Dean Arthur Gaudio, Associate Dean Beth Cohen and Student Bar Association President Jason Levine

Speakers and Conferences 2008-2009

April 7, 2009
 Clason Lecture by Professor Molly Beutz Land. Title: Human Rights, Copyright and Culture
March 9, 2009
 Clason Lecture by David Singleton, Esq. Title: Diligence Alone Won't Do: Representing Indigent Defendants Zealously
February 25, 2009 S. Prestley and Helen Blake Discussing the Harvard Business School Case Study of Blake v. Friendly Ice Cream Corporation
February 5, 2009
 Clason Lecture by Dr. David Michaels. Title: Doubt is Their Product: Manufactured Uncertainty and Public Health
November 17, 2008
 Clason Lecture by Stephanie Robinson, Esq. Title: Election 2008: Race, Gender, Power, and the Future of America
November 1, 2008
 Supreme Court Review Conference - a Review of Important Decisions of the United States Supreme Court during its 2007-2008 Term
October 8, 2008
 Clason Lecture by Professor David Hall, Northeastern University School of Law. Title: Multiple Intelligences and the Practice of Law
October 3, 2008
 Clason Lecture by Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights. Title: The First 100 Days: Restoring Our Constitution

Speakers and Conferences 2007-2008

November 3, 2007
 Supreme Court Review Conference - A Review of Important Decisions of the 2006-2007 Term
September 17, 2007
 Constitution Day Address by Justice John Greaney, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts - The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 and the United States Constitution of 1787

Speakers and Conferences 2006-2007

October 2006 Supreme Court Review Conference - A Review of Important Decisions of the 2005-2006 Term

Speakers and Conferences 2005-2006

March 20, 2006 Clason Lecture by Professor Martha Ertman. Title: To Commodify or Not to Commodify
February 16, 2006 Clason Lecture by Professor Zygmunt Plater. Title: Law, Media and Environmental Policy: A Fundamental Linkage in Sustainable Democratic Governance
January 18, 2006 Clason Lecture by Professor Patricia McCoy. Title: Predatory Lending: Who's to Blame
October 29, 2005 Supreme Court Review Conference - A Review of Important Decisions of the 2004-2005 Term (Available on Request from Law School Library)
October 27, 2005 Clason Lecture by Professor Michael Tigar. Title: The Enemy Combatant Doctrine and the Scope of Executive Power.
October 2005 Panel discussion of the John Roberts Confirmation Hearings for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Speakers and Conferences 2004-2005

October 30, 2004 Supreme Court Review Conference: Important Decisions of the 2003-2004 Term (Available on Request from Law School Library)
October 23, 2004 Commemoration of Brown v. Board of Education, Dean Gaudio, Hon. Richard E. Neal, Associate Dean Samuel Stonefield, Ms. Elaine Rucks, Attorney Robert Fleischner, Dr. Mary Elizabeth Beach, Nicholas Fyntrilakis, Frank Buntin and Marjorie Hurst review the fifty year history of Brown with particular reference to Springfield, Massachusetts.
October 12, 2004 Rachel Meeropol, Esq speaks during Public Interest Law Week Topic: Defending Civil Liberties in the Post-9/11 Era, The Case of the Guananamo Naval Base Detainees

Conferences 2003-2004

October 18, 2003 Supreme Court Review Conference: Important Decisions of the 2002-2003 Term (Available on Request from Law School Library)

Conferences 2002-2003

April 9, 2003 Panel and Discussion on the Invasion of Iraq
October 2, 2002 Conference on Workplace Rights of Low Income Workers
September 20, 2002 Seminar on Legal Responses to Terrorism