Echo of Support for the Lifetime Achievement Award for Linda Rusch

Jeremy Telman over at the Contracts Prof Blog posted over there about the Lifetime Achievement Award that Linda Rusch will receive at the Ninth Annual International Conference on Contracts February 20-21, 2014 to be held at St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida.  I must echo Jeremy's praise of Linda's accomplishments.  Linda is a retired professor of law as of August 2012 and now is getting to enjoy the great outdoors. She was the inaugural holder of the Frederick N. and Barbara T. Curley Professor in Commercial Law at the Gonzaga University School fo Law from 2005-2010. She was also a co-director of the Law School’s Commercial Law Center.  And, of course, Professor Rusch has been involved in the revision of the Uniform Commercial Code in many capacities and is the recent past Chair of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association.  It is great to see her contributions to contract and commercial law recognized!

 

If you are considering presenting at the February Conference, the call for papers is currently OPEN. 

Papers and works-in-progress are welcome from those who study Contracts from any perspective, whether doctrinal, pedagogical, theoretical, empirical, historical, economic, critical, comparative, or interdisciplinary. Works that take an international or civil law approach are also welcome. Junior scholars are particularly encouraged to participate. Those interested in proposing and organizing panels (3-5 presenters) on specific themes are especially encouraged to do so. Individual submissions should be made by a brief abstract (one page is sufficient) of the paper or WIP that includes contact information for the author(s). The deadline is Monday, December 16, 2013 with proposals submitted earlier will be accepted on a rolling basis. Proposals submitted after the deadline will be accepted on a space-available basis. Submissions should be directed to: Professor Jennifer S. Martin (me) at jmartin@ stu.edu.

 

-JSM

Keeping it simple: Financial Advice on an Index Card

I heard about the the 4X6 inch index card financial advice on NPR this week.  This advice comes from University of Chicago Professor Harold Pollack.  My first thought is that he would be a business school prof, but Professor Pollack does social services work.  The simplicy of the program is good, but the last piece of advice is cut off in the picture (and gives away his true calling):

Promote social insurance programs to help people when things go wrong.

This, of course, brings to mind the current debate in Congress over spending and attempts to defund healthcare, food stamps and other programs.  Perhaps the nation's finances would be in better order if Congress consulted Professor Pollack.  Simple advice, yes, but probably sound in basics.  Typically that is enough for ordinary people to keep up with and improve their finances.

-JSM

KCon 2014 Call for Papers

Papers are invited for the 2014 Contracts Conference at St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida.  The Conference website is up at http://www.contractsconference.com/kcon/KCON9__Miami.html and able to take registrations, including information about hotel registration.  Here is the call for papers. 

 

KCON9

The 9th Annual Conference on Contracts

The Call for Papers is OPEN.

For information,

contact Professor Jennifer S. Martin

at jmartin@stu.edu

February 21-22, 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS

 Submissions are cordially invited for the 9th Annual International Conference on Contracts, the largest annual scholarly and educational conference devoted to Contracts and related areas of commercial law. Papers and works-in-progress are welcome from those who study Contracts from any perspective, whether doctrinal, pedagogical, theoretical, empirical, historical, economic, critical, comparative, or interdisciplinary. Works that take an international or civil law approach are also welcome. Junior scholars are particularly encouraged to participate. Those interested in proposing and organizing panels (3-5 presenters) on specific themes are especially encouraged to do so.

Individual submissions should be made by a brief abstract (one page is sufficient) of the paper or WIP that includes contact information for the author(s). Individual submissions will be placed on panels with like submissions. Panel proposals should include the name and contact information of the moderator or organizer, and a summary of the proposed papers or works in progress. There is no publication commitment for the conference, but organizers of individual panels are free to arrange for publication on their own.

Submissions

Deadline is Monday, December 16, 2013.

Proposals submitted earlier will be accepted on a rolling basis. Proposals submitted after the deadline will be accepted on a space-available basis. Submissions should be directed to:

Professor Jennifer S. Martin

jmartin@ stu.edu