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Location

Law School, Room 124
613 S Henry St
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location

"Law Without a Lawmaker" is devoted to exploring the existence and validity of law not created by the lawmakers of a particular jurisdiction. Some of the questions to be addressed are: What was the nature of the general common law under the regime of Swift v. Tyson? How did Erie end this regime and what, if anything, was Erie's constitutional source? Do the principles used to decide choice-of-law cases transcend the law of any jurisdiction, and, if so, are they unconstitutional? Does customary international law transcend the law of any jurisdiction, and, if so, is it unconstitutional? Where else can law not created by the lawmakers of a particular jurisdiction be found? Is the appeal to such law an inescapable fact of legal reasoning?

Speakers include:
*Anthony Bellia, Notre Dame Law School;
*Lea Brilmayer, Yale Law School;
*Bradford Clark, George Washington University Law School;
*Abbe Gluck, Columbia Law School;
*Craig Green, Temple University Law School;
*Michael Steven Green, William & Mary Law School;
*Emily Kadens, University of Texas Law School;
*Caleb Nelson, University of Virginia Law School;
*Kermit Roosevelt, University of Pennsylvania Law School;
*Steven D. Walt, University of Virginia Law School;
*Louise Weinberg, University of Texas Law School;
*Ernest A. Young, Duke Law School.

Contact

Melody Nichols [[IBRL]]