George Mason School of Law

Michael I. Krauss
George Mason Law School
3301 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201

work: 703.993.8024
fax: 703.993.8124
mkrauss@gmu.edu

Professor Michael I. Krauss: Recent Conferences

May 2008, Moderator, American Enterprise Institute Conference on Off-Label Prescription liability, Washington, DC

March 2008:  Webcast Presenter, Washington Legal Foundation Web Seminar Series: "Uncivil Litigation: Trends in Lawyer Misconduct and How Courts are Responding". 

March 2008: Law School Guest Speaker, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka KS, ""Israel, International Law, and Borders"

March 2008: Law School Guest Speaker, Boston College Law School, ""Israel, International Law, and Borders"

January 2008: Law School Guest Speaker, Case Western Law School, Cleveland OH, "Israel, International Law, and Borders"

October 2007: Panelist, Canadian Constitution Society Founding Conference, Toronto CANADA, "Individual Rights and The War Against Islamist Terror"

September 2007: Law School Guest Speaker, Northern Kentucky Chase College of Law and University of Cincinnati College of Law, Highland Heights KY and Cincinnati OH, "Israel, International Law, and Borders"

March 2007: Featured Debater, Marquette Law School, Milwaukee WI. Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education.

March 2007, Law School Guest Speaker, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland OR, "Israel and International Law."

February 2007: Law School Guest Speaker, University of Cincinnati College of Law, "Federalism and Tort Reform."

October 2006: Discussion Leader, Liberty Fund Colloquium on the Rule of Law and Liberty, Tucson AZ

October 2006: University Lecturer, High Point University, High Point NC: "On the Right of Israel to Set Its Borders."

September 2006: Panelist, "Promise and Reality at the UN: Terrorism, Peacekeeping and Human Rights", Hudson Institute Conference on "The UN and Beyond", Union League Club, New York NY.

May 2006: Conference Director, "Automobility, Place and Liberty", Liberty Fund Colloquium on the legal and cultural impact of automobiles, Grove Park Inn, Asheville NC

February 2006: Keynote Speaker, "Trial Lawyers, Inc." and Medical Malpractice", Manhattan Institute, Harvard Club, New York, NY.

October 2005: Keynote Speaker, Federalism and Tort Reform, University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville TN

May 2005: Visiting Academic Fellow, Intensive Site Visit, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies' Mission on Anti- Terrorism and Democracies, University of Tel Aviv, Israel

April 2005: Conference Director, “The Automobile, The City and Liberty”, Liberty Fund Colloquium on the legal and cultural impact of automobiles, Grove Park Inn, Asheville NC

December 2004: Keynote Speaker: "Medical Malpractice and Public Choice", Maryland Public Policy Institute, Annapolis MD.

November 2004: Keynote Speaker, "Medical Malpractice Reform and the Nature of Tort Law", Raleigh and Charlotte NC, Federalist Society feature event.

October 2004: Debater, "Medical Malpractice in North Carolina", Chartlotte attorney's Federalist Society Chapter, Charlotte NC [opponent:  Executive Director, N.C. Trial Lawyers' Association]

October 2004:  Keynote Speaker, "Do We Need Medical Malpractice Reform?", Raleigh attorneys'  Federalist Society Chapter, Raleigh NC

October 2003, February 2004: Keynote Speaker, "The Underside of Grutter", Northwestern Law School, Chicago IL; talk also given to the New York Association of Scholars, New York NY

September 2003: Participant, "Toxic Torts", Joint Federal Judge / Law Professor Colloquium, Foundation for Research on the Economics of the Environment, Big Sky MT

May 2003:
Keynote Speaker, "The (Tort) Law and Economics of Vice", Mercatus Center Congress Series, U.S. House of Representatives, The Capitol, Washington DC

April 2003:
Panelist, "Recent Developments in Punitive Damages Jurisprudence", Free Congress Foundation Annual Meeting, U.S. Senate, The Capitol, Washington DC

September 2002:
Discussion Leader, Liberty Fund Colloquium on Urban Development and Freedom, Victoria CANADA

July 2002:
Participant, Liberty Fund Colloquium on the 2nd Amendment, Key West FL

July 2002:
Participant, Liberty Fund Colloquium on Comparative Canadian and American Constitutional Theory, Ottawa CANADA

June 2002:
Participant, Liberty Fund Colloquium on the Philadelphia Constitutional Debates, Laguna Beach, CA

April 2002:
Discussion Leader and Conference Director, Liberty Fund Seminar on Richard Posner's The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory, Indianapolis IN

March 2002:
Keynote speaker, "The Ford-Firestone Fiasco: Who, if Anyone, is to Blame", Clemson University Tire Symposium, HIlton Head Island SC

November 2001:
Panelist, "Regulation Masquerading as Tort: Chaos Masquerading as Law", Symposium: Litigation in Mississippi Today, U. of Mississippi School of Law, Oxford MS

October 2001:
Debater, "On the Need for Tort Reform", U. of Richmond School of Law, Richmond VA

September 2001:
Paper Presenter, Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Toronto ON. "A Federalism-respecting solution to the Products Liability Mess"

July 2001:
Keynote speaker, Federalist Society, Lawyers' Division, Metropolitan Club, Cleveland OH. "The Folly of Regulation by Tort Law",


April 2001:
Guest lecturer, Federalist Society, Cornell University School of Law, Ithaca NY. "Reflections on Guns",

March 2001:
Keynote speaker, American Enterprise Institute Federalism Project's Conference on Products Liability Reform, Washington DC.

February 2001:
Panelist, University of Chicago Law School Roundtable Symposium on the History of Legal Ethics. Topic: "The History of the Hired Gun"

October 2000:
Panelist, Federalist Society Criminal Law division briefing, U.S. Senate, Washington DC. Topic: "The Firestone-Ford Fiasco: Why Products Liability Must Not Be Criminalized or Federalized"

October 2000:
Panelist, Federalist Society Briefing on the Firestone-Ford tire problem, Russell U.S. Senate Bldg., Washington DC.

October 2000:
Workshop Presenter, Case Western Reserve School of Law, Cleveland OH, "The Loewen Case: A NAFTA Solution to our Torts ÔPrisonersÕ Dilemma".

Paper Presenter, Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Toronto ON. "The Loewen Case"

May, 2000:
Speaker, Atlas Foundation Conference on Globalization and the Rule of Law, Lima Peru. Subject: International Litigation and Justice: From Tobacco to Pinochet.

February, 2000:
Participant, Liberty Fund Colloquium on Morality and Free Markets, San Diego, CA

February 2000:
Distinguished Visiting Lecturer;, Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala City;
Subject: "The Guatemalan Tobacco Lawsuit and the Rule of Law"

November, 1999:
Participant, Liberty Fund Seminar on R. Barnett's The Structure of Liberty, Indianapolis, IN

November 1999:
Keynote "Government and Political Education" Lecturer, Center for Economic and Policy Education, St. Vincent College, PA.
Subject: "Government Products Liability Suits: Economic Illiteracy and the Collapse of the Rule of Law"

October 1999:
Speaker, American Legislative Exchange Council Conference, Disorder in the Court, Arlington VA.
Subject:  "New Causes of Action: How Government Kills Tort Law"

August 1999:
Distinguished Guest Lecturer, St. Peter's College, Oxford University, Oxford UK.
Subject:  "NAFTA meets Tort Reform: The Loewen Case"

June 1999:
Speaker, Americans for Tax Reform Conference, Washington DC.
Subject:  "Litigation as Taxation",

April 1999:
Keynote Speaker, National Association of Scholars Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Subject:  "The Culture Wars in Legal Education"

November 1998:
Panelist, American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) Athena Roundtable on Higer Education Accountability, Washington, DC.

November 1998:
Director and Moderator, Liberty Fund Conference on Judicial Interpretation, Ponte Verda Beach, FL

August 1998:
Participant, Liberty Fund Conference on Winston Churchill's The River War, Santa Fe, NM

March 1998:
Speaker, Liberty Fund Conference on Liberty and Efficiency, La Antigua, Guatemala

January 1998:
Participant, Liberty Fund Conference on Federalism and Freedom, Captiva Island, FL

November 1997:
Participant, Liberty Fund Conference on John Stuart Mill, Santa Monica, CA

September 1997:
Speaker, Donner Foundation Conference on Freedom of Contract in Tort Law, Alexandria, VA

June 1997:
Participant, Liberty Fund Conference on the History of Real Property, Williamsburg, VA

May 1997:
Director and Moderator, Liberty Fund Conference on Self-Defense, Liberty and Responsibility, Easton, MD

February 1997:
Speaker, Symposium on the State of the Rule of Law in America, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA

April 1996:
Keynote Speaker, Annual Meeting, Philidelphia Society, Chicago, IL
Subject:  "Is There Still Moral Responsibility in Tort Law?"


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