Iqbal Abstracts

IQBAL PORTAL | CALL FOR PAPERS | ABSTRACTS | AGENDA

On March 26, 2010, Penn State Law Review will welcome the following presenters to the Iqbal Symposium:   Hon. Anthony Scirica (Chief Judge, Third Circuit), Hon. D. Brooks Smith (Third Circuit), Hon. Lee H. Rosenthal (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and Chair, Judicial Conference Committee on the Rules of Practice and Procedure ), Mark Brown (Capital), Ray Campbell (Penn State), Gary Gildin (Penn State), Darren Hutchinson (American), Ramzi Kassem (CUNY), Kit Kinports (Penn State), James Maxeiner (Baltimore), Jim Pfander (Northwestern), Jeff Rachlinski (Cornell), Victor Romero (Penn State), Shoba Wadhia (Penn State), and Nancy Welsh (Penn State).

Following the Symposium, Penn State Law Review will publish a Symposium Issue that will include articles written by the presenters. At this time, Penn Statim is pleased to unveil the abstracts of the following presenters:

Mark Brown — Qualified Immunity and Interlocutory Fact-Finding in the Courts of Appeals

Ray Campbell — Getting a Clue: Two Stage Pleading as a Solution to the Iqbal/Conley Dilemma

Gary Gildin — Iqbal and the Supreme Court’s Legislative Agenda

Ramzi Kassem — Implausible Realities

Kit Kinports — Supervisory Immunity

James Maxeiner — Fixing a Broken Civil Justice System: Ideas from Abroad

Jim Pfander — Iqbal, Qualified Immunity, and Interlocutory Appellate Review

Jeffrey Rachlinski — Why Heightened Pleading — Why Now?

Victor Romero — Interrogating Iqbal: Intent, Inertia, and (a lack of) Imagination

Shoba Wadhia — Business As Usual

Nancy Welsh — I Could Have Been A Contender: Iqbal As Deterrent to Negotiation, Mediation and Other Forms of Early, Autonomous Dispute Resolution

*The Iqbal Symposium presenters and Penn State Law Review invite submissions in response to these abstracts or in connection with other relevant issues raised by Ashcroft v. Iqbal.  Please review this Call for Papers for additional information.  Iqbal Portal is here.  Tentative Agenda is here.