Category Archives: Local Government Law

Indiana University

Federal, State, and Local Budgets in Jeopardy—Bloomington, IN

Indiana University‘s School of Public & Environmental Affairs presents Federal, State, and Local Budgets in Jeopardy: A Conference on America’s Fiscal Future May 1-2, 2015. Proposals are due by Dec….

Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society

Writing Competition: Municipal Securities Regulation

The Securities and Exchange Historical Society (a virtual museum) invites submissions on any aspect of municipal securities regulation for its 2015 writing award, which carries a $5,000 prize. The submission…

Campbell Law Review

One City at a Time: Municipal Bankruptcies—Raleigh, NC

Campbell Law Review‘s annual symposium, One City at a Time: The Role and Increasing Presence of Chapter 9 Municipal Bankruptcies, will be Oct. 17, 2014. The editors will accept final…

CFP: International Conferences on Sustainable Development 2014

The International Conferences on Sustainable Development 2014 will be held in Toronto Aug. 7-8, 2014, and in South Africa Dec. 2-3, 2014. The Canadian call for papers can be found here….

One City at a Time: The Role and Increasing Presence of Chapter 9 Municipal Bankruptcies

Campbell Law Review presents One City at a Time: The Role and Increasing Presence of Chapter 9 Municipal Bankruptcies on October 17, 2014. This Symposium will explore the conditions that…

Municipal Financial Distress – Harrisburg, PA

On April 14, 2014, the Widener Law Journal will be sponsoring a Symposium on Municipal Financial Distress at the Harrisburg, PA, campus. Municipal financial distress is a problem of enormous…

CFP: Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking – Amsterdam, Netherlands

The research project Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law, is organizing a workshop on October 24, 2014, and invites paper proposals from scholars and practitioners…

Urban Agriculture in Distressed Cities—Detroit, MI

The University of Detroit Mercy Law Review presented the 2014 symposium, Going to Seed: Urban Agriculture in Distressed Cities March 7, 2014. mw

Municipal Bankruptcies—Raleigh, NC

Campbell Law Review presents One City at a Time: The Role and Increasing Presence of Chapter 9 Municipal Bankruptcies Oct. 17, 2014. The Campbell Law Review invites abstract submissions of…

Smart Law for Smart Cities—New York, NY

Fordham Law’s Urban Law Center presents Smart Law for Smart Cities: Regulation, Technology, and the Future of Cities Feb. 27-28, 2014. mw