PRESENTED PAPERS, PANELS, ETC:
Chair, “Panel on Power and Rights in the U.S. and around the Globe,” Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, April 22, 2021
Paper, “Does Social & Cultural Change Independently Impact and Alter Constitutional Doctrine?” at Meeting of National Social Science Association, New Orleans, LA, Oct. 2015
Paper, “The International Influence of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. on Speech Doctrine” at the 15th International Roundtable on Semiotics and Law, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, June, 2014.
Paper, “The Future that Never Came: Globalization & the Assumptions of Mid-20th Century America,” 2013 Conference of Global Studies Association of North America, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. June 2013.
Chair, Panel, “Contemporary Questions of Judicial Review,” Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association, Portland, Maine. May, 2013.
Revision of Paper, “Civil Rights, Free Speech and the Sixties,” Meeting of National Social Science Association, Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 2012
Chair, Panel, “Politics, Constitutional Law and Supreme Court Decision-Making,” Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association, Portsmouth, N.H. April, 2012.
Paper, “Globalization and the Crisis in National Cultural Identity and Constitutional Narrative in the U.S.A.,” The Santa Barbara Global Studies Conference, University of California Santa Barbara, February 2012.
Chair, Panel, “The Intersection of Law and Political Science,” Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association, Hartford, CT, April 2011.
Paper, “Thoughts on Common Law Constitutionalism and the Foundations of Judicial Review,” Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association, Portland, ME, May 2009.
Participant, Short Course on “Democracy and Its Critics,” National Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA., August 2008.
Paper, “Civil Rights, Free Speech and the Sixties,” Meeting of Le Table Ronde Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique, Université du Littoral, Côte D’Opale, France, July 2008.
Chair, Panel on The Promise of Human Rights and on War as an Institutional Fact, Meeting of Le Table Ronde Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique, Université du Littoral, Côte D’Opale, France, July, 2008.
Chair, Panel, “Public Law: Constitutional Issues,” at Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association, Providence, R.I., April, 2008.
Invited Attendee, Special Luncheon for Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Program on Constitutional Government, Harvard University, April, 2008.
Chair, Organizer, Participant, Roundtable on “Is the Constitution “Broken’?” at Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association, Newton, MA., April, 2007.
Organized all Public Law Section panels for 2007 Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association as Chair of its Public Law Section, 2006-2007.
Paper, “Tolerance, ‘Fighting Faiths’ and Pluralism,” Meeting of the International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France, May, 2006.
Chair, Panel, “Criminalizing Intolerance,” Meeting of the International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France, May, 2006.
Chair, Organizer, Participant, Roundtable on “The Supreme Court in Transition: Personnel Changes and the Future of Contested Constitutional Doctrine,” Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association in Portsmouth, N.H., May, 2006
Chair, Panel, “Defining Civil Liberties in the Courts,” Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association in Portsmouth, N.H., May, 2006
Chair, panel, “Liberty and Constitutional Democracy,” Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association in Portland, Maine, May, 2005
Invited attendee, Conference on “The Transformation of the American Polity,” Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University, December, 2004.
Discussant, panel, “Contemporary Issues in American Law and Judging,” Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association in Portsmouth, N.H., May, 2004
Invited attendee. “Fifty Years After Brown: What has been Accomplished and What Remains to be Done?” at JFK School of Government, Harvard University, April, 2004.
Paper, “Constitutional Doctrine and Social Change,” Meeting of National Social Science Association, San Francisco, CA, October, 2003
Discussant, Panel: “Litigation, Mobilization and Social Change” at Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association, Providence, RI, April, 2003.
Paper, “Free Speech Puzzles” at the Roundtable on Law and Semiotics, Amherst, MA., April, 2003.
Participant, Short Course on Comparative Constitutional Development, National Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA., August, 2002.
Paper, “The Quest for Certainty in Recent U.S. Constitutional Scholarship,” Contemporary Issues in the Semiotics of Law, Meeting of International Society for Law and Semiotics, at Instituto Inernacional de Sociologia Juridica, Oñati, Spain. May, 2002
Chair, Panel, “The Continuing Impact of September 11th on the Law and the Academy,” Annual Meeting, New England Political Science Association, Portland, Maine, May 4,2002,
Paper, “The Marketplace of Ideas in the 21st Century,” Meeting of National Social Science Association, Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 2001
Chair, Panel on “Law and Public Policy”; Annual Meeting, New England Political Science Association, Portsmouth, N.H., May 4,2001,
Discussant, Panel on “Perspectives on Race and Law ”Annual Meeting, New England Political Science Association, Portsmouth, N.H.,May 5,2001.
Paper Presented, “Framing the Constitution” at the Roundtable on Law and Semiotics in Amherst, Massachusetts, April 2001.
Chair, Roundtable, “Our Real 2K Problem: Can an Eighteenth Century Constitution Serve the Needs of a Twenty-First Century Polity?” Annual Meeting, New England Political Science Association, May 2000.
Organized all Public Law Section panels for 2000 Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association as Chair of its Public Law Section, 1999-2000.
Paper Presented “Constitutional Narrative, Civil Rights and Social Change” at the Roundtable on Law and Semiotics in Amherst, Massachusetts, April, 2000.
Discussant, Panel, “Interest Groups and the Courts,” Annual Meeting of Western Political Science Association. San Jose, California. March, 2000.
Paper Presented, “The Commodification of Democracy,” Law and Semiotics Roundtable, Amherst, MA., April, 1999.
Invited Attendee, Erasmus Institute Conference on “the Nature of Moral Inquiry in the Social Sciences,” Boston College, Spring 1999
Paper Presented, “Protection of Employee Interests in the Workplace: The Decline of Unions and Possible Future Scenarios”; CITA Sustainable Development Conference, UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA. Oct. 23, 1998.
Participant, Short Course on the “New Historical Institutionalism,” National Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA., Sept. 2, 1998.
Discussant, Panel on “Problems in Constitutional Theory” at 1998 Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association, Worcester, MA. May 1, 1998.
Chair, Panel on “Gender Equity: Legal Doctrines and Political Dialogs” at 1997 Annual Meeting, New England Political Science Association, Portland, Maine. May, 1997.
Paper presented, “The Tradition of Creative Constitutional Development,” National Meeting, National Social Science Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 14,1996.
Invited Speaker, “The Persistence of the Legacy of the Warren Court,” Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. November 14, 1996.
Chair, Panel, “The Supreme Court and Institutional Relationships.” Annual Meeting, New England Political Science Association, Springfield, MA. May 3, 1996.
Paper Presented, “The New Libertarianism and Obscenity Doctrine,” Law and Semiotics Roundtable, April, 1996.
Discussant, Panel on “Lawyers Changing the Law” at Annual Meeting, New England Political Science Association, Portland, Maine, May 6, 1995.
Paper, “The New Libertarianism,” Presented at the Politics and Speech Panel, Hate Speech, Freedom of Expression and the Ethics of Communication Conference, University of Massachusetts Boston, October 15, 1994.
Chair, Discussant, Panel on “The Constitution, Constitutional Law and Political Theory” at Annual Meeting, New England Political Science Association, Salem MA., April ,22 1994.
Invitee, National Conference on Improving the Electoral Process, funded by the Carnegie Corporation and the Twentieth Century Fund, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. December 10, 1993.
Chair, Discussant, Panel on “The Supreme Court and the Jurisprudence of States and Cities”, Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Northampton, Mass. April 2, 1993.
Panelist, “Political Correctness on Campus”, Annual Meeting, New England Political Science Association, Providence RI. April 3, 1992
Presented: “Public Law Perspectives” at “Separation of Powers Panel, “Annual Meeting, New England Political Science Association, Providence, RI April 4. 1992,
Chair, Panel, “The Politics of Abortion in the 1990’s,”Annual Meeting New England Political Science Assn, Worcester, MA., April 12, 1991.
Discussant, “The Supreme Court & Civil Rights” Panel at Annual Meeting, Northeast Political Science Assn, Providence, RI, November 15, 1990
Paper,” The Relationship Between Supreme Court Activism and Changing Patterns of American Pluralism” presented at the New Judicial Eras panel at the Annual National Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, August, 1990.
Chair, Organizer, Constitutional Issues Roundtable on “The New Separation Doctrine” at Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association, Portland, Maine, April 21, 1990.
Chair, Organizer, Constitutional Issues Roundtable on Chada case, Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Assn, Cambridge,MA., April 4, 1989.
Chair, Italian Politics Panel, Italian Studies Conference, University of Lowell, Lowell, Mass., April 12, 1989
Chair, Organizer, Constitutional Issues Roundtable on Constitutional Ideology at Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association, Cambridge, Mass., April 3,4, 1988.
Chair, Organizer, Constitutional Issues Roundtable on “The Supreme Court & the Decline of Constitutional Aspiration” at Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Assn, Cambridge, Mass., April 4, 1987.
Participant, Roundtable on “The Legacy of Judicial Review: The U.S. Constitution 200 Years Later,” Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Assn, Trinity College, Hartford, CT., April 5, 1986.
Discussant, “Is an Activist Judiciary Unconstitutional– Or As American As Apple Pie?” Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Assn, Trinity College, Hartford, CT., April 5, 1986.
Paper, “Is the Rights Expansion Really Disabling America?” presented as Member, Organizer and Chair of “Reflections on the Rights Expansion” Panel at Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Assn, New England Conference Center, Durham, NH, April 20, 1985.
Organizer, Greater Boston Constitutional Issues Forum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, February 7, 1985.
Invited Participant-Guest, NIH funded Conference on the Constitution, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass, April 26-28, 1984.
Paper, “Social and Technological Change & the Potential Irrelevance of Some Traditional Civil Liberties Concerns” presented as Member, Organizer and Chair of “Will the Warren Court Revolution Survive the 1980’s?” Panel at Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Assn, Naval War College, Newport, RI, April 13, 1984.
Hosted Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association at the University of Lowell, Lowell, Mass., April 1,2, 1983 as First Chair of what was then New England’s newest Political Science Department.
Discussant, Constitutional Law Panel at Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association, University of Lowell, Lowell, MA. April 2, 1983.
Panel Member, “Judicial Activism,” Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Assn, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, April, 1982.
Panel Member, “Ethnic Politics in New England,” Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, April, 1982.
Paper, “Dissatisfaction with Judicial Activism on Behalf of Civil Liberties,” Annual Meeting of New England Political Science Association. Durham, NH, April, 1981.
Paper, “Constitutionalism vs. Majoritarianism: A Simplistic Dichotomy,” Annual Conference of New England Political Science Association, Durham, NH., April, 1981.
Participant, course, Psychoanalysis and Social Science, Boston Institute for Psychoanalysis, Boston, MA, 1981-82
Commentator, Faculty Symposium on “The Zero Sum Society” with Dr. Lester Thurow of M.I.T. at the University of Lowell, November 19, 1980.
Discussant, Reforming State Government Panel, Annual Conference of the New England Political Science Assn., Durham, NH, April, 1979.
Paper, “Judicial Enforcement and Bureaucratic Resistance in the Boston School Desegregation Case” presented at Annual Conference of the Politics of Education Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 29, 1978.
Paper, “The Introductory Course in Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties” presented at the Teaching Panel at the Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Boston, Mass., April 7, 1978.
Paper, “The Substance in Procedural Due Process Expansion,” presented at the National Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Atlanta, GA, April 2, 1977.
Paper, “Why the Massachusetts Department of Education Enforced the Racial Imbalance Act,” presented at Annual Meeting of the Politics of Education Association, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., April 4, 1977.
Moderator of Panel at Career Building Conference, Mass. Chapter of American Society for Public Administration, Boston, Ma, March 12, 1976.
Moderator, Urban Park Panel, History Conference, University of Lowell, October 16,1976
Panelist, Summary Panel, Northeastern Conference, American Society for Public Administration, Boston, Mass., October 15, 1976.
Discussant, “Public Law and Accountability” Panel, Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, New England Convention Center, Durham, NH, April 9, 1976.
Commentator, Symposium on American Constitutional History, Salem State College, Salem, MA, April 4, 1974.