If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. A celebration of the work of Frank Easterbrook, '73, Senior Lecturer in Law and Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. There were three days of the event with three different foci - (1) 1/11: Easterbrook on Contracts and Copyright (2) 1/12: Easterbrook on the Constitution (3) 1/13: Easterbrook on...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The 2009 Cafferty Lecture will be presented by Professor Wayne A. Cornelius from the University of California, San Diego, on Thursday, October 1, beginning at 5:00 p.m. at the University of Chicago's downtown Gleacher Center. He will present "Toward a Smarter and More Just U.S. Immigration Policy: What Mexican Migrants Can Tell...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The University of Chicago Law School's "Shakespeare and the Law" conference brought together thinkers from law, literature, and philosophy to investigate the legal dimensions of Shakespeare's plays. Participants explored the ways in which the plays show awareness of law and legal regimes and comment on a variety of legal topics,...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On May 14, Martha Nussbaum presented the2008 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture. The Ryerson Lectures grew out of a 1972 bequest to the University by Nora and Edward L. Ryerson, a former Chairman of the Board. The University's faculty selects each Ryerson Lecturer based on a consensus that a particular scholar has made research...

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