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]. In the 2015 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture, Geoffrey R. Stone, the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, explores historical attitudes to homosexuality, how laws discriminating against homosexuals first came to be seen as raising possible constitutional questions, and how the...

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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 Western democratic practice to single out religious liberty for special treatment under the law is not in sync with the world we live in today, argues University of Chicago Law School professor Brian Leiter in his new book, Why Tolerate Religion? All people, both religious and non-religious, have certain kinds of beliefs...

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 Western democratic practice to single out religious liberty for special treatment under the law is not in sync with the world we live in today, argues University of Chicago Law School professor Brian Leiter in his new book, Why Tolerate Religion? All people, both religious and non-religious, have certain kinds of beliefs...

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 Western democratic practice to single out religious liberty for special treatment under the law is not in sync with the world we live in today, argues University of Chicago Law School professor Brian Leiter in his new book, Why Tolerate Religion? All people, both religious and non-religious, have certain kinds of beliefs...

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]. Todd Itami, rising third-year student in the University of Chicago Law School, moderates a debate on the constitutionality of President Obama’s healthcare program at an event on Monday, May 14, 2012 at the University of Chicago Law School. Over the course of an hour, Richard Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service...

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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 October 27, 2011, the University of Chicago Law School students and the public were invited to a celebration of the inaugural Sidley Austin Professorship, to which Deputy Dean Lior Strahilevitz was recently appointed. Strahilevitz joined the Law School faculty in 2002 after practicing law in Seattle and clerking for Judge...

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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 is proud to welcome Professor Sarah Barringer Gordon of Penn Law School for the 2010 Fulton Lecture in Legal History.Professor Gordon's lecture, entitled "The Spirit of the Law: Separation of Church and State from 1945-1990," will touch on the same themes explored in her book The Spirit of the...

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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 2010 Coase Lecture in Law and Economics will be presented by Assistant Professor of Law Jacob Gersen. Entitled "Political Economy of Public Law," the lecture will focus on economic analysis of political institutions, mainly separation of powers problems and different strategies for allocating government power in...