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 Gary Haugen '91 for the 2010 Ulysses and Marguerite Schwarz Memorial Lecture. The Schwartz Lectureship is held by a distinguished lawyer or teacher whose experience is in the academic field or practice of public service. Haugen is President and CEO of International Justice...

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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]. Organized by Martha Nussbaum, Alison LaCroix, and Jane Dailey, this conference is the second in a series of law and literature conferences, the first of which was the successful Shakespeare conference held in the spring of 2009.This conference focuses on the interplay between law and gender in English literature in the eighteenth...

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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]. 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...

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]. Please join us for a lecture by Nobel Laureate in Economics Professor Roger Myerson. Professor Myerson's talk will analyze the vital relationships between local democracy and national politics and will consider how alternative systems of local elections could strengthen the national democratic system. The talk will focus on 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]. On January 16, Robert E. Goodin, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and of Social & Political Theory in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University, presented the 2007-2008 John Dewey Lecture on Jurisprudence. Entitled "An Epistemic Case for Legal Moralism," the talk was introduced by Cass...

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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]. In April 2008, the Law School's Law and Economics Program hosted a conferenceentitled "Contested Commodities: Reframing the Debate on Financial Incentives in the Supply of Genetic Materials." The conference, which was organized by Visiting Professor of Law Michele Goodwin, looked at the law, economics, and ethics of the...