Youth/Police Conference: They Have All The Power
Why does police accountability matter in this context? How does the knowledge that severe abuses—brutality, sexual assault, false arrest, even death—have gone unpunished inform and shape encounters...
View ArticleRising Storm: Ways of Addressing Climate Change's Impacts on Infrastructure...
A Kreisman Housing Breakfast Series event co-sponsored by the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago and the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics Led by University of Chicago environmental lawyer...
View ArticleAlison Siegler, “The Courts of Appeals’ Latest Sentencing Rebellion”
For over twenty-five years, federal courts of appeals have rebelled against every Supreme Court mandate that weakens the federal sentencing Guidelines. That rebellion has intensified since the Court...
View ArticleRichard A. Epstein, “Reasonable and Unreasonable Expectations in Property Law...
The notion of reasonable expectations filters in and out of many given areas of law. It is often derided as circular claim in which reasonable expectations are shaped by the law that they are supposed...
View ArticleAziz Huq, “Hobby Lobby and the Psychology of Corporate Rights”
After the Hobby Lobby and Citizens United decisions, a robust public debate has emerged over corporate constitutional rights. Prof. Huq discusses ongoing empirical research about how the Hobby Lobby...
View ArticleWilliam H. J. Hubbard, “Newtonian Law and Economics, Quantum Law and...
“Newtonian Law and Economics, Quantum Law and Economics, and the Search for a Theory of Relativity” At this law school, “law and economics” is a mantra. But what is the “economics” in “law and...
View ArticleAxel Honneth, “Three, Not Two, Concepts of Liberty”
Even for those among us who are not altogether convinced by Isaiah Berlin's famous essay "Two Concepts of Liberty," it has by now become commonplace to adopt a distinction between "negative" and...
View ArticleLaura Weinrib, “Labor, Lochner, and the First Amendment”
Laura Weinrib, Assistant Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar, is a 2003 graduate of Harvard Law School. She completed her PhD in history at Princeton University...
View ArticleJames B. Comey, '85: "Law Enforcement and the Communities We Serve"
James B. Comey, class of 1985, is the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Recorded on October 23, 2015, at the University of Chicago Law School.
View ArticleSaul Levmore, "What Do Lawmakers Do?"
Lawmakers respond to constituents, seek higher office, have lofty goals, and even learn from their mistakes. But do they actually make the world a better place? In this lecture, the first of this...
View ArticlePanel: Theory Meets Practice: Dynamic Changes in the Election Law Landscape
Panelists: - Don Harmon, JD’95, Illinois State Senator - Dan Johnson, JD’00, Progressive Public Affairs - Blake Sercye, JD'11, Associate, Jenner & Block - Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Assistant...
View ArticleMary Anne Case, “Fifty Years of Griswold v. Connecticut"
It's birth control's fiftieth birthday! Professor Case will be discussing what Griswold—the landmark case that began the process of invalidating legal prohibitions on the use of birth control—looks...
View ArticleMoshe Halbertal, "Three Concepts of Human Dignity"
Human Dignity has become a central value in political and constitutional thought. Yet its meaning and scope, and its relation to other moral and political values such as autonomy and rights have been...
View ArticleDouglas Hallward-Driemeier & Daniel Hemel, "Insights from the Obergefell...
"Standing Up for Marriage Equality: Insights from the Obergefell Supreme Court Arguments" Doug Hallward-Driemeier leads Ropes & Gray’s Appellate and Supreme Court practice. He has presented more...
View ArticleTracey L. Meares, "Police Reform and Public Security"
Keynote address for the University of Chicago Law School Legal Forum Symposium 2015: Policing the Police First published in 1985, the University of Chicago Legal Forum is the Law School’s second-oldest...
View ArticleJonathan Masur, "Deference Mistakes"
Suppose a court holds in the context of a habeas petition that a constitutional right is not yet “clearly established.” Can we conclude from this that the right does not exist? The answer, of course,...
View ArticleChief Judge Diane Wood, "Making Your Voice Heard"
Chief Judge Diane Wood presents "Making Your Voice Heard" and speaks on issues related to women's professional development and the difficulties they face. Judge Diane Wood is the Chief Judge of the...
View ArticleDhammika Dharmapala, "The 'Credibility Revolution' in Empirical Law and...
Dhammika Dharmapala is the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. The 2016 Coase Lecture was presented on February 16, 2016.
View ArticleLaura Weinrib, “Freedom of Conscience and the Civil Liberties Path Not Taken”
Recent efforts by opponents of same-sex marriage and reproductive rights to reorient their agenda around religious freedom have sparked an explosion of scholarship on religious claims for exemption...
View ArticleJustin Driver, "The Southern Manifesto in Myth and Memory"
Justin Driver is Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Research Scholar. His principal research interests include constitutional law, constitutional theory, and the...
View ArticleMichael Kirby, "North Korea and our Dilemma"
Michael Kirby, "North Korea and our Dilemma: How to Secure Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity by a Recalcitrant Nuclear State?" Michael Kirby was a Justice of the High Court of Australia...
View ArticleMartha Nussbaum, "Long Long Lives: Should We Want Them?"
Today, as our capacity to prolong life increases, people dispute whether indefinite prolongation could possibly be good. A leading bioethicist, Ezekiel Emanuel (brother of Rahm) has written that we...
View ArticleJohn Tasioulas, "Minimum Core Obligations: Human Rights in the Here and Now"
Professor Tasioulas discusses the notion of the ‘minimum core obligations’ associated with economic, social and cultural human rights, such as the rights to education and health. The idea of minimum...
View ArticleOctober Term 2016: Highlights & Perspectives
In this First Monday event, Law School faculty discuss their insight and opinions on upcoming United States Supreme Court cases and the issues currently facing the Court. Featuring: Anthony J. Casey,...
View ArticleMichael McConnell, "Religion and Law: Is There a Connection?"
With commentary by Professor William Hubbard. Michael W. McConnell is the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, as well as Senior...
View ArticleJim Zirin & William Baude, "The Post-Election Future of the Supreme Court...
Jim Zirin graduated from Princeton University with honors and received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School where he was an editor of the Michigan Law Review and a member of the...
View ArticleSaul Levmore, "Carrots and Sticks in Law (and Life)"
One of the great Chicago Ideas is the equivalence of positive and negative incentives. The government can motivate you by rewarding some behavior or by penalizing your failure to behave in the...
View ArticleWilliam H. J. Hubbard, "Empirical Study of the Supreme Court of India"
"A Different Kind of Supreme Court? Empirical Study of the Supreme Court of India" Part of Chicago's intellectual tradition is a willingness to take nothing for granted. Comparative study of legal...
View ArticleKurt Lash & Alan Gura, "Does the Fourteenth Amendment Protect Unenumerated...
Professor Lash graduated from Yale Law School and served as law clerk to the Honorable Robert R. Beezer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Afterward, he joined the University...
View ArticleAnthony J. Casey, "The Short Happy Life of Rules and Standards"
The choice between rules and standards in lawmaking is a central question. But the line between the two forms is not as clear as most scholars presume. This talk argues that the lack of a coherent...
View ArticleGillian Thomas, "Title VII and Women in the Workplace"
Gillian Thomas, staff attorney at the ACLU Women's Rights Project, will discuss issues in her recently-published book, Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years about Title VII and its...
View ArticleTo POE or Not to POE: The Proper Evidentiary Standard for Campus Sexual...
Featuring Professors Nancy Chi Cantalupo, Katharine Baker, Daniel Hemel, and Richard Epstein. Moderated by Professor Emily Buss. Presented by the Domestic and Sexual Violence Project, Defenders, Law...
View ArticleAaron Nielson, "The Past and Future of Deference: From Justice Scalia to...
With commentary by Professor Daniel Hemel Professor Nielson is a law professor at Brigham Young University and teaches/writes in the areas of administrative law, civil procedure, federal courts, and...
View ArticleSupreme Court Preview 2017: Highlights and Perspectives
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. Professors Adam Chilton, Aziz Huq, and Daniel Hemel offer insight into some of the issues the Court will hear in the upcoming year....
View ArticleHenry Shue, "Gambling with Their Climate: Future Generations, Negative...
This lecture defends three main theses: (I) that all decisions about the degree of ambition for emissions mitigation are unavoidably also decisions about how to distribute risk across generations and,...
View ArticleLior Jacob Strahilevitz, “Interpreting Contracts via Surveys and Experiments”
Interpreting the language of contracts is the most common and least satisfactory task courts perform in contract disputes. In this Chicago’s Best Ideas lecture Professor Strahilevitz proposes to take...
View ArticleJonathan S. Masur, "The Behavioral Law & Economics of Happiness"
A central question in law and economics is how people will behave in the presence of legal rules. An essential part of that inquiry is what makes people happy or unhappy – what increases or decreases...
View ArticleMary Anne Case, "Cultivating an Incest Taboo in the Workplace"
The idea that workplaces could benefit from an incest taboo is not one of Chicago’s best, but one of Margaret Mead’s. Professor Mary Anne Case has been promoting it and explaining its relevance to...
View ArticleJohn G. Malcolm, "Current Topics in Criminal Justice Reform"
With commentary by Professor Jonathan Masur John G. Malcolm oversees The Heritage Foundation’s work to increase understanding of the Constitution and the rule of law as director of the think tank’s...
View ArticleDavid Bowman, "Alternative Reference Rates: SOFR, LIBOR, and Issues for...
The choice of new benchmark interest rate should be of special importance to practitioners as well as academics that study law and economics. As new alternative rates are being considered in the United...
View ArticleM. Todd Henderson, "Lawyer CEOs"
Does legal education matter? In this lecture, Professor Todd Henderson presents some data on this question, using the behavior of corporate executives as an instrument. Looking at the 10% of large,...
View ArticleJustin Driver, "The Future of the Supreme Court: The Constitution of Public...
Supreme Court decisions affecting the constitutional rights of students in the nation's public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy. From racial segregation to unauthorized...
View ArticleSaul Levmore, "If the Common Law was Efficient, Why Did It Decline?"
One of the University of Chicago Law School’s best known ideas or outputs over the last fifty years is that the common law (made by judges and often passed down and adapted over many years) is...
View ArticleLaw in the Era of #MeToo: A Conversation with Valerie Jarrett
This keynote for the 2018 Legal Forum Symposium was recorded on November 2, 2018. Valerie B. Jarrett is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Law School and former senior advisor to President Barack...
View ArticleWilliam Baude and Anthony J. Casey, "Supreme Court Preview 2019: Highlights...
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. Each fall, the University of Chicago Law School invites faculty members to offer insight into some of the issues the Court will hear in...
View ArticleSaul Levmore, "Addictive Law"
One of Chicago’s Best Ideas was the Coase Theorem, which reminds us daily that people can bargain around law or even before legal intervention is sought. But do we have too much law and too little...
View ArticleJoan Biskupic, "Chief Justice John Roberts: Defining the Supreme Court..."
"Chief Justice John Roberts: Defining the Supreme Court as its Leader and at the Center" Joan Biskupic is a full-time CNN legal analyst and author of a 2019 biography of Chief Justice John Roberts....
View ArticleSeyla Benhabib, "The End of the 1951 Refugee Convention?"
The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are among the most important human rights documents of the post-WW II period. Yet the universalization of the refugee status after the 1967 Protocol...
View ArticleM. Todd Henderson, "The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will...
"The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize Business & Government" In this CBI, Professor Henderson will examine how Internet platforms--eBay, Uber, AirBnB--relate to...
View ArticleSupreme Court Preview 2020: Highlights and Perspectives
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. Each fall, the University of Chicago Law School invites faculty members to offer insight into some of the issues the Court will hear in...
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