Crime in Law and Literature Conference Plenary Talk and Panel, featuring...
Recorded on February 7, 2014, at the University of Chicago Law School, this session featured author Scott Turow as Plenary Speaker and Law School faculty Alison LaCroix, Judge Diane Wood, and Richard...
View ArticlePanel on "Reconstructing Contracts: The Contracts Scholarship of Douglas Baird"
A panel of leading scholars discuss Douglas Baird's pathbreaking work on Contract Law published in his new book Reconstructing Contracts. Avery Katz, Vice Dean and Milton Handler Professor of Law,...
View ArticleNicholas Stephanopoulos, "The South After Shelby County"
In Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court dismantled one of the two pillars of the Voting Rights Act: Section 5, which had barred southern jurisdictions from changing their election laws unless...
View ArticleBrian Leiter, "Why Tolerate Religion?"
Is there a principled reason why religious obligations that conflict with the law are accorded special toleration while other obligations of conscience are not? In Why Tolerate Religion? (Princeton,...
View ArticleMartha Nussbaum, "What Is Anger, and Why Should We Care?"
"Although everyone is familiar with the damage anger can do in both personal and public life, people tend to think that it is necessary for the pursuit of justice. People who don't get angry when they...
View ArticleGeoffrey Stone, "The President's Review Group on NSA Surveillance"
Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor Geoffrey Stone talks about his involvement in the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology. Organized by the Office of the...
View ArticleEmily Buss, "Court Reform in the Juvenile Justice System"
Over 100 years ago, Chicago led the way in establishing separate courts for young people who committed crimes. These Juvenile Courts, soon in operation in every state, had two interrelated aims: The...
View ArticleTom Ginsburg, Jonathan Masur, and Richard McAdams, "Temporary Law: The Case...
Libertarians often assert that regulation is unnecessary because the market will meet any existing consumer demand. The issue of smoking in bars is a paradigmatic context in which this argument arises....
View ArticleBarbara Herman, "The Moral Side of Non-Negligence"
Legal discussions of negligence focus on issues of harm, fault, and remedy in the context of failure to exercise reasonable care. The point of orientation is the negligent event. In this talk I want to...
View ArticleLior Strahilevitz, "Personalizing Default Rules and Disclosure with Big Data"
The laws of intestacy are the same for men and women even though preferences for how one's estate should be divided differ by gender. Peanut-allergic octogenarian men and gluten-allergic pregnant women...
View ArticleRichard McAdams, "The Expressive Powers of Law"
Economics explains legal compliance via sanctions, particularly by the ability of legal sanctions to change the cost of behavior and deter noncompliance. Yet rational choice tools predict other ways in...
View ArticleDavid Strauss, "Does the Constitution Always Mean What It Says?"
The U.S. Constitution is "the supreme Law of the Land." Of course some of its provisions are vague and must be interpreted. But when the Constitution says something clearly, we follow it. Don't we?...
View ArticleR.H. Helmholz, "Magna Carta: A European Perspective"
This talk was recorded on April 25, 2014, as the Law School's annual Loop Luncheon.
View ArticleLaws Prohibiting Sex-Selective Abortion in the United States
As part of the anti-abortion movement's legislative campaign, seven states have passed bans on sex-selective abortion and many more are pending, including in Congress. Advocates of the bans argue that...
View ArticleA Fireside Chat with David Sacks '98, Founder and CEO of Yammer
Professor Todd Henderson leads an engaging discussion with Yammer Founder and CEO, David Sacks. David has been involved in the Internet space more than 10 years as an entrepreneur, executive and...
View ArticleM. Todd Henderson, "Do Judges Follow the Law?"
In a naïve model of judging, Congress writes statutes, which courts know about and then slavishly apply. But a Chicago lawyer might doubt this model, believing judges are maximizing something other...
View ArticleTomiko Brown-Nagin, "The Honor and Burden of Being First: Judge Constance...
Professor Brown-Nagin's talk examines the legacy of The Honorable Constance Baker Motley—and break new ground in the study of civil rights, women's rights, and the legal profession. A protégée of...
View ArticleDriver, Nou & Strauss, "Constitutional Interpretation at the Roberts Court"
Supreme Court Preview: Constitutional Interpretation at the Roberts Court Hear Professors Justin Driver, Jennifer Nou, and David Straussdiscuss what divides the current Court and...
View ArticleSaul Levmore, "How Does Law Work? Concentration and Distribution Strategies"
Two of the best ideas of the last half-century describe strategies for using legal remedies to solve social problems. One is the concentration of liability on a well-situated problem solver, or “least...
View ArticleRichard Posner, Empirical Legal Studies Conference keynote
Richard A. Posner, Senior Lecturer in Law and a judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, devoted a lunchtime keynote to discussing how judges might receive and view empirical research. Richard A....
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