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Supreme 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 insi...
M. Todd Henderson, "The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize..."
"The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize Business & Government"
In this CBI, Professor Henderson will exam...
Seyla 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 universalizati...
Joan 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 a...
Saul 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 soug...
William Baude and Anthony J. Casey, "Supreme Court Preview 2019: 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 insi...
Law 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...
Saul 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 p...
Justin Driver, "The Future of the Supreme Court: The Constitution of Public Schools"
Supreme Court decisions affecting the constitutional rights of students in the nation's public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy....
M. 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...
David Bowman, "Alternative Reference Rates: SOFR, LIBOR, and Issues for Transitions"
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 a...
John 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 Cons...
Mary 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 bee...
Jonathan 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 peop...
Lior 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 Idea...
Henry Shue, "Gambling with Their Climate: Future Generations, Negative Emissions, & Risk Transfers"
This lecture defends three main theses: (I) that all decisions about the degree of ambition for emissions mitigation are unavoidably also decisions ab...
Supreme 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 is...
Aaron Nielson, "The Past and Future of Deference: From Justice Scalia to Justice Gorsuch"
With commentary by Professor Daniel Hemel
Professor Nielson is a law professor at Brigham Young University and teaches/writes in the area...
To POE or Not to POE: The Proper Evidentiary Standard for Campus Sexual Misconduct (A Debate)
Featuring Professors Nancy Chi Cantalupo, Katharine Baker, Daniel Hemel, and Richard Epstein. Moderated by Professor Emily Buss. Presented by the Dome...
Gillian 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 Ca...
Anthony 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...
Kurt Lash & Alan Gura, "Does the Fourteenth Amendment Protect Unenumerated Rights?"
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...
William 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 willingn...
Saul 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 b...
Jim Zirin & William Baude, "The Post-Election Future of the Supreme Court after Scalia"
Jim Zirin graduated from Princeton University with honors and received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School where he was an edito...
Michael 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 Const...
October 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 current...
John 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 rig...
Martha 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, Ezeki...
Michael 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?"
M...
Justin 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 constitutio...
Laura 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 o...
Dhammika Dharmapala, "The 'Credibility Revolution' in Empirical Law and Economics"
Dhammika Dharmapala is the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
The 2016 Coase Lecture was presented...
Chief 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 f...
Jonathan 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 tha...
Tracey 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 Uni...
Douglas Hallward-Driemeier & Daniel Hemel, "Insights from the Obergefell Supreme Court Arguments"
"Standing Up for Marriage Equality: Insights from the Obergefell Supreme Court Arguments"
Doug Hallward-Driemeier leads Ropes & Gray’s Ap...
Moshe 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 polit...
Mary 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...
Panel: 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...