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  • What consumer protection measures should the U.S. government take to reduce obesity?
    “Tax producers of food based on the difference between the cost of the ingredients before processing and the price for the finished product.”
    — Richard Posner
    “If an obesity solution is to be developed, the solution must solve both prongs: Caloric Intake and Caloric Expenditure.”
    — N.E.H.

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Going "Mad" for Public Interest at the 2010 CLF Auction
January 28, 2010: The sharp legal analysis and groundbreaking court opinions of Judge Easterbrook were lauded in panel discussions celebrating his first 25 years on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Slideshows

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Emily Buss, “What the Law Should (and Should Not) Learn From Child Development Research”
Panel Discussion: Easterbrook on Statutes
Panel Discussion: Easterbrook on the Constitution
Panel Discussion: Easterbrook on Contracts and Copyright
Martha Nussbaum, "Same-Sex Marriage and Constitutional Law"

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Jesse Prinz, “The Genealogy of Morals”
Daniel Batson, “Altrusim and Morality: No Necessary Connection”
Albie Sachs, "Does the Law Have a Sense of Humor? The 'Laugh It Off' Case'"
Robert J. Richards, "Evolutionary Ethics: Contra Nietzsche and Contemporaries"
Peter Kail, "Hume and the Genealogy of Morality"

News

01.25.10 : Alison Siegler Testifies Before United States Sentencing Commission
01.25.10 : Geof Stone Explains 'Citizens United'
01.19.10 : Geof Stone Talks to WBEZ About "The Politics of Slander"
01.19.10 : Richard Epstein, "Forget the Envy Principle"

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Events

02.09.2010 : [CANCELED] Alumni Reception to Welcome Dean Schill (Washington, D.C.)
02.10.2010 : 2010 Coase Lecture: Jacob Gersen, "Political Economy of Public Law"
02.11.2010 : IJ Clinic presents "Litigating for Economic Liberty in Chicago"
02.16.2010 : Chicago's Best Ideas: Rosalind Dixon, "Partial Constitutional Amendments"
02.18.2010 : Schwartz Memorial Lecture: Gary Haugen '91, "A New Mandate for Human Rights"
03.02.2010 : Chicago's Best Ideas: Martha Nussbaum, TBA

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Did you know?

Clinical Professor of Law Randolph Stone was the first African American Public Defender of Cook County, Illinois.

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