Faculty at external event

Pictures of Beijing’s skyline under “Red Alert” levels of pollution flooded the internet in late 2015. The government, in response, shut down hundreds of factories and canceled hundreds of flights – an action not at all surprising to western business leaders who regularly deal with environment-related disruptions.

The 2016 Iris Marion Young Distinguished Faculty Lecture presents Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago Law School.

Greek Philosophers, Founding Fathers & American Law

Richard Allen Posner, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago, and most cited legal scholar of the 20th century, will discuss the influence of Greek philosophers, Aristotle in particular, on America’s founders, laws, and institutions.

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Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Professor of International Law and Deputy Dean at the University of Chicago Law School. He is also the Hilde Wolf Research Scholar and a Professor of Political Science at the University. His work focusses on comparative and international law from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Brian Leiter, legal scholar and philosopher, will speak about religious toleration and religious claims of conscience at 1 p.m. Dec. 4 in Altgeld Hall, room 315, on the Northern Illinois University campus.

The full-day conference will examine issues impacting gender, Muslim stereotypes, and freedom of religion and expression.

“Be it resolved: Conflicts between civil rights and religious liberties can be addressed by adopting viable compromise solutions that protect both values.”

Roosevelt University will present a Constitution Day lecture, sponsored by the university's Montesquieu Forum, on “The Magna Carta and the Idea of Due Process” by Diane Wood, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh District on Thursday, Sept. 24 at 4:30 p.m.