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Jeffrey Haas, "What Makes Lawyers Passionate About Their Work: A Radical Perspective"

Jeffrey Haas is a 1967 graduate of the Law School and was one of the founders of People's Law Office. He was introduced by Clinical Professor of Law Randolph Stone.


51:49 minutes (47.45 MB)

Bernard Harcourt, "Neoliberal Penality: A Genealogy of Excess"

What work do the categories "the free market" and "regulation" do for us? Why do we incarcerate one out of every one hundred adults? These seemingly unrelated questions, it turns out, are deeply interconnected. The categories of free and regulated markets emerged as an effort to make sense of irreducibly individual phenomena—unique forms of social organization.


66:03 minutes (60.47 MB)

Tom Ginsburg, "What in the World is International Law?: Law Careers in the International Arena"

What does "international law" mean? Does it even exist? How can one become an international lawyer? What do international lawyers do? Tom Ginsburg holds a Ph.D. and J.D. from Berkeley, and is a world-renowned comparative constitutional law scholar.


49:42 minutes (45.51 MB)

Robert D. Cooter, "General Welfare, Interstate Commerce, and Economic Analysis"

This talk was presented on October 16, 2009 at the Conference on Comparative Constitutional Design at the University of Chicago Law School. Robert Cooter is Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law and Director, Program in Law and Economics at Berkeley Law. David Strauss (University of Chicago Law School) provided commentary on the paper.


37:33 minutes (34.38 MB)

Rosalind Dixon and Richard Holden, "Designing Constitutional Amendment Rules - To Scale"

This talk was presented on October 16, 2009 at the Conference on Comparative Constitutional Design at the University of Chicago Law School. Rosalind Dixon is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.


48:41 minutes (44.58 MB)

Deanell Reece Tacha, "The Role of the Judge in Times of Economic and Cultural Turmoil"

Deanell Reece Tacha is a circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. This talk was recorded October 26, 2009 and sponsored by the University of Chicago Law School chapter of the Federalist Society.


64:51 minutes (59.37 MB)

Adam Przeworski, New York University, "The Origins of Parliamentary Responsibility"

This talk was presented on October 16, 2009 at the Conference on Comparative Constitutional Design at the University of Chicago Law School.


44:57 minutes (41.15 MB)

Jon Elster, "The Optimal Design of a Constituent Assembly"

This talk was presented on October 16, 2009 at the Conference on Comparative Constitutional Design at the University of Chicago Law School. Jon Elster is Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Sciences at


54:40 minutes (50.05 MB)

Gretchen Helmke, "The Origins of Institutional Crises in Latin America"

This talk was presented on October 16, 2009 at the Conference on Comparative Constitutional Design at the University of Chicago Law School. Gretchen Helmke is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester.


44:19 minutes (40.58 MB)

Stuart Anderson, "Should America Remain a Nation of Immigrants?"

Stuart Anderson is Executive Director of the National Foundation for American Policy. This talk was recorded on November 3, 2009 and was sponsored by the University of Chicago Law School chapter of the Federalist Society.


59:47 minutes (54.73 MB)
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