Saul Levmore
Dean and William B. Graham Professor of Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773 702-9495
email: s-levmore@uchicago.edu

Current Year Courses

• 30611 2 Torts
  The focus of this course, offered over two sequential quarters, is on the Anglo-American system (mainly judge-created) of liability for personal injury to person or property. Special stress is laid on the legal doctrines governing accidental injury, such as negligence and strict liability, assumption of risk, and the duty requirement. The rules for determining damages in personal-injury cases are discussed. Alternative theories of tort liability, e.g., moral and economic, are compared. The student s grade is based on a single final examination.
  Winter (3) 1L, a
  
  
• 49901 22 Independent Research
  Second- and third-year students may earn course credit by independent research under the supervision of a member of the faculty. Such projects are arranged by consultation between the student and the particular member of the faculty in whose field the proposed topic falls.
  Autumn (3)
  
  
• 69001 1 Public Choice
  This course focuses on the relationship between modern perspectives on voting and interest groups on the one hand and legislation and judicial interventions on the other. In 2008 the focus of this course will be on climate change. We begin with the task of collective decision-making as it reveals itself in interactions between legislatures and judges, democracy's attempt to solve certain problems, and the roles played by a variety of legal doctrines and constitutional institutions (from takings law to line-item vetoes and to the meaning of precedents). In the second part of the course, we will use tools and knowledge relating to interest groups and democratic decision-making in order to explore topics associated with one particular social problem, that of climate change. Grades will be based in part on a brief final examination and in part on a short paper, to be discussed in class, tackling some aspect of the climate change problem with the tools of public choice.
  Spring (2)
  
  
• 95942 1 Greenberg Seminar: Sharing the Planet
  This Greenberg Seminar will be organized around the question of how we decide to share resources with future generations and, in our own time, with other species. We will read such things as The Omnivore s Dilemma, When Elephants Weep, and Justice Between the Ages and Generations. Please do not sign up for this seminar unless you are available on the evenings of October 16, 30, November 13, January 15, 29, February 12, and 26. We will, in fact, use five of those seven dates. The seminar will meet at the home of Professor Levmore and Professor Roin, and will also include Visiting Faculty.
  Autumn (1) a
  
  

Other courses taught include:

• Commercial Law (Secured Transactions)
• Comparative Law Topics
• Contracts
• Corporations
• Corporate Tax
• Insurance
• Non-profit Organizations