The University of Chicago Law School presents

Business Ethics, Law, and History: From the Atlantic Slave Trade to Wall Street

November 2, 2007

University of Chicago Law School
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, Illinois

9:00 – 10:30: The Business of Slavery – Human Property, Capitalism, and Ethics

• Walter Johnson, Professor of History, Harvard University
• Daniel Hamilton, Assistant Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law
• Seth Rockman, Assistant Professor of History, Brown University

10:30 – 10:45: Break

10:45 -12: 30: The Business Lawyer and Changing Legal Ethics

• Robert Gordon, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History, Yale Law School
• Victoria Saker-Woeste, Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• Tanina Rostain, Professor of Law, New York Law School

2:00 -3:30 Historicizing Management Decision Making in Moments of Moral Crisis

• Jefferson Cowie, Associate Professor of Labor History, Cornell University
• Wayne Eastman, Associate Professor, Accounting, Business Ethics & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School
• Edward Balleisen, Associate Professor, Department of History, Duke University

3:45 – 4:30 Discussion

For more information, contact Professor Felice Batlan at fbatlan@kentlaw.edu. For special assistance or needs, please contact Lucienne Goodman, Director of Events and Conferences, at (773) 702-0877.

This event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Earhart Foundation