Saul Levmore : Courses and Seminars
Greenberg Seminar: 99:1 – Inequality Past and Present
LAWS 95902
In this seminar we will read and discuss popular books such as Christopher Hayes, Twilight of Elites: America after Meritocracy and Branko Milanovi's The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality.
We will meet in the professors' home on five Thursday evenings spread across the Autumn and Winter Quarters. Students who register for this seminar should keep the evenings of October 4, October 25, November 8, January 10, January 24, and February 14 free.
Autumn 2012
Saul Levmore, Julie Roin
Public Choice
LAWS 69001
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. Public choice is essentially the science of collective decision-making, and it comes with several well developed tools of analysis. With these tools, and that perspective, we revisit the 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). As the course proceeds, we explore specific topics in law, such as the possibility of judicial vote-trading, the role of referenda in some jurisdictions but not others, and the role of precedent itself.
Grades will be based on a final examination.
Spring 2013
Saul Levmore
Torts
LAWS 30611
The focus of this course, offered over two sequential quarters, is on the Anglo-American system (mainly judge-created) of the 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.
Autumn 2012
Saul Levmore
Torts
LAWS 30611
The focus of this course, offered over two sequential quarters, is on the Anglo-American system (mainly judge-created) of the 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 2013
Saul Levmore
