Open Minds: The Student Events Podcast
Want to get a feel for what Law School students are really interested in? Our numerous student organizations sponsor frequent lectures and panel discussions by both our own faculty and distinguished visitors. A new episode is published every other week during the academic year.
November 8, 2012
This talk was recorded on October 12, 2012 and sponsored by Bloomberg Law, The Office of the Dean of Students and the Moot Court Board.
October 25, 2012
George Walker has worked extensively to promote and leverage the world’s greatest resource - its people. As an employee, board member, and volunteer his focus on strategic partnerships advances ideas and plans that harness innovative opportunities and achieve results. In February 2012, President Barack Obama appointed him to be a member of the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). George also serves as the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Institute. He oversees efforts to increase programmatic partnerships that advance programmatic and diversity goals among corporate, foundation, and other nonprofit partners on behalf of LGBT public leaders.
This talk, subtitled "How to use identity politics to create a more perfect union," was recorded on September 28, 2012 and sponsored by Outlaw, BLSA, and the Office of the Dean of Students.
July 19, 2012
Todd Itami, rising third-year student in the University of Chicago Law School, moderates a debate on the constitutionality of President Obama's healthcare program at an event on Monday, May 14, 2012 at the University of Chicago Law School. Over the course of an hour, Richard Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, and Andrew Koppelman, John Paul Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University Law School, debate the merits and flaws of the controversial healthcare program. The event was hosted by the Federalist Society.
May 24, 2012
Sponsored by BLSA, this event on May 14, 2012, featured attorneys from Paul Hastings, LLP, discussing the details of and differences between litigation and transactional law practices and share their thoughts on steps students can take to figure out which path is right for them.
May 10, 2012
Joyce Tischler is co-founder of the Animal Rights Defense Fund. This talk was recorded on April 4, 2012 and was sponsored by the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund.
April 26, 2012
“Modern Developments in Farmed Animal Law” with David Wolfson, Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, Adjunct Professor at NYU Law School, Partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP was recored on April 3, 2012.
April 12, 2012
David Favre is Professor of Law & The Nancy Heathcote Professor of Property and Animal Law at the Michigan State University College of Law. This talk was recorded on April 2, 2012.
February 2, 2012
Dan Currell, '97, and Anna Ivey, '97, both graduated from the Law School fifteen years ago. They both started their careers practicing law at large law firms, and fairly quickly realized that their talents, education, and skills could open other doors. Through hard work and a lot of creative career thinking, Dan and Anna both found the jobs they were born to do. Though their jobs are very different, both Dan and Anna come in contact with a lot of lawyers and law students, and both do large amounts of research on trends in the legal profession. At this session, recorded January 24, 2011, they’ll share their knowledge with you.
Upon graduating from law school, Anna Ivey practiced in Los Angeles, working with clients such as Disney, AOL Time Warner, Williams-Sonoma, Hewlett-Packard, CSFB, and Mattel in mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and public and private financings. She later practiced entertainment law, working on the financing of major motion pictures starring actors such as Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, and Renee Zellweger. She then served as Dean of Admissions at the Law School. She saw over and over again what people had done right...and where they had gone off course. Inspired to help applicants navigate the application process, she founded Ivey Consulting and assembled a first-rate team of experts to coach college, law school, and business school applicants one-on-one.
Dan Currell is an Executive Director with the Corporate Integrity practice of the Corporate Executive Board, providing management research and services to legal, compliance, audit and risk executives. Working with the Corporate Executive Board since 1999, Dan has presented the Board’s management research to over 700 executive and board audiences in North and South America, Europe,Africa and Australia. His work at CEB has included research and presentations on legal, compliance, internal audit, audit committee, HR, corporate strategy, and corporate real estate issues. Prior to joining the Corporate Executive Board, Dan practiced commercial litigation. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and has an office at the Corporate Executive Board’s headquarters in Rosslyn, Virginia.
Lunch generously provided by the Corporate Executive Board.
Brought to you by the Office of the Dean of Students and the Office of Career Services.
January 19, 2012
This Diversity Month event, recorded on January 13, 2011, featured lawyers from ethnic minority groups who spoke to students about working in different areas of law. Lawyers from government, academia, public interest, traditional law firm, non-traditional law firms were invited. Speakers included Harpreet Chahal, Glenn McKeon, and Oscar Alcantara. Organized by the Black Law Students Association, Latino/a Law Students Association and South Asian Law Students Association. Sponsored by Goldberg Kohn Ltd.
December 22, 2011
Charlotte Walker-Said is a Human Rights Lecturer at the University of Chicago and an African historian by training. Recently, her research has focused on gender, religion, governance, and economic expansion in West and Equatorial Africa. In her capacity as an Africanist, she has also contributed to studies conducted by non-governmental organizations and multilateral institutions operating in Africa. She received her doctoral degree in December 2009 from the Department of History at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Her first book, tentatively titled, "Traditional Marriage for the Modern Nation: Family Formation and the Politics of Religion in Colonial and Post-Colonial Cameroon" will reveal the complex nature of religion, sexuality, nationalism, and family law in Cameroon. This talk, which was recorded on December 1, 2011, was sponsored by the Black Law Students Association.