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.
December 28, 2009
Stewart Verdery is the founder of Monument Policy Group, and served as the first Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This talk was recorded on November 9, 2009 and was sponsored by the Federalist Society.
December 10, 2009
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. This talk was recorded November 9, 2009 and was sponsored by the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, BLSA, and the Criminal Law Society.
November 26, 2009
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. In addition to the University of Chicago, he has taught at the University of Illinois, Kyushu University Faculty of Law, Seoul National University, The University of Pennsylvania, The University of Tokyo Law School, and The University of Trento. He was a legal advisor in The Hague at the US-Iran Claims Tribunal, and has worked at the U.S. Dept. of State, Mekong Region Law Center, The Supreme Court of Mongolia, The Asia Foundation, The Supreme Administrative Court of Montenegro, and many others.
Professor Ginsburg was also a consultant to the Judicial Commission of Afghanistan, currently co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project, and won the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association for one of his books, Judicial Review in New Democracies.
This talk was recorded October 27, 2009 and was sponsored by the International Law Society and the Office of Career Services.
November 12, 2009
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.
October 29, 2009
This panel discussion was recorded on October 20, 2009 and was sponsored by Outlaw, the Law School Democrats, and the Law School Republicans. Mary Anne Case is Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School; Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago Law School; David Strauss is Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School; and James Madigan is Class of '00 and Lecturer in at the University of Chicago Law School.
October 16, 2009
Alison Siegler is Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and is the Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic’s Federal Criminal Justice Project. This talk was recorded On October 15, 2009 and sponsored by the Chicago chapter of the American Constitution Society.
August 6, 2009
M. Gregg Bloche, M.D., J.D., was Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, and Non-Resident Senior Fellow (on leave) at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Bloche recently worked with the Obama campaign to help draft Obama's health proposal, and has written for a variety of publications, including leading law reviews, the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA, and the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post. His recent written work has considered physicians' conflicts of loyalty, problems that arise from uncertainty over the value of medical treatment, and the health policy implications of individuals' contradictory desires. This talk was recorded May 5, 2009 and sponsored by the Health Law Society.
May 28, 2009
David Weisbach is Walter J. Blum Professor of Law and Kearney Director of the Program in Law and Economics. This talk was recorded April 22, 2009 and was sponsored by the Environmental Law Society.
May 15, 2009
Jason M. Schultz is the Acting Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Before joining Berkeley as a faculty member in the Samuelson Clinic, he was a Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), one of the leading digital rights groups in the world. Prior to EFF, he practiced intellectual property law at the firm of Fish & Richardson, P.C. and served as a clerk to the Honorable D. Lowell Jensen of the Northern District of California. This talk was recorded April 16, 2009, and was sponsored by the Intellectual Property Law Society.
May 7, 2009
Jeremy Epstein is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago where he teaches a seminar about litigating title disputes in art law. He is a partner in the Litigation Group of Shearman & Sterling and, from 1995-2000, served as head of the Litigation Department. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions litigation, securities litigation, antitrust, criminal defense and litigation involving the fine arts. He received his JD from Yale University and his BA from Columbia University. This talk was recorded April 20, 2009 and was sponsored by the Jewish Law Students Association.