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.
February 19, 2009
This panel, featuring Bob Labate (Holland & Knight), Jennifer Bjornberg (Holland & Knight), Marci Rolnik(Lawyers for the Creative Arts), and Daliah Saper (Saper Law) was recorded January 14, 2009 and sponsored by The Entertainment and Sports Law Society at the University of Chicago Law School.
February 6, 2009
This debate between Richard Posner (Senior Lecturer in Law and Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit) and Martha Nussbaum (Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics) and Mary Anne Case (Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law) was moderated by Geoffrey Stone (Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor). It was recorded January 26, 2009 and was co-sponsored by Outlaw, the American Constitution Society, the Federalist Society, and Law Women's Caucus
January 22, 2009
Paul Smith is a partner at Jenner & Block and former chair of the board of the American Constitution Society. This talk was recorded January 12, 2009 and was sponsored by ACS and Outlaw.
December 18, 2008
Ted Frank is Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a 1994 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School. This talk was recorded October 16, 2008 and was sponsored by The Federalist Society with help from the John Templeton Foundation.
November 20, 2008
This panel, featuring Pamela Alexander (Director, Animal Law Program, Animal Legal Defense Fund), Jordan Matyas (State Director, Illinois, Humane Society of the United States), and Delci Winders (Associate at Meyer, Glitzenstein & Crystal) was recorded November 5, 2008, as part of Animal Law Week. It was made possible by the McCormick Companions' Fund and cohosted by the Chicago Law Animal Welfare Society (CLAWS) and the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF) of the University of Chicago Law School.
November 6, 2008
Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago Law School. This talk was recorded October 30, 2008 as part of the Law School's Diversity Week, and sponsored by Outlaw.
October 21, 2008
This faculty panel was recorded on October 9, 2008 and was sponsored by the Federalist Society.
October 21, 2008
This panel was recorded on October 15, 2008, and sponsored by the Law School Democrats and the Law School Republicans.
October 9, 2008
Ilya Shapiro is a 2003 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Before joining Cato, he was Special Assistant/Advisor to the Multi-National Force-Iraq on rule of law issues. Professor Tom Ginsburg provided commentary. This talk was recorded October 2nd, 2008 and was sponsored by the Federalist Society and the Tony Patino Fellowship.
August 29, 2008
Paul Shapiro, Senior Director of the factory farming campaign at the Humane Society of the United States, and Dr. Pam Martin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago and co-author of "Diet, Energy, and Global Warming," discuss the animal welfare and global environmental effects of factory farming. This talk was recorded May 21, 2008, and sponsored by CLAWS and the Environmental Law Society.