Academic conference

Sponsored by the Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values at the University of Chicago Law School

Where did our "morality"-- our moral sense, our moral intuitions, our dispositions to make particular kinds of moral judgments--come from?  And does its origin have any bearing on the value,  justification, or credibility of our morality?

Recent tissue and organ scandals expose the fault lines in human biological supply and demand in the United States. These scandals spread across the front pages of newspapers, reading like plots from B grade horror movies, revealing bizarre happenings at funeral homes, crematoriums, and even medical schools.

The past several years have seen an unprecedented number of public companies becoming privately held. There have been hundreds of "going private" transactions over the past few years, including companies such as: BellCanada ($33 billion), Alltel ($28 billion), SunGuard Data Systems ($11 billion), Beatrice Companies ($8 billion), and Toys "R" Us ($6 billion).

Friday, May 9 

• 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
• 9:30 a.m. Welcome by Dean Saul Levmore
• 9:45 a.m. Introduction by Susan Bandes 
• 10:00 a.m.
  

2008 Chicago Conference

University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Gleacher Center 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60611 USA

Sponsored by the University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the Coase Foundation

Organized by Omri Ben-Shahar, Frank and Bernice Greenberg Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School, and Ariel Porat, Alain Poher Professor of Law, Tel-Aviv University

"Reassessing the State and Local Government Toolkit" will be held at the Law School on June 18–20, 2009. This conference is being organized by Richard Epstein, Lee Fennell, and Julie Roin and is jointly sponsored by the University of Chicago Law School John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics and the University of Chicago Law Review.

Medical malpractice liability garners media headlines. Basic issues such as the scope of the problem and workable solutions are hotly contested, often without serious analytical or empirical support.

A conference, "Intergenerational Equity and Discounting," will be held at the University of Chicago Law School on Friday April 28th (room F). The conference program is at http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/conf/equity/program.pdf.