Academic conference

The design of legal institutions is based on implicit and explicit assumptions about human behavior, for example assumptions about how people individually or collectively respond to new information, assess risks, or decide whom to trust or fear, about what motivates people to forgive or to seek vengeance, or about how to promote or discourage empathy.

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.

Speech, Privacy, and the Internet:  The University and Beyond
November 21-22 (Fri & Sat)
Co-organizers:  Martha Nussbaum, Cass Sunstein

Keynote: Lawrence Lessig

Please visit the conference website for further details.

Friday, May 1, 2009 

8:30 to 9:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Criminal Procedure, Constitutional and Administrative Law

This conference will bring together intellectuals, activists, and dissidents from the front lines who are working for a conception of democracy that includes a strong commitment to gender equality. The conference will consider the relationship between democracy and women's rights and will debate which theories and strategies, both secular and religious, best promote these values on the ground.

Shakespeare and the Law
a conference at
The University of Chicago Law School
May 15th and 16th, 2009