Lectures

Catharine MacKinnon, "Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality"

International Women’s Human Rights: Paradigms, Paradoxes, and Possibilities, a Sawyer Seminar organized by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, addresses contradictions within the concept and practice of women’s human rights.


88:09 minutes (80.7 MB)

Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values presents Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, “Legal Authority and the Paradox of Intention in Action”

Date: 
04.23.2012

Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco (Law, University of Birmingham):  “Legal Authority and the Paradox of Intention in Action.”  With commentary by Candace Vogler, Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.

Lior Strahilevitz, “Exclusion and Exclusivity: Past, Present & Future”

This lecture was recorded October 27, 2011, at the celebration of Deputy Dean Lior Strahilevitz's appointment as the Law School's inaugural Sidley Austin Professor of Law.


88:32 minutes (81.06 MB)

Mary Ann Glendon, "Cicero and Burke on Politics as Vocation"

Date: 
11.01.2011
Location: 
Mandel Hall, 1131 East 57th Street

The Lumen Christi Institute
The University of Chicago Law School
and The Committee on Social Thought

present

Cicero and Burke on Politics as Vocation

Alison Siegler and Daniel Rosengard '11, “Special Considerations in Representing the Non-Citizen Client"

This is a recording of a training seminar presented by the Federal Criminal Justice Project for federal criminal defense attorneys entitled “A Comprehensive Overview of Immigration Considerations and Consequences From Bond Through Sentencing and Beyond.” Approximately 60 federal defenders and Criminal Justice Act Panel attorneys attended the seminar, which was held on May 5, 2011, at the office


74:45 minutes (68.44 MB)

"The Rise and Fall of Judicial Self-Restraint" with Judge Richard Posner

Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit will deliver a lecture on the history of the theory of judicial self-restraint as articulated primarily by Thayer, Holmes, Brandeis, Frankfurter, and Bickel (the "Thayerians").


82:58 minutes (75.97 MB)

The Future of the Asia-Pacific Region: Challenges for China, Japan, and the US

Date: 
03.07.2011
Location: 
Gleacher Center Rm 600, 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive

The China Law Society, The Japan Studies Committee (University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies), and the Consulate General of Japan at Chicago PRESENT:

The Future of the Asia-Pacific Region: Challenges for China, Japan, and the US

Monday, March 7, 2011
Public Reception: 5:00 P.M.
Panel Discussion: 5:30 P.M.

Faculty: 
Daniel Abebe
Faculty: 
Tom Ginsburg

Part II of the 2010-11 Brennan Center Jorde Symposium: "The Rise and Fall of Judicial Self-Restraint" with Judge Richard Posner

Date: 
04.14.2011
Location: 
Weymouth Kirkland Courtroom at the University of Chicago Law School (1111 E. 60th St.)

Judge Richard Posner of the U.S.

Faculty: 
Aziz Huq

Students Reflect on Justice Sotomayor's Visit

Read more about Justice Sotomayor's visit to the University of Chicago Law School on January 31, 2011.

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