Scheming Washington insiders, Congressional power plays, and allegations of pedophilia were not enough to keep James C. Hormel, Class of 1958, from becoming America’s first openly gay ambassador.
Geoffrey R. Stone is Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He has served as dean of the Law School and, from 1993 to 2002, as provost of the University of Chicago. His most recent books are Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark (2007) and War and Liberty: An American Dilemma (2007). Prof.
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.
Cass R. Sunstein currently serves as the Administrator of the United States Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Mr. Sunstein graduated in 1975 from Harvard College and in 1978 from Harvard Law School magna cum laude, where he went on to become the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law.
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.
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.
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.
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
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").
