Lectures

Guest Presenter Alison Zieske ('06) will discuss key documents and strategies for complex corporate mergers and acquisitions.  This presentation will start with an overview of the basic process of a corporate deal.  Ms. Zieske will discuss the role of the attorney in those deals and then introduce the documents involved.  Ms.

Thomas E. Perez is the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the United States Department of Justice. His talk is entitled "Advancing Equal Opportunity for All: Civil Rights in 2010 and Beyond."

The Center for Gender Studies presents the 2010 Iris Marion Young Distinguished Faculty Lecture by Mary Anne Case, Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law at the University of Chicago.

Professor Case will be presenting a paper entitled "What Stake do Heterosexual Women have in the Same-Sex Marriage/Domestic Partnership/ Civil Union Debates?"

Guest Presenter Wendy Netter Epstein will discuss the best practices for written discovery in complex litigation.  This will include an introduction to various discovery documents and tips on drafting and responding to interrogatories, document requests, and requests for admission.  Ms.

Faculty Panelists: Omri Ben-Shahar, Randy Picker, Eric Posner

All panels will take place at the University of Chicago Law School, 1111 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL  60637.

Reception to follow.

Cosponsored by the University of Chicago Law Review. This event is free and open to the public.  Seating is limited.

Faculty Panelists: Douglas Baird, Saul Levmore, Martha Nussbaum, David Strauss

All panels will take place at the University of Chicago Law School, 1111 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL  60637.

Lunch provided.

Cosponsored by the University of Chicago Law Review. This event is free and open to the public.  Seating is limited.

Faculty Panelists: Aziz Huq, Jonathan Masur, Geoffrey Stone

All panels will take place at the University of Chicago Law School, 1111 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL  60637.

Lunch provided.

Cosponsored by the University of Chicago Law Review. This event is free and open to the public.  Seating is limited.

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences and The University of Chicago Law School are delighted to present a talk by Walter Dellinger, the Douglas Blount Maggs Professor of Law at Duke Law School.

On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States will deliver a talk at the University of Chicago Law School on the topic of the operation of the Supreme Court. The talk will take place at 12:15 pm at the University of Chicago Law School, room TBA.