Talking About Sexual Violence: A Conversation with Survivors

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Room V
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Open to the public
Presenting student organizations: Federalist Society

The Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies presents:

 M. Todd Henderson & Martha C. Nussbaum

"Talking About Sexual Violence: A Conversation with Survivors"

Food provided.

Professor Henderson is a Professor of Law and Aaron Center Teaching Scholar at the Law School. He graduated from Princeton University cum laude and from the Law School with High Honors in 1998, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was an Editor on the University of Chicago Law Review. After law school, Professor Henderson clerked for the Honorable Dennis Jacobs on the Second Circuit and worked for the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis. He joined the Law School faculty in 2004. In 2010, Professor Henderson received the Paul M. Bator Award at the Federalist Society's Annual Student Symposium, an award given annually to an academic under 40 who demonstrate excellence in legal scholarship. His research interests include corporate law, securities regulation, law and economics, and bankruptcy.

Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics. Professor Nussbaum received her BA from NYU and her MA and PhD from Harvard. She has chaired the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on International Cooperation, the Committee on the Status of Women, and the Committee for Public Philosophy.  She has received honorary degrees from sixty colleges and universities. She is an Academician in the Academy of Finland, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Among her awards are the Grawemeyer Award in Education (2002), the University of Chicago Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (2001), the Centennial Medal of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University (2010), the Prince of Asturias Prize in the Social Sciences (2012), the American Philosophical Association's Philip Quinn Prize (2015), the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy (2016), the Don M. Randel Prize for Achievement in the Humanities from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018), and the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture (2018).