Martha C. Nussbaum Student Roundtables
In the interest of facilitating conversations about important legal issues across viewpoints, the Law School faculty and the Office of the Dean of Students organizes a series of conversations with students hosted by faculty members and other members of the Law School community. The roundtables are styled after the faculty weekly roundtables, where faculty members gather over lunch to discuss various topics of legal and societal import. Discussions are limited to 8-12 students, and registration is required.
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Date |
Topic |
Hosts |
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Tuesday, October 9, 2018 |
When Charities Exploit the Law |
Daniel Hemel, Assistant Professor of Law Saul Levmore, William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law |
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Tuesday, October 30, 2018 |
Whose Wedding Cake? Anti-discrimination and Religious Exemptions |
William Baude, Professor of Law, Aaron Director Research Scholar Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics |
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Monday, November 12, 2018 |
What (if anything) should law do about rising income and wealth inequality? |
William Hubbard, Professor of Law David Weisbach, Walter J. Blum Professor of Law, Senior Fellow, the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory |
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Monday, November 19, 2018 |
Bail Reform |
John Rappaport, Assistant Professor of Law Alison Siegler, Assistant Clinical Professor |
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Tuesday, January 15, 2019 |
After the Kavanaugh Nomination |
Aziz Z. Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, Mark Claster Mamolen Teaching Scholar Sarah M. Konsky, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Jenner & Block Supreme Court and Appellate Clinic |
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Tuesday, February 12, 2019 |
Free Speech on Campus, What Should the Rules Be? |
Jonathan S. Masur, John P. Wilson Professor of Law, David and Celia Hilliard Research Scholar, Director of the Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Program in Behavioral Law, Finance and Economics Genevieve Lakier, Assistant Professor of Law |
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019 |
Healthcare, Global Inequality and Immigration |
Anup Malani, Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law Claudia Flores, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Director, International Human Rights Clinic |
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Tuesday, April 9, 2019 |
Prosecutorial and Police Discretion |
Herschella G. Conyers, Clinical Professor of Law Lior J. Strahilevitz, Sidley Austin Professor of Law |
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019 |
Would it be better for the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court straightforwardly to overrule Roe v. Wade or to inflict on it death by a 1000 cuts in its scope? |
Mary Anne Case, Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law |
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Tuesday, April 23, 2019 |
The Legal Treatment of Transgender Individuals |
William Baude, Professor of Law, Aaron Director Research Scholar Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics |
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Monday, April 29, 2019 |
Progressive Prosecutors |
John Rappaport, Assistant Professor of Law Judith P. Miller, Associate Clinical Professor of Law |
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Tuesday, May 7, 2019 |
TBD |
Adam Chilton, Assistant Professor of Law, Walter Mander Research Scholar Randal C. Picker, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago Argonne National Laboratory |