Martha C. Nussbaum Student Roundtables Archives

2022-2023 Nussbaum Roundtables

Date Topic Hosts
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 Should Trump be Prosecuted?

Tom Ginsburg - Faculty Director, Malyi Center for the Study of Institutional and Legal Integrity, Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science

M. Todd Henderson - Michael J. Marks Professor of Law 

Tuesday, November 1, 2022 Homelessness and How to Address It?

Saul Levmore - William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law

Emily Underwood - Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Bluhm-Helfand Director of the Innovation Clinic

Tuesday, February 7, 2023 Gender-Based Affirmative Action

Genevieve Lakier - Professor of Law, Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar

Adriana Z. Robertson - Donald N. Pritzker Professor of Business Law

Tuesday, March 28, 2023 Reforming the University of Chicago Police Department

Adam Chilton - Professor of Law, Walter Mander Research Scholar

Adam A. Davidson - Assistant Professor of Law

Tuesday, May 9, 2023 Pros and Cons of Prosecuting Donald Trump

Tom Ginsburg - Faculty Director, Malyi Center for the Study of Institutional and Legal Integrity, Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science

Richard H. McAdams - Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law

2021-2022 Nussbaum Roundtables

Date Topic Hosts
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 Pubic v. Private Sector Responses to Climate Change

Adam Chilton, Professor of Law, Walter Mander Research Scholar

Hajin Kim, Assistant Professor of Law

Tuesday, October 19, 2021 The Past, Present and Future of Roe v. Wade

Bridget Fahey, Assistant Professor of Law

Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law

Tuesday, November 2, 2021 Political discourse in the age of party orthodoxy

Emily Buss, Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of Law

M. Todd Henderson, Michael J. Marks Professor of Law

Tuesday, January 18, 2022 The Opioid Epidemic: Who’s to Blame?

Saul Levmore, William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law

Emily Underwood, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Bluhm-Helfand Director of the Innovation Clinic

Tuesday, March 29, 2022 Two Big Changes in Law Practice: Advertising and Online Hearings.

R. H. Helmholz, Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law

William H. J. Hubbard, Professor of Law

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Police Reform and Abolition

Adam A. Davidson, Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow, Lecturer in Law

Aziz Z. Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law

Richard H. McAdams, Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 Abortion

William Baude, Professor of Law, Faculty Director, Constitutional Law Institute

Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics

2020-2021 Nussbaum Roundtables

Date Topic Hosts
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 COVID and our Constitution

Adam Chilton, Assistant Professor of Law, Walter Mander Research Scholar

Farah Peterson, Professor of Law

Tuesday, October 20, 2020 Governmental Responses to COVID-19

Richard A. Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Law, Senior Lecturer

Lior J. Strahilevitz, Sidley Austin Professor of Law

Wednesday, November 11, 2020 After the 2020 Election

Bridget Fahey, Assistant Professor of Law

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

Friday, January 29, 2021 Corporate Purpose

Joshua C. Macey, Assistant Professor of Law 

Hajin Kim, Assistant Professor of Law

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Social Media v. Democracy

Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law

Geoffrey Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law

Tuesday, April 6, 2021 School Choice

Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science

Emily Underwood, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Bluhm-Helfand Director of the Innovation Clinic

Tuesday, April 20, 2021 Police Violence and Police Reform

Richard McAdams, Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law

Sharon Fairly, Professor from Practice

John Rappaport, Professor of Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar

Monday, May 10, 2021 Criminal Reform Priorities for the New Administration

Alison Siegler, Clinical Professor of Law, Director, Federal Criminal Justice Clinic

Sonja Starr, Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology

2019-2020 Nussbaum Roundtables

Date Topic Hosts
Friday, October 18, 2019 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

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 Identity Politics

Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science

Claudia Flores, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Director, International Human Rights Clinic

Friday, November 22, 2019 Immigration

Adam Chilton, Assistant Professor of Law, Walter Mander Research Scholar

Anup Malani, Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law

Tuesday, January 28, 2020 Drug Legalization

William Baude, Professor of Law, Aaron Director Research Scholar

Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics

Tuesday, February 11, 2020 Project Prevention

Saul Levmore, William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law

Erica Zunkel, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Associate Director of the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic

Wednesday, April 22, 2020 Should Roe v. Wade be Overruled?

Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law 

Mary Anne Case, Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law 

Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Constitutions and COVID

Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science

Aziz Z. Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, Mark Claster Mamolen Teaching Scholar

Tuesday, May 5, 2020 Supreme Court Reform

Daniel Hemel, Assistant Professor of Law, Ronald H. Coase Research Scholar

Sarah M. Konsky, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Jenner & Block Supreme Court and Appellate Clinic

Tuesday, October 6, 2020 COVID and Our Constitution

Adam Chilton, Professor of Law, Walter Mander Research Scholar

Farah Peterson, Professor of Law