4:30pm. Reception to follow.

Eric Posner is Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. A specialist in constitutional law and international law, his recent research contributes to the study of financial regulation, corporate governance, cost-benefit analysis, and human rights law. His books include The Twilight of Human Rights Law, which has just been published by Oxford, as well as Economic Foundations of International Law (with Alan Sykes) (Harvard, 2013), Contract Law and Theory (Aspen, 2011), The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic (with Adrian Vermeule) (Oxford, 2011), Climate Change Justice (with David Weisbach) (Princeton, 2010), The Perils of Global Legalism (Chicago, 2009), Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty and the Courts (with Adrian Vermeule) (Oxford, 2007), New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis (with Matthew Adler) (Harvard, 2006), The Limits of International Law (with Jack Goldsmith) (Oxford, 2005), and Law and Social Norms (Chicago, 2000). He has served as editor of the Journal of Legal Studies and writes regularly for The New Republic and Slate. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Law Institute.

This lecture is free and open to the public. 

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