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2019 Coase Lecture - Jennifer Nou " The Nature of the Agency"

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Add to Calendar 2019-01-22 12:15:00 2019-01-22 13:20:00 2019 Coase Lecture - Jennifer Nou " The Nature of the Agency" Event details: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/2019-coase-lecture-jennifer-nou - University of Chicago Law School blog@law.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public

Tuesday, January 22, 2019 @ 12:15pm — 1:20pm
Room II

Participating faculty: Jennifer Nou

2018 Coase Lecture in Law and Economics: The Behavioral Law & Economics of Happiness with Jonathan S. Masur

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Add to Calendar 2018-02-06 12:15:00 2018-02-06 13:15:00 2018 Coase Lecture in Law and Economics: The Behavioral Law & Economics of Happiness with Jonathan S. Masur Event details: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/2018-ronald-h-coase-lecture-law-and-economics - University of Chicago Law School blog@law.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public

Tuesday, February 6, 2018 @ 12:15pm — 1:15pm
Room II

Participating faculty: Jonathan S. Masur

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Conventional wisdom in law and economics holds that legal rules should be designed solely to promote efficiency, leaving income redistribution to the tax system. But when does this principle hold true, and when might it fall short?

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April Rice became a methamphetamine user at a young age in Galesburg, Illinois, and had many scrapes with the law, including a felony conviction for meth possession. So, when she pleaded guilty to a more serious charge—conspiracy to manufacture and distribute meth—in 2012, she faced an especially harsh prison term.

Richard Dahl

Criminal and Juvenile Justice Clinic Director Erica Zunkel and Her Students Were Instrumental in Securing Sentence Commutations for Robin Peoples, Jasper Vargas, and Dion Walker

On the evening of Saturday, January 18, Clinical Professor Erica Zunkel received a phone call that produced “one of the most powerful moments of [her] professional career.”

Richard Dahl

Five University of Chicago Law School professors have been named among the nation’s top 100 legal scholars in a newly released ranking—two of whom earned spots in the top five.

Professor Emeritus Bill Landes late last year completed teaching his final class, capping a fifty-year career teaching at the Law School.

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Tom Ginsburg Discusses Democracy and the Rule of Law on C-SPAN

Prof. Tom Ginsburg discussed democracy and the rule of law at a symposium at Georgetown Law that was broadcast on C-SPAN. “In my view, democracy requires bureaucracy. It requires a civil service of people who stay there and take political instructions, whoever happens to be power,” he said.

AI Research From Eric Posner, Shivam Saran Featured in Washington Post

Advances in artificial intelligence can prompt heady predictions of utopia and apocalypse. But they can also prompt reflection about the purpose of the human institutions AI threatens to replace. Take a recent University of Chicago paper pitting real federal judges against ChatGPT.

Bridget Fahey Writes About Congressional Authority Over Government Data

Elon Musk’s assertion of power over some of the government’s largest and most sensitive data systems isn’t merely a contravention of American statutory law, administrative norms, and individual privacy rights. It is an act of constitutional restructuring, and should be understood in those terms.

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Events

2017 Coase Lecture -- Law and Economics Workshop -- Professor Anthony Casey

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Tuesday, February 21, 2017 @ 3:30pm

Participating faculty: Omri Ben-Shahar Anthony J. Casey

2016 Coase Lecture: Dhammika Dharmapala

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Tuesday, February 16, 2016 @ 3:45pm

Participating faculty: Omri Ben-Shahar

2015 Coase Lecture: William Hubbard