The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Podcast: Episodes
<p>This talk was presented on October 16, 2009 at the <a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/../../comparativeconstitutionaldesign">Conference on Comparative Constitutional Design</a> at the University of Chicago Law School. Eric Posner is Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago ...
<p>This talk was recorded on October 17, 2009 as part of the Conference Comparative Constitutional Design held at the Unversity of Chicago Law School. Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Rajmohan Gandhi (University of Illinois) provides ...
<p>Legal scholars praise "incrementalism" and "minimalism" in law, which is to say the idea that law should progress in small steps and lawmakers should intervene less rather than more. But the acclaim for these approaches ignores the role of interest groups in our legal system. There are many issues ...
<p>What work do the categories "the free market" and "regulation" do for us? Why do we incarcerate one out of every one hundred adults? These seemingly unrelated questions, it turns out, are deeply interconnected. The categories of free and regulated markets emerged as an effort to make sense of irreducibly ...
<p>The University of Chicago Law School's "Shakespeare and the Law" conference brought together thinkers from law, literature, and philosophy to investigate the legal dimensions of Shakespeare's plays. Participants explored the ways in which the plays show awareness of law and legal regimes and comment ...
<p>This panel discussion was recorded on October 20, 2009 and was sponsored by <a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/studentorgs/outlaw">Outlaw</a>, the <a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/studentorgs/lsd">Law School Democrats</a>, and the <a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/studentorgs/lsr">Law School ...
<p><a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/ginsburg-t">Tom Ginsburg</a> is Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. This paper, co-written with Zachary Elkins (University of Texas at Austin School of Law) and James Melton (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy) was presented ...
<p><a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/siegler">Alison Siegler</a> is Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and <span>is the Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic’s <a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/clinics/mandel/fcjp">Federal Criminal Justice ...
<p>Jonathan Masur is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. This talk was recorded October 5, 2009 as part of the Law School's annual First Monday Lecture Series.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UChicagoLawFacultyPodcast/~4/bAbfsdHSf0I" height="1" width="1" />
<p>This Chicago's Best Ideas lecture was recorded May 2, 2009, as part of the Law School's annual reunion festivities. Douglas Baird is Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UChicagoLawFacultyPodcast/~4/V7ZPCabUUwg" ...
<p>Assistant Clinical Professor of Law <a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/siegler">Alison Siegler</a>, as well as students Stephanie Holmes, Brynn Lyerly, Emma Mittelstaedt, Chris Stanton, Daniel Bork, Kristin Love, and James Burnham, discuss the work of the <a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/clinics/mandel/fcjp">Federal ...
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<p>We are all familiar with the Nanny State: governments telling us what we can put in our bodies, to wear seatbelts, not to talk on our cell phones while driving, and so on. But governments are not the only institutions that act paternalistically—we are ...
<p>We are all familiar with the Nanny State: governments telling us what we can put in our bodies, to wear seatbelts, not to talk on our cell phones while driving, and so on. But governments are not the only institutions that act paternalistically—we are ...
<p>This talk was recorded May 1, 2009, at the University of Chicago Law School's annual Loop Luncheon. Richard Epstein is James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UChicagoLawFacultyPodcast/~4/ZwuxAXTW0eE" height="1" ...
<p>M. Gregg Bloche, M.D., J.D., was Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, and Non-Resident Senior Fellow (on leave) at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Bloche recently worked with the Obama campaign to help draft Obama's health proposal, ...
In its classic form, a “decisive” pitched battle was a beautifully contained event, lasting a single day, killing only combatants, and resolving legal questions of immense significance. Yet since the mid-nineteenth century, pitched battles no longer decide wars, which now routinely degenerate into ...
<p>In its classic form, a “decisive” pitched battle was a beautifully contained event, lasting a single day, killing only combatants, and resolving legal questions of immense significance. Yet since the mid-nineteenth century, pitched battles no longer decide wars, which now routinely degenerate ...
Gary Haugen is a 1991 graduate of the Law School and President and CEO of International Justice Mission, a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. He received the Law School's Distinguished Citizen Award. Richard Posner ...
<p>Gary Haugen is a 1991 graduate of the Law School and President and CEO of International Justice Mission, a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. He received the Law School's Distinguished Citizen Award. Richard Posner ...
<p>The Enlightenment took us from a world of Empire to an Age of Reason and equality in the public sphere. But it left the private spheres of culture and religion in the Dark Ages of imposition and unreason. In the Enlightenment worldview, freedom in the public sphere is freedom itself. Human rights ...
The Enlightenment took us from a world of Empire to an Age of Reason and equality in the public sphere. But it left the private spheres of culture and religion in the Dark Ages of imposition and unreason. In the Enlightenment worldview, freedom in the public sphere is freedom itself. Human rights came ...