Supreme Court Preview 2020: Highlights and Perspectives
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. Each fall, the University of Chicago Law School invites faculty members to...
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Listen to lectures by—and discussions with—the University of Chicago Law School's eminent faculty, as well as some very special guests.
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20 of 81 episodesM. Todd Henderson, "The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize..."
"The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize Business & Government" In this CBI, Professor Henderson will examine...
Seyla Benhabib, "The End of the 1951 Refugee Convention?"
The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are among the most important human rights documents of the post-WW II period. Yet the univ...
Joan Biskupic, "Chief Justice John Roberts: Defining the Supreme Court..."
"Chief Justice John Roberts: Defining the Supreme Court as its Leader and at the Center" Joan Biskupic is a full-time CNN legal analyst and...
Saul Levmore, "Addictive Law"
One of Chicago’s Best Ideas was the Coase Theorem, which reminds us daily that people can bargain around law or even before legal interventi...
William Baude and Anthony J. Casey, "Supreme Court Preview 2019: Highlights and Perspectives"
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. Each fall, the University of Chicago Law School invites faculty members to...
Law in the Era of #MeToo: A Conversation with Valerie Jarrett
This keynote for the 2018 Legal Forum Symposium was recorded on November 2, 2018. Valerie B. Jarrett is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the...
Saul Levmore, "If the Common Law was Efficient, Why Did It Decline?"
One of the University of Chicago Law School’s best known ideas or outputs over the last fifty years is that the common law (made by judges a...
Justin Driver, "The Future of the Supreme Court: The Constitution of Public Schools"
Supreme Court decisions affecting the constitutional rights of students in the nation's public schools have consistently generated bitter co...
M. Todd Henderson, "Lawyer CEOs"
Does legal education matter? In this lecture, Professor Todd Henderson presents some data on this question, using the behavior of corporate...
David Bowman, "Alternative Reference Rates: SOFR, LIBOR, and Issues for Transitions"
The choice of new benchmark interest rate should be of special importance to practitioners as well as academics that study law and economics...
John G. Malcolm, "Current Topics in Criminal Justice Reform"
With commentary by Professor Jonathan Masur John G. Malcolm oversees The Heritage Foundation’s work to increase understanding of the Constit...
Mary Anne Case, "Cultivating an Incest Taboo in the Workplace"
The idea that workplaces could benefit from an incest taboo is not one of Chicago’s best, but one of Margaret Mead’s. Professor Mary Anne Ca...
Jonathan S. Masur, "The Behavioral Law & Economics of Happiness"
A central question in law and economics is how people will behave in the presence of legal rules. An essential part of that inquiry is what...
Lior Jacob Strahilevitz, “Interpreting Contracts via Surveys and Experiments”
Interpreting the language of contracts is the most common and least satisfactory task courts perform in contract disputes. In this Chicago’s...
Henry Shue, "Gambling with Their Climate: Future Generations, Negative Emissions, & Risk Transfers"
This lecture defends three main theses: (I) that all decisions about the degree of ambition for emissions mitigation are unavoidably also de...
Supreme Court Preview 2017: Highlights and Perspectives
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. Professors Adam Chilton, Aziz Huq, and Daniel Hemel offer insight into some...
Aaron Nielson, "The Past and Future of Deference: From Justice Scalia to Justice Gorsuch"
With commentary by Professor Daniel Hemel Professor Nielson is a law professor at Brigham Young University and teaches/writes in the areas o...
To POE or Not to POE: The Proper Evidentiary Standard for Campus Sexual Misconduct (A Debate)
Featuring Professors Nancy Chi Cantalupo, Katharine Baker, Daniel Hemel, and Richard Epstein. Moderated by Professor Emily Buss. Presented b...
Gillian Thomas, "Title VII and Women in the Workplace"
Gillian Thomas, staff attorney at the ACLU Women's Rights Project, will discuss issues in her recently-published book, Because of Sex: One L...