Saturday, October 04, 2003
University of Chicago--Law and Philosopy Workshops
- September 29: Richard Posner, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and University of Chicago Law School: The Supreme Court's Sodomy Decision
October 9: Dewey Lecture, Professor Catharine MacKinnon, University of Chicago
and University of Michigan Law Schools
October 13: Andrew Koppelman, Northwestern University Law School: Pornography
for the Whole Family
October 27: Martha Fineman, Emory University Law School: To Be Announced
November 10: Susan Okin, Political Science, Stanford University: Rawls and his
Feminist Critics: Debating Justice and Gender
December 1: Special forum in which Professor Ulrich Preuss, Freie Universität,
Berlin and Visiting Professor, University of Chicago Law School, will present
work on comparative constitutionalism
January 5, 2004: David Novak, Religious Studies, University of Toronto: "Is
Marriage An Item in the Social Contract?”
Note: January 23 to 25, conference on Constitution-Making in Israel and
Palestine, sponsored by the Center for Comparative Constitutionalism
January 26: Justice Michael Kirby, High Court of Australia: Same-Sex Issues in
Comparative Perspective
February 9: Mary Anne Case, University of Chicago Law Schoool: Tentative
topic: On Liking and Not Liking in the Law of Employment Discrimination; Part
II: Cultivating an Incest Taboo in the Workplace
February 23: Carolyn Frantz, University of Chicago Law School: What Do Parents
Owe Children?
March 1: Emily Buss, University of Chicago Law School: The Relationship Between
Procreative and Parental Rights (tentative)
March 29: Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago English Department: To Be
Announced
April 12: Kenji Yoshino, Yale Law School: To Be Announced
April 26: Robin West, Georgetown University Law School: To Be Announced
May 10: Barbara Fried, Stanford University Law School: To Be Announced
May 17: Special symposium on Violence Against Women as a Crime Against
Humanity, sponsored by the Workshop jointly with the Center for Comparative
Constitutionalism. Speakers will include Catharine MacKinnon and Martha
Nussbaum.
