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19 Feb 2018, 12:21 pm by UChicagoLaw
A central question in law and economics is how people will behave in the presence of legal rules. [read post]
27 Jan 2020, 10:59 am by UChicagoLaw
The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are among the most important human rights documents of the post-WW II period. [read post]
17 Jul 2015, 10:09 am by UChicagoLaw
Even for those among us who are not altogether convinced by Isaiah Berlin's famous essay "Two Concepts of Liberty," it has by now become commonplace to adopt a distinction between "negative" and "positive" liberties that largely coincides with the one he offered. [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 12:37 pm by UChicagoLaw
Supreme ​Court ​Preview: ​ Constitutional ​Interpretation ​at ​the ​Roberts ​Court Hear Professors ​Justin ​Driver, ​Jennifer ​Nou, ​and ​David ​Strauss​discuss ​what ​divides ​the ​current ​Court ​and ​what ​unites ​it. ​Their ​lecture ​will ​be ​followed ​by ​a ​lively ​Q&A ​session… [read post]
3 Mar 2015, 10:34 am by UChicagoLaw
This panel was moderated by Professor Siegler and included Deputy Dean Ginsburg and Professors Huq, McAdams, and Randolph Stone. [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 12:37 pm by Aaron Rester
Before I dive into the CSS, however, I need to figure out what it is that UChicagoLaw’s mobile are (or would like to be) using our site for. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 2:21 pm by UChicagoLaw
The choice of new benchmark interest rate should be of special importance to practitioners as well as academics that study law and economics. [read post]
21 Nov 2017, 9:12 am by UChicagoLaw
This lecture defends three main theses: (I) that all decisions about the degree of ambition for emissions mitigation are unavoidably also decisions about how to distribute risk across generations and, more specifically, (II) that the less ambitious the mitigation is, the more inherently objectionable the resulting inter-generational risk distribution is, and (III) that mitigation that is so lacking in ambition that it bequeaths risks that remain unlimited, when the risks could have been limited… [read post]
2 Dec 2019, 1:59 pm by UChicagoLaw
"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 author of a 2019 biography of Chief Justice John Roberts. [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 6:54 am by UChicagoLaw
Recent efforts by opponents of same-sex marriage and reproductive rights to reorient their agenda around religious freedom have sparked an explosion of scholarship on religious claims for exemption from generally applicable laws. [read post]
5 Feb 2020, 3:01 pm by UChicagoLaw
"The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize Business & Government" In this CBI, Professor Henderson will examine how Internet platforms--eBay, Uber, AirBnB--relate to the Code of Hammurabi, Medieval guilds, the New York Stock Exchange, and corporate brands. [read post]
6 May 2015, 11:49 am by UChicagoLaw
A Kreisman Housing Breakfast Series event co-sponsored by the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago and the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics Led by University of Chicago environmental lawyer Mark Templeton, an expert panel will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different public and private approaches for addressing the impacts of climate change on infrastructure and housing. [read post]
18 Nov 2014, 2:54 pm by UChicagoLaw
While scholars in most fields argue about how laws can be changed to maximize their effectiveness, scholars of international law still regularly debate whether many of the most prominent international agreements have any effect on state behavior. [read post]
12 Feb 2018, 2:35 pm by UChicagoLaw
Interpreting the language of contracts is the most common and least satisfactory task courts perform in contract disputes. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 3:03 pm by UChicagoLaw
Chief Judge Diane Wood presents "Making Your Voice Heard" and speaks on issues related to women's professional development and the difficulties they face. [read post]
10 Nov 2015, 1:11 pm by UChicagoLaw
Panelists: - Don Harmon, JD’95, Illinois State Senator - Dan Johnson, JD’00, Progressive Public Affairs - Blake Sercye, JD'11, Associate, Jenner & Block - Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Assistant Professor of Law Hosted by the University of Chicago Law School’s Regional Alumni Committee at Skadden Arps in Chicago. [read post]