The Visiting Speaker Series is designed to stimulate ideas for new faculty scholarship, promote collaboration with other legal faculties, and to enhance the intellectual life of the law school. The Series invites outstanding scholars from around the country to present works in progress.
Southwestern welcomes its alumni and scholars from other institutions of higher learning to participate as part of the interactive audience free of charge.
In addition, the Faculty Colloquium, held periodically on campus, features Southwestern faculty members presenting works-in-progress.
All lectures will be held at 12:30 p.m. in BW370,
unless otherwise noted. A light lunch will be provided.
Click here for a map and directions to the campus.
Parking is available on campus for $6.Please RSVP to Associate Dean Doreen Heyer
at (213) 738-6801 or academicadmin@swlaw.edu.
2009-2010 Schedule
View the Speakers' Bios (PDF)
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Julie Chi-hye Suk, Associate Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law and Visiting Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Are Gender Stereotypes Bad for Women? Rethinking Antidiscrimination Law and the Work-Family Conflict
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Joseph A. Maciariello, Horton Professor of Management, The Drucker School, Claremont Graduate University
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Heinz Klug, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, and Director, Global Legal Studies Center, University of Wisconsin Law School
Responding to Global Constraints and Opportunities: Access to
Medicines and The Impact of Intellectual Property and Competition Rules
in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Richard Primus, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Title VII after Ricci v. DeStefano
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Melissa Murray, Assistant Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Disestablishing the Family
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Seana Shiffrin, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Inducing Moral Deliberation
Monday, February 1, 2010
Marjorie M. Schultz, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Predicting Lawyer Effectiveness: A New Approach to Law School Admission
Friday, February 5, 2010
Horacio Spector, Dean and Professor of Law, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Author of "Autonomy & Rights: The Moral Foundations of Liberalism"
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Douglas Lichtman, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Fair Use Fictions
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Robert Mnookin, Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard; Chair of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School; Director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project
This lecture will take place on the second floor of the Bullocks Wilshire Building.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Stephen Vladeck, Associate Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
The Supreme Court and the Demise of Common-Law Habeas Corpus
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Marc Galanter, John & Rylla Bosshard Professor Emeritus of Law and South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Centennial Professor, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science
Thursday, March 11, 2010*
Treusch Public Service Lecture
Hon. Denise Moreno Ducheny '79, Senator, State of California, District 40 (San Diego)
*Senator Ducheny's appearance, originally scheduled for Thursday, March 11, had to be cancelled due to a special session vote and will be rescheduled. Information will be posted as it becomes available.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Jason Solomon, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law
The Legitimacy of Civil Justice
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Treusch Public Service Lecture
Noah R. Feldman, Bemis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
What Crime Did the Nazis Commit? Nuremberg and the Rule of Law
This lecture will take place in BW390.
TBA
The Hon. Ricardo Hinojosa
Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission
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