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 $8.Please RSVP to Senior Associate Dean Doreen Heyer
at (213) 738-6801 or academicadmin@swlaw.edu.
2012 - 2013 Speaker Series
Spring 2013 Brochure (PDF)
Monday, February 4, 2013
Laura Rothstein
Professor of Law and Distinguished University Scholar, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville
"Disability Discrimination Law: Forty Years After the Rehabilitation Act - Current Issues for Law School and the Legal Profession"
Monday, February 11, 2013 - CANCELLED
Charlie Halpern
Lecturer; Director of Berkeley Initiative for Mindfulness in Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
"Bringing Meditation Into the Law School: A Decade of Experience At Berkeley Law"
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Peter Blanck
University Professor, Chairman, Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University
"e-Quality 3.0: The Right to the Web for People with Cognitive Disabilities"
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Deborah Gershenowitz
Senior Editor, Cambridge University Press
"Getting Your Book Published"
Friday, April 5, 2013
Amanda Hollis-Brusky
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Politics, Pomona College
Rachel VanSickle-Ward
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Pitzer College
"An [Un]clear Conscience Clause: The Causes and Consequences of Statutory Ambiguity in State Contraceptive Mandates"
