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“Confronting the Threats to Our Homeland,” the Sam and Ronnie Heyman Lecture on Public Service at Yale Law School
10 April 08 07:46 AM | gracep | (Comments Off)   
4/7/08 Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff discusses how the Department prepares for and mitigates threats to our national security. Secretary Chertoff’s lecture was the Sam and Ronnie Heyman Lecture on Read More...
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“Burden Sharing in an Age of Migration,” the 2007-2008 James A. Thomas Lecture at Yale Law School
09 April 08 05:46 PM | gracep | (Comments Off)   
3/10/08 Cristina Rodriguez, Professor of Law, New York University Cristina Rodriguez discusses how political, legal, and cultural burdens should be distributed and shared to help countries manage the change produced by immigration. Professor Rodriguez’s Read More...
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The Real Clash of Civilizations: Democracy, Religious Violence, and the Case of India”
20 December 07 07:16 AM | gracep | (Comments Off)   
December 3, 2007 Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Law School and Divinity School, at The University of Chicago Professor Martha C. Nussbaum presents the 2007-2008 Sherrill Lecture, Read More...
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"Partly Laws Common to All Mankind”: Foreign Law in American Courts, Part 3
11 October 07 12:26 PM | gracep | (Comments Off)   
The 2007 Storrs Lectures September 12, 2007 Jeremy Waldron, University Professor, New York University Law School Jeremy Waldron discusses whether it is ever appropriate for American judges to be influenced in their decision by what they know of the laws Read More...
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"Partly Laws Common to All Mankind”: Foreign Law in American Courts, Part 2
11 October 07 12:19 PM | gracep | (Comments Off)   
The 2007 Storrs Lectures September 11, 2007 Jeremy Waldron, University Professor, New York University Law School Jeremy Waldron discusses whether it is ever appropriate for American judges to be influenced in their decision by what they know of the laws Read More...
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"Partly Laws Common to All Mankind”: Foreign Law in American Courts
11 October 07 11:41 AM | gracep | (Comments Off)   
The 2007 Storrs Lectures September 10, 2007 Jeremy Waldron, University Professor, New York University Law School Jeremy Waldron discusses whether it is ever appropriate for American judges to be influenced in their decision by what they know of the laws Read More...
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Empire and Tolerance: The Rise and Fall of World Dominant Powers
18 April 07 02:25 PM | gracep | (Comments Off)   
April 9, 2007 Amy Chua, John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua, giving her inaugural lecture as the John M. Duff Professor, provides a historical overview of world-dominant powers and discusses the possibility--and desirability--of Read More...
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"A World of Law—Then and Now"
23 March 07 02:33 PM | gracep | (Comments Off)   
March 12, 2007 Theodore C. Sorensen, former Special Counsel to President John F. Kennedy Theodore Sorensen, former Special Counsel to President John F. Kennedy and currently of counsel to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, discusses John F. Read More...
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“Life as President of the International Court of Justice"
15 February 07 09:14 AM | gracep | (Comments Off)   
October 19, 2006 Rosalyn C. Higgins ’62 J.S.D., President, International Court of Justice, The Hague Rosalyn C. Higgins gives an informal talk on what life is like as the head of the International Court of Justice. Read More...
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"How to Change the Litigation Culture"
14 February 07 07:03 PM | gracep | (Comments Off)   
September 18, 2006 Lord Woolf of Barnes, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Royal Courts of Justice, U.K. The Right Honorable Lord Woolf of Barnes speaks on the topic of how to change society's "litigation culture." Read More...
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