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The Hon. Louise Arbour delivers the 2008-09 Judge John O. Newman Lecture on Global Justice
13 April 09 09:13 AM | tyson | (Comments Off)   
The Hon. Louise Arbour, former United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights March 23, 2009 In the 2008-09 Judge John O. Newman Lecture on Global Justice, the Honorable Louise Arbour spoke on "Peace and Justice: A framework for Co-existence". Read More...
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Heather Gerken on her book, "The Democracy Index: Why our Election System is Failing and How to Fix It."
09 April 09 08:48 AM | tyson | (Comments Off)   
April 2, 2009 Heather Gerken, J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law Heather Gerken discusses her new book The Democracy Index: Why our Election System is Failing and How to Fix It , in which she proposes a ranking system that would rate the performance of Read More...
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Professor Bob Ellickson on his book, "The Household: Informal Order Around the Hearth"
17 February 09 12:10 PM | tyson | (Comments Off)   
February 12, 2009 Robert Ellickson, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law In this episode we speak with Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law Robert Ellickson, the author of The Household: Informal Order Around the Hearth . Read More...
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Peacekeeping: Testing the Limits of the Concept of an International Community
21 January 09 02:20 PM | tyson | (Comments Off)   
December 8, 2008 Jean-Marie Guehenno, 2000-2008 Undersecretary General for Peacekeeping Operations at the UN UN Undersecretary General Guehenno discusses global conflicts during his tenure. Read More...
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Daniel Markovits '00 on his book, "A Modern Legal Ethics"
12 January 09 11:21 AM | tyson | (Comments Off)   
December 10, 2008 Daniel Markovits '00, Professor of Law, Yale Law School Professor Markovits discusses his new book, "A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age," in which he proposes a wholesale renovation of legal ethics. Read More...
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“Re-Envisioning the Civil Rights Movement: Courts, Communities, and Legal Liberalism,” the James A. Thomas Lecture at Yale Law School
25 November 08 08:12 AM | tyson | (Comments Off)   
November 3, 2008 Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Professor of Law and History, University of Virginia Virginia law and history professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin ’97 discusses what the civil rights movement might have looked like if legal historians had been able to construct Read More...
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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)   
April 7, 2008 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 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)   
March 10, 2008 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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A conversation about “100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States.”
15 January 08 12:25 PM | gracep | (Comments Off)   
January 11, 2008 Michael J. Graetz, Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law, Yale Law School Professor Michael Graetz discusses the ideas presented in his new book “100 Million Unnecessary Returns” in which he takes on the U.S. tax code, arguing that the 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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“An Improbable Career: Doing What You Think is Right”
05 December 07 03:32 PM | gracep | (Comments Off)   
October 30, 2007 Judge Nancy Gertner, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts Judge Nancy Gertner, a 1971 graduate and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School, discusses the career choices she made on the path to becoming a judge. 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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“The Declining Number of Players in the Retirement Income Game: The Implications for the Individual and Government”
23 March 07 01:17 PM | gracep | (Comments Off)   
March 6, 2007 Alicia H. Munnell, Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences, Carroll School of Management, Boston College Alicia Munnell, discusses the implications of the number of players in the retirement income game dropping from three (government, Read More...
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“The Declining Number of Players in the Retirement Income Game: The Withdrawal of Business”
23 March 07 01:01 PM | gracep | (Comments Off)   
March 5, 2007 Alicia H. Munnell, Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences, Carroll School of Management, Boston College Alicia Munnell discusses the implications of the number of players in the retirement income game dropping from three (government, Read More...
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An Urban Mayor’s Perspective on Public Interest Advocacy
12 March 07 09:16 PM | admin | (Comments Off)   
March 1, 2007 Cory Booker '97, Mayor of Newark, NJ Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J., gives the keynote address at the 10 th Annual Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Colloquium. Read More...
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"A Matter of Principle: Vince Foster and the Attorney-Client Privilege"
15 February 07 09:07 AM | gracep | (Comments Off)   
September 26, 2006 James Hamilton '63, Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP Attorney James Hamilton discusses issues surrounding Vince Foster and the legal concept of attorney-client privilege. Read More...
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