Understanding Corporate Philanthropy
On January 16, Anup Malani gave a Chicago's Best Ideas talk entitled "Understanding Corporate Philanthropy." Since we're feeling philanthropical ourselves, we're making a recording of the talk available here.Here is the blurb for the talk:Much of curr...
2008 Coase Lecture: "Slices and Lumps"
On February 19, Professor of Law Lee Fennell presented the 2008 Coase Lecture on Law and Economics. Problems involving the aggregation and division of entitlements, she noted, are ubiquitous in law and in everyday life. Fragments held by multiple parti...
Levmore on "Climate Change and the Battle of the Generations"
Why have we taken so few precautions in the face of threatening climate change? In a February Chicago's Best Ideas talk entitled "Climate Change and the Battle of the Generations" Dean Saul Levmore focused on the difficulty of dealing with a long-off t...
In Cautious Praise of the Commodification of Genetic Materials
In April 2008, the Law School's Law and Economics Program hosted a conferenceentitled "Contested Commodities: Reframing the Debate on Financial Incentives in the Supply of Genetic Materials." The conference, which was organized by Visiting Professor o...
The 2008 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture:"Equal Respect for Conscience: The Roots of a Moral and Legal Tradition"
On May 14, Martha Nussbaum presented the2008 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture. The Ryerson Lectures grew out of a 1972 bequest to the University by Nora and Edward L. Ryerson, a former Chairman of the Board. The University's faculty selects each Ryerson...
Is the Administrative State Consistent with the Rule of Law?
Without question, the most distinctive feature of the modern social democratic state is the rise of administrative agencies, which at the federal level function as a shadowy Fourth Branch of government that fits uneasily into our constitutional scheme ...
The World of the Framers: A Christian Nation?
It has become commonplace in American political discourse for Christian evangelicals to assert that the United States was founded as a "Christian nation" and that in recent decades secularists have gained control and distorted our nation's founding tr...
Predicting Crime (without the Pre-Cogs)
In the absence of pre-cognitive superbeings and Tom Cruise, how are police and policy makers supposed to allocate scarce crime-fighting resources? There is a vibrant academic literature on predicting crime, with models of various types offered as the ...
Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq
A talk by Dahr Jamail, independent journalist reporting from Iraq.As the occupation of Iraq unravels, the demand for independent reporting is growing. Since 2003, unembedded journalist Dahr Jamail has filed indispensable reports from Iraq that have mad...
The Talibanization of South Asia: Can it Be Stopped?
A talk by Pervez Hoodbhoy, Department of Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy received his bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics, master's in solid state physics, and Ph.D in nuclear physics, all from t...