Mary Anne Case on State Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages
If you've ever wondered what Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law Mary Anne Case and former Chicago professor (and current Supreme Court Justice) Antonin Scalia might actually agree on, have we got a treat for you. The first Chicago's Best Ideas talk of t...
Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
A talk by Ayesha Siddiqa, Islamabad-based independent political and defence analyst and author.Pakistan has emerged as a strategic ally of the US in the 'war on terror'. It is the third largest receiver of US aid in the world, but it also serves as a b...
Kingship, courts and capitals: Sultanate Delhi in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
Sunil Kumar, Medieval History, University of Delhi; Editor, Indian Social and Economic History review
Moments of self-portraiture in Mughal painting
A talk by Monica Juneja Huneke, Visiting Professor of Middle East and South Asian Studies, Emory University.
Ganesa versus Kusilavau: Myths and Reality of the Oral Composition of the Sanskrit Epics
A special lecture by John Brockington, Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh
Interacting with Animals: A Kantian Account
Christine Korsgaard is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. This talk, the 2008 Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy, was recorded November 5, 2008, as part of Animal Law Week, sponsored by the McCormick Companions' ...
Risk Reversals
Law often allocates risk, as through tort doctrines. Should people be able to undo or "reverse" such risk allocations by, for example, selling their rights to any claims that may later develop? Scholars have interestingly examined this question, as we...
The Hall Branch Library, Vivian G. Harsh, and the Chicago Renaissance
Humanities Day keynote speaker Jacqueline Goldsby talks about the Chicago Renaissance and the University's surprising role in it, as well as the extraordinary accomplishments of Vivian Harsh, the first African American to head a Chicago branch lib...
South Side Bike Tour
Ride along with the South Side History Bike Tour, which began in Washington Park and ended near the Hyde Park home of Barack Obama
Bailouts 1.0: The New Law and the Future
This panel was recorded on October 15, 2008, and sponsored by the Law School Democrats and the Law School Republicans.