Law and Political Economy Workshop

Professors Jack Landman Goldsmith and Adrian Vermeule

Sessions are held from 4:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.

Winter and Spring 2007

January 31, 2007
Cass Sunstein, Chicago Law School
“If People Would be Outraged by Their Rulings, Should Judges Care?”

February 14, 2007
Jon Elster, Columbia University, Political Science Department
“Unwritten Constitutional Norms”

February 28, 2007
Richard Posner, University of Chicago Law School
“Presidential Power and National Security”

March 14, 2007
Richard Arneson, University of California at San Diego, Philosophy Department
“Luck Egalitarianism - A Primer”

March 21, 2007
Christine Jolls, Yale Law School
“Equality's Tools”

April 11, 2007
Gillian Hadfield, University of Southern California Law School
“To Govern and Be Governed in Turn: Learning about Civil Litigation and Democracy from the Victims of September 11”

April 18, 2007
Jim Fearon, Stanford University, Political Science Department
“Catastrophic Terrorism and Civil Liberties in the Short and Long Run”

Fall 2006

September 20, 2006
Steven Croley, Michigan Law School
“Regulation and Public Interests: On the Possibility of Good Regulatory Government”

October 4, 2006
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University, Economics Department
“Judicial Fact Discretion”

November 1, 2006
Matt Adler, University of Pennsylvania Law School
“The Time-Slice Problem: Should Welfarists Care About Lifetime or Sublifetime Well-Being?”

November 15, 2006
Samuel Issacharoff, New York University Law School
“Fragile Democracies"

December 6, 2006
Lewis Kornhauser, New York University Law School
“The Legal Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law”