Lectures

National Security Forum

Completed forum events

• The Dark Side of Counter-Terrorism
  9/11: Lessons left to learn, the future of counterterrorism
  Special Tactics for a Secret War
  Author Mark Bowden
  Lawfare: Terrorism and the Courts
  This call may be monitored: Is NSA wiretapping legal?

   

Public Square Lecture Series 2005–06

Completed 2005-06 Public Square Lectures

• Three Branches, One Vote
  Are Gay Rights Civil Rights?
• Judges, the Law, and Morality
• The Sacred Right of Voting
• Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture
• Special Tactics for a Secret War
• Katrina and Beyond: Coping with Disaster

Spring CLE Series for Attorneys - featuring faculty speakers

Completed Spring CLE lectures

• Key Developments in Tort Law - with Profs. Steenson and Prince
• Cross-Cultural Dispute Resolution - with Prof. Ver Ploeg
• Best of the Legal Web - with librarian Neal Axton
• Rules of Professional Conduct - with Prof. Heidenreich

Other lectures

• Hate Crimes: Exploring R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul
• Hauwa Ibrahim's Quest of Justice in Nigeria

Conferences and Symposia

Completed Conferences 2005-06

• Law Review Symposium: 8 Cases You Need to Know
• Animal Law Conference
  No Strings Attached—Regulating Judicial Campaign Speech
• At the Margins—Policy and Management Options for the Most Dangerous Sex Offenders
• IP Symposium 2006: PCT and the International Patent System
• State-of-the Art Use of Actuarial Instruments in the Forensic Assessment of Sex Offenders PDF, 72 Kb
• Regional Lavender Law Conference 2005
• Juvenile Justice Symposium

Legal Theory Workshops (faculty lectures)

Backward-Looking Laws and Equal Protection: The Case of Black Reparations Professor Daniel A. Farber, director, Environmental Law Program, University of California, Berkeley School of Law

A High Likelihood of Confusion: Walmart, TrafFix, Moseley, and Dastar-The Supreme Court's New Trademark Jurisprudence Professor Sheldon Halpern, Harold R. Tyler Chair in Law and Technology, Albany Law School speaks Feb. 2, 2006.

• Professor Halpern's biography

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