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Law School Events,1998-99

Northwestern Law Events Academic Year 1998-99

Law School News, 1998-99

Law School News Releases, 1998-99

1998-99 events:

March 1-4, 1999

Law School Diversity Week

The Law School's student-sponsored Diversity Coalition has organized Diversity Week, during which members of the Law School community will think about and discuss diversity in law, in the Law School community and in the Legal Profession. All events will be held at the Law School and are open to the public at no charge.

The schedule includes the following:

March 1, Noon, Lincoln Hall: Keynote speeches by Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. and Illinois State Senator Barack Obama.

March 1, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Atrium: Community Organizations' Fair and Display.

March 2, Noon, Rubloff 140: Diversity Training Workshop.

March 2, 4:30 p.m.- 6 p.m., Rubloff 140: Student Panel Discussion, "Diversity at Northwestern Law?"

March 3, Noon, Rubloff 140: Faculty Roundtable

March 3, 4:30p.m.-6 p.m., Rubloff 140: "Religious Diversity"

March 4, Noon, Rubloff 140: "Diversity in the Legal Profession"

March 4, 6:30 p.m.- 11 p.m.: "World Beat..A Celebration Party", featuring "A Taste of Northwestern".

Proceeds to benefit public interest scholarships. For more information, contact co-chairs Shobha Mahadev (s-mahadev@northwestern.edu) or Fernando Rojas (f-rojas@northwestern.edu).

January - May, 1999

Juvenile Court Commemorative Speaker Series

The Law School's Children and Family Justice Center is co-sponsoring a series of events to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first children's court in the world, founded in Chicago by Jane Addams, Lucy Flower, Julia Lathrop and other crusaders for children. Included in the commemorative events is a distinguished speaker series which is open to the public and free of charge.

Dates and scheduled speakers are:

January 26, 1999, 6:00-7:30 p.m., Lincoln Hall, 357 E. Chicago Ave.

Franklin Zimring (law professor, criminal and juvenile justice expert, and author of numerous books and articles, including most recently American Youth Violence) and James Bell (Staff Attorney at Youth Law Center, litigator on behalf of children who are incarcerated in unsafe institutions, and winner of prestigious ABA Livingstone Hall Award for outstanding juvenile advocacy) will discuss the myths and realities of youth violence and its implications for the juvenile court.

February 17, 1999 (6:00 p.m. Lincoln Hall, 357 East Chicago Avenue)
LeAlan Jones, at age 13, with his 14-year-old friend Lloyd Neuman, created "Ghetto Life 101," a powerful documentary of growing up in the Ida B. Wells homes. They also did a documentary entitled "Remorse: the 14 Stories of Eric Morse." It told the tragic story of the death of Eric Morse, a five-year-old boy who was dropped out of the 14th story window of an Ida B. Wells building. Now 19, and a student at Florida State University, Jones will share his life experiences and his insights into how America needs to alleviate the suffering of children in its most blighted communities.

February 18, 1999 5:00 p.m., Thorne Auditorium, 375 E. Chicago Ave.)
Cornel West, one of America's most popular public intellectuals, and esteemed writer Sylvia Ann Hewlett, who together wrote the highly acclaimed book "The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America's Beleaguered Moms and Dads," will deliver keynote addresses at 5 p.m. during the conference, "Who Are the Children of Illinois? Building a Charter for the Future." Co-sponsored by The Children and Family Justice Center at the Northwestern University School of Law's Legal Clinic and Voices for Illinois Children, the conference will run February. 18-20. It will examine the role of parents and community in raising children, paralleling a meeting held in 1898 that was concerned with the same issues. Ultimately, the 1898 meeting led to the establishment of the first juvenile court in the world. The conference will examine children's needs in the areas of health, education, safety, families' economic security and art, recreation and culture. Participants will create a Children's Charter, a comprehensive statement assessing children's needs in those areas.

March 3, 1999 (6:00 p.m. Rubloff Auditorium, Loyola University School of Law))
Thomas Grisso, professor of psychiatry and director of forensic training and research at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, will discuss mental health issues of many of the children of juvenile court, with emphasis on the competency of these children to comprehend their basic constitutional rights, to understand the nature of juvenile court proceedings, and to assist in their defense. Many of his ideas are featured in his new book, "Forensic Evaluation of Juveniles."

Mike A. Males, the author of "The Scapegoat Generation: America's War on Adolescents" and his most recent work, "Framing Youth: Ten Myths About the Next Generation, " He will share his view that the undue and excessive focus on "teenage" problems diverts attention from the real source of many of their problems, adults. The habits of adults, particularly parents, are perhaps the strongest influence on the behavior of youths, and Males will discuss the implications of his findings on the future of the juvenile justice system.

April 7, 1999 (time and location to be determined)
Gitta Sereny, one of Europe's most distinguished journalists, will speak about her most recent book, England's controversial bestseller, "Cries Unheard, the Story of Mary Bell." The book chronicles the life of Bell, who, in 1968 at age 11, killed two small boys in Newcastle, England within a span of weeks. Twenty-seven years after her conviction, Bell agreed to talk with Sereny to help her answer the question of what brought Mary Bell to kill the two boys. "Cries Unheard" is a wrenching account of a girl's shattered life and a woman's struggle for moral regeneration.

April 21 (time and location to be determined)
Angela Y. Davis, the renowned activist, academic, and author, will speak about her effort to spearhead a national movement to stem the growth of the prison-industrial complex, a growth which, she says, is being fed by an influx of younger, predominantly African-American and Latino men.

April 10, 1999

Symposium on Legal Citation Research

Interest in citation research is growing as scholars recognize that the objectivity inherent in citations allows scholars to model them more easily than subjective evaluations. This objectivity and ease of statistical modeling is bought at the cost of substantial doubts about the validity of citation measures. Chaired by Professor James Lindgren, this symposium will explore potential uses of citation research, as well as make comparisons between this mode of analysis and other objective and subjective measures of scholarly influence, productivity, and quality.

In addition to Professor Lindgren, probable presenters include: Ian Ayres, William K. Townsend Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Theodore Eisenberg, Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law, Cornell Law School; Robert Ellickson, Walter E Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law at Yale Law School; William M. Landes, Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Law School; The Honorable Richard Posner, Judge, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment and Academic Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Virginia Wise, Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School; Fred Shapiro, Associate Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Research, Yale Law School; Brian Leiter, Joe A. Worsham Centennial Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Texas Law School; and Deborah Jones Merritt, John D. Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair and Professor of Law Ohio State University School of Law. The symposium will be published in The Journal of Legal Studies.

March 8, 9 and 10, 1999

The Julius Rosenthal Foundation Lectures (Series Two)

Robert C. Ellickson will be presenting the second series of Rosenthal Lectures, entitled "Why Property Works." Each lecture will take place at the Law School beginning at noon.

Titles of the individual lectures are:
Monday, March 8, "Property Rights in Paradise"
Tuesday, March 9, "The Logic of Private Property"
Wednesday, March 10, "The History of Property"

Robert C. Ellickson (AB, Oberlin College; LLB, Yale Law School) Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law at Yale Law School, is one of America's foremost scholars in property law, land-use regulation, and housing and urban issues. Professor Ellickson approaches legal issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. While generally employing law-and-economic analysis, he has enriched that approach with insights from history, cognitive psychology, and sociology. A recurring theme in his work is that informal social norms can be more influential than formal legal rules.

He is the author of Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes (1991) (co-winner the Order of the Coif Triennial Award in 1996); and Perspectives on Property Law (2d ed. 1995) (with Carol Rose and Bruce A. Ackerman). The second edition of his casebook Land Use Controls, co-authored with Vicki Been, will appear in late 1999. He has also written more than 30 articles on property and land use issues. Before joining the Yale faculty, Professor Ellickson was the Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law at Stanford Law School. He also served on the faculty of the University of Southern California Law Center and was the attorney-advisor for the President's Committee on Urban Housing (Kaiser Committee), where he was a major contributor to the Committee's final report, A Decent Home.

In his Rosenthal lectures, Professor Ellickson will analyze the tension between the widespread hungering for communal property (as reflected in the Bible and the works of Plato, Rousseau, and Marx), and the reality that private ownership turns out to better serve human ends. Focusing on rights in land, he will explore the inner logic of the institution of private property and show how this institution has demonstrated its worth in all eras of recorded human history. Professor Ellickson intends to use his Rosenthal Lectures as the basis for a book, Why Private Property Works.

January 29, 1999

Faculty Symposium: Relational Contract Theory: Unanswered Questions

Chaired by Richard E. Speidel, Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law, this symposium honored the scholarship of Northwestern's Ian R. Macneil, John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law, one of the world's foremost scholars in the fields of contracts, arbitration and sales transactions.

January 18, 1999

Beyond the Dream: Where Do we Go From Here?
A Remembrance of the Accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

On January 18th the Law School's D.R.E.A.M. Committee hosted a program of activities in remembrance of the accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The program, open to all members of the Northwestern community as well as the public, featured an address by The Honorable R. Eugene Pincham, '51, retired Illinois Appellate Court Justice, a remembrance by law professor Marshall Shapo, a vocal performance by Barbara Johnson and interpretative readings of Dr. King's work by award winning actor Darryl Alan Reed.

photos


December 4-5, 1998; December 10, 1998

Commemoration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which recognizes not only the traditional civil and political rights familiar to American, but also the basic economic and social rights now embodied in many constitutions of the world. The Law School hosted two events to commemorate the Declaration, which has had a profound impact on the development of international human rights law and consciousness:

 

December 4-5: Stand Together for Human Rights: A Midwest Celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Presented by the Law School's Children and Family Justice Center, the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights, Amnesty International, the City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations and The Stanley Foundation. The Conference opened with a one-woman show starring Vanessa Redgrave on Friday evening, December 4. On Saturday, December 5, the Conference featured workshops on human rights issues and an awards lunch. For further information contact the Children and Family Justice Center at (312) 503-0396 or Nancy Bothne at (312) 435-6391.

December 10: Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
December 10: Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Law School, in collaboration with The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and The Great Books Foundation, hosted a dinner celebrating the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration. This dinner also served to formally introduce the Law School's Center for International Human Rights and its director, Doug Cassel and featured an address by Mr. Cassel entitled "The Universal Declaration at Fifty: Changing the World." At the celebration, Northwestern Professor Anthony D'Amato was presented with the Center's first Human Rights Award Additional information about the Center can be obtained at the Center's Web site.

November 13-15, 1998

National Conference on Wrongful Convictions and the Death Penalty

Organized by Professor Lawrence C. Marshall, the conference will bring together lawyers, scientists, journalists, investigators and activists to address the issue of wrongful convictions in death penalty cases and to formulate solutions. The conference will include general sessions on broad public policy issues related to the death penalty as well as educational sessions for those who participate in the defense of those charged in death penalty cases. A number of former death row inmates who were subsequently exonerated will also be present and describe their experiences.

More conference information

October 9, 1998

Faculty Symposium: Free Speech and Economic Power

Chaired by the distinguished scholar Martin H. Redish, the Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy at Northwestern, the symposium addressed the modern intersection between free expression and economic power. Among the issues addressed were First Amendment protection for tobacco advertising, the constitutionality of campaign reform and the power of government to open powerful private centers of communication to the expression of those not normally heard.

Symposium Audio now available

Symposium brochure and photos

Friday, September 23 through Sunday, September 25, 1998

Second Annual Juvenile Defender Leadership Summit

The second annual Juvenile Defender Leadership Summit took place in Lincoln Hall Friday, October 23, through Sunday, October 25. The Summit is co-sponsored by the Law School's Legal Clinic and the American Bar Association. It brought to our school lawyers and others engaged in the representation and defense of juveniles in courts around the country.

September 14-16, 1998

The Julius Rosenthal Foundation Lecture Series (Series One)

Nobel laureate Amartya Kumar Sen, one of the world's most distinguished economists/philosophers, is the Lamont University professor Emeritus at Harvard University and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He received the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics. Professor Sen spoke on "the Domain of Justice" in three lectures entitled "Responsibility and Comprehensive Consequence," "Justice and Assertive Incompleteness," and "Rights and Imperfect Obligation."

Full audio of Professor Sen's lectures

 

 
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