Fall 2012 Workshop

The 10th Annual Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture, John Comaroff (University of Chicago) Title: "Divine Detection:  Crime and the Metaphysics of Disorder"  Location: Town & Gown Time:  4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Reception to follow.  

USC Gould School of Law, a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider, certifies that this activity qualifies for minimum continuing legal education credit in the amount of 1 hour. This event may or may not meet the requirements for continuing legal education in other states. Please check with the bar association or Supreme Court in the state in which you are seeking credit to determine if the event is eligible.

Norga Morag- Levine (Michigan State University), Topic: "Facts, Formalism and the Brandeis Brief: The Making of a Myth"

Sven Beckert (Harvard University, History Department), Topic: "Labor Regimens After Emancipation: The United States Civil War and the Integration of the Global Countryside into the Empire of Cotton." This will be a joint workshop with the Center in Law, Economics and Organization.

Peter Baldwin (University of California, Los Angeles), Topic. "The Strange Birth of the Author's Moral Rights in Fascist Europe."

Kerry Abrams (University of Virginia School of Law), Topic: "A Legal Home: Derivative Domicile and Women's Citizenship."

Chimène Keitner (USC Gould School of Law, visiting from UC Hastings College of the Law), Panel Discussion, "The Paradoxes of Nationalism." Commentators: David Myers (UCLA History Department) And Patrick James (USC School of International Relations). This will be a joint workshop with the School of International Relations

Chris Brooks (Durham University in England, Distinguished Fellow at Huntington Library), Topic: Law and Revolution: "The Seventeenth-Century English Example."