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Fall 2001

USC Gould School of Law
Workshops, Lunch & SeminarsBook TalksConferences & SymposiaAnnual LectureSpecial Events

FALL 2001

Leora Bilsky
Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
"The Death and the Maiden: Between Trials and Truth Commissions"
September 21, 2001
 
Nahum Chandler
John Hopkins University Humanities Center                                 Presented two workshops:                                            
"Originary Displacements" and "On Exorbitance: Colonialism, Law, and Subjection"
October 11, 2001
 
Reuven Firestone
Hebrew Union College
"Jihad, Fighting and 'Holy War' in Islam: Text and Interpretation in Comparative Perspective"
November 29, 2001
 
Ronald Garet
USC Law School
"Our Ancient Faith': A Translation of the Declaration of Independence"
October 10, 2001
 
Timur Kuran
USC Economics Department
"The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of the Delay in the Middle East's Economic Modernization"
October 18, 2001
 
Hazel Lord
USC Law School
"Husband and Wife: English Marriage Law from 1750: A Bibliography Essay"
November 6, 2001
 
Kim Scheppele
University of Pennsylvania                                                         Presented two workshops:
"Comparative Judicial Activism" and "Counter-Constitutions"
October 19, 2001
 
Ian Shapiro
Yale, Political Science Department
"Problems, Methods, and Theories in the Study of Politics, or What's Wrong with Political Science and What to do about it" (Rational choice Theory in Politics and Law)
December 7, 2001
 
Brook Thomas
University of California Irvine, English Department
"Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, Political Independence, Mugwumpery, and Civil Rights"                                             September 20, 2001
 
Adam Winkler
USC Law School
"A Revolution Too Soon: Woman Suffragists and the 'Living Constitution,' 1869-1875"
September 26, 2001
Nuremberg Trial
Nuremberg Trial