On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. Each fall, the University of Chicago Law School invites faculty members to offer insight into some of the issues the Court will hear in the upcoming year.This event was recorded

M. Todd Henderson, "The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize..."

Feb 5th, 2020 1h 4m

"The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize Business & Government"In this CBI, Professor Henderson will examine how Internet platforms--eBay, Uber, AirBnB--relate to the Code of Hammurabi, Medieval guilds, the New

Seyla Benhabib, "The End of the 1951 Refugee Convention?"

Jan 27th, 2020 1h 7m

The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are among the most important human rights documents of the post-WW II period. Yet the universalization of the refugee status after the 1967 Protocol has given rise to a series of discrepancies b

Joan Biskupic, "Chief Justice John Roberts: Defining the Supreme Court..."

Dec 2nd, 2019 1h 2m

"Chief Justice John Roberts: Defining the Supreme Court as its Leader and at the Center"Joan Biskupic is a full-time CNN legal analyst and author of a 2019 biography of Chief Justice John Roberts. Before joining CNN in 2017, Biskupic was an e

Saul Levmore, "Addictive Law"

Nov 15th, 2019 1h 7m

One of Chicago’s Best Ideas was the Coase Theorem, which reminds us daily that people can bargain around law or even before legal intervention is sought. But do we have too much law and too little bargaining around it? The number of cases and j

William Baude and Anthony J. Casey, "Supreme Court Preview 2019: Highlights and Perspectives"

Oct 21st, 2019 49m 4s

Law in the Era of #MeToo: A Conversation with Valerie Jarrett

Dec 17th, 2018 1h 3m

This keynote for the 2018 Legal Forum Symposium was recorded on November 2, 2018.Valerie B. Jarrett is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Law School and former senior advisor to President Barack Obama. Emily Buss is the Mark and Barbara Fri

Saul Levmore, "If the Common Law was Efficient, Why Did It Decline?"

Oct 23rd, 2018 1h 3m

One of the University of Chicago Law School’s best known ideas or outputs over the last fifty years is that the common law (made by judges and often passed down and adapted over many years) is efficient. It was an idea advanced by Richard Posne

Justin Driver, "The Future of the Supreme Court: The Constitution of Public Schools"

Oct 16th, 2018 48m 5s

Supreme Court decisions affecting the constitutional rights of students in the nation's public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy. From racial segregation to unauthorized immigration, from antiwar protests to compulsory flag

M. Todd Henderson, "Lawyer CEOs"

May 30th, 2018 1h 1m

Does legal education matter? In this lecture, Professor Todd Henderson presents some data on this question, using the behavior of corporate executives as an instrument. Looking at the 10% of large, public company CEOs who are lawyers, the talk

David Bowman, "Alternative Reference Rates: SOFR, LIBOR, and Issues for Transitions"

Apr 10th, 2018 1h 15m

The choice of new benchmark interest rate should be of special importance to practitioners as well as academics that study law and economics. As new alternative rates are being considered in the United States, this half day conference, co-spons

John G. Malcolm, "Current Topics in Criminal Justice Reform"

Mar 28th, 2018 58m 55s

With commentary by Professor Jonathan MasurJohn G. Malcolm oversees The Heritage Foundation’s work to increase understanding of the Constitution and the rule of law as director of the think tank’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial

Mary Anne Case, "Cultivating an Incest Taboo in the Workplace"

Feb 27th, 2018 58m 49s

The idea that workplaces could benefit from an incest taboo is not one of Chicago’s best, but one of Margaret Mead’s. Professor Mary Anne Case has been promoting it and explaining its relevance to Title VII enforcement long before Harvey Weinst

Jonathan S. Masur, "The Behavioral Law & Economics of Happiness"

Feb 19th, 2018 56m 18s

A central question in law and economics is how people will behave in the presence of legal rules. An essential part of that inquiry is what makes people happy or unhappy – what increases or decreases their “subjective well-being.” There is ampl

Lior Jacob Strahilevitz, “Interpreting Contracts via Surveys and Experiments”

Feb 12th, 2018 1h 1m

Interpreting the language of contracts is the most common and least satisfactory task courts perform in contract disputes. In this Chicago’s Best Ideas lecture Professor Strahilevitz proposes to take much of this task out of the hands of lawyer

Henry Shue, "Gambling with Their Climate: Future Generations, Negative Emissions, & Risk Transfers"

Nov 21st, 2017 1h 32m

This lecture defends three main theses: (I) that all decisions about the degree of ambition for emissions mitigation are unavoidably also decisions about how to distribute risk across generations and, more specifically, (II) that the less ambit

Supreme Court Preview 2017: Highlights and Perspectives

Sep 20th, 2017 1h 8m

On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. Professors Adam Chilton, Aziz Huq, and Daniel Hemel offer insight into some of the issues the Court will hear in the upcoming year.Recorded on September 18, 2017, in Washington,

Aaron Nielson, "The Past and Future of Deference: From Justice Scalia to Justice Gorsuch"

May 2nd, 2017 1h

With commentary by Professor Daniel HemelProfessor Nielson is a law professor at Brigham Young University and teaches/writes in the areas of administrative law, civil procedure, federal courts, and antitrust. Before joining the faculty, Profe

To POE or Not to POE: The Proper Evidentiary Standard for Campus Sexual Misconduct (A Debate)

Apr 21st, 2017 1h 1m

Featuring Professors Nancy Chi Cantalupo, Katharine Baker, Daniel Hemel, and Richard Epstein. Moderated by Professor Emily Buss. Presented by the Domestic and Sexual Violence Project, Defenders, Law Women's Caucus, Education and Child Advocacy

Gillian Thomas, "Title VII and Women in the Workplace"

Mar 7th, 2017 58m 56s

Gillian Thomas, staff attorney at the ACLU Women's Rights Project, will discuss issues in her recently-published book, Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years about Title VII and its effects for women in the workplace. The book deta

Anthony J. Casey, "The Short Happy Life of Rules and Standards"

Feb 28th, 2017 1h 18m

The choice between rules and standards in lawmaking is a central question. But the line between the two forms is not as clear as most scholars presume. This talk argues that the lack of a coherent unifying principle in the rules-and-standards

Kurt Lash & Alan Gura, "Does the Fourteenth Amendment Protect Unenumerated Rights?"

Feb 3rd, 2017 1h 8m

Professor Lash graduated from Yale Law School and served as law clerk to the Honorable Robert R. Beezer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Afterward, he joined the University of Illinois from Loyola Law School Los Ange

William H. J. Hubbard, "Empirical Study of the Supreme Court of India"

Jan 26th, 2017 1h 4m

"A Different Kind of Supreme Court? Empirical Study of the Supreme Court of India"Part of Chicago's intellectual tradition is a willingness to take nothing for granted. Comparative study of legal institutions often reveals to us exactly how m

Saul Levmore, "Carrots and Sticks in Law (and Life)"

Jan 5th, 2017 1h 5m

One of the great Chicago Ideas is the equivalence of positive and negative incentives. The government can motivate you by rewarding some behavior or by penalizing your failure to behave in the preferred manner. Private parties rarely have the a

Jim Zirin & William Baude, "The Post-Election Future of the Supreme Court after Scalia"

Dec 29th, 2016 51m 45s

Jim Zirin graduated from Princeton University with honors and received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School where he was an editor of the Michigan Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. For three years, he was an