By student blogger Moshe Zvi Marvit
On November 04, 2009, Professor Harry Reicher, Adjunct
Professor at University of Pennsylvania Law School and Scholar-in-Residence at
Touro Law School, presented “The Nazi Obsession with Legalizing the Holocaust”
to a packed room of students and faculty. Professor Reicher addressed up front
the inherent tensions of discussing the Holocaust and law, because the general
conception of the Holocaust is at odds with what most think of when one thinks
of the law. Where law is associated with justice, morality, due process, and
respect, the Holocaust is associated with brutality, injustice, dehumanization,
and hate.
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By student blogger Orijit Ghoshal
On Tuesday, October 27, Professor William Birdthistle kicked off a series of lectures designed to give students a glimpse into the faculty’s academic scholarship with a lecture on Jones v. Harris Associates. In addition to writing an article to be published by the University of Illinois Law Review on the subject, Prof. Birdthistle served as counsel of record on two Briefs Of Amici Curiae Law Professors In Support of the Petitioners.
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By student blogger Mark Berardi
The Sports and Entertainment Law
Society recruited Professor Christopher Schmidt of Chicago-Kent College of Law
to present the history and legal implications of drug testing in sports.
Professor Schmidt’s talk drew on a project he is currently working on entitled,
“Governing Baseball.” He is exploring the history of the relationship between
baseball and the government through four case studies: (1) The appointment of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as the first
Commissioner of baseball in the wake of the Black Sox Scandal; (2) the
integration of baseball; (3) team relocations and the expansion of major league
baseball in the 1950s and 1960s; and (4) the introduction of drug testing in
the past decade. He argues that while organized baseball has generally prided
itself on its independence from government regulation, the game actually has a
long history of reliance on government, and, furthermore, government
involvement has generally benefited the game.
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By student blogger Laura Elkayam
In September Professor Alison LaCroix, a legal historian and an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School, presented her recent article, “Temporal Imperialism”, which identifies and critiques the United States Supreme Court’s disoriented relationship with notions of time. Specifically, Professor LaCroix argues that despite its proclamations of institutional continuity, the Court in fact routinely engages in a kind of “temporal packaging” that indicates a more severed state of affairs.
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