The Visiting Speaker Series is designed to stimulate ideas for new faculty scholarship, promote collaboration with other legal faculties, and to enhance the intellectual life of the law school. The Series invites outstanding scholars from around the country to present works in progress.
Southwestern welcomes its alumni and scholars from other institutions of higher learning to participate as part of the interactive audience free of charge.
In addition, the Faculty Colloquium, held periodically on campus, features Southwestern faculty members presenting works-in-progress.
All lectures will be held at 12:30 p.m. in BW370,
unless otherwise noted. A light lunch will be provided.
Click here for a map and directions to the campus.
Parking is available on campus for $8.Please RSVP to Associate Dean Doreen Heyer
at (213) 738-6801 or academicadmin@swlaw.edu.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Darrell A. H. Miller
Associate Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law
"What the Seventh Amendment Can Teach Us About the Second"
Monday, September 12, 2011
Michelle Oberman
Professor of Law, Santa Clara Law
"Two Truths and a Lie: In re John Z. and Stories at the Juncture of Teen Sex and the Law"
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Kevin Murphy
Kenneth L. Trefftzs Chair in Finance and Professor of Finance and Business Economics, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business
"The Politics of Pay: A Legislative History of Executive Compensation"
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Ellen S. Podgor
Gary R. Trombley Family White-Collar Crime Research Professor and Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law
"Unregulated Corporate Internal Investigations: From Theory to Practice"
Friday, February 17, 2012
Paul Butler
Carville Dickinson Benson Research Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
"Seize and Search: Four Ways of Feeling A Black Man"
Monday, March 19, 2012
Paul Horwitz
Gordon Rosen Professor of Law, The University of Alabama School of Law
"Hosanna-Tabor, Citizens United, and the Renewed Relevance of the British Pluralists"
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Ben Depoorter
Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
"Litigation Opportunism"
