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.
A light lunch will be provided.
Click here for a map and directions to the campus.
Parking is available on campus for $6.Please RSVP to Associate Dean Doreen Heyer
at (213) 738-6801 or academicadmin@swlaw.edu.
2009-2010 Schedule
View a printable brochure (PDF)
Note: PDF is current as of printing in September 2009; for most recent schedule, please refer to below.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Julie Chi-hye Suk
Associate Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law and Visiting Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Professor Joseph A. Maciariello
Horton Professor of Management, The Drucker School, Claremont Graduate University
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Heinz Klug
Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, and Director, Global Legal Studies Center, University of Wisconsin Law School
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Richard Primus
Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Thursday, January 26, 2010
Melissa Murray
Assistant Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Friday, January 29, 2010
Seana Shiffrin
Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Monday, February 1, 2010
Marjorie M. Schultz
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Douglas Lichtman
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Monday, March 8, 2010
Stephen Vladeck
Associate Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Professor Marc Galanter
John & Rylla Bosshard Professor Emeritus of Law and South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin- Madison; Centennial Professor, Department of Law,
London School of Economics and Political Science
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Jason Solomon
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law
TBA
The Hon. Ricardo Hinojosa
Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission
TBA
Horacio Spector
Dean and Professor of Law, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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