Ranked #1
Brian Leiter, "Why Tolerate Religion?"
Brian Leiter, "Why Tolerate Religion?"
Is there a principled reason why religious obligations that conflict with the law are accorded special toleration while ... Read more
20 Feb 2014
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57mins
Ranked #2
A Conversation With Elena Kagan
A Conversation With Elena Kagan
In a conversation with David A. Strauss, Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law, US Supreme Court Justice ... Read more
11 Feb 2015
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1hr 14mins
Ranked #3
David Strauss, "Does the Constitution Always Mean What It Says?"
David Strauss, "Does the Constitution Always Mean What It Says?"
The U.S. Constitution is "the supreme Law of the Land." Of course some of its provisions are vague and must be interpret... Read more
13 May 2014
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56mins
Ranked #4
Richard Posner, Empirical Legal Studies Conference keynote
Richard Posner, Empirical Legal Studies Conference keynote
Richard A. Posner, Senior Lecturer in Law and a judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, devoted a lunchtime keyno... Read more
13 Nov 2014
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47mins
Ranked #5
Anthony J. Casey, "The Short Happy Life of Rules and Standards"
Anthony J. Casey, "The Short Happy Life of Rules and Standards"
The choice between rules and standards in lawmaking is a central question. But the line between the two forms is not as ... Read more
28 Feb 2017
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #6
Nicholas Stephanopoulos, "The South After Shelby County"
Nicholas Stephanopoulos, "The South After Shelby County"
In Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court dismantled one of the two pillars of the Voting Rights Act: Section 5, whi... Read more
20 Feb 2014
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52mins
Ranked #7
Supreme Court Preview 2017: Highlights and Perspectives
Supreme Court Preview 2017: Highlights and Perspectives
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. Professors Adam Chilton, Aziz Huq, and Daniel Hemel off... Read more
20 Sep 2017
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #8
Saul Levmore, "Carrots and Sticks in Law (and Life)"
Saul Levmore, "Carrots and Sticks in Law (and Life)"
One of the great Chicago Ideas is the equivalence of positive and negative incentives. The government can motivate you b... Read more
5 Jan 2017
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #9
John Tasioulas, "Minimum Core Obligations: Human Rights in the Here and Now"
John Tasioulas, "Minimum Core Obligations: Human Rights in the Here and Now"
Professor Tasioulas discusses the notion of the ‘minimum core obligations’ associated with economic, social and cultural... Read more
29 Jul 2016
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57mins
Ranked #10
Emily Buss, "Court Reform in the Juvenile Justice System"
Emily Buss, "Court Reform in the Juvenile Justice System"
Over 100 years ago, Chicago led the way in establishing separate courts for young people who committed crimes. These Ju... Read more
13 Mar 2014
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53mins
Ranked #11
Barbara Herman, "The Moral Side of Non-Negligence"
Barbara Herman, "The Moral Side of Non-Negligence"
Legal discussions of negligence focus on issues of harm, fault, and remedy in the context of failure to exercise reasona... Read more
10 Apr 2014
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1hr 40mins
Ranked #12
Laura Weinrib, “Freedom of Conscience and the Civil Liberties Path Not Taken”
Laura Weinrib, “Freedom of Conscience and the Civil Liberties Path Not Taken”
Recent efforts by opponents of same-sex marriage and reproductive rights to reorient their agenda around religious freed... Read more
9 Mar 2016
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58mins
Ranked #13
Gillian Thomas, "Title VII and Women in the Workplace"
Gillian Thomas, "Title VII and Women in the Workplace"
Gillian Thomas, staff attorney at the ACLU Women's Rights Project, will discuss issues in her recently-published book, B... Read more
7 Mar 2017
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58mins
Ranked #14
Jonathan S. Masur, "The Behavioral Law & Economics of Happiness"
Jonathan S. Masur, "The Behavioral Law & Economics of Happiness"
A central question in law and economics is how people will behave in the presence of legal rules. An essential part of t... Read more
19 Feb 2018
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56mins
Ranked #15
M. Todd Henderson, "Lawyer CEOs"
M. Todd Henderson, "Lawyer CEOs"
Does legal education matter? In this lecture, Professor Todd Henderson presents some data on this question, using the be... Read more
30 May 2018
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1hr 1min
Ranked #16
Mary Anne Case, “Fifty Years of Griswold v. Connecticut"
Mary Anne Case, “Fifty Years of Griswold v. Connecticut"
It's birth control's fiftieth birthday! Professor Case will be discussing what Griswold—the landmark case that began the... Read more
17 Nov 2015
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50mins
Ranked #17
Martha Minow, "Forgiveness, Law and Justice"
Martha Minow, "Forgiveness, Law and Justice"
Martha Minow, Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law, Harvard Law Schoolwith comments by Martha Nussbaum, Aziz H... Read more
29 Jan 2015
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1hr 39mins
Ranked #18
Justin Driver, "The Southern Manifesto in Myth and Memory"
Justin Driver, "The Southern Manifesto in Myth and Memory"
Justin Driver is Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Research Scholar. His principal research... Read more
2 May 2016
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51mins
Ranked #19
Moshe Halbertal, "Three Concepts of Human Dignity"
Moshe Halbertal, "Three Concepts of Human Dignity"
Human Dignity has become a central value in political and constitutional thought. Yet its meaning and scope, and its rel... Read more
3 Dec 2015
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1hr 26mins
Ranked #20
M. Todd Henderson, "Do Judges Follow the Law?"
M. Todd Henderson, "Do Judges Follow the Law?"
In a naïve model of judging, Congress writes statutes, which courts know about and then slavishly apply. But a Chicago l... Read more
3 Jun 2014
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1hr 4mins