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Law School Lectures, Addresses, Conferences, and Workshops

Law School lectures, addresses, conferences and workshops include those of various student organizations and events (e.g., the Black Law Student Association, the Penn Latinx American Law Students Association, and the Edwin R. Keedy Cup Competition), the School’s institutes and centers (e.g., the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, the Penn Program on Regulation, the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition, and the Toll Public Interest Center), as well as distinguished lectures (e.g., The Leon C. & June W. Holt Lecture in International Law and the Paul G. Haaga, Jr. Lecture in Law, Government, and Public Policy).

The collection also includes bibliographies, prepared by Biddle Law Library staff, for further reading on the subject matter of some of the events.

Submissions from 2016 2016

Selected Bibliography for: Public Interest Week: "The OKC 13: Discussing the Conviction of Former Police Officer Daniel Holtzclaw" (2/24/16)

Selected Bibliography for: Public Interest Week: "Unreasonable Suspicion: Combatting Police Mass Surveillance of American Muslims Post-9/11" (2/24/16)

Announcement of Public Interest Week: Benjamin Crump:“We Can’t Breathe: The Struggle to Resuscitate Due Process in Civil Rights § 1983 Police Brutality Cases” (2/23/16)

Announcement of Public Interest Week: "Cause Lawyering: Bridging the Gap between Direct Client Services and Macro Policy Work" (2/23/16)

Announcement of Public Interest Week: "New Remedies: Federal Enforcement, Private Litigation, and Police Reform" (2/23/16)

Selected Bibliography for: Public Interest Week: "Cause Lawyering: Bridging the Gap between Direct Client Services and Macro Policy Work" (2/23/16)

Announcement of Public Interest Week: Film Screening of "A Path Appears: Sex Trafficking in the USA" (2/22/16)

Announcement of Public Interest Week: Troy Paredes: "How Social Enterprises and Small Businesses Can Leverage the Crowd: A Look into the SEC’s New Crowdfunding Rules" (2/22/16)

Announcement of "'Wholly Foreign to the First Amendment'?: Political Inequality Forty Years After Buckley v. Valeo" (2/18/16)

Announcement of Chancery Court Program: "Taking a Benefit Corporation Public: Are Shareholders in the Public Markets Ready for Benefit Corporations?" (2/16/16)

Announcement of Dale Jamieson: "Living with Climate Change: Will Paris Make a Difference?"--Penn Program on Regulation Risk Regulation Seminar series (2/16/16)

Announcement of Institute for Law & Philosophy Speaker Series: David Enoch (2/15/16)

Announcement of Alexander Tsesis: "Terror Speech, the Internet, and the First Amendment" (2/10/16)

Announcement of Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Workshop: Michael Abramowicz: “Peer-to-Peer Law, Built on Bitcoin” (2/3/16)

Announcement of Penn Asian Pacific American Law Student Association Conference: "Amplify--Promoting Diversity in a Time of Progress" (1/30/16)

Announcement of 2016 Penn Latin American Law Students Association Conference: "Un Nuevo Manaña: Emerging Issues in U.S.-Cuban Relations" (1/29/16)

Announcement of 2016 Keedy Cup (1/28/16)

Announcement of Michael S. Moore: "The Elusive Quest for a Constitutional Right to Liberty" (1/28/16)

Announcement of Miguel de Serpa Soares, "Law at the UN: What Difference Does it Make" (1/21/16)

Announcement of "Volkswagen Emissions Scandal: Corporate Governance and Regulatory Issues" (1/22/16)

Selected Bibliography for "Volkswagen Emissions Scandal: Corporate Governance and Regulatory Issues" (1/21/16)

Submissions from 2015 2015

Announcement of Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law Conference Keynote Panel Discussion: "Mental Health Injury as a Cost of War" (12/4/15)

Announcement of Zainab Hawa Bangura: "Sexual Violence and Trauma in Conflict: Rethinking the Cost of War" (12/3/15)

Announcement of Center for Asian Law Conference: "Earthquakes, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Chemical Spills: Legal Responses to Disasters in the US and Asia" (11/20/15)

Selected Bibliography for: Center for Asian Law Conference: "Earthquakes, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Chemical Spills: Legal Responses to Disasters in the US and Asia" (11/20/15)

Announcement of Center for Asian Law Conference Keynote Address: Kenneth Feinberg, "Unconventional Responses to Unique Catastrophes: Tailoring the Law to Meet the Challenges" (11/19/15)

Announcement of "Innovations in Litigation: Equal Protection Lawmaking in India" (11/13/15)

Announcement of Law & Entrepreneurship Lecture with Steven M. Cohen (11/11/15)

Selected Bibliography for: Law & Entrepreneuship Lecture with Steven M. Cohen (11/11/15)

Announcement of the 2015 Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Lecture in Talmudic Civil Law: Shahar Lifshitz (11/3/15)

Announcement of "The Challenges Facing the ICC: The Africa Question" (10/28/15)

Announcement of Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Series: Ivan Simonovic, UN Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights (10/5/2015)

Announcement of the 2015 Leon C. and June W. Holt Lecture in International Law (9/30/2015)

Selected Bibliography for: The 2015 Leon C. & June W. Holt Lecture in International Law (9/30/2015)

Announcement of "Iran’s Nuclear Chess: After the Deal" (9/17/2015)

Announcement of "Rejecting the Lochner Bogeyman: The Reemergence of Economic Liberty" (9/15/2015)

Announcement of "The School-to-Prison Pipeline, Youth Courts, and Systems Change" (9/11/2015)

Announcement of Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Privacy Conference “Taking Responsibility for One’s Own Data Privacy and Security–Is it Possible, and How?” (04/24/2015)

Announcement of FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel: "The Digital and Mobile Future" (04/22/2015)

Announcement of Fireside Chat: Hon. Naheed Farid, youngest member of the Afghan Parliament (04/17/2015)

Announcement of "How the Government Can Help Promote Social Entrepreneurship" (04/16/2015)

Announcement of "Punitive Injunctions: A Conversation About Civil Incarceration and the Right to Counsel" (04/16/2015)

Announcement of Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law presents Sarah Chayes: “Counterproductive Coalitions” (04/15/2015)

Announcement of "The Hollow Hope Revisited: Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Judicial Decision-Making" (04/15/2015)

Announcement of "The Future of Iraq: A Fractured Nation and A Refugee Crisis" (04/10/2015)

Announcement of Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Lunchtime Speaker Series: Peter Detkin (04/09/2015)

Announcement of "Corruption and International Arbitration" (04/09/2015)

Announcement of Legal History Consortium Speaker Series: Michelle McKinley (04/09/2015)

Announcement of "Structuring and Protecting your Business for Growth" (04/09/2015)

Announcement for Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Workshop Series: Ben Depoorter (04/08/2015)

Announcement of Fireside Chat: Ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis of Lithuania (04/08/2015)

Announcement of Fireside Chat: Roya Hakakian and Professor Kermit Roosevelt (03/24/15)

Announcement of Risk Regulation Seminar: "Climate Change Policy and the Upcoming Paris COP21 Talks" (03/24/15)

Announcement of Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Workshop Series: "The Public Information Fallacy" (3/23/15)

Announcement of Institute for Law & Economics Distinguished Jurist Lecture: Vice Chancellor John W. Noble (03/19/2015)

Announcement of Penn Program on Regulation: "Tackling Tobacco: Lessons in Regulatory Leadership" (03/19/2015)

Announcement of An Exclusive Screening of "The Future of Interrogation: National Security in 21st Century Conflict" (3/3/15)

Announcement of "Full Disclosure: An Evening with Michael Morton" (3/3/15)

Announcement of Jonathan Adler and Eric J. Segall: "Text vs. Context: King v. Burwell and the Future of the ACA" (3/2/15)

Announcement of the 2015 Haaga Lecture (03/02/2015)

Selected Bibliography for: Paul G. Haaga, Jr. Lecture in Law, Government, and Public Policy (03/02/2015)

Announcement of Kent A. Jordan: "Come Now, and Let Us Reason Together" (2/24/15)

Announcement of Public Interest Week (2/23/15-2/28/15)

Announcement of Panel on Protectability of Software co-hosted with SEAS and PCI

Announcement of Penn Lamdba Law Symposium (2/19/15)

Announcement of Institute for Law and Economics Law and Entrepreneurship Lecture (2/17/13)

Announcement of Entertainment and Sports Law Society Conference (2/13/15)

Announcement of Reproductive Rights Weekend (2/13-14/15)

Announcement of Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Workshop Series: Robert D. Cooter (2/12/15)

Announcement of 54th Annual Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture (02/11/2015)

Announcement of Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture with Larry Kramer (2/11/15)

Selected Bibliography for: The 2015 Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture (02/11/2015)

Announcement of "U.S. Response to Throwaway Children: From Orphan Trains to the Current Migrant Crisis" (2/9/15)

Announcement of "Risks and Regulatory Challenges of Unconventional Oil and Gas Development" (2/3/15)

Announcement of Asian Pacific American Law Student Association Conference: "Crescendo: Amplifying the Asian-American Voice" (1/31/15)

Announcement of Black Law Student Association 27th Annual Sadie T.M. Alexander Commemorative Conference (1/24/15)

Announcement of 2015 Keedy Cup (1/22/15)