Video from the University of Chicago Law School
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Lectures and other talks by the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School, along with some very distinguished guests.
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Episodes of Video from the University of Chicago Law School
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Omri Ben-Shahar, "No Contract"
A popular type of consumer transaction is called "No Contract." Businesses lure consumers with the "no contract" assurance - a promise that consumer can walk away anytime, without any commitment. This scheme is increasingly common in cable and phone services, health clubs, security services, and other transactions that used to require minimum duration. What is a “No Contract” contract? What does the misnomer “No Contract” intend to signal to consumers? What effects does the “No Contract” arran...
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Release date
May 16, 2012
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53:23
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Economy, Law, and Entrepreneurialism: A Conversa...
On April 3, 2012, the Law School hosted a timely discussion with Sam Zell, one of the world’s leading investors, on "The Economy, Law and Entrepreneurialism." Zell, whose investment interests span real estate, energy, logistics, transportation, media, and health care, was joined in conversation with Dean Michael Schill. Zell is one of the most insightful analysts of economic trends, whose successful investment strategy has made him a perennial member of Forbes billionaire list. Zell founded Eq...
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May 15, 2012
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48:23
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"Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Envi...
This discussion between Professor of Law M. Todd Henderson and Richard L. Sandor, (CEO, Environmental Financial Products, LLC, and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School) was sponsored by the Law School and Chicago Booth School of Business and was recorded on April 17, 2012.
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Apr 30, 2012
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01:03:58
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Ambassador James C. Hormel, '58, "Breaking the P...
Scheming Washington insiders, Congressional power plays, and allegations of pedophilia were not enough to keep James C. Hormel, Class of 1958, from becoming America’s first openly gay ambassador. In his new memoir, Fit to Serve, Jim recounts a life of public service and private struggle, from his privileged childhood in the Minnesota meatpacking family to the long, personal journey and six-year fight that culminated in his appointment in 1999 as Ambassador to Luxembourg. This history might hav...
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Apr 16, 2012
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57:43
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Aziz Huq, "Forum Choice for Terrorist Suspects"
What forum should be employed to adjudicate the status of persons suspected of involvement in terrorism? Recent clashes between Congress and the President as to whether the status of terrorism suspects should be determined via Article III criminal process or military commissions have revived debate on this venue question. These disputes have yielded highly controversial provisions in a recent National Defense Authorization Act that might be read to force such adjudications into an exclusive mi...
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Apr 13, 2012
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52:35
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Elizabeth Anderson, "Tom Paine and the Ironies o...
The 2011-12 Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy, recorded on recorded on February 29, 2012, was presented by Elizabeth Anderson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan. Critics of every social insurance proposal in the U.S., including recent health care reform, have called them socialist attacks on private property. To be sure, social insurance is a central pillar of social democracy, and social democratic parti...
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Apr 11, 2012
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01:28:05
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Anu Bradford, "The Brussels Effect: The Rise of ...
It is common to hear Europe described today as the power of the past. Europe is perceived to be weak militarily. Its relative economic power is declining as Asia’s is rising. Its common currency may be on the verge of disintegrating. On the world stage, the European Union is thought to be waning into irrelevance due to its inability to speak with one voice. Contrary to this prevalent perception, "the Brussels Effect" highlights a deeply underestimated aspect of European power that the discussi...
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Apr 4, 2012
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52:27
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Anup Malani, "Contract Law, Transactions Costs a...
In 1937, Ronald Coase asked a profound question: if markets are so efficient at allocating resources, why are so many resources allocated within firms? Coase’s answer was that market allocation entailed transactions costs and, when these were very high, transactions will take place within firms. Oliver Williamson, a Nobel Prize winner like Coase, elaborated on the sorts of transactions costs that discouraged market transactions. Among these was the holdup problem: buyer agrees to pay a set pri...
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Release date
Mar 27, 2012
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01:03:20
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Geof Stone, "Understanding Supreme Court Confirm...
How has the Supreme Court confirmation process changed over the years? Are members of the Senate more prone to oppose nominees today than they were in the past? If so, to what extent is this due to the controversy over the Bork nomination? Professor Stone will discuss these and other questions arising out of the process by which the Senate does -- or does not -- confirm a President's nominees to the Supreme Court. This Chicago's Best Ideas talk was recorded January 26, 2012, and was sponsored ...
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Release date
Mar 23, 2012
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01:04:00
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Craig Futterman, "Race in the Obama Era"
As we near the end of the first term of our nation’s first African American President, does race still matter? How have our perceptions of race changed? In this talk, "Race in the Obama Era: Observations from Eight Square Blocks of Chicago's South Side," recorded on November 17, 2011, Clinical Professor of Law Craig Futterman will share observations and experiences arising from his and his students’ engagement working on issues of police accountability from the ground floor of a family high ri...
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Release date
Mar 22, 2012
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01:09:43
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