Archive for October, 2002
James Joseph @ Duke
Date: 10/30/2002
Title: James Joseph, former US Ambassador (1:07:02)
Speaker: Michael Byers, James Joseph
Location: Duke Law School
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)
James Joseph, US Ambassador to South Africa 1996-1999 – The Lure of the Empire: The United Staets’ Role in the World
October 30, 2002
First Monday in October: four archived lectures of U.S. Supreme Court Justices
Date: 10/25/2002
Title: Two Questions of Justice
Speaker: Justice John Paul Stevens
Location: University of Illinois
Presentation type: Streaming video (Real Player)
October 25, 2002
From the archives: Conference @ Brooklyn
Date: 10/18/2002
Title: Responsibility and Blame: Psychological and Legal Perspectives (1:01:09)
Speaker: John Darley, Dan Kahan
Location: Brooklyn Law School, Center for the Study of Law, Language & Cognition
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)
From the announcement:
We have been beset in the past year with news of grave terrorist acts and corporate malfeasance. We ask ourselves, who is to blame and how much responsibility should any person or entity bear?
Our society looks to the legal system to determine when a person or corporation is to blame for having committed bad acts. But, as the Friday, October 18, Brooklyn Law School Symposium: Responsibility & Blame: Psychological & Legal Perspectives suggested, significant psychological factors may affect the allocation of responsibility in ways that the law does not endorse or explain.
In this program, sponsored by Brooklyn Law School’s Center for the Study of Law, Language & Cognition, renowned legal scholars and psychologists from around the country, including Professor John M. Darley of Princeton University and Professor Dan Kahan from Yale University, gathered at the Law School to approach the assessment of blame from a variety of perspectives. The central questions they explored are how people conceptualize responsibility and blame, how people’s emotions and attitudes affect their assessment of blame, and how these concepts make their way into our legal institutions. Responsibility and blame were looked at in the context of criminal law, accident law and the responsibility of corporations.
October 18, 2002
Rule of Law and the information age @ Catholic
Date: 10/9/2002 – 10/10/2002
Title: The Rule of Law and the Information Age: Reconciling Private Rights and the Public Interest
Speaker(s): Larry Lessig and Margaret-Jane Radin
Location: Catholic University
Presentation type: Streaming video (Windows Media Player)
October 9, 2002
Clinical Trials Litigation: A Conversation on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Subjects Research
Date: 10/3/2002
Title: Clinical Trials Litigation: A Conversation on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Subjects Research (1:30:02)
Speaker(s): Jennifer Rosato, Alan Milstein, Harold Edgar
Location: Brooklyn Law School
Presentation type: Streaming video (Real Player)
From the BLS News:
On Thursday, October 3, Brooklyn Law School’s Center for Health, Science, and Public Policy presented a program that examined the legal and ethical questions concerning the safety of human subjects in clinical research projects, as well as the status of existing litigation in this area.
Participating in the program was Alan C. Milstein, the leading practitioner in clinical trials litigation. He is currently handling a number of lawsuits around the country that are based on novel and traditional tort theories. Joining Mr. Milstein was Professor Harold S. Edgar, Director of the Julius Silver Program in Law, Science and Technology at Columbia University. Professor Edgar has written and lectured extensively on the intersection of law, medicine, and technology.
October 3, 2002
