From the archives: Raz @ University of Minnesota

Date: 9/29/2005
Title: The Problem of Authority (1:51:00)
Speaker(s): Joseph Raz
Location: University of Minnesota
Presentation Type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)

From the announcement:

Joseph Raz is a Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Fellow and Tutor in Law at Balliol College at Oxford University, and a Professor of Law at Columbia University. He has made major contributions to jurisprudence, political philosophy, ethics and practical reason, and is considered to be one of the most distinguished moral and political philosophers of our time. Professor Raz has written numerous books including Engaging Reason (2000), Practical Reasons and Norms (1999), and Ethics in the Public Domain (1995). His book entitled The Morality of Freedom (1986) won the W. J. M. Mackenzie Book Prize from the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom and the Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize from the conference for the Study of Political Thought in New York.

Professor Raz first taught at Hebrew University where he joined the Faculty of Law and the Department of Philosophy in 1967. In 1972, he was appointed Fellow and Tutor in Law at Balliol College at Oxford University and has been a member of the sub-faculty of philosophy since 1977. In 1985 he was appointed ad hominem chair of the Philosophy of Law. Raz has been a visiting professor at a variety of prestigious universities including The Rockefeller University, University of California – Berkeley, Yale, University of Southern California, Princeton, and the University of Michigan. Raz earned his Magister Juris summa cum laude from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1963, and his Ph.D. from Oxford University in 1967.

Justice Blackmun and Judicial Biography

Date: 9/16/2005
Title: Justice Blackmun and Judicial Biography: A Conversation with Linda Greenhouse
Speaker: Linda Greenhouse
Location: Brooklyn Law School
Presentation type: Streaming video (Windows Media Player)

From the announcement:

On September 16, the Brooklyn Law Review co-sponsored a symposium entitled “Justice Blackmun and Judicial Biography: A Conversation with Linda Greenhouse” at Brooklyn Law School. Linda Greenhouse has covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times since 1978 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for her coverage of the Court. In the spring of 2005, Greenhouse published Becoming Justice Blackmun, which chronicles Justice Harry A. Blackmun’s life and years on the Supreme Court. The book draws heavily on Justice Blackmun’s extensive archives and private and public papers. Greenhouse was the first print reporter to be granted access to this remarkable collection.