From the archives: Chemerinsky on Solomon

Date: 11/22/2005
Title: The Solomon Amendment: Compelling Duke to Allow Anti-Gay Recruitment on its Campus
Speaker(s): Kathi Westcott, Erwin Chemerinsky
Presentation type: audio (.mp3)

Given recent press (see reports from Leiter I, II, III, and IV) on Chemerinsky’s appointment/un-appointment/re-appointment at UC-Irvine, and upcoming Fall Interviewing programs in the law schools, I thought this find from Duke Law School’s webcast archives seemed timely.

Kathi Westcott, Deputy Dir. of Law for SLDN, and Duke Professor Erwin Chemerinsky discuss the Solomon Amendment and recruiting on Duke’s campus. Note the date of the talk — November 2005 — which would have been just prior to oral arguments in FAIR v. Rumsfeld. More info on Solomon from NALP here.

(re-posted to add today’s re-appointment).

From the archives: Langbein’s Introductory Lecture to First-year students @ Yale

Date: 11/18/2005
Title: History of Legal Education and of Yale Law School (1:19:26)
Speaker: John Langbein
Location: Yale Law School
Presentation type: Streaming video (Real Player)

This is part of the introductory series of lectures to first-year students at YLS. Langbein mostly discusses common-law and civil law traditions and the development of American law and American university legal education, offering his own thoughts on the current state of legal education throughout. This is really a wonderful background lecture for first-year students.

From the archives: Rumsfeld v. FAIR panel at Boston College (2005)

Date: 11/11/2005
Title: Rumsfeld v. FAIR: Exploring the Solomon Amendment Challenge

• Panel 1: Compelled Speech Jurisprudence
  Assoc. Dean Norah Wylie, moderator Sharon Beckman, Dan Roth, Taylor Flynn, Andrew Morriss, Sharon Frase
• Panel 2: Discerning Unconstitutional Conditions on Congressional Spending Power
  moderator Anthony Farley, Joseph Zengerle, Michael Gerhardt, Nathaniel Frank, Paula Johnson
• Keynote Address
  Joshua Rosenkranz
• Moot Court
  Kent Greenfield vs. Howard Bashman; examination by Herbert Wilkins, Charles Baron, Michael Cassidy, Lawrence Friedman, Judith McMorrow, Margaret Burnham, Victoria Dodd, Bruce Hay, Larry Yackle
• Panel 3: Rumsfeld v. FAIR and the Limits of Expressive Association
  moderator James Rogers, Diane Mazur, Mark Tushnet, Kathleen Clark, Tobias Wolff

Speaker(s): (above)
Location: Boston College
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)

Mendelson @ Yale (11/10/05)

Date: 11/10/2005
Title: Wine Country Practice
Speaker: Richard Mendelson
Location: Yale Law School
Presentation type: Streaming video (Real Player)

Dean’s Program on the Profession lecture.

From the archives: Reva Siegel @ Yale

Date: 11/14/2005
Title: Brennan/Jorde Lecture: Social Movement Conflict and Constitutional Change: The Case of the de facto ERA
Speaker: Reva Siegel, Martha Minow, Bruce Ackerman
Location: Yale Law School
Presentation type: Streaming video (Real Player)

Dean Harold Koh introduces the Brennan Center Jorde lecture and Professor Reva Siegel, along with Martha Minow and Bruce Ackerman, who offer commentary.

The annual Jorde symposium consists of two lectures, with two different sets of commentators, and this is the second (the first was 9/19 at Boalt, titled “Constitutional Culture, Social Movement Conflict, and the Constitution of the Family,” and Dean Larry Kramer of Stanford and Robin West of Georgetown served as commentators).

Q&A starts at 1:19:12, starting with Calabresi, followed by Yoshino and Fiss and Dalton, and students I couldn’t identify.

The symposium papers are published in vol 94 of the California Law Review.

Lino Graglia and Arnold Loewy @ Duke

Date: 11/3/2005
Title: Rule of Law: Does Our Constitution Face Death by ‘Due Process’?
Speaker(s): Lino Graglia, Arnold Loewy
Location: Duke
Presentation type: Streaming video (Real Player)