From the archives: Frederick Schauer at Arizona

Date: 11/16/2006
Title: McCormick Lecture: Should Officials Obey the Law?
Location: University of Arizona
Speaker: Charles Ares, Toni Massaro, Frederick Schauer
Presentation Type: Streaming Video (Windows Media Player)

More information about the lecture series here.

The video (1:08:16) starts with some background on the McCormick series by Ares, followed by Massaro’s introduction of Schauer at 5:16. Schauer’s talk starts at the 9:40 mark. Q&A at 53:04.

From the archives: Sherry on judicial decisionmaking

Date: 11/9/2006
Title: Democracy and the Death of Knowledge
Location: University of Cincinnati
Speaker: Suzanna Sherry
Presentation type: streaming video (Windows Media Viewer)

Pulled from the archives at the University of Cincinnati, this talk by Suzanna Sherry (Vanderbilt) was delivered at the University of Cincinnati College of Law as the William Howard Taft lecture in November of 2006.

Download her essay, which appeared in the University of Cincinnati Law Review, at SSRN here. Abstract below:

This essay was presented as the 2006 William Howard Taft lecture at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. It suggests that the conflation of politics and law – the view that judges are not legal experts but rather legislators in robes – is part of a deeper and more worrisome trend. We do not see judges as legal experts because we no longer believe in expertise. We have, in other words, begun to conflate politics and knowledge. We are moving toward a world in which the creation of knowledge is not the province of experts, but is instead produced by popular vote. This essay explores and critiques that trend.

Eskridge on Supreme Court Deference to Agencies

Date: 11/01/2006
Title: Supreme Court Deference to Agencies, 1981-2006: An Empirical and Normative Examination (the 27th Annual Ryan Lecture)
Location: Georgetown University Law Center
Speaker: William N. Eskridge, Jr.
Presentation: audio (.mp3) & streaming video (Quicktime)