2016
Â鶹¹ÙÍø professors to gather for interdisciplinary discussion on hot button legal issues
Privacy, racial profiling, Supreme Court, immigration, and more to be discussed at Â鶹¹ÙÍø Club in Boston
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Faculty from across the Â鶹¹ÙÍø system will come together to discuss the prevalent legal issues facing the courts and society at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Colloquium, April 15, beginning at 10 a.m., at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Club in Boston. Privacy, racial profiling, Supreme Court decision-making, immigration, and more will be part of four separate moderated panel discussions this Friday.
Colloquium Schedule:
10-11 a.m.
Communication, Discrimination, and State Violence
Moderator: Margaret Drew, Â鶹¹ÙÍø Law
Privacy, Publicity & Power: Rethinking the ‘Right Most Valued by Civilized Men’
Susan Gallagher, Â鶹¹ÙÍø Lowell, Political Science
Find Out What it Means to be Me: The politics of respect and dignity in sexual orientation anti-discrimination
Jeremiah Ho, Â鶹¹ÙÍø Law
Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al.: Is racial profiling now dead?
Tryon P. Woods, Â鶹¹ÙÍø Dartmouth, Sociology, Anthropology/Crime & Justice Studies
11:15 a.m.-noon
Extra-Judicial Impacts on Supreme Court Decision-Making
Moderator: Shaun Spencer, Â鶹¹ÙÍø Law
The problem of non-unanimous constitutional decisions
Dwight Duncan, Â鶹¹ÙÍø Law
Targeting the Supreme Court in presidential speeches
Paul Collins, Â鶹¹ÙÍø Amherst, Political Science and Legal Studies
1:15-2:30 p.m.
Migration, Health, and Justice
Moderator: Irene Scharf, Â鶹¹ÙÍø Law
Migrant Categories in Crisis: State responses to asylum seekers
Rebecca Hamilin, Â鶹¹ÙÍø Amherst, Political Science and Legal Studies
Discussion on the impact on refugees
Lisa Maya Knauer, Â鶹¹ÙÍø Dartmouth, Anthropology
Medical-Legal Partnership: Strategies to improve [refugee] health by addressing social determinants with legal solutions
Heather-Lyn Haley, Â鶹¹ÙÍø Medical School, Family Medicine and Community Health
The circulation of transitional justice and its effects on domestic politics
Jamie Rowen, Â鶹¹ÙÍø Amherst, Political Science and Legal Studies
2:45-3:45 p.m.
Law, Property, and Public Policy
A Jukebox for Patents: Should patent licensing be controlled by compulsory licensing?
Ralph Clifford, Â鶹¹ÙÍø Law
The Political Follies of FDI Industrial Recruitment: How FDI makes the rich richer, the poor poorer and raises unemployment in America
Nikolay Anguelov, Â鶹¹ÙÍø Dartmouth, Public Policy
The impact of flood insurance subsidies on coastal development
Chad McGuire, Â鶹¹ÙÍø Dartmouth, Public Policy