Upcoming Events - 2009
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FEATURED UPCOMING BU LAW EVENTS
Meeting of National Legislative Association on Prescription Drug Prices
November 6, 2009
9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
State leaders will meet to discuss their 2010 legislative agendas to lower drug costs and expand access, and to receive reports on lawsuits challenging state laws regulating drug marketing. The deadline for registration is November 2nd.
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Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common Good -- A Book Discussion
Sponsored by the Federalist Society.
November 6, 2009
12:15 - 1:15 p.m., Barristers Hall
Professor Richard Epstein, University of Chicago Law School, will be speaking on his book Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common Good.
Boston University School of Law Professor James Fleming will be giving comments in his response.
A Great Debate on Financial Reform
November 9, 2009
5:00 - 6:30 pm., COM 101, 640 Commonwealth Avenue (College of Communication Auditorium)
Debaters include: Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia Business School and Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Dept of Economics, BU. Commentator: Robert R. Bench, Morin Center for Banking & Financial Law, School of Law.
Sponsored by the Morin Center for Banking & Financial Law Studies, the Department of Economics at the College of Arts & Sciences, and the School of Management.
Health Reform Debate: Federalist Society v. American Constitution Society
Presented by the Federalist Society, the American Constitution Society and the Health Law Association
November 10, 2009
1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Barristers Hall
Featuring BU Law Professor Abigail Moncrieff and Professor David Hyman from the University of Illinois. Moderated by Professor Kevin Outterson and Professor Fran Miller. Speakers will discuss the underlying merits and drawbacks to healthcare reform.
Meet the Middlesex District Attorney Along with a Panel of Assistant District Attorneys
November 10, 2009
3:00 - 4:00 p.m., Room 820
Middlesex County is the largest county in Massachusetts and has prosecuted nationally publicized cases. Come learn about career opportunities, summer internships, and what it means to be a prosecutor with the Middlesex County DA’s Office.
National Security Law Society Presents: Justice at Guantanamo
November 10, 2009
4: 00 - 5:30 p.m., Room 1270
Kristine A Huskey, University of Texas law professor and former director of the National Security Clinic at UT Law, will discuss her new book Justice at Guantanamo: One Woman's Odyssey and Her Crusade for Human Rights. Justice at Guantanamo is a memoir, chronicling Huskey's personal journey from a civil war in Africa, to bartending in New York City, to the law, where she found her calling defending human rights and the Rule of Law after practicing for several years at a white-shoe law firm in Washington, D.C.
Huskey began representing Guantanamo detainees in 2002 as one of few lawyers willing to challenge the government soon after 9/11. She worked on the seminal Rasul v Bush case, in which the Supreme Court ruled in 2004 that Guantanamo detainees had a right to habeas corpus, and she represented Omar Khadr, the young Canadian citizen charged with war crimes.
Huskey has represented over 15 detainees and visited Guantanamo numerous times. She has appeared on CNN, BBC, C-Span and was featured in Marie Claire and the Texas Lawyer. Huskey established the National Security Clinic at UT law in 2007 and has supervised UT Law students on a variety of national security matters, including representing Guantanamo detainees and providing research in the landmark Boumediene case. She is also a fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law.
Canceled -- Unraveling the Biggest Ponzi Scheme of All Time: A Conversation with Madoff Trustee Irving Picard (‘66)
November 12, 2009
This event has been canceled.
The Elizabeth Battelle Clark Legal History Series
November 18, 2009
4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Room 832
Featuring:
Professor Susanna Blumenthal, University of Minnesota School of Law, "The Mind in Issue: Consciousness and Liability in the Nineteenth-Century American Courtroom"
Papers available upon request. Please contact Melinda Peterson (mapeters@bu.edu)
American Journal of Law and Medicine Symposium:
"Follow the Money: The Impact of Economics on the Delivery of Health Care"
February 6, 2010
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., BU Law
This year's symposium will follow the work of Professor Frances Miller.