School of Law Events Calendar

Law Library Events (September 28 through November 30)

Monday, September 29

• 1:00 PM Town Hall Meeting

Wednesday, October 1

• 4:20 PM Clark Legal History Series presentation: "The Personnel Power" by Cornell Professor of Law Josh Chafetz

Thursday, October 2

• 12:45 PM Annual Distinguished Lecture: "The Interlocking Gears of Rights and Structure: Why the Critics Are Wrong About U.S. v. Windsor" by Yale Professor of Law Heather Gerken

Thursday, October 9

• 1:00 PM Faculty Workshop: Presentation by BU Law Professor Nancy Moore, "Financial Rewards for Whistleblowing Lawyers"

Wednesday, October 15

• 4:20 PM "Revulsions of Capital: The Politics of Law and Slavery in the Age of the Turner Rebellion" by UC-Berkeley Law Professor Chris Tomlins

Thursday, October 16

• 12:45 PM Affordable Care Act Subsidy Debate featuring BU Law Professor Abby Moncrieff and Case Western Law's Jonathan Adler
• 1:00 PM Faculty Workshop: Presentation by BU Law Professor Jim Fleming, "Fidelity to Our Living Constitution"

Monday, October 20

• 2:30 PM IP Speaker Series: Presentation by Annett Kur, "From Minimum Standards to Maximum Rules"

Thursday, October 23

• 1:00 PM Faculty Workshop: Presentation by BU Law Professor David Webber, "Shareholder Litigation without Class Actions"
• 4:30 PM Student/Faculty Mixer

Wednesday, October 29

• 4:20 PM Defining Imperial Spaces: How South America Became a Contested Territory

Monday, November 3

• 2:30 PM IP Speaker Series: Presentation by Leah Grinvald, "Policing the Cease-and-Desist Letter"
• 4:00 PM Shapiro Lecture by John Barylick: "Killer Show: Litigation Strategies in the Aftermath of America’s Deadliest Rock Concert"

Thursday, November 6

• 1:00 PM Faculty Workshop: Presentation by Cathie Jo Martin, BU Dept. of Political Science, Distinguished Interdisciplinary Visitor

Monday, November 10

• 11:00 AM IP Speaker Series: Presentation by Public Knowledge Sr. VP Harold Feld, "Aereo and the Copyright-Media Interface"

Wednesday, November 12

• 4:20 PM Clark Legal History Series: "Protection, the Imperial Constitution, and the British Global Order, 1790-1850" by NYU Prof. of History Lauren Benton

Friday, November 14

• 1:30 PM Transactional LawMeet

Monday, November 17

• 2:30 PM IP Speaker Series: "Streaming Under Federal and State Law: Recent Developments in Copyright and Statutory Licensing" by SoundExchange Founding Director John Simson

Wednesday, November 19

• 1:00 PM Business and IP Careers Panel
• 4:20 PM Clark Legal History Series: "Presumption of Innocence/Presumption Against Punishment: Two Western Modes of Justice" by Yale Law Prof. James Whitman

Thursday, November 20

• 1:00 PM Faculty Workshop: Presentation by Prof. Wendy Gordon, "When IPRs Collide"
• 4:30 PM Student/Faculty Mixer

Friday, November 21

• 11:00 AM WTO Cigarette Cases & Global Health