Spring 2010 LEGS Seminars

Mondays at 4:30 p.m., Kerstetter Room, 3rd floor, Marx Hall

February 15:	Dennis Yap, Graduate Student, Politics "Chinese Contexts for Natural Law as Mandated by Heaven?"
March 1:	John Palmer, Graduate Student, WWS "Quantifying the Legal Value of Naturalization in Europe Over Time: The Changing Economic, Social and Political Rights of Long-Term Residents in Eighteen European States."
April 12:	Joseph Younger, Graduate Student, History "Slave Law and Strategic Citizenship: Frontier Violence, Factional Politics and National Sovereignty in the Río de la Plata Borderlands (1850-1864)"
April 26:	Arudra V. Burra, Ph.D. candidate, Philosophy "The Significance of Consent"

LEGS, or "Law-Engaged Graduate Students," meets once every two weeks during the academic year to discuss a work in progress by one of our Graduate Associates. Academic papers, dissertation proposals, and dissertation chapters have been presented at these meetings, to an audience of fellow graduate students.

Spring 2010 LEGS Seminars

Mondays at 4:30 p.m., Kerstetter Room, 3rd floor, Marx Hall

Co-sponsored Event

Seventh Annual Comparative Law Works in Progress Workshop

at Princeton University

LAPA Seminar

Michael Herz, Microsoft/LAPA Fellow; Cardozo School of Law

"Democracy Deficit or Democracy Surplus? Agency Rulemaking in the Electronic Age"

Special Event

Hungary’s Constitutional Revolution

Panel Discussion

LAPA Seminar

Michael McCann, LAPA/Crane Fellow; University Of Washington

"Beyond Legal Mobilization: Rethinking Rights and Power"

LAPA Seminar

Eugene Kontorovich, IAS School of Social Science; Northwestern University Law

"From Pirates to Pinochet and Back Again"

LAPA Seminar

Bernadette Atuahene, LAPA Fellow; Chicago- Kent Law School

"Land Restitution in South Africa: Voices from Below"