Faculty Speaker Series
Each year, Carolina Law attracts some of the nation's leading legal scholars to Chapel Hill to share their insights with faculty and students on a variety of engaging topics. The faculty of the UNC School of Law announces their 2009-2010 Speaker Series.
Oct. 2, 2009
John Inazu, Fellow in Public Law
Duke University
John Inazu joined Duke Law in the fall of 2009. Prior to coming to Duke Law, he was a teaching fellow and instructor on the First Amendment in the political science department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before that, he clerked for Judge Roger L. Wollman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. From 2000-2004, he served as an associate general counsel for the Department of the Air Force at the Pentagon as part of the Air Force General Counsel's Honors Program, where he focused on governmental contracts litigation, national security, and military personnel matters. His research focuses on the First Amendment, law and religion, political theory and jurisprudence, and his scholarly work appears in the Tulane Law Review, Tennessee Law Review, Marquette Law Review and other academic publications. His current book project is on "The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly." Inazu has been a participant in the Civitas Summer Leadership Seminar at the Center for Public Justice and a volunteer instructor with the Presidential Classroom.
Nov. 2, 2009
Hari Osofsky, Associate Professor of Law
Washington & Lee Law School
Hari Osofsky is an associate professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, and she is also a Ph.D. student in the geography department at the University of Oregon. After clerking for Judge Dorothy Nelson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, she worked as a Fellow at Center for the Law in the Public Interest, with a focus on environmental justice advocacy. In 2001-2002, she served as a Yale-China Legal Education Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Sun Yat-sen University School of Law, where she taught U.S. civil rights law and helped the school launch its clinical legal education program. In 2003-2004, she was a non-residential fellow with the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs and engaged in a project on international environmental rights. Osofsky's scholarship focuses on climate change law and law and geography. Her current writing projects include a co-edited book on climate change litigation with Cambridge University Press and a casebook on climate change law and policy forthcoming with Aspen Publishers. Her recent articles have been awarded the Daniel B. Luten Award for the best paper by a professional geographer by the Energy and Environment Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.
Nov. 10, 2009
Camille Rich, Assistant Professor of Law
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Camille Gear Rich joined the USC Gould School of Law faculty in the fall of 2007 following five years of private practice. Her research and teaching interests include constitutional law, feminist legal theory, legal ethics, employment discrimination and children and the law. Prior to entering private practice, Rich clerked in the Southern District of New York for District Judge Robert L. Carter. She also clerked on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for Circuit Judge Rosemary Barkett. She joined Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP in 2003, where she worked primarily on general commercial litigation and internal investigations. Rich also worked on various pro bono matters involving Title VII retaliation claims and disability rights. Her primary pro bono project was her work as co-counsel with the Legal Aid Society Prisoners Rights Project on a prisoners rights class action raising constitutional claims on behalf of all female prisoners in New York State prisons against New York State Department of Corrections officials. She was awarded the Legal Aid Society Pro Bono Award in recognition of her work on prisoners rights claims.
Nov. 16, 2009
Dan Markel, D'Alemberte Professor of Law
Florida State University College of Law
Dan Markel has written on retribution in criminal law and sentencing, with a focus on the role of shame in the criminal justice system. He is a co-founder of a blog for academic law professors, PrawfsBlawg. Upon graduation from law school, Markel was a research fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, a clerk for Judge Michael Daly Hawkins on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and an associate at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel in Washington, D.C., where he practiced white-collar criminal defense and civil litigation in trial and appellate courts. He teaches primarily in the area of criminal law.
Dec. 4, 2009
Chris Brummer, Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law
Chris Brummer is an expert in international financial regulation. He'll present his paper, "How International Financial Law Works and How It Doesn't." His research focuses on globalization and its impact on financial markets and financial market regulation. His writings have appeared in several leading journals including the California Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review and the Chicago Journal of International Law. He recently served as the Securities and Exchange Commission's first academic fellow in the agency's Office of International Affairs. Prior to joining Georgetown's faculty, he was on the faculty of Vanderbilt Law School and practiced in the New York and London offices of Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
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