Lecture Series
Volume 6, No. 2
Toward a Theory of Legal Interpretation, by Scott Soames
The Rule of Text: Is It Possible to Govern (Only) Using Statutes?, by Peter Tiersma
The Anti-Parroting Cannon, by Hanah Volokh
A Penguin's Defense to the Doctrine of Equivalents: Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Patent Law, by Kristen Osenga
Plain Meaning in Context: Can Law Survive Its Own Language?, by Richard Epstein
The Seventh Annual Friedrich A. von Hayek Lecture in Law - 2011
This year's Friedrich A. von Hayek Lecture (the seventh in the series) will be given on November 3, 2011 by Judge Robert S. Smith. Judge Smith is currently an associate judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York. Judge Smith’s lecture will focus on two major themes in the work of Friedrich A. von Hayek: liberty and the rule of law. It will discuss how these Hayekian ideals can or should affect the decision-making of a judge who believes in them; whether adherence to the rule of law can sometimes undermine the cause of liberty; and what a judge should do in a case that seems to present a choice between the two.
The lecture will take place on Thursday, November 3, 2011, 6:00 p.m. at Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South. A reception will immediately follow the lecture.
Please RSVP to the lecture here.
The Sixth Annual Friedrich A. von Hayek Lecture in Law - 2010
The Sixth Annual Friedrich A. von Hayek Lecture This year's lecturer was Randy E. Barnett, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory of Georgetown University Law Center. His prepared lecture, titled Commandeering the People: Popular Sovereignty and the Health Insurance Mandate, was of a matter of timely concern: earlier that day, October 14th, Florida Judge Roger Vinson of Federal District Court denied the Obama administration’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Professor Barnett's paper on the issue was cited by the Court. The lecture will be printed in the Volume VI, Issue 1, of the Journal this upcoming January.