and ‘laws common to all mankind’
The Law School will begin the fall semester with two events: the Quinnipiac-Yale
Dispute Resolution Workshop series and the Storrs Lectures.
T H I S
Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop The Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop series opens on Friday, Sept.
14, with a lecture by Douglas Yarn, law professor at Georgia State University,
on
“The Biology of Reconciliation.” The lecture will be held at the Quinnipiac Law School faculty commons from noon
to 2 p.m. Lunch will be served. Those interested in attending should call (203)
582-5299.
Yarn, who teaches alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and professional
responsibility at Georgia State University College of Law, is also executive
director of the school’s Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.
An experienced mediator and arbitrator, he has been an ADR Fellow of the
American Arbitration Association (AAA), director of the AAA’s Center for International Commercial Disputes, a Salzburg Fellow in
international environmental negotiation and a Gruter Institute Research Fellow.
The Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop is a collaboration between
Quinnipiac University School of Law and Yale Law School to host lectures by
distinguished scholars and practitioners in the field of dispute resolution.
Some of the talks are held at the Quinnipiac Law School faculty commons and
some are held in the Yale Law School faculty lounge. The talks, which are free
and open to the public, are structured to allow time for questions and
discussion. For more information, call Jennifer Brown at (203) 582-3246 or send
e-mail to jennifer.brown@quinnipiac.edu.
The Storrs Lectures Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at New York University (NYU) School of
Law, will deliver the Storrs Lectures at the Law School Monday-Wednesday, Sept.
10-12. His three-part lecture is titled
“‘Partly Laws Common to All Mankind’: Foreign Law in American Courts.”
The topic of the first lecture is “Democracy, Judicial Review and ‘The Disapproving Views of Foreigners.’ ” The second lecture is subtitled “The Expansion of Integrity: Treating Like Cases Alike (Here and There).” The third will explore “Learning from Other Courts: The Right Way, The Wrong Way and The Legal Way.”
The Monday and Tuesday lectures begin at 4:30 p.m. and the Wednesday lecture
begins at 3:10 p.m. All talks will be held in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127
Wall St., and are free and open to the public. A reception will be held in the
Alumni Reading Room following Monday’s lecture.
In his lectures, Waldron will discuss whether it is ever appropriate for
American judges to be influenced in their decisions by what they know of the
laws of other countries.
“The citation of foreign law by the U.S. Supreme Court in Roper v. Simmons (the 2005 juvenile death penalty case) and Lawrence v. Texas (the 2003 case striking down an anti-sodomy law) has proved enormously
controversial,” said Waldron. “It is time for legal philosophy to get involved in this controversy.”
Waldron said his lectures will explore jurisprudential ideas that might
underlie the Supreme Court’s occasional recourse to foreign law, especially in constitutional cases. He will do so by reference to the old Roman Law principle that every society is
governed partly by its own laws and partly by laws common to all mankind.
Waldron has been University Professor at NYU School of Law since 2006. Prior to
that, he was University Professor at Columbia Law School.
He has written numerous books, including “God, Locke and Equality” (Cambridge, 2002), “Law and Disagreement” (Oxford, 1999), and “The Dignity of Legislation” (Cambridge, 1999). He is the author of more than 100 published articles and
essays in legal and political philosophy, both contemporary and historical.
Educated in law and philosophy at the University of Otago, Waldron received his
doctorate in jurisprudence at Oxford. He was elected to the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences in 1998.
The Storrs Lectures, one of Yale Law School’s oldest and most prestigious lecture programs, were established in 1889. These
annual lectures are given by a prominent scholar and deal with fundamental
problems of law and jurisprudence.
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