Thursday: Volokh Comes to NYU!

Eugene Volokh

on
Medical Self-Defense & Organ Markets

Thurs. April 21^st  at 4:00 PM

VH 214

Professor Eugene Volokh will be giving a speech on principles of self-defense in the realm of medicine.  He published an article for the Harvard Law Review on the subject that can read more here. For those who are unfamiliar with Professor Volokh, he is a widely regarded professor of law at UCLA.  He is perhaps best known as the founder of The Volokh Conspiracy, one of the most popular and influential law blogs on the internet. He is among the five most cited under-45 faculty members listed in the Top 25 Law Faculties in Scholarly Impact, 2005-2009 study, and among the forty most cited faculty members on that list without regard to age. He has had 6 of his works cited by the Supreme Court. 


Professor Volokh received his JD from UCLA after earning his B.S. there at the age of 15. Upon graduating from law school, he went on to clerk for Judge Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit and Justice O’Connor of the Supreme Court.

Event: Atlas Shrugged Screening

Join the NYU Federalist Society for a screening of the new Atlas Shrugged movie.

When: Friday, April 15 @ 7:00PM
Where: Regal Union Square Cinema (NE corner of 13th & Broadway)
We will meet in the Lobby of the theater at around 6:45. Please purchase your tickets ahead of time and let us know if you are planning on coming so that we can look out for you.

Tickets: Purchase tickets online here

Review excerpt from Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski:

"I was convinced Atlas Shrugged could not be put on film, but this movie proved me wrong. It has a contemporary look and feel, while retaining the Art Deco elegance of Rand's novel. The acting is superb, particularly Taylor Schilling as Dagny Taggart and Grant Bowler as Hank Rearden. Bowler manages to cram more meaning into a half-cocked eyebrow than most actors in a dozen lines of dialogue, and Shilling captures the sleek, cold elegance of Dagny, while giving just a hint of the passion simmering beneath the surface. Indeed, all the performances are impeccable."

Upcoming Speaker: Lester Brickman

What Contingency Fees Really Cost America

A discussion with Professor Lester Brickman of Cardozo School of Law

Wed. April 13^th  at 4:00 PM

VH 216

Free food will be provided

Professor Brickman has recently written the book Lawyer Barons: What Their Contingency Fees Really Cost America. In reviewing this book Professor Epstein said:

"Lester Brickman is a man with a mission: To expose the waste and fraud that permeates the system of tort liability as it has grown up over the past forty years in the United States. Brickman is an indefatigable researcher who understands the keys to unlocking the secrets of the tort system. What is truly striking about Lawyer Barons is not just the massive amount of evidence presented but the tenacity with which he tracks down just about every scrap of available evidence on a particular problem and melds it into a compelling narrative that reads as a coherent whole. Anyone who reads this book will quickly conclude that tort reform belongs back on the national agenda."

Professor Brickman writes extensively on ethics and tort reform. He was instrumental in the movement against nonrefundable retainers. He has also drawn attention to questionable tactics used in asbestos litigation.