The Eminent Scholars Archive is an expanding archive developed by Lesley Dingle and Daniel Bates in which we document the careers and achievements of eminent scholars associated with the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. The archive includes biographies, bibliographies, photographs, recorded interviews and many other resources.

For more information, see the Squire website at www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive

Eminent Scholars Archive

Richard Posner is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Brian Leiter was Visiting Professor of Law when this discussion was recorded. This talk was recorded November 16, 2006.

Richard Posner and Brian Leiter: "What Do and What Should Judges Do?"

Organized by Professor Brian Leiter, Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence, a conference on "Moral Disagreements" was held on March 30-31, 2012. Session III featured Don Loeb (University of Vermont) on “Moral Disagreement Revisited” and commentator Jaime Edwards (University of Chicago).

Don Loeb, “Moral Disagreement Revisited”

Is there a principled reason why religious obligations that conflict with the law are accorded special toleration while other obligations of conscience are not? In Why Tolerate Religion? (Princeton, 2013), Professor Leiter argues there are no good reasons for doing so, that the reasons for tolerating religion are not specific to religion but apply to all claims of conscience. He also argues that a government committed to liberty of conscience is not required by the principal of toleration to grant burden-shifting exemptions to laws that promote the general welfare.

Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director, Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values at the University of Chicago Law School.

This talk was recorded on November 19, 2013, as part of the Chicago's Best Ideas lecture series.

Brian Leiter, "Why Tolerate Religion?"

Professor Peter Cane was the joint Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for 2011 - 2012. Professor Cane was interviewed on 10 July 2012 in the Squire Law Library. 

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A Conversation with Professor Peter Cane

Conversation with Professor Spyridon Flogaitis

Conversation with Judge Stephen M. Schwebel

Conversations with Kurt Lipstein #1: Up to the War

Conversations with Kurt Lipstein #2: Second World War to the 1960s

The third biennial Jefferson Symposium, sponsored by UVA Law and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, examines contemporary attitudes about free speech at American colleges and universities. The panelists for "Free Speech In and Out of the Classroom" are Blake D. Morant '78, dean of George Washington University Law School; Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor, Slate; and Kelly Carlin, writer, actor, producer and humorist. UVA Law professor John C. Jeffries Jr. provides the introduction. (University  of Virginia School of Law, Oct. 13, 2016)

2016 Jefferson Symposium Panel: "Free Speech In and Out of the Classroom"

Recording courtesy of the University of Alabama.

Presented as part of the University of Alabama School of Law's symposium "The Legacy of To Kill a Mockingbird: Advocacy in an Unjust Society" on March 3, 2017.

Richard H. McAdams is the Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.