January 2, 2015

Law and Humanities Events at the 2015 AALS Meeting

If you are attending the 2015 AALS Meeting this year, don't forget the special film events: January 2nd's 7:30 p.m. showing of the 1961 classic Judgment at Nuremberg, with special commentary by Professor Harold Koh, and January 4th's 8 p.m. showing of the 2011 documentary Hot Coffee. On Monday, January 5th, AALS will present a special cross-cutting program from 2-5 that will include guest speaker Professor Anita Hill and a showing of the film Anita.

Here's a selection of interesting programs at AALS this year. The Law and Humanities Section program will take place from 8:30 to 10:15 on Saturday, January 3 (topic: Law and the hero). The Sections on Constitutional Law, Women in Legal Education, and Legal History are co-sponsoring a program at the same time (Topic: Griswold then and now). At 1:30 on Jan. 3, Legal History and WLE are co-sponsoring a program with guest speaker Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on "engendering equality." At 8:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 5, the Section on Art Law will be sponsoring a program on "After the Monuments Men: Nazi Era Art, Modern Legal Problems."

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