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  • Victoria Nourse, Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law, will offer courses in Constitutional History and Legislation at the UW Law School in the fall 2010 semester.  
  • Alta Charo delivered the annual Daniel W. Foster, M.D. Lecture in Medical Ethics at the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center in November. She spoke on “The Celestial Fire of Conscience:  Is There a ‘Right’ to Refuse Medical Services?”  Previous lectures in the series have been delivered by Dr. Ed Pelligrino, chair of the President's Bioethics Council under George W. Bush, and Dr. Ruth Faden, who chaired the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments under Bill Clinton.  
  • Alexandra Huneeus has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Law and Society Association, an international organization of scholars who study the interrelation of law and social, political, economic, and cultural life. Huneeus will serve on the Board for a term of three years.  



    • Ideas & Innovations

    Fri, 1/22 12:00 pm
    Ideas & Innovations: Tonya Brito
    7200 - Lubar Commons

    Fri, 1/29 12:00 pm
    Ideas & Innovations: Jason Yackee
    7200 - Lubar Commons

    Fri, 2/12 12:00 pm
    Ideas & Innovations: Darian Ibrahim
    7200 - Lubar Commons

    Global Legal Studies

    Fri, 12/4 2:00 pm
    Human Rights workshop
    7200 - Lubar Commons

    Sat, 12/5 8:00 am
    Human Rights workshop (day II)
    7200 - Lubar Commons

    Wed, 2/10 12:00 pm
    Follow up information session on study abroad
    7200 - Lubar Commons