Law and politics shape and constrain the business enterprise; business and the dynamic forces driving an increasingly globalized economy structure and challenge existing political and legal institutions and alignments. Bringing together faculty, students and practitioners from a range of traditional academic disciplines and the professional schools, this monthly seminar (formerly called the Business and Government Seminar) provides a forum for research that crosses disciplinary lines, exploring the relationships of law, politics, public policy and the business enterprise. It is open to all interested faculty and graduate students. For more information, contact Gordon Silverstein at gsilver@berkeley.edu or Bruce Huber at bhuber@berkeley.edu.
Time: All seminars are held from noon to 1:30 pm.
Location: Unless otherwise noted, all seminars take place in Room 119 Moses Hall.
Friday, January 25
Mark Graber
Professor of Law and Government, University of Maryland
"Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil"
Wednesday, January 30
Edward Greenspan, Q.C., LL.D., D.C.L.
"Stranger in a Surprisingly Strange Land: A Canadian Lawyer Defends Lord Conrad Black in U.S. Federal Court in Chicago"
Note: This talk will be held at 4 p.m. in the Goldberg Room at Boalt Hall, with a reception to follow at 2240 Piedmont Avenue
Friday, February 15
Larry Kramer
Dean, Stanford Law School
"Putting the Democracy Back into Deliberative Democracy"
Friday, February 29
R. Shep Melnick
Professor of Political Science, Boston College
"Federalism and the Political Parties: Flip-Flop, Fatality, or Reformulation?"
Friday, March 14
Lynn Mather
Director, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy; Professor of Law and Political Science, University at Buffalo Law School, State University of New York (SUNY) — Buffalo
"Law, Politics, and Business Through the Lens of the Patent Bar: A Preliminary Study"
Friday, April 11
Walter Murphy
Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus, Princeton University
Friday, February 16
Ernesto Dal Bó
Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy — Haas School of Business, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
"Political Dynasties"
Tuesday, March 20
J. Nicholas Ziegler
Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
"Comparative Corporate Governance and Institutional Analysis"
Friday, September 8
Dara O'Rourke
Professor of Environmental and Labor Policy, University of California at Berkeley
"Lean and Clean? Integrating Competitiveness and Compliance in Global Production"
Friday, October 6
Jesse Fried
Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law
"Government Regulation of Executive Compensation"
Friday, October 27
Neil Fligstein
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
"Globalization of Europeanization?: Changes in the European Economy, 1980-2005"
Friday, December 1
Rui de Figueiredo
Assistant Professor, Haas Business and Public Policy Group and Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley
"Campaign Finance and Telecommunications Regulation"
September 23
Chris Ansell and David Vogel
University of California, Berkeley
"The Contested Governance of European Food Safety"
October 14
Robert Kagan
University of California, Berkeley
"General Deterrence and Corporate Environmental Behavior"
"Explaining Corporate Environmental Performance: How Does Regulation Matter?"
November 18
David Karol
University of California, Berkeley
"When Business and Religion Clash"
December 9
Paul Pierson
University of California, Berkeley
"Off-Center Politics"