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Installation lectures highlight Influential Voices series throughout the year
Seattle University School of Law’s annual Influential Voices Lecture Series focuses on the research of several of the law school’s nationally recognized scholars. This year the series will highlight the installations of the law school’s esteemed chair and professors.
October 29 Teaching as a Form of Love At its best, teaching, whenever it happens, is a form of love. Professor Chinen will draw from certain strands of philosophy and theology to discuss how teaching is in part about the mutual exploration of various subjects and the honing of capacities that already exist in the other, but in larger part it is an invitation to both teacher and student to be better integrated into the human community, an invitation to life and love.
Installation as the John D. Eshelman Professor
November 19 Linguistic Ideology versus Linguistic Practice Professor Ainsworth will critique the legal status of so called “English-only” rules imposed by employers. Multi-lingual employees fired for violating such policies have argued the rules are a form of unlawful discrimination, but they have found a chilly reception in court for their claims of discrimination.
February 18
Professors Delgado and Stefancic will address the role of empathy and fellow-feeling in law and society and whether judges, as President Obama suggested recently in connection with his nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, should be empathic? What does it mean to be empathic, and is that a code-word for favoritism?
Installation as the Donald and Lynda Horowitz Chair for the Pursuit of Justice
March 25 Global Intellectual Property Governance Emerging models and narratives of global governance are more attentive to decentralized power relations than the typical international intellectual property scholarship. What kinds of norms are likely to be articulated more persuasively in these governance models, and by whom? And will resulting policies be more specifically tailored to benefit the least advantaged among us?
April 24 Mania: The Story of the Outrageous and Outraged Lives That Launched a Generation Professor Skover will introduce his latest book coauthored with Ronald Collins – a work that brings literature and law to life. “Mania” recounts the madness and genius that characterized the lives of the major Beat Generation authors from 1949-1957 and focuses on the literary censorship that assumed historic proportions in the 1957 “Howl” obscenity trial.
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Mark Chinen
Janet Ainsworth
University Professor Richard Delgado and 
Empathy and False Empathy in Law and Politics
Margaret Chon
David Skover
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