Bankruptcy expert to talk at Law School
Professor Elizabeth Warren of Harvard Law School will speak Friday, Nov. 2, on “The Role of Social Science in Shaping the Law.”
The free public lecture, the Law School Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture, starts at 4 p.m. in Godfrey & Kahn Hall, room 2260 Law School, 975 Bascom Mall.
Warren is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is the author or co-author of numerous books and articles, including several large empirical studies of the business and consumer bankruptcy system.
Warren’s most recent book, “The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt” (Yale Press 2000), won the 2001 Award of the American College of Financial Services Lawyers. The book expands the reach of her bankruptcy research into related areas, including employment stability, health care finance, and mortgage lending.
The Fairchild Lectureship was established in 1988 as tribute to Fairchild, a 1937 UW Law School graduate, former Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, later chief judge and now senior circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Initiated by Judge Fairchild’s law clerks, the lectureship brings a distinguished member of the legal profession — from the bench, bar or academia — to speak on a topic of importance to the profession.
To attend the lecture, please call (608) 262-3833 or e-mail Lynn Thompson, lfthomp1@facstaff.wisc.edu, by Tuesday, Oct. 23.