Law & Literature Workshop: Guyora Binder

Faculty of Law University of Toronto

Law & Literature Workshop Series

2008 - 2009

 

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Guyora Binder

University at Buffalo Law School

 

 

Representing Value: The Meaning of Institutions

 

 

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

12:30 – 2:00

Solarium, Falconer Hall

84 Queen’s Park

Toronto Canada M5C 2C5

 

Guyora Binder, University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor of Law, was formerly law clerk to federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein, Dana Fellow of Comparative Jurisprudence at U.C.L.A., Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Stanford Law School. Guyora Binder has written in the areas of jurisprudence, criminal law, constitutional law and international law. His research primarily concerns the representation of historical change and of personal and group identity in law and legal thought. Guyora Binder is the author of Treaty Conflict and Political Contradiction (Praeger, 1988), and coauthor of Criminal Law (Little Brown, 1996), and Literary Criticisms of Law (Princeton University Press, 2000). His work has appeared in such journals as the Yale Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities.

 

A light lunch will be provided.

 

 

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca