LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP SERIES

presents

 

 

Professor Chaim Saimon

Villanova Law School

 

The Distribution of Doctrinal Complexity

Across Common Law Systems

 

  

Friday, February 27, 2009

12:30 – 2:00

Solarium – Falconer Hall

84 Queen’s Park

 

 

Chaim Saiman, an assistant professor at Villanova Law School, works in the areas of comparative private law and Jewish law. His recent articles include Restitution and the Production of Legal Doctrine, 65 Washington and Lee Law Review 993 (2008);  Public Law, Private Law and Legal Science, 56 American Journal of Comparative Law 691 (2008); Restitution in America: Why the US Refuses to Join the Global Restitution Party? 28 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 99 (2008) and Jesus’ Legal Theory—A Rabbinic Reading, 23 Journal of Law and Religion 97 (2007-08). Currently, he is working on The Distribution of Doctrinal Complexity Across Common Law Systems which compared the nature of US and Commonwealth private law discourse as well as on a further explorations of the relationship between law, philosophy and theology in Jewish and Christian thought.  Prior to teaching at Villanova, Chaim served as an Olin Fellow at Harvard Law School, a Golieb Fellow in legal history at NYU Law School, and as a law clerk to Judge Michael McConnell on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.

 

 

A light lunch will be served.

 

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