LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP SERIES
presents
Ekow Yankah
Cardozo Law School
Yeshiva University
Legal Hypocrisy
12:30 – 2:00
Friday, March 11, 2011
Classroom A, Flavelle House
78 Queen’s Park
Prior to joining the Cardozo faculty, Professor Yankah was an assistant professor at University of Illinois. At Illinois, he was a member of the Law and Philosophy Program as well as the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Program. Previously, he was an associate in complex commercial litigation at Boies, Schiller & Flexner in New York, where he represented Fortune 500 companies and high net-worth individuals in a variety of matters, including contract disputes and allegations of RICO violations.
Professor Yankah’s scholarship explores the intersection of analytical jurisprudence, criminal law and political theory. His latest work explores the appropriate role of virtue in law generally and criminal law particularly. His scholarship has appeared in a variety of law reviews and peer reviewed legal theory journals. His current scholarship deals with harms-to-self, prostitution decriminalization and moral agreement as well exploring new relationships between profiling under the threat of terrorist attacks, liberalism and government obligations. At Illinois, Professor Yankah was recognized by students for his special service and has been awarded an Inspiration award by students at Cardozo.
As a student at Columbia Law School, he served on the regional board of directors for the Unemployment Action Center, was honored with the Center’s Advocate of the Year Award, earned the Parker School of International Comparative Law Award, and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Following law school, he was the Legal Discourse/Law and Philosophy Fellow at Columbia Law School. He received his B.C.L. (a post graduate law degree) from Oxford in 2002, where he was award a Lord Crewe Scholarship.
Professor Yankah also serves as the recruiting chair for the New York Democratic Lawyer’s Counsel.
A light lunch will be served.
For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.
