LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP SERIES

presents

Brian Tamanaha
St. John's University Law School

The Distorting Slant in Quantitative Studies of Judging

Friday, September 12, 2008
12:30 - 2:00
Solarium (room FA2)
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
84 Queen's Park

Professor Brian Tamanaha is the Chief Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law at St. John's University Law School.  In 2007-2008, he was a Member in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.  He is the author of five books: Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law (Cambridge 2006); On the Rule of Law: History, Politics, Theory (Cambridge 2004); A General Jurisprudence of Law and Society (Oxford 2001); Realistic Socio-Legal Theory: Pragmatism and a Social Theory of Law (Oxford 1997); and Understanding Law in Micronesia: An Interpretive Approach to Transplanted Law (Brill 1993).  He recently completed a new monograph, Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide on Judging, which is currently under review for publication by a university press.

Professor Tamanaha has delivered a number of high profile lectures in the United States and abroad.  In 2007, he delivered the Julius Stone Address at the University of Sydney, as well as the Baker & Hostetler Lecture at Cleveland-Marshall Law School.  In 2006, he gave the Plenary Address at the 7th Annual Conference of Europear Legislation at the Peace Palace in The Hague.  He delivered the inaugural Montesquieu Lecture in 2004 at the University of Tilburg.  Professor Tamanaha also delivered the Keynote Address at the Conference on Law and Social Theory (2001) at Wolfson College, Oxford University, and presented the Public Lectures at the University of Tilburg (2001) and University College London (2002).  He has also given presentations at several dozen faculties.  Professor Tamanaha served as Interim Dean of the School of Law in 1998-99, and was selected by the students to be Professor of the Year in 2001.  He teaches Torts, Jurisprudence, Comparative Law, and Professional Responsibility.

A light lunch will be provided.

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