Legal scholar Richard Epstein and feminist author bell hooks will deliver Assembly Series lectures Tuesday, Oct. 31, and Wednesday, Nov. 1, respectively. Both lectures are free and open to the public.
The School of Law’s Public Interest Law and Policy Speakers Series, in conjunction with the Federalist Society and the Assembly Series, will present Epstein at 3 p.m. in the Anheuser-Busch Moot Courtroom (Room 310).
The well-known libertarian and influential legal scholar will discuss the question “Has Modern Complex Litigation Outgrown the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures: The Case of Antitrust?”
Epstein, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, is widely considered one of today’s most influential legal voices.
His perspectives often challenge mainstream viewpoints and are articulated in several books and a large collection of articles on a broad range of legal and interdisciplinary subjects.
His teaching has been similarly broad in scope. Some of his published works include Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty With the Common Good; Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Right to Health Care; Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain; and Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism.
In addition to teaching law at the University of Chicago, Epstein also directs the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics and is a senior fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at its medical school.
He earned bachelor’s degrees from Columbia College in 1964 and Oxford University in 1966 and an LL.B. from Yale University in 1968.
For more information on Epstein’s lecture, call 935-6419 or go online to law.wustl.edu/clinicaled/index.asp?ID=1058.
bell hooks, the groundbreaking feminist author, teacher, social activist and cultural critic, will give the Black Arts & Sciences Lecture, “Self-determination: Where Do We Begin?” for the Assembly Series at 11 a.m. in Graham Chapel.
A renowned scholar, pioneering feminist and social and cultural critic, hooks is a prolific writer on women, race, culture, class, sexuality and their interconnections.
Since her first book, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, was published in 1981, she has written more than 30 books and hundreds of essays and articles.
In 1992, Ain’t I a Woman was ranked by Publishers Weekly among the 20 most important women’s books of the past 20 years. She also was named in The Atlantic Monthly as “one of our nation’s leading intellectuals.”
Her work ranges from self-help to scholarly monologues to personal memoir.
Among her most notable books are: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom; Killing Rage: Ending Racism; Bone Black: Memories of a Girlhood; Salvation: Black People and Love; Where We Stand: Class Matters; and Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-esteem.
Her most recent book, Witness, was published this year.
Currently teaching at Berea College in Kentucky, hooks also has taught at Yale University, the University of Southern California, Oberlin College and City College, City University of New York.
In addition to her teaching and writing, hooks is a frequent contributor to documentaries and films, including “Voices of Power,” “Black Is… Black Ain’t” and “Is Feminism Dead?”
hooks earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University in 1973, a master’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin in 1976 and a doctoral degree in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1983.
For more information, call 935-4620 or go online to assemblyseries.wustl.edu.