About the Institute
The Institute for Law and the Humanities was created to facilitate,
support and encourage symposia, lectures, scholarship, and faculty
discussion on the relationship between law and other humanistic
disciplines. It provides opportunities for faculty and students
to integrate humanities-based studies with the study of law and
to explore the increasingly rich and diverse scholarship in areas
such as legal philosophy, legal history, law and literature, and
law and religion.
Upcoming ILH Events:
The Institute for Law and Humanities is pleased to announce the following events:
November 4, 2009 at 3:00:
The Institute for Law and the Humanities is pleased to announce that nationally known Nazi Holocaust scholar Harry Reicher, who is Scholar in Residence at Touro Law School and Adjunct Professor at University of Pennsylvania Law School, will speak at Chicago-Kent on November 4, 2009, at 3 pm in the Event Room. A reception follows at 4 pm. All faculty, staff and students, as well as the public, are invited.
The title of his presentation is The Nazi Obsession with Legalizing the Holocaust. Here is his description:
The Nazi Holocaust represented the ultimate in sheer, brutal lawlessness. Yet the Nazi regime in Germany went to extraordinary lengths to legalize what it was doing, thereby creating the ultimate oxymoron, pseudo-legal terror. This presentation will examine the perversion of the country's legal system, in both its legislative and judicial aspects, and the conversion of both into savage instruments designed to discriminate against, ostracize, dehumanize, and ultimately eliminate certain classes of people, Jews first and foremost. This is a little-known dimension of the Holocaust, one that added another weapon to the armory trained by the Nazis against their victims, and that prompted the court in the trial of the Nazi lawyers and judges at Nuremberg to summarize, very powerfully: "The dagger of the assassin was concealed beneath the robe of the jurist."
Please mark this important event on your calendar.
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Chicago-Kent Institute for Law and the Humanities Events
The Chicago-Kent Institute for Law and the Humanities is pleased to announce sixth annual student paper prize for the academic year 2009-2010. An award of $500.00 will be presented to the best law and humanities paper in 2009-2010. J.D. as well as LL.M. students at Chicago-Kent are eligible for the prize. There will be an honorable mention prize of $250.00. Winning papers are put on deposit in the library and are linked to the ILH website. Students writing winning papers are given assistance in publishing their articles, including use of ExpressO.
A law and humanities paper is one that examines any issue from both a legal and a humanities-based perspective, or integrates the two perspectives in an appropriate manner, including legal philosophy, legal history, gender and the law, law and literature and law and religion. The paper should be scholarly and worthy of publication.
Eligibility and Submission: The prize is limited to Chicago-Kent students enrolled in the 2009-2010 year. Submissions must have been written in association with a course or an independent research project or Law Review note in either the Fall 2009 term or the Spring 2010 term. Submissions are to be received no later than June 1, 2010.
Please direct all inquiries to Professor Sheldon Nahmod (snahmod@kentlaw.edu)
Announcements
The Institute for Law and Humanities is pleased to announce the winners of its fifth annual paper prize for the academic year 2008-2009 . A first prize award and an honorable-mention prize are awarded to outstanding law and humanities papers by Chicago-Kent students. A law and humanities paper is one that examines any issue from both a legal and a humanities-based perspective, or integrates the two perspectives, and includes, for example, legal philosophy, legal history, law and literature and law and religion.
All three papers are examples of first-rate scholarly work produced by
Kent
students. We wish to thank all those who submitted papers on behalf of their students or who encouraged students to submit their own papers. The ILH is planning to make past winning papers available on our website and in the library.
The Institute for Law and the Humanities is proud to announce the 2009 winners of the ILH paper prizes.
The first place prize of $500 goes to Moshe Marvit for his paper, On the Greatest Property Transfer that Wasn’t: How the National Labor Relations Act Chose Employee Rights and the Supreme Court Chose Property Rights.
The second place prize of $250 each (a tie) goes to Stacy Wilkins for her paper, Building the Wall Between Church and State: How Anti-Catholic Sentiment Has Shaped Establishment Clause Jurisprudence, and to Matthew Towey for his paper, Engineering the Future of IIT and the Bronzeville Neighborhood: The Illinois Institute of Technology’s Decision Not to Relocate From the South Side of Chicago to the Suburbs.
These papers are very well written and researched and imaginatively incorporate humanistic elements (jurisprudence, history, religion and social science), together with legal doctrine, in their analysis. They are available online.
The committee, consisting of Professors Batlan, Schmidt and Nahmod, was quite impressed with the quality of the papers as well as with the quality of the other submissions which numbered more than a dozen.
Congratulations to the three winners.
Previous Winners:
2007 - 2008
Matthew Stone
jurisprudential systems.The first prize paper, “A Comparison of Free Speech in American and Jewish Law,” was written by Matthew Stone. This well written paper carefully and thoughtfully examines the marked differences in free speech approaches of two very different jurisprudential systems. The paper then persuasively explains the political, historical and religious sources of those differences in a very knowledgeable manner.
Laurie Drum
The second prize paper, “A Foreign Exchange: The Hidden Costs of Advocating Legislative Protections for Mail-Order Brides,” was written by Laurie Drum. This well written paper studies the policies and underlying assumptions of the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act. The paper goes on, interestingly and convincingly, to connect the Act to domestic violence in the United States and to feminist theory in general.
2006 - 2007
Frank Hill:
Restorative Justice: Sketching a New Legal Discourse
Publication of Frank Hill's article is forthcoming in International Journal of Punishment and Sentencing.
Jonathan Lahn:
The Demise of the Law-Finding Jury in America and the Birth of American Legal Science: History and its Challenge for Contemporary Society
2004 - 2005
Tonya Newman:
Chicago Clubwomen and Progressive Era Politics: Gender and the Pursuit of Power
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