Law and the Humanities Institute Presents a Symposium

Law & Humanities Institute, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, and the
Louise and Arde Bulova Fund

present

The Risks of Interpretive Flexibility When Basic Traditions Are
Challenged by an “Emergency”

August 11, 2010
at
Prospect House
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Registration 8:30am to 9:00am Program 9:00am to 5:30pm

Panelists:


Richard Weisberg
Event Co-Chair,
President, Law & Humanities Institute,
Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law and Founding Director, Program for Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Elaine Scarry
Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Values, Harvard University

Marci Hamilton
Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Peter Brooks
Event Co-Chair,
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar,
Professor in Comparative Literature and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University



Sanford Levinson
Charles Tilford McCormick Professor Law, University of Texas
Author of Torture the Debate






This program examines why professional communities have yielded their finest traditions to a perceived sense of “emergency.” The results are often disastrous, as in the case of the French legal community during World War II, and perhaps with the equivocal redefinition and application of “torture” in our own country. This program brings the methods, sources, and readings of the Humanities to a focused inquiry into the reasons lawyers, theologians, and many other professional communities have so often lost their way. A panel and public discussion will delve into the inquiry of professional communities in an “emergency.” CLE credit will be available. Please RSVP to stephanie.spangler@gmail.com with intention of attendance and CLE option.

This program was made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.