Conferences
2008 Spring Symposium:
Can and Should We Control Technology?
The Future of Stem Cell Research Policy
This year's symposium offers a panel discussion of the legal and ethical implications of stem cell research. Keynoter Rebecca Dresser, the Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, is a a leading authority on the law and ethics of stem cell research. Yvonne Cripps, the Harry T. Ice Professor of Law at Indiana Law, and Sandra Shapshay, assistant professor in philosophy at IU Bloomington, and an affiliate faculty member at the IU Center for Bioethics in Indianapolis, will comment.
Watch it in the free Real Player or download MP3 audio.
Our Symposia
Proceedings of Law, Society, and Culture conferences have been published as symposia issues in the Indiana Law Journal.
- The Debate Over Presidential Power (story, video, or MP3 audio)
- The Next Generation of Law School Rankings
- Toward a Model Death Penalty Code (vol.80, no.1)
- Congressional Power in the Shadow of the Rehnquist Court: Strategies for the Future (vol 78, no. 1)
- Law, Politics, Morality, and Popular Culture (vol. 77, no. 2) (law, history, English, gender studies, political science)
- Regulating the Employment Relationship in the 21st Century (vol. 76, no. 1) (law, economics, labor studies, business)
- Religious Liberty at the Dawn of the New Millenium (vol. 75, no. 1) (law, education, religious studies)
- Law and the New American Family (vol. 73, no. 2) (law, gender studies, economics, business)
- Law and Civil Society (vol. 72, no. 2) (law, history, political science, gender studies)
- Emerging Paradigms in Bioethics, (vol. 69, no. 4) (law, sociology, religious studies, medicine)
Other Events
- Department of Sociology Colloquium series: Robin Stryker, Professor of Sociology, Affiliated Professor of Law and Scholar of the College (2004-07) at the University of Minnesota, "The Politics of Social Science in Labor and Employment Law: Institutional Politics and Legal Change", Dogwood Room, IMU Friday, April 29th at noon-1:30 p.m.
- Professor Adam McKeown from Columbia University, "Asian Migration and the Globalization of Modern Sovereignty, 1880-1910.", 4 p.m. April 4th, 2005