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Joel Mokyr: Is Technological Change a Thing of the Past: Lessons from the Industrial Revolution
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Joel Mokyr, Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University, delivered the John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellowship Lecture on November 12, 2018.
Fighting Factory Farms: How Two Midwestern Family Farmers Stood Up to the Agricultural-Political-Industrial Complex
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Sonja Trom Eayrs, a Minnesota attorney and farmer's daughter, and Chris Petersen, an Iowa family farmer spoke about how factory farms and local governments work together to force independent family farmers off their land and cause environmental destruction in the Midwest.
Brinkley Messick: Just, False and Discrediting Witnesses: Evidence in Sharia Courts
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Brinkley Messick, Professor of Anthropology and MESAAS at Columbia University, gave this talk on October 23, 2018, as part of the Kamel lecture series.
Esther Duflo: Science Against Poverty: From Action Research to Large-scale Change
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Esther Duflo delivered the 2018 Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Global Justice on October 22.
Alumni Weekend 2018: Media On Elections
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The political media in the United States is fractured, flawed, and absolutely essential. It's also under attack. How well is it covering the upcoming November election?
Alumni Weekend 2018: Cutting-Edge Clinics
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Faculty and Students Discuss the Transformation of Clinical Education at YLS
Alumni Weekend 2018: Talking Across Party Lines
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As our politics become ever more partisan, how can voters and politicians all along the political spectrum engage in meaningful dialogue without devolving into shouting matches and insults? This panel explored the challenges presented by political tribalism and the ways in which we might move toward a more constructive dialogue.
Alumni Weekend 2018: Presentation of Dean’s Award and Award of Merit
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On October 20, 2018, Dean Heather Gerken presented the Dean’s Award for Extraordinary Service to Toni Hahn Davis ’92 LLM and the Award of Merit to Carmela Castellano-Garcia ’91.