TUSCALOOSA, Ala., — Legal scholars will visit The University of Alabama School of Law to discuss deception in market transactions Oct. 10 in a symposium at the Law School.
The Law and Lies Symposium will be held in the Bedsole Moot Courtroom, room 140. It begins at 8:30 a.m.
Lying and deception seem ubiquitous in public life — from the noble lie of Plato’s Republic to the controversy about former President Bill Clinton’s “lying” in the Monica Lewinsky case, from the use of secrecy in today’s war against terrorism to the endless spinning of political campaigns, from President John Kennedy’s behavior during the Cuban missile crisis to cover ups concerning pedophile priests in the Catholic church, from Freud’s efforts to decode the secrets beneath civilized life to contemporary exposés of the private lives of politicians.
The symposium will feature:
Montré Carodine, The University of Alabama School of Law
William N. Eskridge Jr., Yale Law School (keynote speaker)
Mary Anne Franks, University of Miami School of Law
Stuart Green, Rutgers School of Law-Newark
Helen Norton, University of Colorado School of Law
Norman Spaulding, Stanford Law School
Legal scholars will investigate the way law responds to lying and deception and when and where lies are tolerated and condemned. The event is free and open to the public.
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Contact
Monique Fields, manager of communications, UA School of Law, 205/348-5195, mfields@law.ua.edu