SPRING 2012
Location: Law Building, Room 1314 (unless otherwise specified)
Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Law School community and invited guests only
Lunch available at 12:15; talks begin promptly at 12:30
Each Monday, the School of Law hosts a colloquium for faculty. Below is the list of speakers for SPRING 2012:
| February 6 |
Jeffrey Brantingham, Associate Professor at the UCLA Anthropology Department
"The Los Angeles Predictive Policing Experiment"
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February 13
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Ronald Dworkin, Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at UCLA
"Political Rights and Concepts" |
| February 27 |
Phillip Atiba Goff, Assistant Professor at the UCLA Psychology Department
"Racial Traps: The Shape of Contemporary Racism Through the Lens of Law Enforcement" |
| March 5 |
Eran Zaidel, Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at the UCLA Psychology Department
"Beyond Evolution: How to Redesign the Brain"
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| March 12 |
James Gelvin, Professor at the UCLA History Department
" The Arab Uprisings: Linkages and Disjunctures" |
| March 19 |
Stefan Timmermans, Chair and Professor at the UCLA Sociology Department
"The Social Consequences of Expanding Newborn Screening" |
| March 26 |
Spring Recess |
| April 2 |
Joseph Doherty, Director, Empirical Research Group at the UCLA School of Law
"Grantmanship Roundtable"
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| April 9 |
Laura Abrams, Associate Professor of Social Welfare and Doctoral Program Chair at the UCLA School of Public Affairs
"Juvenile Justice at a Crossroads: Science, Evidence and Reform in the 21st Century"
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| April 16 |
Brian D. Taylor, Professor of Urban Planning; Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies; Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at the UCLA School of Public Affairs
"Transit's Dirty Little Secret: The Divergence of Rider Demographics and Public Policy"
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| April 23 |
Neal Halfon, MD, Director, Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Health Scences and Policy Studies
"Transforming the US Health Care System Moving from 2.0 to 3.0" |