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Annual Dinner: Thursday, January 24, 2008

About the Speaker

Saul Levmore

Saul Levmore has been the Dean of the University of Chicago Law School since 2001 and is the William B. Graham Professor of Law. Prior to joining the Chicago faculty in 1998, he was the Brokaw Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, and a visiting professor at Yale, Harvard, Michigan, Northwestern, and Chicago. He has taught torts, corporations, non-profit organizations, comparative law, public choice, corporate tax, commercial law, insurance, and contracts. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the past president of the American Law Deans Association. Away from law, he has been an advisor on corporate governance issues and on development strategies and is the author of a book on games and puzzles. His writing has cut across many fields, and most recently has concentrated on topics in public choice, obesity regulation, deception, and disaster relief and avoidance.

The Family-Unfriendly Workplace
Why does the United States have one of the least generous parental leave and child-care policies in the world? How might employers structure incentives to retain valuable employees? Should we be anxious that so many highly trained citizens abandon their careers, especially after they become parents?

In this talk, Levmore will explore the connections among these questions. The topic offers a chance to think about the functions we assign to government and the apparent attraction of schemes, in the workplace but also in education and transportation and health care, that provide only basic benefits but allow those who prefer, to pay more for first-class benefits.

Reservations are limited (773) 702-5690

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