Feminist Economic Theory and the Difference it Makes (1997)

FEMINISM AND LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP

"Feminist Economic Theory and the Difference it Makes"

December 12-13, 1997

Jerome Greene Lounge - Wien Hall

Sponsored by Professor Martha Fineman

Friday, December 12, 1997 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Prudence Among the Virtues: Can Economics Get Over Bentham?

Prof. Diedre McCloskey

Dept. of Economics; Univ. of Iowa

Changing Sex and Economics: The Unfulfilled Promises of Calculable Man?

Prof. Nancy Barta-Smith

Dept. of English; Slippery Rock Univ.

Commentator: Pat Crawford, American University School of Law

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Dinner at Prof. Fineman's home, 15 Claremont Avenue, Apt.#91

December 13, 1997 10:00AM - 12:00PM

Neo-Classical Economics is Morally Bankrupt and Intellectually Vacant, So We Should Not Emulate It (An Economist's Unsolicited Advice to Feminist Legal Theorists)

Prof. Neil Buchanan

Dept. of Economics; Barnard College

The Coase Theorem: Interpretations Which Can Inform the Development of Feminist Law and Economics

Prof. Patricia Bradford

Law School; Marquette University

Is Law and Economics a Useful Tool for Feminist Legal Theory?

Dr. Darren Bush

Economics Dept.; Univ. of Utah

NOON - 1:30 PM Lunch Break

Saturday, December 13, 1997, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Confronting the Social Clause: Possibilities and Constraints

Sundhy Puhuja

LLM candidate; Univ. of British

Columbia

The Form of the Tax Reform Story: Marshall, Ordinary Meanings and the City Men

Dr. Judith Grbich

School of Law and Legal Studies

LaTrobe University, Australia

Children and Social Utility: New Jurisprudential Strategies for Children's Legal Advocates

Prof. Wendy Fitzgerald

College of Law; Univ. of Florida