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Article

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University of Chicago Law School Roundtable

Abstract

On Friday, November 21, 1997, Roundtable hosted an event as part of its Interdisciplinary Program Series entitled, "The New Chicago School: Myth or Reality?" The panel discussion had as its origin an article by Jeffrey Rosen which appeared in The New Yorker's late October special double issue, called "The Next Issue." In his article, Rosen, talking, among other things, about new kinds of crime control and prevention strategies, quoted former University of Chicago Law School professor and current Harvard Law School professor Larry Lessig. "'My aim,' Lessig announced, 'is to outline a research program for what I will playfully refer to as the New Chicago School.' This new program, he promised, would study the ways that law can influence behavior indirectly, by changing social norms." Roundtable invited Lisa E. Bernstein, then a law professor at Georgetown University and now a professor at The Law School; Dan M. Kahan, a professor at The Law School; Tracey L. Meares, an assistant professor at The Law School; Randal C. Picker, a professor at The Law School; and Eric Posner, then a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and now a professor at The Law School, to participate in a panel discussion in which each talked about his or her work in social norms and then commented briefly on the socalled New Chicago School. Richard A. Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at The Law School, was asked to moderate and to comment. What follows is a transcript of the event.

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1

Volume

5

Publication Date

1998

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