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Honorable A. Wallace Tashima
U.S. Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The War on Terror and the Rule of Law
Monday, September 17, 2007 — 4:10 p.m.
Lipman Room, 8th floor Barrows Hall

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Honorable A. Wallace Tashima was appointed to the United States District Court for the Central District of California (at Los Angeles) by President Carter in 1980 where he served as U.S. District Judge for over 15 years. He was appointed by President Clinton as a U.S. Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on January 4, 1996. He assumed senior status on July 1, 2004. Prior to his appointment to the bench he was a partner in the Litigation Department of the law firm of Morrison & Foerster. Judge Tashima has lectured widely in the United States and abroad, primarily in Asia, on a variety of civil justice and civil reform topics.

Richard B. Freeman
Herbert S. Ascherman Professor of Economics, Harvard

The Challenge of Inequality and Global Capitalism to U.S. Democracy
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 — 4:10 p.m.
Lipman Room, 8th floor Barrows Hall

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Lecture Description: Americans are supposed to have more equality in politics (one person/one vote) than in the market and can direct the government to make decisions to improve their economic well-being. Inequality challenges equality of citizenship in politics when campaigning is so expensive and globalization challenges the efficacy of government in the economic sphere. How serious are these challenges? How well is U.S. democracy meeting them? How can we fend off these challenges?

Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert S. Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. In addition, he serves as Labor Studies Program Director at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. His research interests include the growth and decline of unions; self-organizing non-unions in the labor market; restructuring European welfare states; international labor standards; globalization; income distribution and equity in the marketplace; immigration and trade; and the job market for scientists and engineers.

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