The Spring 2008 Natural Law Colloquium Lecture
April 16, 2008 (Wednesday)
Location: to be announced
Patrick Kelley (Southern
Illinois University School of Law)
"The Moral Basis for Tort Liability: A
Convention-based, Natural Law Theory and Its Implications for Tort Reform"
Patrick J. Kelley is a Professor of Law at Southern Illinois University
School of Law. He did his undergraduate work at The University of Notre Dame
(B.A. 1965, valedictorian) and received his law degree from the University of
Iowa School of Law (J.D. 1969, valedictorian, law review editor-in-chief). He
has published a number of articles on tort law and tort theory, including Who
Decides? Community Safety Conventions at the Heart of Tort Liability, 38
Cleve.St.L.Rev. 315 (1991); Wrongful Life, Wrongful Birth, and Justice in
Tort Law, 1979 Wash.U.L.Q.919; The First Restatement of Torts: Reform by
Descriptive Theory, 32 SIU L.J. 83 (2007), and What Judges Tell Juries
About Negligence: A Review of Pattern Jury Instructions, 77 Chi.-Kent L.
Rev. 587 (2002) (with Laurel Wendt). He has also published a number of articles
on Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., including A Critical Analysis of Holmes’s
Theory of Torts, 61 Wash. U.L.Q.(1983); A Critical Analysis of Holmes’s
Theory of Contract, 75 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1681 (2000), and Holmes,
Langdell, and Formalism, 15 Ratio Juris 26 (2002).
Commentators:
to be announced
This lecture is free and open
to the public, and will be followed by a reception. Attorneys may
obtain CLE credits (2 non-transitional ethics
credits) for attending this event. The cost for CLE credit is $65 (or $55
for Fordham Law Alumni & public interest attorneys).
In order to register for CLE credit, please send any e-mail note to
cle@law.fordham.edu, or visit the
following web-site and browse to the program for April 16, 2008:
http://law.fordham.edu/cle.htm
A reception will immediately follow the lecture and discussion.
