Faculty from Columbia, Yale law schools to speak on economics, civil rights

Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:42 pm

On successive evenings in February, Bates College presents two lectures by noted scholars from the law schools at Columbia and Yale universities. Alan Schwartz '61, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, offers a talk titled "The Economic Rationality Assumption and Its Challengers" at 7:30 p.m Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave. Patricia Williams, columnist for The Nation and James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, gives a lecture titled "Reconstructing Civil Rights for an Uncertain Future" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, in the Bates Chapel, College Street.