Money in Law and Literature Conference
Thursday, February 18th
5:00 – 7:30 PM | Room C
Student Papers
Chaired by Jennifer Nou, University of Chicago
- Alyssa O'Connor (3L): "'Quiet but not blind': Lessons for Financial Regulators from Austen's Least-loved Protagonist"
- Alexandra Scott (2L): "Anne Brontë's Helen Huntingdon: A Case Study of the Evolution of the Marital Prison"
- Sonul Rao (3L): "An Assembly Line of Crime: The Interaction of Money, Class, and the Law in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations"
- Stacey Petrek (2L): "'Stephen, how like you this play?': Examining the Influence of Money on the Artist in James Joyce's Ulysses"
- Luke Sperduto (1L): "Time and Exchange in Fitzgerald's Winter Dreams"
Friday, February 19th
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Room V
Nineteenth Century Britain
Chaired by Randy Berlin, University of Chicago
- “Commerce, Law, and Revolution in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë” - Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago
- “Money, Law and Status in Trollope’s England” - Nicola Lacey, London School of Economics
- “Wealth and Warfare in the Novels of Jane Austen” - Seebany Datta-Barua, Illinois Institute of Technology and Jonathan Masur, University of Chicago
12:15 – 1:25 PM | Room II
Keynote
Chaired by Saul Levmore, University of Chicago
- “Melville, Manufacturing, Machinery and the Modern Economy” - Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University
1:45 – 3:45 PM | Room V
Nineteenth Century United States
Chaired by William Baude, University of Chicago
- “Money and Art in Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward” - Douglas Baird, University of Chicago
- “Counterfeiting Confidence: The Problem of Trust in the Age of Contract” - Susanna Blumenthal, University of Minnesota
- “Bartleby’s Consensual Dysphoria” - Robin West, Georgetown University
4:30 – 6:00 PM | Courtroom
Play and music
Reception immediately following the production
Saturday, February 20th
9:30 – 10:45 AM | Room V
The Golden Age and the Great Depression I
Chaired by Genevieve Lakier, University of Chicago
- “Gatsby’s Greatness and Douglas’s Goodness” - Justin Driver, University of Chicago
- “Regulating Greed: Biographical Markers in Dos Passos’ The Big Money” - Saul Levmore, University of Chicago
11:30 AM – 12:45 PM | Room V
The Golden Age and the Great Depression II
Chaired by John Rappaport, University of Chicago
- “The Grapes of Wrath and the Role of Luck in Economic Outcomes” - Richard McAdams, University of Chicago
- “The Second New Deal and the Fourth Courtroom Wall: Law, Labor, and Liberty in The Cradle Will Rock” - Laura Weinrib, University of Chicago
2:00 – 4:00 PM | Room V
Religion, Race, Poetry
Chaired by David Weisbach, University of Chicago
- “The Morning and Evening Star: Religion, Money, and Love in Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt and Elmer Gantry” - Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago
- “Raisin, Race, and The Real Estate Revolution of the Early Twentieth Century” - Carol Rose, Yale University
- “Irish [and Dutch and American] Poets, Learn Your Trade: The Political Economy of European Poetry since 1900” - Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago
Abstracts
Musical & Play Program
Nussbaum, "The Morning and the Evening Star"
Levmore, "Regulating Greed"
West, "Bartleby’s Consensual Dysphoria"
Baird, "Money and Art in Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward"
McCloskey, "Irish [and English and American] Poets, Learn Your Trade"
Rose, "Raisin, race, and the real estate revolution of the early 20th century"
Lacey, "Gamblers and Gentlefolk: Money, Law and Status in Trollope’s England"
Datta-Barua & Masur, "Wealth and Warfare in the Novels of Jane Austen"
Blumental, "Counterfeiting Confidence"