Money in Law and Literature Conference

2/18

Thursday, February 18, 2016 @ 12:00am

Open to the public

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"

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

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