Professor Elizabeth Warren of Harvard Law School will speak on "The Role of Social Science in Shaping the Law" at the UW Law School's Thirteenth Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture, on Friday, November 2, 2001 at 4 p.m. in Godfrey & Kahn Hall ( Room 2260). The lecture will be followed by a reception in Sheldon Lubar Faculty Commons (Room 7200).

Professor Warren is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is the author or co-author of numerous books and articles, including several large empirical studies of the business and consumer bankruptcy system. Her book, As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America (Oxford 1989), winner of the 1990 Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association and a finalist for Outstanding Book of 1990 in Sociology, reports on the first of these studies. Her most recent book, The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt (Yale Press 2000), winner of the 2001 Award of the American College of Financial Services Lawyers, expands the reach of her bankruptcy research into related areas, including employment stability, health care finance, and mortgage lending.

The Fairchild Lectureship was established at the Law School in 1988, as a tribute to Judge Fairchild, a 1937 UW Law School graduate, former Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, later Chief Judge and now Senior Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Initiated by Judge Fairchild's clerks, the lectureship brings a distinguished member of the legal profession -- from the bench, bar or academia -- to speak on a topic of importance to the profession. For more information about Professor Warren and the Fairchild Lectureship, see http://www.law.wisc.edu/clew/2001_Fairchild_Lecture.htm .

To attend the lecture, please call (608) 262-3833 or send an e-mail to Lynn Thompson, lfthomp1@facstaff.wisc.edu , by October 23.

Submitted by on September 24, 2001

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