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February 2013
Law Review Symposium 2013
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2013 Utah Law Review Symposium The Legal and Ethical Limits of Technological Warfare S.J. Quinney College of Law, Moot Courtroom Unmanned drones, cruise missiles, automated weapons, even armed robot warriors. Emerging technologies make it possible to conduct “clinical strikes” that limit civilian deaths, and even “remote warfare” that might lead to reductions in combatant casualties. What are the ethics of waging war from a safe distance? Who is responsible for decision-making? Do different rules of autonomy and accountability apply? If…
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18th Annual Symposium: Religion, Faith and the Environment
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment 18th Annual Symposium Religion, Faith, and the Environment April 12th & 13th, 2013 The Stegner Center’s eighteenth annual symposium will focus on the intersection of Religion, Faith, and the Environment. It has been nearly half a century since UCLA historian Lynn White named the Judeo-Christian tradition one of the “root” causes of “our ecological crisis.” Much has changed since then. Across the…
Find out more »February 2014
The Other Side of Reproductive Rights: The Untold Story and Ethics of Modern Eugenics
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S.J. Quinney College of Law, Sutherland Moot Courtroom “The Other Side of Reproductive Rights: The Untold Story and Ethics of Modern Eugenics" discusses an aspect of reproductive rights that gets much less attention than abortion: society’s attempts to prevent or at least discourage some classes of women and men from having children. The event will begin with a reading of Stumped, a one act play by law professor and playwright Debora Threedy, which was inspired by a 1978 US Supreme…
Find out more »November 2014
Law Review Symposium 2014
Legal Borders and Mental Disorders The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., Sutherland Moot Courtroom, S.J. Quinney College of Law What counts as a mental disorder? Is it when your behavior is statistically unusual, when it impairs your functioning, or when others think it is antisocial? We can define mental illness differently depending on which definition of “disorder” we employ, and the truth is that most of us exist somewhere on a continuum. There is no…
Find out more »Industry Environmental Compliance Conference
The High Cost of Non-Compliance: Risk Management and Environmental Protection Duties from the Industry Perspective The Stegner Center will host a seminar on “The High Cost of Non-Compliance: Risk Management and Environmental Protection Duties from the Industry Perspective." Topics to be discussed include responding to catastrophic industrial accidents, appropriate regulatory responses to industrial non-compliance, environmental health and safety management systems, and the interaction of regulators, the regulated community and community leaders. 6 hours of CLE Credit (1 hour ethics/professionalism &…
Find out more »March 2015
The Path to Becoming a Trial Lawyer
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Sutherland Moot Courtroom This unique seminar opportunity will give the new generation of lawyers a look at important aspects of the profession from some of the most experienced lawyers in the State. This seminar is a valuable chance to learn about a career as a trial lawyer and be able to network with new and experienced lawyers. Agenda Chair: Jessica Andrew, Dewsnup, King & Olsen 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. - Nuts & Bolts of a…
Find out more »December 2015
Frontiers in Precision Medicine – Exploring Science and Policy Boundaries
See the Precision Medicine project page » Watch the event archive on our YouTube channel » Sponsored by the S.J. Quinney College of Law Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences, the University of Utah School of Medicine and the Huntsman Cancer Institute Watch this event online. Direct links found in the agenda below. In his 2015 State of the Union Address, President Obama announced plans for the largest genomic study in history: the Precision Medicine Initiative. With a cohort of…
Find out more »June 2016
Downtown CLE: Skills and Ethics in a Brief Advice Clinic
Need your Ethics Credit before the end of the reporting year? Skills and Ethics in a Brief Advice Clinic Tuesday, June 7 at 12:00 p.m. Kirton | McConkie 60 East South Temple #1600 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 $15 includes lunch, or free without lunch. RSVP here » Skills and Ethics in a Brief Advice Clinic with Professor Linda Smith. Increasingly, individuals are unable to hire attorneys for full service representation. The bar, courts and non-profit agencies have turned to…
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Utah Law Review Symposium – The Bystander Dilemma: The Holocaust, War Crimes, And Sexual Assaults
_____________________________ Photo: Deportation of Baden-Baden Jews Utah Law Review Symposium At the S.J. Quinney College of Law The Bystander Dilemma: The Holocaust, War Crimes, And Sexual Assaults Watch live and in the YouTube archive » 8:00 a.m. - 2:45 p.m., S.J. Quinney College of Law Moot Courtroom (Level 6) Past, present, and future, the world is full of opportunities for bystanders to take meaningful action to prevent horrific crimes. Yet, far too often bystanders remain complacent. In Nazi Germany, an…
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Downtown CLE – Pro Bono Ethics ‘Toolkit’
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. (doors open at 11:30 a.m. for lunch and networking) Governor’s Office of Economic Development 60 East South Temple, 3rd Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 Hosted by the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Young Alumni Association https://www.facebook.com/SJQYoungAlumni $15 registration fee for catered lunch - Register online » *1 hour of ethics CLE pending Is this CLE for you? Well, is a friend of a friend getting a divorce? Did your uncle call…
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CLE: The Ethics of Using Technology for Business Development
12:00-1:15 p.m., S.J. Quinney College of Law, Moot Courtroom (Level 6) Want your business and client development to go viral? Join the S.J. Quinney College of Law Young Alumni Association and Utah State Bar Young Lawyer’s Division at this exciting CLE to learn about the ethics, the methods, and everything in-between. 1 hour Utah Ethics CLE (pending). Registration requested » Speakers Randy L. Dryer, Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law I have professionally reinvented myself several times over.…
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