SEAL News: October 20, 2008 – Scholarship Conference

Posted by Vanderbilt on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 in news.

News about the Scholarship Conference:

Members of the Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law (S.E.A.L.):

This message brings updated news concerning the 10th SEAL Scholarship Conference, including a newly-arranged special event: a Keynote Lecture by famed primatologist Frans de Waal.
The dates for the SEAL conference have been shifted slightly, commensurate with an expansion in plans.  The conference will now run 2 ½ days — from Thursday April 16, 2009, at noon through the evening of Saturday, April 18th.  We look forward to seeing you there.
The conference will have 2 components.  Thursday (1/2 day) and Friday (all day) will provide the scholarship conference in its traditional format (speakers selected from replies to a forthcoming call for proposals).  Saturday will provide a special day of invited speakers, culminating in a late-day Keynote address by Frans de Waal.
For more information on de Waal, who Time Magazine listed as among the 100 most influential people of 2007, see generally the website here as well as the Wikipedia entry here.
To learn about de Waal’s 12 books on the evolution of primate behavior, see here.
Saturday is jointly sponsored by the Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law, the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, the Vanderbilt Law and Human Behavior Program, and the Vanderbilt Law and Behavioral Biology Speaker Series.
Further news of the conference (including calls for talk proposals, registration information, and the like) is forthcoming.
Again, we are delighted to welcome Fran de Waal as our Keynote Speaker, and look forward to seeing you in April.

With best regards,
Jeffrey Stake, SEAL President
Owen Jones, SEAL Director
SEAL Website: www.sealsite.org

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