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SEAL I Conference – October 16-17, 1998

SEAL I CONFERENCE
October 16-17, 1998
Pace University School of Law
White Plains, NY

John Humbach and Owen Jones, Co-Directors

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PROGRAM
FRIDAY, October 16


Welcome


Dean Richard Ottinger (Pace)
Owen Jones (Arizona State)

The Primacy of Nature
in Political Theory


John O. McGinnis (Cardozo)

Biology, Blame
and Criminality


John Humbach (Pace)

Sex, Culture and the
Biology of Rape


Owen Jones (Arizona State)

Panel:  Law as a Complex Adaptive System

Introduction

J.B. Ruhl (George Washington)

The Basic Theme of Complex Legal  Systems and What the Future Research Agenda Needs to Be


David Post (Temple)

Complex Adaptive Systems
and Business Law


Tom Geu (South Dakota)

An Application of Algorithm Theory
to Environmental Law


J.B. Ruhl (George Washington)

Evolutionary Law, and Comments
on Presentations


E. Donald Elliott (Yale)


Keynote Address:

An Evolutionary-based Model of the Characteristics of Sexually Coercive Men: Integrating Multiple Levels of Analysis


Neil Malamuth (UCLA)
SATURDAY, October 17


Freedom of Speech and the
Evolution of Memes

 

 

Jeff Stake (Indiana U.)

 

Memetic Analysis of the
Development of Legal Concepts


Michael Fried (Federal Trade Commission)

Gender and the Military

Kingsley Browne (Wayne State)

Private Transfers Within the Family: Altruism, Agency, and Evolution


Shubha Ghosh (Georgia State)

Law and Evolution vs. Law
and Economics


Oliver Goodenough (Vermont)

Evolutionary Biology and Socio-economics: The Complementary Relation to Law Teaching and Practice

 

 

Robert Ashford (Syracuse)

 

Panel: Teaching Law and Biology Topics
with Raymond Colletta (McGeorge) and Cheryl Hanna (Vermont)