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Next Week
6:00PM-9:00PM
Cornell Law School and Cornell Law Association cordially invite you to an Alumni Networking Reception and Program
Featured Speaker - Robert S. Summers, The William G. McRoberts Professor of Research in the Administration of the Law
"The Natural Law vs. Positivism Debate"
The Natural Law vs. Positivism Debate concerns the most fundamental dispute in the history of the subject of jurisprudence. The debate concerns the very nature of law itself. In the 20th century, the debate famously pitted Professor H.L.A. Hart of Oxford University against Professor Lon Fuller of Harvard University, both former teachers of Professor Summers. With the debate still very much alive today, Professor Summers will clarify the issues and offer his point of view.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Reception 6:00 PM / Program 7:00 PM
Cost: $20 per person
The Fort Orange Club
110 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY
Special thanks to Glen Doherty, BS '86, JD '89, Christopher Massaroni, JD '82, Scott Paton, JD '94 and McNamee, Lochner, Titus & Williams, P.C. for sponsoring this event!
Please Register Online by Thursday, November 26, 2009 or by calling the Alumni Affairs Office at 607.255.5251.
See Who's Coming
Robert S. Summers
The William G. McRoberts Professor of Research in the Administration of the Law
Robert S. Summers has won international acclaim for his work in contracts, commercial law, and jurisprudence and legal theory. Since he came to Cornell Law School from the University of Oregon School of Law in 1969, Professor Summers has authored and coauthored multiple works on contracts, commercial law, jurisprudence and legal theory. His treatise on the Uniform Commercial Code, coauthored with Professor James White, is the most widely cited on the subject. His other influential works include texts on legal realism, form and substance in the law, and on statutory interpretation. Professor Summers has served as official advisor both to the Drafting Commission for the Russian Civil Code and to the Drafting Commission for the Egyptian Civil Code, and he lectures annually on jurisprudence and legal theory in Britain, Scandinavia, and Europe. He currently teaches contracts and American legal theory, and has recently completed a book on the varieties of legal form and their importance in law. The book was published in 2006.
