When: Noon, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002
Where: College of Law, McCollum Hall Room 112, East Campus
Loop and Fair Streets
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 23, 2002 -- Edmund W. Kitch, professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law, will speak on "Thoughts on Enron and its Aftermath" at noon Sept. 25 at the University of Nebraska College of Law, East Campus Loop and Fair Streets.
Kitch is the Perlman distinguished visiting professor of law at the University of Nebraska College of Law during September 2002. He is teaching a course on "Remedies for Securities Fraud."
He is widely known for his work in a variety of areas, including agency, corporations, securities, antitrust, intellectual property, economic regulation, and legal and economic history. He is a co-author with Nebraska Chancellor Harvey Perlman of a leading textbook, "Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition," now in its fifth edition.
Kitch received his B.A. degree from Yale in 1961 and his J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1964. After law school, he was an assistant professor at Indiana University for one year before returning to the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1965 to 1982. Since that time, he has been on the permanent faculty at Virginia, but he has visited widely at many schools, including Georgetown, Michigan, New York University, Oxford University and Stanford.
Contact: Glenda Pierce, Associate Dean, College of Law,
(402) 472-2161 (gpierce1@unl.edu)
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