ATL Visits the Windy City
Greetings from the great — but frigid — city of Chicago. We’re hanging out with friends and doing some sightseeing, but the main reason for our visit is this event, taking place on Thursday (and open to the public):
Judges As Public Figures
Thursday, February 21, 2008, 4:15 PM
University of Chicago Law School, Room IIJudge Richard Posner
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh CircuitDavid Lat
Above the Law
Underneath Their RobesProfessor Lior Strahilevitz
University of Chicago Law School
While in Chi-town, we will also be meeting readers at an ATL “Happy Hour,” similar to the event we held in Miami last year. It will take place on Wednesday, February 20, sometime after work (time and place to be determined).
Update: The Chicago “Happy Hour” will take place on Wednesday, February 20, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at Miller’s Pub (134 S. Wabash). Hope to see you there!
Schedule of Events [University of Chicago Law School Federalist Society]
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Comments
First, FINALLY!
Posner rocks
Looking forward to the talk. I thought it was supposed to be in the auditorium, in order to fit more people.
I think that they're going to have to move it to the auditorium. Someone should tell the Federalists; they're not used to being this popular.
Lat, you should spend Wednesday night at Jimmy's (The Woodlawn Tap) in Hyde Park.
Fucking Federalist Society. asswipes.
I'll move it to the auditorium if I feel like it.
Dude, stop ragging on the Federalist Society. Those guys can be pretty cool sometimes.
Unlike Jimmy's (The Woodlawn Tap).
lol
Jimmy's is probably the nastiest place on the face of the earth. It's great if you like smelly asshole hippies.
or woodlawns
I rather be a janitor and straight than a biglaw lawyer and gay. In fact I would prefer being a homeless person and straight over that.
Frigid? It's 50 degrees in Chicago today for the first time in about 3 months! Quit being a weenie.
We have the auditorium booked too in case it is needed. Our original plan was to do it in the courtroom (best combination of space and acoustics), but moot court needed it for the final argument round.
Guys at my high school used to serve on panels with Judge Posner all the time. It was no big deal.
Guys at my high school used to book the auditorium all the time. It was no big deal.
Lat, tell Judge Posner I said, "You the man, dawg." He gets a kick out that.
Chicago sucks.
Damn, I am going to be out of town this Thursday. The weather in Chicago sucks during the winter. Sorry to miss this.
6:26 was molested as a child.
If so, he was probably molested in Chicago by a fat guy with a moustache.
No he was molested by his father, but it was on the top of the John Hancock building. Him and his father still have trysts sometimes and he has nightmares.
Lat, can you ask Judge Posner to give me a job? I will pay him.
I don't think you are going to be able to top me.
What a bizarre panel. A revered federal judge, a serious scholar, and Lat? One of these things is not like the other.
Lat, what night are you going to be at Sidetrack?
If the Happy Hour is really for law firm associates, PLEASE have it in the loop, and not Hyde Park. It will do the UofC students some good to get into the city (I know, I went there).
Auditorium = No Free Food. And it's too bad that USNews doesn't incorporate free food into its rankings, or Yale would have nothing on Chicago. Hence the classroom.
So for a drink on Wednesday and a talk on Thursday, you arrived in Chicago on Sunday? Great planning!
Is this event open to the public?
Yes - see parenthetical ("and open to the public").
Guys at my high school couldn't read parentheticals all the time. It was no big deal.
I saw Lat at Columbia Law a few months ago. Hyper guy, but funny. Crowd was standing room only.
Lat, you should come on a tour of North Halsted while you're here.
*wink, wink*
North Halsted?
Eeeech. So 1998.
Miller's is in the Loop, Chi Associate.
Introducing Judge Posner and David Lat was perhaps the second greatest honor of my life.