The 29th Annual Frankel Lecture | Addressing Americans with Professor Richard R.W. Brooks

The 29th Annual Frankel Lecture, sponsored by the Houston Law Review at the University of Houston Law Center, focused on how the words that we use to address and refer to others influence our civil, political, and social lives. Professor Richard R. W. Brooks delivered the keynote lecture "Addressing Americans".

Brooks is the Emilie M. Bullowa Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law and the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School. His scholarship focuses on contracts, agency, the analysis of behavior through the lens of law, economics and custom. 

His most recent book, Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms, examines the history and enduring legacy of racial covenants. He has also written articles addressing experimental economics, the economics of environment, law, fairness, and perceptions of the legal system.

Brooks holds a BA from Cornell University, an MA from the University of California at Berkeley, a JD from The University of Chicago Law School, and a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Commentators for the lecture are:

Richard H. McAdams, Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and 

Helen Norton, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Rothgerber Chair in Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado School of Law.

Key moments:

00:00 - Introduction by Dean Leonard Baynes

6:40 - Professor Richard R. W. Brooks

38:35 - Richard H. McAdams

55:58 - Helen Norton

01:14:16 - Q&A for the Speakers

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