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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)