St. George Tucker Lecture: Woodbridge Professor of Law Charles H. Koch, Jr.
Starts: November 5, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Ends: November 5, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Location: Law School, room 127
Contact: [[wtjoseph, Wesley Joseph]]
Summary
Professor Koch's lecture is titled "Poor Europe: Why Weren't They Smart Enough Just to Copy Us." Professor Koch (B.A., University of Maryland; J.D., George Washington; LL.M. University of Chicago) is the Dudley W. Woodbridge Professor of Law at the College of William & Mary. He specializes in administrative law, European Union law, federal courts, and comparative constitutional law.
Full Description
The European Economic Community came into being, with considerable help from the US, in 1957. Six nations signed the original treaty. It now includes 500 million people in 27 nations with several more in the pipeline. The ECC has morphed over some fifty years into the European Union; the name change itself signaled a concept quite different from the original. As its original name implies, it was understood as an economic organization, but today it has evolved into a sovereign state (but not a nation state). In doing so, it has made some fundamentally different choices from those we made. Professor Koch's talk, titled "Poor Europe: Why Weren't They Smart Enough Just to Copy Us," explores some of the more interesting differences.
Professor Koch has been a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Between 1989 and 1996, he was editor-in-chief of the Administrative Law Review. He is currently Assistant Chief Reporter for an American Bar Association project to develop greater understanding of the EU among US lawyers and chair of the ABA Task Force on Global Administrative Law. He also serves on the ABA United Nations Affairs Coordinating Committee. He is author of Administrative Law and Practice Third (3 volumes), Administrative Law of the European Union, volume 1 (with George Bermann); two volumes in Federal Practice and Procedure (Wright and Koch), and founding author of a casebook, Administrative Law: Cases and Materials (5th ed.). Among other publications, he has articles in Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, Emory Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Wake Forest Law Review, William and Mary Law Review and Michigan Journal of International Law.
The St. George Tucker Lecture Series was established in 1996 to recognize the scholarly achievements of a senior member of the William & Mary law faculty each year. The series is made possible through the generosity of Law School alumni.
St. George Tucker was the second professor of law at William & Mary and a pioneer in legal education. He drafted a formal description of the requirements for a law degree at the College, which included an exacting schedule of qualifying examinations in history, government and related pre-law subjects. Tucker's course material was published as the first American edition of Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. For a generation, Tucker's volume was considered the leading authority on American law.
