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INSTITUTE HOME Law School Home Dean Announcement Events Calendar Contact Information Search the Law School Site Map	AGENDA Click here for on-line viewing information. To view video presentation click on title/presenter Self and Other: Cognitive Perspectives on Trust, Empathy and the Self* FRIDAY, APRIL 6th 8:45 – 9:20 Continental Breakfast 9:20 – 9:25 Welcome – Professor Claire Hill The Brain 9:25 – 10:05 Social and Emotional Influences on Decision-making, Trust and the Brain, Professor Mauricio Delgado, Rutgers University 10:05 – 10:45 An Informational Theory of Empathy, Professor Aldo Rustichini, University of Minnesota 10:45 – 10:55 Break Justice, Injustice and Illegality 10:55 - 11:35 Unjust Law and Illegal Norms, Professor Francesco Parisi, University of Minnesota 11:35 – 12:15 Justice versus Benevolence: A Modern Humean View, Professor Mario Rizzo, New York University 12:15 – 1:30 Lunch Social Influences & Social Interactions 1:30 – 2:10 Intentions, Guilt, and Social Interactions, Professor J. Atsu Amegashi, University of Guelph, Ontario 2:10 – 2:50 Consuming with Others: Social Influences on Moment-to-Moment and Retrospective Evaluations of an Experience, Professor Suresh Ramanathan, University of Chicago 2:50 – 3:00 Break Empathy & Identity (1) 3:00 – 3:40 Empathy, Aliens, and Others: Confessions of an Empathy Skeptic, Professor Richard Warner, Chicago-Kent College of Law 3:40 – 4:20 Authentic Happiness, Identity, & Law, Professor Peter Huang, Temple University 4:20 – 5:00 Who Trusts?: Personality, Cognitive Ability, and Identity, Professor Avner Ben-ner, University of Minnesota SATURDAY, APRIL 7th 8:45 – 9:00 – Continental Breakfast Sex and Sexuality 9:00 – 9:40 Sexual Economics: Heterosexual Sexual Behavior As Predicted by Basic Economic Principles, Professor Kathleen Vohs, University of Minnesota 9:40 – 10:20 Straight Acting, Professor Dale Carpenter, University of Minnesota 10:20 – 10:30 Break Empathy & Identity (2) 10:30 – 11:10 How People Make Sense of Other People (and why it matters to legal scholarship), Professor Claire Hill, University of Minnesota 11:10 – 11:50 Identity and Empathy: How Narratives Connect Us to Others, Professor William Casebeer, United States Air Force 11:50 – 12:30 The Bowels of Christ, and Those of Audrey Jo De Clue and Albert Johnson: Judge Richard Posner’s Jurisprudence of Empathy, Professor Mary Anne Case, University of Chicago	Director Claire A. Hill University of Minnesota Law School Advisory Board Avner Ben-Ner Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota Richard Brooks Yale Law School Mary Anne Case The Law School, University of Chicago Don Langevoort School of Law, Georgetown University George Loewenstein Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University Geoffrey Miller The New York University School of Law Frederick Schauer Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Unversity Barbara Anne Spellman Department of Psychology, University of Virginia Kathleen Vohs Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota Assistant Julie Hunt University of Minnesota Law School huntx179@umn.edu

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