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: Room 127, Law School
Contact: (757)221-1840 or jpwelc@wm.edu
Summary
Woodbridge Professor of Law Charles H. Koch, Jr. will present the 2009 St. George Tucker Lecture on Nov. 5. His 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 EEC 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.
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.
