Martha Nussbaum Talks with Akbar Ganji

Chicago Public Radio has partnered with the University of Chicago (among other organizations) in a project called Chicago Amplified. From their website: "Chicago Amplified is a Web-based audio archive filled with diverse lectures, conversations, panel discussions, forums and other educational events sponsored by community organizations and institutions throughout the Chicago region and presented here for audio streaming or download. The goal of this project is to make some of the most interesting and informative public programs taking place throughout our community widely available. Chicago Amplified allows you to listen to these events again, or discover them for the first time."

Among the University's first entries in Chicago Amplified is a conversation with Akbar Ganji and our own Martha Nussbaum. Gangi is Iran's most prominent political dissident and writer of A Republican Manifesto, laying out the basis for a full-fledged democracy in Iran. You can listen here to their conversation, and also visit the site for the University of Chicago's contributions to Chicago Amplified.

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[Fabrizio]

I'd like to greet all the people visiting this blog. I'm an italian law student, very interested in comparative law. Something that always attracted me a lot is the confront between different teaching systems. For this reason, I always thought it's very interesting the american university system, cause i know you're lecture are completly different from what we have in most european countries. I always appreciated a system based on case-books instead of big manuals full of theories but nothing "real" and on lectures where students have direct partecipation (and maybe in competition with each other). I'd like to know what's the attention you pay to history of law and comparative law. In particular, from the few contacts i had with american students i got the impression that these topics aren't "the most liked" in the States. Is my opinion wrong?