Dean's Office Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

The Ten Commandments, VIII: Do not steal.

VIII. DO NOT STEAL.

Speakers:

DAVID NIMMER, of counsel to Irell & Mandella LLP and author of the leading U.S. treatise on copyright law. He is currently Visiting Professor at the UCLA School of Law.

STEWART VOGEL, rabbi (Temple Aliyah, Woodland Hills) and co- author of "The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life." He is currently Vice President of the Southern California Board of Rabbis.

PAMELA BRUBAKER, Associate Professor of Religion at California Lutheran University. She is also Program Coordinator of the Women's Studies Department.

The Ten Commandments: Universal ethics that all righteous people should uphold or the "Moral Majority's" attempt to impose its religious beliefs on the secular world? Come discover with us, on selected Thursday evenings during Fall and Winter quarters, the remarkable textual and historical complexity of these Commandments and their legacies in the modern world.

A public forum sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies with the generous assistance of the Jerry and Joy Monkarsh Family, this series costs $55 for all 11 evenings ($25 for UCLA students with SID) or $10 per person per evening ($5 for UCLA students with SID).

For further information or to receive a brochure, contact CJS at (310) 825-5387.

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

Torah in the Mouth: Oral and Written Transmission in Jewish Culture

TORAH IN THE MOUTH: ORAL AND WRITTEN TRANSMISSION IN JEWISH CULTURE

A conference convened by

JOSEPH NAGY (UCLA)

Conference Speakers:

SUSAN NIDITCH (Amherst College) "Preparing a Commentary on the Biblical Book of Judges: Confessions of a Student of Early and Oral Literatures"

MARTIN JAFFEE (U. of Washington) "Torah in the Mouth as a Rhetoric of Monotheism: Ideology, Oral Tradition, and the Social Exclusions of Rabbinic Disciple Communities"

YONA SABAR (UCLA) "Torah in the Mouth and Torah in the Heart: How Judaism Was Transmitted in a Minimally-literate Near Eastern Jewish Community"

DAN BEN-AMOS (U. of Pennsylvania) "Literacy and Orality: A Medieval Epic and a Modern Oral Tale"

Moderators:

William Schniedewind (UCLA)

Herbert Davidson (UCLA)

Arnold Band (UCLA)

Peter Tokofsky (UCLA)

Organized in conjunction with

The UCLA Faculty for the Study of Oral Tradition

National Endowment for the Humanities

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Who Owns the Bible?: Copyright in the Dead Sea Scrolls"

DAVID NIMMER

David Nimmer, currently Visiting Professor of Law at UCLA, is of counsel to Irell & Manella LLP. The following is excerpted from Irell & Manella's website (http://www.irell.com/attorneys/ShowLawyer.asp?AID=118):

He is also a Distinguished Scholar at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. In 2000, he was elected to the American Law Institute.

Since 1985, Mr. Nimmer has updated and revised Nimmer on Copyright, the standard reference treatise in the field, first published in 1963 by his late father, Prof. Melville B. Nimmer. Besides also contributing to other treatises, Mr. Nimmer has authored numerous law review articles on domestic and international copyright issues. A selection includes the following:

A Riff on Fair Use in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 148 U. Pa. L. Rev. 673 (2000)

Puzzles of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 46 J. Copyright Soc’y USA 401 (1999)

The Metamorphosis of Contract Into Expand, 87 Cal. L. Rev. 17 (1999)

Aus Der Neuen Welt, 93 Nw. U. L. Rev. 195 (1998)

Time and Space, 38 IDEA 501 (1998)

Adams and Bits: Of Jewish Kings and Copyrights, 71 S. Cal. L. Rev. 219 (1998)

An Odyssey Through Copyright’s Vicarious Defenses, 73 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 162 (1998)

A Tale of Two Treaties, 22 Colum.-VLA J.L. & Arts 1 (1997)

Are We Running Through the Jungle Now or Is the Old Man Still Stuck Down the Road? 39 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 65 (1997)

Brains and Other Paraphernalia of the Digital Age, 10 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 1 (1996)

The End of Copyright, 48 Vand. L. Rev. 1385 (1995)

A Structured Approach to Analyzing the Substantial Similarity of Computer Software in Copyright Infringement Cases, 20 Ariz. St. L.J. 625 (1988)

"Nimmer on Copyright" is routinely cited by U.S. and foreign courts at all levels in copyright litigation. In addition, the courts have relied on many of the foregoing articles. For instance, the Eleventh Circuit in 1999 evaluated the constitutionality of GATT-inspired amendments to the Copyright Act by relying on The End of Copyright. In 1992, the Second Circuit adopted wholesale the test for copyright infringement of computer software proposed in A Structured Approach. In subsequent years, other courts have followed the Second Circuit’s lead, until today a plurality of circuits follow that test.

Mr. Nimmer lectures widely in the copyright arena. Besides in-house seminars (such as for the legal staffs of Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta and Times Mirror in New York and Los Angeles), he has lectured around the world — at MILIA in Cannes, ALAI in Tel Aviv, LUISS in Rome, IMPRIMATUR in London, the Copyright Society of Japan in Tokyo, and regularly to bar organizations in California and throughout the U.S.

In addition to writing and lecturing, Mr. Nimmer represents clients in the entertainment, publishing, and high- technology fields. He gave congressional testimony on behalf of the United States Telephone Association in 1997 and the National Association of Broadcasters in 1992, and Parliamentary testimony on behalf of the Combined Newspaper and Magazine Copyright Committee of Australia in Sydney in 1993.

Mr. Nimmer received an A.B. with distinction and honors in 1977 from Stanford University and his J.D. in 1980 from Yale Law School, where he served as editor of the Yale Law Journal.

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

"The Legacy of the Ten Commandments, IX: Do not Testify as a False Witness Against Your Neighbor"

Speakers:

DANIEL SMITH-CHRISTOPHER, Professor of Theological Studies (Old Testament)and Director of Peace Studies at Loyola Marymount University .

MORDECAI FINLEY,Rabbi, Ohr HaTorah (West L.A.)

The Ten Commandments: Universal ethics that all righteous people should uphold or the "Moral Majority's" attempt to impose its religious beliefs on the secular world? Come discover with us, on selected Thursday evenings during Fall and Winter quarters, the remarkable textual and historical complexity of these Commandments and their legacies in the modern world.

A public forum sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies with the generous assistance of the Jerry and Joy Monkarsh Family, this series costs $55 for all 11 evenings ($25 for UCLA students with SID) or $10 per person per evening ($5 for UCLA students with SID). For further information or to receive a brochure, contact CJS at (310) 825-5387.

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

This Thursday! KAREN OCAMB - Gay Big Bucks & Fat Cat Dykes

The first of the QUEER LOS ANGELES lectures...

KAREN OCAMB

"GAY BIG BUCKS & FAT CAT DYKES: How L.A.'s Checkbook Activism Changed the LGBT Movement"

Former Associate Producer at CBS Network News in New York, and an award-winning journalist who has written for the LGBT and mainstream press and helped pioneer multimedia gay news online. Ocamb is also on the Board of the Los Angeles Press Club and is a member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association.

(Moira Kenney's talk has been rescheduled for May 30.)

Thursday, April 11, 2002. 4:00 pm, Public Policy 2270

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Humanities Division, Social Sciences Division, and Department of English

-- submitted by LGBT Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/qla.html

TORIE OSBORN - Vision- Money-Sprawl

QUEER LOS ANGELES Lecture Series

TORIE OSBORN "VISION-MONEY-SPRAWL: LA's Unique Model for GLBT Organizing"

Osborn is the executive director of Liberty Hill Foundation, former Executive Director, LA Gay and Lesbian Center and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and the author of Coming Home to America (1996)

THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2002 4pm in Public Policy Bldg, Room 2270

Organized by LGBTS. Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Humanities Division, Social Sciences Division, and Department of English

-- submitted by LGBT Studies (lgbs)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/qla.html

MOIRA KENNEY - How Gay Is LA?

A Graduate of UCLA, Kenney is a Senior Planner and Policy Analyst for the San Francisco Children and Families Commission, and the author of Mapping Gay L.A. (2001)

Thursday, May 30, 2002 4:00 pm, Public Policy 2270

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Humanities Division, Social Sciences Division, and Department of English

-- submitted by LGBT Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/qla.html