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Cristina Tilley. Photo courtesy of Marquette University.
MILWAUKEE
Cristina Tilley, associate professor of law at the University of Iowa, will discuss the Supreme Court and the media as the featured guest during an upcoming virtual “On the Issues with
The video will be available at 12:15 p.m. on the Marquette University Law School website.
The study examines two high-profile U.S. Supreme Court cases heard 50 years apart and suggests that print media’s coverage of the court has changed during that period, with a shift toward less emphasis on legal issues and a greater emphasis on the justices’ perceived political predilections. Tilley focuses her scholarly work on the boundary between public and private law, with particular focus on the appropriate treatment of speech and speech injuries. Prior to her law career, she was a news reporter, specializing in business and legal affairs.
Tilley on Tort Law & Virtue
Cristina Tilley (University of Iowa - College of Law) has posted Private Law, Public Law, and the Production of American Virtue (Northwestern Univ. Law Rev., Online Vol. 115, (December 2020)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This Essay, contributed to a festschrift celebrating the scholarship of Marshall Shapo, suggests that the time has come to revitalize private law – tort law, in particular – as an engine of national virtue. The groundswell of activism in the summer of 2020 lends itself to particularizing this argument to the virtue of racial justice, but it is equally applicable to gender justice, economic justice, and innumerable other areas where social fracture burdens human flourishing. The piece summarizes the intellectual history that has led legal academics to treat public law as the only legal intervention applicable to social ills like racism. It then pivots to survey how disciplines outside law understand the component parts of racism