Focus 580 with David Inge
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Today on Focus 580 - Thursday, August 28, 2008
11:06 AM
The International Criminal Court and War Crimes Tribunals
David Scheffer, LLM, Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law; Director, Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University; and former U.S. ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues
Interview links:
- Professor Scheffer's bio
- Northwestern University's Center for International Human Rights
- The International Criminal Court
- United States Department of State Office of War Crimes Issues
Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Law • Politics • Violence • Mass Killings • War
10:06 AM
The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, And Costs Lives
Michael Heller, the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law in the School of Law at Columbia University
Categories: Business and Economy • Economics
Coming up next:
Friday, August 29, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Comanche Empire
Pekka Hamalainen, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Categories: Race/Ethnicity • Native Americans
Friday, August 29, 2008, 11:06 AM
Eisnstein: His Life And Universe
Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute, and Writer
Categories: Biography
Monday, September 01, 2008, 10:06 AM
Sweatshop Labor and Conditions Today
Charles Kernaghan, Executive Director of the National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights, New York
Categories:
Monday, September 01, 2008, 11:06 AM
Promoting Economic Opportunity for Workers in a Cahllenging Economy
Christine Owens, Executive Director of the National Employment Law Project of New York
Categories:
Wednesday, September 03, 2008, 10:06 AM
Cooking
Doyle Moore, WILL Radio Chef-in-Residence
Categories: Cooking
Wednesday, September 03, 2008, 11:06 AM
Current News in Nanotechnology
Irfan S. Ahmad, Ph.D., Associate Director at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Project Coordinator for the Siteman Center for Cancer Nanotechnolgy Excellence, and Research Faculty in Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of illinois
Rashid Bashir, Ph.D., Bliss Professor of Engineering and Director of the Micro and Nantechnology Laboratory at the University of Illinois
Interview links:
Categories: Science • Technology • University of Illinois
Thursday, September 04, 2008, 10:06 AM
Literacy and Online Reading
Donald Leu, the John and Maria Neag Endowed Chair in Literacy and Technology and Director of The New Literacies Research Lab at the University of Conneticut
Interview links:
Categories: Education
Thursday, September 04, 2008, 11:06 AM
Bullying and Health Behavior
Dorothy Espelage, Ph.D., Professor of Educational Psychology, and Department Associate Chairperson, University of Illinois
Interview links:
- Professor Espelage's departmental bio
- University of Illinois' newspiece on Professor Espelage's work
Categories: Children • Community • Family • Health • Psychology
Friday, September 05, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Future of Nuclear Energy
Dale E. Klein, Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Categories: Energy
Friday, September 05, 2008, 11:06 AM
The FBI's Investigation of Bruce Ivins and Its Conclusions
Marilyn W. Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Reporter and Editor for The Washington Post
Categories: Criminal Justice • FBI • Disease • Government • National Security • Politics
