The organizers and steering committee for the 12th International Conference on Contracts have announced that this year’s Lifetime Achievement honoree will be Deborah Post, Professor of Law at Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg School of Law. Professor Post will receive the award honoring her career on February 24, 2017 at KCON XII at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles.
Deborah W. Post graduated cum laude from Hofstra University with a major in Anthropology and took a job first as an editorial assistant and then as a teaching assistant to Margaret Mead, the noted anthropologist, before attending Harvard Law School. She began her legal career working in the corporate section of a law firm in Houston, Texas. She left practice for a position at the University of Houston Law School and moved to New York to Touro Law Center in 1987. In the academic year 1994-95 she was a visiting professor at Syracuse Law School. In 2000 she was Distinguished Visiting Professor at DePaul Law School. Professor Post has written extensively in what she considers her three areas of expertise: business associations, legal education and critical race theory. Professor Post seeks to apply an anthropologist’s sensibilities and methodologies to the study of law.
Among her most recent efforts are a book on legal education, Cultivating Intelligence: Power, Law and the Politics of Teaching written with a colleague, Louise Harmon and published by New York University Press and a casebook for contracts called Contracting Law with co-authors Amy Kastely and Sharon Hom.
Speaking of KCON XII, have you registered get? Conference registration and hotel information is available here. Registration by December 15, 2016 will get you the early-bird rate of $250. You should also register and book your room at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel while discounted rooms in the conference block are still available. But hurry! A conference Call for Proposals will be coming out shortly, and we will publish that information here on the blog.
