Schuck to deliver Baum Memorial Lecture at University of Illinois
The Elder Law Journal at the University of Illinois takes great pleasure in announcing that the 2009-10 Ann F. Baum Memorial Elder Law Lecture will be presented on Monday, October 19 by Peter H. Schuck, the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at Yale Law School. The Lecture is entitled “The Golden Age of Aging — and Its Discontents” and will analyze the impending fiscal crisis in Medicare. Included will be the following topics: (1) the need to improve targeting in social programs like Medicare, (2) the hard choices that must be made to meet the health care crisis, (3) inter-generational equity considerations, and (4) policy implications of the analysis.
Professor Schuck is the co-author (with Richard Zeckhauser of Harvard) of Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples (Brookings Press 2006), which received honorable mention for the Charles Levine Prize for best book in Comparative Policy and Administration. His other recent books include Meditations of a Militant Moderate: Cool Views on Hot Topics; Diversity in America: Keeping Government at a Safe Distance; and The Limits of Law: Essays on Democratic Governance. He is also the co-editor (with James Q. Wilson) of Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation (2008); co-editor (with David Martin) of Immigration Stories; and editor of Foundations of Administrative Law. He is also a contributing editor to The American Lawyer. Prior to joining Yale in 1979, he was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He also practiced public interest law for six years in Washington, D.C. with the Consumers Union and the Center for Study of Responsive Law.Professor Schuck holds a B.A. from Cornell, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an LL.M. in International Law from N.Y.U., and an M.A. in Government from Harvard.
The lecture will be held in the Max Rowe Auditorium of the College of Law, beginning at 12:30 P.M., with a reception to follow in the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Pavilion immediately after the lecture.