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Annual Lectures



Ann F. Baum Memorial Lecture on Elder Law

When Altruism Isn't Enough: The Worsening Organ Shortage, What It Means for Seniors, and What To Do About It
Dr. Sally L. Satel
3/5/07

Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture Series

2007 Vacketta Lecture
Ambassador Marc Grossman
10/25/07

2006 Vacketta Lecture
Govenor James Blanchard
10/05/06

America's Role in the World in the 21st Century
Senator George J. Mitchell
10/20/2005

U.S. National Security in Today's International Environment
General Joseph W. Ralston, USAF (Ret)
10/29/2004

The Instrumental Value of Sloppy Work in Making Legislation
Dick Armey
10/24/2003

Two Questions of Justice
The Honorable John Paul Stevens
10/25/2002

David C Baum Memorial Lectures

Constitutional Remedies
Dean John C. Jeffries Jr.
University of Virginia School of Law
4/17/2007

Informed Consent to Abortion: A First Amendment Analysis of Compelled Physician Speech
Professor Robert C. Post
11/8/2006

Objections in Conscience to Medical Procedures: Does Religion Make a Difference?
R. Kent Greenawalt
10/5/2005

The European Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
Professor Sir Bob Hepple, QC, FBA
4/19/2005

Ordinary Liberities: What Do Americans Really Mean by Freedom?
Orlando Patterson
11/10/2004

Civil Rights Litigation: The Paradox of Rights Without Remedies
David Rudovsky
3/11/2004

From Equality to Diversity: The Detour from Brown to Grutter
Colin S. Driver
10/2/2003

In Defense of Judicial Review: The Perils of Popular Constitutionalism
Erwin Chemerinsky
2/17/2003

The Current Reparations Debate
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
11/4/2002

Disarming the Private Attorney General
Pamela S. Karlan
4/1/2002

Child Welfare and Civil Rights
Dorothy E. Roberts
10/3/2001

Was the Emancipation Proclamation Constitutional? Do We--Should We--Care What the Answer Is?
Sanford Levinson
4/5/2001

"Nigger!" As a Problem in the Law
Randall Kennedy
9/19/2000

Law, Government Violence, and Human Rights
Ramsey Clark
2/8/2000

Abraham Lincoln and the American Union
Akhil Reed Amar
10/26/1999

Family Law in the Secular State and Restrictions on Same-Sex Marriages
Mary E. Becker
4/15/1999

Paul M. Van Arsdell Lecture

Do Lawyers Share Moral Responsibility for Torture at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib?
Stephen Gillers
3/7/2005

Black Chicago Lawyers
David B. Wilkins
1/24/2002

The Overlapping Roles of Criminal, Administrative, and Tort Law in Providing Compensation for Mass Private Delicts
The Honorable Jack B. Weinstein
10/17/2000

The Quest for Accuracy in our Criminal Justice System
Lawrence C. Marshall
10/6/1999

RAAB Lecture Series

Gore v. Bush
Fred A. Bartlit
12/13/2001