| Year |
Lecturer |
Topic |
| 2011-2012 |
Richard A. Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at the New York University with comments by Craig Becker, Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University and former Obama appointee to the National Labor Relations Board |
Savior or Scourge: The Role of Labor Unions in the United States Today |
| 2010-2011 |
Margaret Jane Radin, Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at the University of Michigan |
Reconsidering Boilerplate: Confronting Normative and Democratic Embarrassment |
| 2009-2010 |
Vincent A. Blasi, Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties at Columbia Law School and the
James Madison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia |
Shouting “Fire!” in a Theater and Other Famous Examples Marking the Limits of Free Speech |
| 2008-2009 |
Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University |
How America’s Constitution Affirmed Freedom of Speech Even Before the First Amendment |
| 2007-2008 |
Gerald Torres, Bryant Smith Chair, University of Texas at Austin School of Law |
Social Movements and the Ethical Construction of Law |
| 2006-2007 |
Randy Barnett, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of
Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law Center |
The People or the State?: Chisholm v. Georgia and Popular Sovereignty |
| 2005-2006 |
Erwin Chemerinsky, Alston & Bird Professor of
Law, Duke University |
|
| 2004-2005 |
Barbara Bennett-Woodhouse,
director for the Center on Children and Families and the David H. Levin Chair in
Family Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law |
|
| 2003-2004 |
Thomas D. Morgan, Oppenheim Professor
of Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law, The George Washington University Law
School |
|
| 2002-2003 |
The Honorable Diane P. Wood, U.S. Court of
Appeals for the 7th Circuit |
|
| 2001-2002 |
Michael H. Shapiro, University of Southern
California Law School |
|
| 2000-2001 |
Paul Carrington |
|
| 1999-2000 |
Richard B. Stewart |
|
| 1998-1999 |
Elizabeth Bartholet |
|
| 1997-1998 |
Julius L. Chambers |
|
| 1996-1997 |
Jesse H. Choper |
|
| 1995-1996 |
The Honorable Louis H. Pollak |
|
| 1994-1995 |
Owen M. Fiss |
|
| 1993-1994 |
The Honorable Nathanial R. Jones |
|
| 1992-1993 |
The Honorable Edward R. Becker |
|
| 1991-1992 |
Robert M. O'Neil |
|
| 1990-1991 |
Michael J. Perry |
|
| 1989-1990 |
Eleanor Holmes Norton |
|
| 1988-1989 |
Lee C. Bollinger |
|
| 1987-1988 |
G. Edward White |
|
| 1986-1987 |
Willard H. Pedrick |
|
| 1985-1986 |
The Rev. Peter Newman Brooks |
|
| 1984-1985 |
Robert M. Cover |
|
| 1983-1984 |
John W. Wade |
|
| 1982-1983 |
Thomas L. Shaffer |
|
| 1981-1982 |
The Honorable Rugerro J. Aldisert |
|
| 1980-1981 |
Robert B. McKay |
|
| 1979-1980 |
William Stringfellow |
|