Past Roger S. Aaron '64 Lecturers
January 8, 2024
"Democracy vs. Autocracy in 2024"
Jamie Raskin
U.S. Representative (D-MD 8th District)
May 25, 2023
"Judges on Judging"
Panelists:
Justice James Bassett '78, New Hampshire Supreme Court
Justice Anne Patterson '80, New Jersey Supreme Court
Judge Christopher Keating '86, New Hampshire Circuit Court
January 27, 2022
"Uncivil Democracy: Race, Poverty, and Civil Legal Inequality"
Jamila Michener
Associate Professor, Cornell University
February 4, 2021
"Sexual Politics After #MeToo"
Amia Srinivasan
Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford
October 8, 2019
"Free Them All: Defending the Lives of Criminalized Survivors of Violence"
Mariame Kaba
Community Organizer, Educator, Curator, and Prison Abolitionist; Founder and Director, Project NIA; Co-organizer, The Just Practice Collaborative
October 4, 2018
"Antislavery Constitutionalism and the Meaning of Freedom"
Rebecca E. Zietlow
Charles W. Fornoff Professor of Law and Values, University of Toledo College of Law
February 15, 2018
"State Attorneys General and President Trump: Report from The Courts"
Moderator: Thomas Barnico '77, Adjunct Professor, Boston College Law School; former Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1981-2010)
Panelists:
Elbert Lin, Partner, Hunton & Williams LLP, Richmond, VA; former Solicitor General of West Virginia (2013-2017)
Jonathan B. Miller '00, Chief, Public Protection & Advocacy Bureau, Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General
Ernest Young '90, Alston & Bird Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
October 6, 2016
"A Republic, If You Can Keep It"
Keith E. Whittington
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University
February 29, 2016
"The Future of Privacy, Free Speech, and the Curse of Bigness: What Louis Brandeis Means Today"
Jeffrey Rosen
President and CEO, National Constitution Center
January 15, 2015
"Constitutional Review and a General 'Right to Liberty'"
Mark Tushnet
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
October 31, 2013
"The Myth of Strict Scrutiny for Fundamental Rights"
James E. Fleming
Professor of Law and The Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law, Boston University School of Law
October 9, 2012
"Backlash Revisited: The Lost History of Legislation on Violence and Women"
Victoria Nourse
Professor of Law, and Director, Center for Congressional Studies, Georgetown University Law Center
November 16, 2011
"The Role of Law in International Human Rights Advocacy"
Stephanie Farrior
Director of International and Comparative Law Programs and Professor of Law, Vermont Law School
April 28, 2011
"Rethinking Informed Consent – The Case for Shared Decision Making"
Benjamin Moulton
Senior Legal Advisor, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, Adjunct Professor, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University
March 4, 2010
"Partisanship and Independence: The Moral Distinctiveness of 'Party-ID'"
Nancy Rosenblum
Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government Theory, Harvard University
April 28, 2009
"Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law"
Nancy Polikoff
Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law
April 10, 2008
"Thaddeus Stevens as a Good White Man"
Randall L. Kennedy
Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
May 7, 2007
"Tortures Past and Present"
Kenneth Pennington
Kelly-Quinn Professor of Ecclesiastical and Legal History, The Catholic University of America
October 10, 2005
"Can Freedom of Expression Really be a Human Right? Some Doubts from a Free Speech Hawk"
Larry Alexander
Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego
May 11, 2005
"The Late, Great American Public: The Moral Significance of theNational Community and its Decline"
Stephen Macedo
Director of the University Center for Human Values and the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics andthe University Center for Human Values
May 19, 2004
"How Federal Lawmakers Distort Municipal Decision-making: The Case of Housing Assistance"
Robert C. Ellickson
Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law, Yale Law School
May 2, 2003
"The Kyoto Protocol: A Post-Mortem"
Daniel Bodansky
Professor of Law, University of Washington
November 15, 2001
"Intersectional Discrimination"
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Professor of Law, Columbia University and UCLA Law School
April 30, 2001
"What Does the Establishment Clause Forbid? Reflections on the Constitutionality of School Vouchers"
Michael Perry
Professor of Law, Wake Forest University Law School
March 2, 2000
"Legal Principles, Legal Categories, and the Domains of Free Speech"
Frederick Schauer, Dartmouth '67, Tuck '68
Academic Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
October 23, 1998
"The Idea of Natural Rights and the European Encounter with America"
Brian Tierney
Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor Emeritus, Cornell University
February 5, 1998
"Beyond Diversity: Affirmative Action and the Claims of Justice"
Owen Fiss '59
Professor at Yale Law School
Co-sponsored by the Philosophy Department and The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center
October 23, 1997
"The Future of the Legal Profession"
Anthony T. Kronman
Dean of Yale Law School,
Co-sponsored by the Daniel Webster Legal Society, Public Policy and The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center