Past Mitchell Lectures

2016 (Spring) - Gillian Hadfield, Bryant Garth, and David Wilkins; Susan Carle, Kevin R. Johnson, and Michael Hunt, "Legal education for a changing legal profession"

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2015 - Elizabeth Joh, Frank Pasquale and Virginia Eubanks, "Who Rules Big Data? Law, Knowledge, and Power"

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2013 - Madhavi Sunder, "Learning by Doing, looking at fandom, commerce and the freedom to play"

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2012 - Peggie R. Smith, Hendrik Hartog, and Jennifer Klein, "When Caring is Work: Home, Health, and the Invisible Workforce"

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2011 - John Q. Barrett, Eric L.Muller and Mary Dudziak, "From Nuremberg to Buffalo, October 4, 1946: Justice Robert H. Jackson’s enduring lessons of morality and law in a world at war"

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2010 - Henry Richardson, III, "The Origins of African-American Interests in International Law"

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2009 - John Payton, "Race, Law and Politics in America: Have we become a post-racial society?"

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2007 - Irene Zubaida Khan, "The Rule of Law and the Politics of Fear: Human Rights in the 21st Century"

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2007 - Hon. James Robertson, "Quo Vadis Habeas Corpus?"

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2005 -  Marc Galanter, "Planet of the APs: Are corporations and other artificial persons taking over the legal system?"

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2004 - Sheldon Zedeck, Frank H. Wu,Charles E. Daye, Margaret E. Montoya and David L. Chambers

2003 - C. Edwin Baker

2002 - Barry Cushma

• 1988 - David J. Garrow
• 1988 - Alan Borovoy, Kathleen Mahoney
• 1987 - Bayless Manning, Marc Galanter, Joan Heifetz Hollinger and George Priest
• 1987 - Rhonda Copelon, Ruth Hubbard, Barbara Katz Rothman and Barbara Omolade
• 1984 - Ellen DuBois, Mary Dunlap, Carol Gilligan, Catharine MacKinnon and Carrie Menkel-Meadow
• 1983 - Derrick Bell, Stewart Macaulay
• 1982  - Clyde Summers
  
  
• 1979 - Marcel Ophuls, Telford Taylor
• 1978 - Richard Posner
• 1976 - Rudolf B. Schlesinger
• 1975 - Jerome H. Skolnick
• 1973 - Lawrence M. Friedman
• 1970 - David Daube
  
  
• 1966 - Stanley Surrey
• 1964 - Paul A. Freund
• 1962 - Joseph T. Sneed
• 1960 - Benjamin Kaplan
  
  
• 1958 - Fleming James, Jr.
• 1957 - Jerome Hall
• 1956 - Milton Handler
• 1955 - George H. Dession
• 1954 - Sir Zelman Cowen
• 1952 - Karl N. Llewellyn
• 1951 - Robert H. Jackson