Past Lectures

Celebrating over 60 years of Mitchell Lecture programs.

  • 2022 (Fall)
    "Law Distributes: Housing and Credit in Poor Black Neighborhoods," Duncan Kennedy

  • 2018 (Fall)
    "Tempered Power, Variegated Capitalism, Law and Society," John B. Braithwaite
  • 2018 (Spring)
    "The First Amendment in the Second Gilded Age," Jack M. Balkin
  • 2016 (Fall)
    "Mitchell Lecture tackles technology’s ethical edge," Sheila Jasanoff, Kevin Esvelt
  • 2016 (Spring)
    "Legal education for a changing legal profession," Gillian Hadfield, Bryant Garth, and David Wilkins; Susan Carle, Kevin R. Johnson, and Michael Hunter
  • 2015
    "Who Rules Big Data? Law, Knowledge, and Power," with Elizabeth Joh, Frank Pasquale and Virginia Eubanks
  • 2013
    "Learning by Doing, looking at fandom, commerce and the freedom to play," with Madhavi Sunder
  • 2012
    "When Caring is Work: Home, Health, and the Invisible Workforce," with Peggie R. Smith, Hendrik Hartog, and Jennifer Klein
  • 2011
    "From Nuremberg to Buffalo, October 4, 1946: Justice Robert H. Jackson’s enduring lessons of morality and law in a world at war," with John Q. Barrett, Eric L.Muller and Mary Dudziak

  • 2010
    "The Origins of African-American Interests in International Law," with Henry Richardson, III
  • 2009
    "Race, Law and Politics in America: Have we become a post-racial society?" with John Payton
  • 2007 (Fall)
    The Rule of Law and the Politics of Fear: Human Rights in the 21st Century," with Irene Zubaida Khan
  • 2007 (Spring)
    "Quo Vadis Habeas Corpus?" with James Robertson
  • 2005
    "Planet of the APs: Are Corporations and Other Artificial Persons Taking Over the Legal System?" with Marc Galanter
  • 2004 - Sheldon Zedeck, Frank H. Wu,Charles E. Daye, Margaret E. Montoya and David L. Chambers
  • 2003 - C. Edwin Baker
  • 2002 - Barry Cushman

  • 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