Guide to Past Programs
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Date:  February 23, 2000
Title:  "Covering the Presidents: From Kennedy to Clinton"
Speaker:  Helen Thomas - Senior White House Correspondent, UPI
[PHOTO 1]        [PHOTO 2]        [AUDIO]

Date:  March 1, 2000
Title:  "The Supreme Court and You:  Birth, Death and the Quality of Life"
Speaker:  Judge Stephen Reinhardt - Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Moderator:  Richard Fallon - Professor, Harvard Law School
[PHOTO]        [AUDIO]

Date:  March 7, 2000
Title:  "Current Challenges to Civil Liberties"
Speaker:  Nadine Strossen - President, American Civil Liberties Union
Introduction:  Martha Minow - Professor, Harvard Law School
[PHOTO - Strossen]        [PHOTO - Minow]        [AUDIO]

Date:  March 15, 2000
Title:  "Innocent on Death Row:  Causes of and Remedies for Unjust Convictions"
Panel:  Barry Scheck - Director, "The Innocence Project"; Co-author, Actual Innocence
    Peter Neufeld - Director, "The Innocence Project"; Co-author, Actual Innocence
    Jim Dwyer - Reporter, New York Daily News; Co-author, Actual Innocence
    Bill Kovach - Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard
    Richard Lewontin - Professor of Population Genetics, Harvard
    Michael Seidman - Visiting Professor of Criminal Law & Procedure, Harvard
Moderator:  Charles Nesson - Professor, Harvard Law School
[AUDIO]    [PHOTOS 1, 2, 3, 4]    
[C-SPAN SCREEN CAPTURES 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]    [PURCHASE C-SPAN VIDEO]

Date:  March 20, 2000
Title:  "The Enduring Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi: Lessons Learned from Grandfather"
Speaker:  Arun Gandhi - Director, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
Introduction:  Sunanda Gandhi - Co-Director, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
[AUDIO]        [PHOTO]

Date:  April 10, 2000
Title:  "Antitrust in the New Economy"
Speaker:  Joel Klein - Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Department, U.S.
        Department of Justice
Introduction:  W. Kip Viscusi - Professor, Harvard Law School
[AUDIO]        [NEWS ARTICLE]        [PHOTO 1]        [PHOTO 2]

Date:  April 12, 2000
Title:  "What a Long Strange Strip It's Been"
Speaker:  Garry Trudeau - Creator, Doonesbury
[PHOTO 1]       [PHOTO 2]    
[Audio Recording housed at Harvard Law School Library Special Collections]

Date:  September 25, 2000
Speaker:  Aaron Sorkin - Executive Producer, The West Wing

Date:  October 13, 2000
Title: "Politics, Morality and the Media"
Speaker:  Jerry Springer - TV Talk Show Host, Jerry Springer Show

Date:  October 16, 2000
Title: "Not For Sale: Integrity in the Written and Spoken Word"
Speaker:  Frank Serpico

Date:  October 23, 2000
Title: "The Impact of Game Shows on American Pop Culture"
Speaker:  Bob Barker - Game Show Host, The Price is Right

Date:  November 13, 2000
Title: "O'Reilly Speaks Out"
Speaker:  Bill O'Reilly - Executive Producer and Anchor, The O'Reilly Factor

Date:  November 17, 2000
Title: "Writing for Money"
Speaker:  Andy Rooney - Commentator, 60 Minutes

Date:  January 22, 2001
Title: "International War Crimes Tribunals: Lessons from Rwanda and Yugoslavia"
Speaker:  Justice Richard Goldstone - Justice, South African Constitutional Court

Date:  February 7, 2001
Speaker:  Steve Kroft - Commentator, 60 Minutes

Date:  February 21, 2001
Title: "Bridging the Democracy Gap from the Local to the National"
Speaker:  Theresa Amato - Founder and Executive Director, Citizen Advocacy Center and Campaign Manager, Nader 2000

Date: March 7, 2001
Title: "How I Learned to Love the New Federalism"
Speaker: Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, New York

Date:  March 13, 2001
Title: "Our Common Future"
Speaker:  Ted Turner - Founder of CNN; Vice-Chairman and Senior Adviser, AOL Time-Warner
[NEWS ARTICLE]

Date: April 10, 2001
Title: "Life and Death after HLS"
Speaker: Scott Turow, Author and Attorney

Date: April 12, 2001
Title: "The Prosecution of Crimes Against Humanity From the Perspective of National Jurisdictions"
Speaker: Judge Baltasar Garzon (Spain) - Investigating Judge, Spain's National Court

Rabbi Marvin Hier , April 25, 2001

E. Charles Brown, April 26, 2001

R. Keith Stroup, October 9, 2001

Alan Dershowitz, October 17, 2001

Ronald Hampton, October 24, 2001

Larry Flynt, November 7, 2001

Gloria Feldt: Wednesday, January 23, 2002, Austin North

Kate Michelman: Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 7 p.m., Austin North

Sergei Khruschev: Monday, February 18, 2002, 6:30 p.m., Austin North

Johnnie Cochran: Friday, March 8, 2002, 6:00 p.m., Austin North

John Passacantado: Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 6:30 p.m.

Jeffrey Rosen: Friday, April 12, 2002

Robert Gates: Thursday, April 18, 2002

Date: September 20, 2004
Title: "Contract Law Meets the Social Contract: The Nasty, Brutish, and Short Version"
Speaker:  Stanley Fish, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Date: September 23, 2004
Speaker: John Osborn, Author of The Paper Chase

Date: November 16, 2004
Title: "Prosecuting the War on Terror"
Speaker:  David N. Kelley, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Co-Chair of the 9/11 Commission for the Department of Justice

Date: March 8, 2005
Title: "An Evening with Bestselling Author Anne Lamott"
Speaker:  Anne Lamott

Date: April 21, 2005
Title: "Should We Regulate Highly Coercive Interrogation?"
Speakers: Kenneth Roth, President of Human Rights Watch, and Philip Heymann, Professor at Harvard Law School. (Moderated by Michael Ignatieff, Professor of Human Rights Practice at the Kennedy School.)

Date: May 1, 2005
Title: "Pakistan and the War Against Terrorism"
Speaker:  Benazir Bhutto, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan

Date: September 28, 2005
Title: "What Science Can Teach Lawyers About the Art of Persuasion"
Speaker:  Robert Cialdini, Author of "Influence: Science and Practice"

Date: November 9, 2005
Title: "A lifetime of Leadership: From Professor to Dean to President to Chairman"
Speaker:  John Sexton, President of NYU and Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank

Date: March 21, 2006
Title: "A Discussion with Chief Judge Edith H. Jones"
Speaker:  The Honorable Edith Jones, Chief Judge, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Date: April 17, 2006
Title: "Taking the Unconscious Seriously"
Speaker:  Malcolm Gladwell, writer for The New Yorker and author of The Tipping Point and Blink