Recent Speakers

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

Date: October 19, 2006
Title: "Communicating Compassionate Conservatism"
Speaker: Mike Gerson, chief speechwriter and senior policy adviser to President George W. Bush

Date: November 27, 2006
Title: "What should Democrats do Next?"
Speaker: Jeanne Shaheen, Governor of New Hampshire (1997-2003) and Director of the Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government (2005-07); Congressman-Elect John Hall (D-NY)

Date: February 21, 2007
Title: "China Study Group"
Speaker: Tony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government and Director of the Harvard University Asia Center

Date: March 1, 2007
Title: "China Study Group"
Speaker: Luwei Rose Luqiu, executive news editor, Phoenix Satellite Television (China)

Date: March 7, 2007
Title: "China Study Group"
Speaker: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Research Professor, Harvard University

Date: April 5, 2007
Title: "The Right to Keep and Bear Arms"
Speaker: Sandra Froman, President of the National Rifle Association
Harvard Law Record Article on "The Right to Bear and Keep Arms" event