Law
Sheila McLean (2010-2011)
Nov 30, 2010
“Autonomy and Consent: Sisters or Strangers Under the Skin?” Sheila McLean is Professor Emerita of Law and Ethics in Medicine in the School of Law at the University of Glasgow. After completing her PhD there in 1987, she was appointed the first International Bar Association [...]
Michael Kirby (2010-2011)
Oct 30, 2010
“HIV/AIDS: The Epidemic Where Law Has a Positive Role to Play but Often Doesn’t” Michael Kirby is an academic and jurist who is a former High Court Justice of Australia. He attended the University of Sydney, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1959, of Laws in 1961, and [...]
Lori Beaman (2009-2010)
Jan 30, 2010
Lori Beaman is professor and Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. Beaman’s research had helped to develop the concept of deep equality and an emerging [...]
Sherene Razack (2006-2007)
Jan 30, 2007
“Dangerous Muslim Men, Imperiled Muslim Women, and Civilized Europeans: Law and the War on Terror” Sherene Razack is Distinguished Professor and the Penney Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies at UCLA. She was previously Emeritus Professor in the Department of Social [...]
Allen Buchanan (2005-2006)
Feb 20, 2006
“Institutionalizing the Just War” Allen Buchanan is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus at Duke University. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975. From 2011 until 2014, he was Professor of Law at Duke Law School. [...]
The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin (2005-2006)
Jan 12, 2006
“Judging in the 21st Century” Beverley McLachlin is the first woman to become Chief Justice of Canada’s Supreme Court of Canada. She gave royal assent to Canada’s Civil Marriage Act, which effectively legalized same-sex marriages in July 2005. She was born and raised in [...]
Ronald Dworkin (1981-1982)
Feb 11, 1982
“The Paradoxes of Equality” Ronald Dworkin was a widely-respected philosopher of law. At the time of his talk, Dworkin was the professor of jurisprudence at Oxford. In his research and teaching, he examined how the law should deal with race, abortion, euthanasia and [...]
Harry Street (1969-1970)
Mar 25, 1970
“Privacy and the Law” Harry Street was a professor of English Law at the University of Manchester and a jurist. He was previously a teacher at the Harvard Law School. He authored “Freedom, the Individual and the Law.” Much of his work focused on civil liberties and tort [...]
Lawrence C.B. Gower (1966-1967)
Mar 15, 1967
“Problems of African Universities South of the Sahara” Lawrence C.B. Gower was the Law Commissioner for Great Britain and the former Dean of Law at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He wrote The Principles of Modern Company Law (1954). Gower studied law at University [...]