Historical Listing of Fiscus Lectures
2015: Charles Ogletree, Jr., Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
and the Director of Harvard’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
“Do Black Lives Matter? Race and Justice in America Now”
2013: Jeffrey Rosen, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center
"The Future of Privacy and Free Speech: Translating the Constitution in the Age of Google Glass and Wikileaks."
2011: Bernadette A. Meyler, Professor of Law and English, Cornell University
"Common Law Originalism: Constructing Constitutional Meaning from Transatlantic Legal
Contexts."
2009: Joanne B. Freeman, Professor of History, Yale University
"'The Field of Blood' Congressional Violence in Antebellum America"
2008: Rogers Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor and Chair of Political Science at
the University of Pennsylvania
"Barack Obama and the Future of American Racial Politics"
2007: Gary Jacobsohn, Patterson-Banister Professor of Government and H. Malcolm MacDonald
Professor of Constitutional and Comparative Law at the University of Texas at Austin
"The Disharmonic Constitution"
2006: Akhil Reed Amar, Southmayd Professor of Law and Political Science Yale College and Yale Law School
"America's Constitution Over the Centuries ~ As Seen from New York"
2005: Linda Greenhouse, Correspondent, Washington Bureau, New York Times
"Court, Country, and Culture"
2004: James F. Simon, Martin Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, New York Law School
"All the Laws But One: President Lincoln, Chief Justice Taney, and the Merryman Case"
2003: Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political
Ethics, University of Chicago
"American Power and Responsibility in a Violent World"
2001: Thomas L. Pangle, University Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
"Should Convicted Criminals Have the Right to Vote? Exploring the Meaning of Voting
Rights and Responsibilities"
2000: Mark Silverstein, Professor of Political Science, Boston University
"The Real Warren Court Revolution"
1999: Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
"Identity Politics and Professional Identity: The Effects of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
on the Justice System"
1998: Sanford Levinson, W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Regents Chair
in Law and Government, The University of Texas at Austin
"Diversity"
1997: Morris Dees, Director, Southern Poverty Law Center
"A Passion for Justice"
1996: Stanley Fish, Professor of Law and Literature, Duke University
"Boutique Multiculturalism: Or Why Liberals are Incapable of Talking About Hate Speech"
1995: Christine Harrington, Professor and Director of the Institute for Law and Society,
New York University
"The Politics of Feminism and the Practice of Law"
1994: David Adamany, President and Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
"The Constitutional Rights of Homosexuals"
1993: Stephen Wasby, Professor of Political Science, State University of New York at Albany
"The Difficult Quest for Equality"
1992: Joel B. Grossman, Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
"The New Politics of Nominating and Confirming Supreme Court Justices"
1991: Walter Murphy, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
"The Art of Constitutional Interpretation"
