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Past Penn Law Lectures and Symposia

Spring 2010
Date: Monday, February 1, 2010 - POSTPONED
Program: The 2010 Leon C. and June W. Holt Lecture in International Law: U.S. Foreign Policy and Trade Policy: It's a Question of Politics
Speaker: Michael Kantor, Esq., Former United States Secretary of Commerce (1996-1997)
Partner - Mayer Brown LLP
Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
To RSVP: Genevieve Cattanea at gcattane@law.upenn.edu
CLE: Offers 1 CLE Credit
Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Program: The 2010 Irving R. Segal Lecture in Trial Advocacy: Shaping the Uncertain Future of Copyright and Patent Law
Speaker: Seth P. Waxman, Esq., Former Solicitor General of the United States Partner - Wilmer Hale LLP 
Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
To RSVP: Genevieve Cattanea at gcattane@law.upenn.edu
CLE: Offers 1 CLE Credit
Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Program: Law and Entrepreneurship Lecture
Speaker: Joseph D. Gatto L'84, WG'84 Chairman of Investment Banking for the Americas - Barclays Capital
Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
To RSVP: Vickie Hewitt at vhewitt@law.upenn.edu
CLE: Offers 1 CLE Credit
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010 - POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2010
Program: The 2009- 2010 Joint Visiting Scholar Lecture with the National Constitution Center
Speaker: Barnett R. Rubin Leading Expert on Afghanistan and Director and Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation of New York University
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
To RSVP: Genevieve Cattanea at gcattane@law.upenn.edu
CLE: Offers 1 CLE Credit
Date: Monday, April 12, 2010
Program: The 2010 Owen J. Roberts Lecture in Constitutional Law: "Judge Henry Friendly and the Craft of Deciding Cases"
Speaker: The Hon. Michael Boudin United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
To RSVP: Genevieve Cattanea at gcattane@law.upenn.edu
CLE: Offers 1 CLE Credit
Fall 2009
Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Program: The 2009 Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Lectures in Talmudic Civil Law: Defining Community in an Era of Nationalism: Who is in and who is out in the eyes of the law?
Lecture I The Shemittah Controversy: How revived agricultural laws touched on defining community
Speaker: Arye Edrei, Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University & Gruss Visiting Professor of Talmudic Civil Law, Penn Law
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
CLE: Offers 1 CLE Credit
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Program: The 2009 Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Lectures in Talmudic Civil Law: Defining Community in an Era of Nationalism: Who is in and who is out in the eyes of the law?
Lecture II Melting Pot or Mosaic: Should communal customs be maintained in a country of immigrants?
Speaker: Arye Edrei, Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University & Gruss Visiting Professor of Talmudic Civil Law, Penn Law
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
CLE: Offers 1 CLE Credit
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009
Program: The Joint Visiting Scholars Lecture with the National Constitution Center
Title: A Global Voyage: The Influence of the American Constitutional Experience on Other Countries and Cultures
Speaker: A.E. Dick Howard, White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Virginia School of Law
Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
CLE: Offers 1 CLE Credit
Spring 2009
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Program: The Irving R. Segal Lecture in Trial Advocacy: "How Judges Know What They Know"
Speaker: Linda Greenhouse, Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow in Law at Yale Law School
Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
CLE: Offers 1 CLE Credit
Date: Monsday, March 23, 2009
Program: The Dean's Speaker Series Lecture
Speaker: Richard A. Sprague, L'53, "Murder Most Foul: Famous and Interesting Murder Prosecutions"
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
CLE: Offers 1 CLE Credit
Fall 2008
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008
Program: "Overturning Dred Scott v. Sandford: Everyday Histories of Race and Rights in American Legal Culture"
The Joint Visiting Scholars Lecture with the National Constitution Center
Speaker: Professor Martha S. Jones
Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
CLE: Offers 1 CLE Credit
Date: Monday, September 15, 2008
Program: "The National Security Constitution in an Age of Globalization"
The Owen J. Roberts Lecture in Constitutional Law
Speaker: Dean Harold Koh
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
CLE: Offers 1 CLE Credit
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Program: TBA
Law and Entrepreneurship Lecture
Speaker: William A. Ackman, Managing Member, Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P.
Time: Lecture: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.; Reception: 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Sponsored By: The Institute for Law and Economics
Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Program: "Religion and the State of Israel: Views From Within Jewish Law"
The Gruss Lectures in Talmudic Civil Law
Speaker: Professor Suzanne Last Stone
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
CLE: Offers 1 CLE Credit
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008
Program: "The Recent Critiques of Free Trade: Why they are Mistaken"
The Leon C. and June W. Holt Lecture in International Law
Speaker: Professor Jagdish Bhagwati
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
CLE: Offers 1 CLE Credit
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Program: "Religion and the State of Israel: Views From Within Jewish Law"
The Gruss Lectures in Talmudic Civil Law
Speaker: Professor Suzanne Last Stone
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
CLE: Offers 1 CLE Credit
Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Program: TBA
Distinguished Jurist Lecture
Speaker: Hon. Randy J. Holland, Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware
Time: Lecture: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.; Reception: 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Sponsored By: The Institute for Law and Economics
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