Past Henry J. Miller Lecturers
Spring 2007
Professor Elizabeth Bartholet
Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School
"International Adoption: Thoughts on Children's Rights Issues"
Draft Paper 
-Video 
Fall 2006
Professor Glenn C. Loury
Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Brown University
"Relations Before Transactions: A New Paradigm for Racial Discrimination Theory"
Draft Paper - Presentation slides - (as PDF ) - Video
Spring 2006
Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni
Distinguished Research Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law
"The Perennial Conflict Between International Criminal Justice and Realpolitik"
Paper - Audio 
- Video
Fall 2005
Professor Robert C. Clark
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor And Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law
Former Dean, Harvard Law School
"Corporate Governance Changes: A Morality Tale for Policymakers Too"
Paper - Audio - Video
Spring 2005
Professor Lillian R. BeVier
John S. Shannon Distinguished Professor, University of Virginia School of Law
"The State Action Doctrine: A Reconsideration"
Article - Photo Album - Audio (mp3)
Fall 2004
Walter E. Dellinger III
Douglas Blount Maggs Professor of Law at Duke University and Partner, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP
"The Supreme Court Today"
Audio (mp3)
Spring 2004
Dr. Stanley Fish
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
"How Hobbes Works"
Fall 2003
Professor Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.
University of Pennsylvania Trustee Professor of Law
The Honorable Kenneth W. Starr
Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
"The Regulation of Judicial Campaign Speech"
Real Media or Windows Media
Spring 2003
The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
"Little Known Pages of Supreme Court History"
Audio: Real Media or Windows Media format - Video: QuickTime format
Paper
Fall 2002
Professor Randall L. Kennedy
Harvard Law School
"Revisiting the Case of Leo Frank: Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Perversion of Justice"
Spring 2002
Linda Greenhouse
Supreme Court Correspondent, The New York Times
"Between Certainty and Doubt: States of Mind of the Supreme Court Today"
Fall 2001
Professor A. E. Dick Howard
White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Roy L. and Rosamond W. Morgan Research Professor
University of Virginia School of Law
"The Supreme Court from Warren to Rehnquist"
Spring 2001
Professor Carol Rose
Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law, Yale Law School
"Nature for Sale? Commerce, Property, and the Protection of the Environment."
Fall 2000
Professor Jeremy Waldron
Maurice & Hilda Friedman Professor, Columbia University School of Law
"Does Law Promise Justice?"
Spring 2000
Professor Sanford Levinson
W.St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood Jr. Regents Chair in Law
University of Texas Law School
"Constitutional Stupidities"
Fall 1999
Dean Anthony T. Kronman
Yale Law School
"Is Poetry Undemocratic?"
Spring 1999
Professor Lawrence Lessig
Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor, Harvard Law School
"The Problems of Internet Governance"
Fall 1998
Professor Kathleen Sullivan
Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
"Religious Participation in American Life"
Spring 1998
Professor Richard Epstein
James Parker Hall Distinguished Professor, University of Chicago Law School
"Product Disparagement: At the Crossroads of Defamation and Free Speech"
Fall 1997
Professor Ronald Dworkin
University Professor of Jurisprudence Oxford University
Professor of Law, New York University
"Justice, Death, and Luck"
Spring 1997
Professor Erwin Chemerinsky
University of Southern California Law Center
Professor Lynn A. Baker
University of Arizona College of Law
Professor Edward L. Rubin
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Professor Robert F. Nagel
University of Colorado School of Law
"New Frontiers of Federalism" -- Law Review Symposium
Fall 1996
The Honorable Anthony J. Kennedy
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Q & A with students
Audio: Real Media or Windows Media - Video
Spring 1996
The Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Retired)
"The Harlan Dissent: The Road Not Taken -- An American Tragedy"
(in conjunction with Law Review Symposium: "Plessy v. Ferguson: After 100 Years")
Fall 1995
Professor Arthur T. von Mehren
Story Professor of Law, Emeritus, Harvard Law School
"The Relevance of General Political Philosophy for the Allocation of Adjudicatory Authority over Multistate Controversies"
Spring 1995
Drew S. Days III
Solicitor General of the United States Department of Justice
"No Striped Pants and Morning Coat: The Solicitor General in the State and Lower Federal Courts"
Fall 1994 - No Lecture
Spring 1994
Nadine Strossen
President, ACLU
Professor of Law, New York Law School
"Pornography, Women's Rights, and Free Speech"
Fall 1993
Professor Hans Dolinar
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
"International Commercial Arbitration"
Spring 1993
Professor Derrick A. Bell
New York University School of Law
"The Permanence of Racism"
Fall 1992
The Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Pressures Affecting Lawyers' Professionalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century (Law Letter article)
Audio: Real Media or Windows Media - Video: QuickTime format
Spring 1992
Professor Walter J. Wadlington
James Madison Professor of Law University of Virginia School of Law
"No-Fault Compensation for Birth Related Neurological Injury: Past Experience and Future Problems"
Fall 1991
Professor Hal S. Scott
Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems, Harvard Law School
"Regulation of International Banking: Post B.C.C.I."
Spring 1991
Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow
School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles
"Is Altruism Possible in Lawyering?"
Fall 1990
Talbot D'Alemberte
President, American Bar Association
Former Dean, Florida State University School of Law
"Alexis de Tocqueville, Atticus Finch, and Legal Services for the Poor"
Spring 1990
The Honorable Patricia M. Wald
Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
"Cracks in Marble Halls: The Role of the Courts in the War Against Drugs"
Fall 1989
Professor Herma Hill Kay
Richard W. Jennings Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
President, AALS (1989)
"What is Legal Education? And Should We Permit It to Continue in Its Present Form?
Spring 1989
Professor Geoffrey Hazard
Sterling Professor, Yale Law School
Executive Director, American Law Institute
"Personal Ethics and Positional Power"
Fall 1988
The Honorable Leon Higginbotham
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
"Race and the American Legal Process"
Spring 1988
Professor Stephen Gillers
School of Law, New York University
"You're Fired: Can Lawyers Sue for Retaliatory Discharge?"
Fall 1987
The Honorable Antonin Scalia
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
"The Founding of the United States Constitution"
Spring 1987
Professor Murray Schwartz
School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles
"Lawyers and the Supreme Court: Of Means and Ends"