Past Lectures & Conferences

March 2020

Thursday
5
March
2020
Photo of a lecture in the Moot Courtroom
Monday
2
March
2020
Harrison Mbori, Lecturer, Strathmore University Law School
Jus Cogens Norms, Derogation and Limitation of Human Rights: The Case of Kenya and South Africa

Harrison Mbori, Lecturer, Strathmore University Law School, Nairobi, Kenya; SJD Candidate, Loyola University Chicago, School of Law

February 2020

Thursday
27
February
2020
Charles G. Geyh, John F. Kimberling Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law
The Twilight of Judicial Independence

Charles G. Geyh, John F. Kimberling Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Wednesday
26
February
2020
Steve Petras
The Laws that Govern the Great Lakes

Stephen Petras, founder and director of NeXT1 Inc.; director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center of Case Western Reserve University School of Law. 

Tuesday
25
February
2020
Tom Syring
Torn between the lover and the love you leave behind: Forced migration, human trafficking and access to hell

Tom Syring, Chairman of the Human Rights Research League and a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany

Thursday
20
February
2020
Katharine Van Tassel
Are Nanoparticles the New Asbestos?

Katharine Van Tassel, Visiting Professor of Law, The Law-Medicine Center, School of Law

Thursday
13
February
2020
Tamara Wittes, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Scholarship and Service: Reconsidering the Arab Uprisings

Tamara Wittes, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Monday
10
February
2020
headhsot of Kristin Hickman
A Slow But Steady Demise For Tax Exceptionalism

Kristin Hickman, Distinguished McKnight University Professor; Harlan Albert Rogers Professor in Law; Associate Director, Corporate Institute

Tuesday
4
February
2020
headshot of Maxwell J. Mehlman
Governance of “Do-It-Yourself” Gene Editing

Maxwell J. Mehlman, JD

Director, Law-Medicine Centers, School of Law

Distinguished University Professor

Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, School of Law

Professor, Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine

March 2019

Thursday
7
March
2019
Assistant Staff Ethicist and Regional Bioethicist (South) in the Center for Bioethics at the Cleveland Clinic Hilary Mabel
Legal and Ethical Duties to Report, Warn, and Protect

Hilary Mabel
Assistant Staff Ethicist and Regional Bioethicist (South) in the Center for Bioethics at the Cleveland Clinic