Centennial Visitor Lecture

The Centennial Visitor Lecture series was inaugurated in fall 1987 as part of a year-long celebration to mark the founding of Chicago College of Law, forerunner of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, in 1888. It highlights the work of attorneys and scholars who are leaders in their respective fields.

Past Centennial Visitors have included:

  • Vince Warren, Center for Constitutional Rights
  • Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Boston University School of Law
  • Dean Heather Gerken, Yale School of Law
  • Professor Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University
  • Harold Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School
  • Linda Greenhouse, Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School
  • Vicki C. Jackson, Thurgood Marshall Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School
  • Dr. William A. Galston, The Brookings Institution
  • Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California Irvine College of Law
  • Professor Austin D. Sarat, Amherst College
  • Dean Martha Minow of Harvard Law School
  • Professor Jagdish N. Bhagwati of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
  • Professor William Eskridge of Yale Law School
  • Professor Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Professor Hendrik Hartog of Princeton University
  • Professor Jeremy Waldron of Columbia University
  • Professor John Searle of the University of California, Berkeley
  • Professor Daniel Farber of the University of California, Berkeley
  • Professor Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University
  • Professor Stanley Katz of Princeton University
  • Professor Douglass North of Washington University
  • Professor Carol Greenhouse of Indiana University Bloomington
  • Professor Thomas C. Grey of Stanford Law School
  • Professor Robert C. Post of the University of California, Berkeley
  • Professor Saul Levmore of the University of Virginia School of Law
  • Professor Margaret Jane Radin of Stanford Law School
  • Professor John Hart Ely of Stanford Law School
  • The Honorable Stephen M. Schwebel of the International Court of Justice at The Hague, Netherlands
  • The Honorable Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit
  • Professor Gerald Gunther of Stanford Law School