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November 3, 2008Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Professor of Law and History, University of VirginiaVirginia law and history professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin ’97 discusses what the civil rights movement might have looked like if legal historians had been able to construct the movement from the ground up.

April 7, 2008Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the Department of Homeland SecurityMichael Chertoff discusses how the Department prepares for and mitigates threats to our national security. Secretary Chertoff’s lecture was the Sam and Ronnie Heyman Lecture on Public Service at Yale Law School.

March 10, 2008Cristina Rodriguez, Professor of Law, New York University Cristina Rodriguez discusses how political, legal, and cultural burdens should be distributed and shared to help countries manage the change produced by immigration. Professor Rodriguez’s lecture was the 2007-2008 James A. Thomas Lecture at Yale Law School.

October 30, 2007 Judge Nancy Gertner, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts Judge Nancy Gertner, a 1971 graduate and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School, discusses the career choices she made on the path to becoming a judge.

March 26, 2007 Dr. Harold Varmus, President & CEO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterNobel laureate Harold Varmus, President and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, gives the Arthur Allen Leff Fellowship Lecture, discusing the public's right to access the results of publicly funded scientific research.

March 1, 2007Cory Booker '97, Mayor of Newark, NJ Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J., gives the keynote address at the 10th Annual Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Colloquium.

October 19, 2006Rosalyn C. Higgins ’62 J.S.D., President, International Court of Justice, The Hague Rosalyn C. Higgins gives an informal talk on what life is like as the head of the International Court of Justice.