Lapa Public Lectures and Workshops

LAPA PUBLIC LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS In addition to LAPA’s regular seminar series and conference events, LAPA also sponsors or cosponsors public lectures, informal workshops and other events that are not part of a regular series. Those events are listed here, from the most recent back to LAPA’s beginnings. Robert C. Post, David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School Third Annual Donald S. Bernstein ’75 Lecture May 3, 2007, 4:30 pm Robert C. Post joined the Yale faculty as the first David Boies Professor of Law. He focuses his teaching and writing on constitutional law, and is a specialist in the area of First Amendment theory and constitutional jurisprudence. Before coming to Yale Law, he had been teaching since 1983 at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall). Post is the author of Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management and co-author with K. Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Thomas C. Grey and Reva Siegel of Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law. He edited or co- edited Civil Society and Government, Human Rights in Political Transitions: Gettysburg to Bosnia, Race and Representation: Affirmative Action, Censorship and Silencing: Practices of Cultural Regulation and Law and Order of Culture. His scholarship has appeared academic journals in the humanities as well as in dozens of important law review articles, many in recent years with his colleague Reva Siegel. In 2003, he wrote the important Harvard Law Review “foreword” to its annual review of Supreme Court jurisprudence. Post was a law clerk to Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the United States Supreme Court. Prior to joining the Boalt Hall faculty, Post was an associate in the firm Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., serving in its litigation section. He served as general counsel to the American Association of University Professors 1992-1994 and to Governor Wilson's Independent Panel on Redistricting in 1991. Post has been honored with the Koret Israel Prize and with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. He received the 1998 Hughes-Gossett Award for best article in the Journal of Supreme Court History. He is councilor and librarian of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of which he is a LAPA Public Lectures and Workshops 2 LAPA Review Spring 2007 fellow, and is a member of the American Law Institute. He is a trustee of the National Humanities Center, on the executive committee of the American Council of Learned Societies, and on the editorial board of Representations. Post earned his B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard University, a J.D. from Yale Law School where he served as note editor of the Yale Law Journal, and a Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard. Scott Long, Human Rights Watch “The International Silence of the LGBT Community” Public Lecture co-sponsored by LAPA/PIIRS/LGBT April 18, 2007 Scott Long, director of the LGBT rights program for Human Rights Watch, will speak about ongoing efforts to break the silence for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons around the world. Long has been a long-time human rights activist. Beginning in the early 1990s, while living in the former Soviet bloc, he gathered detailed information on Romania's mistreatment of gays and lesbians, and led over forty missions to Romanian penitentiaries, reporting extensively on conditions there. He has worked closely with many LGBT groups in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, as well as with human rights groups including the Romanian Helsinki Committee. In 1993, he conducted the first fact-finding mission on the situation of gays and lesbians in Albania. He is the author, among other articles and reports, of Public Scandals: Sexual Orientation and Criminal Law in Romania, co-published by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and Human Rights Watch, and has edited and contributed to recent reports on gay and lesbian parenting, and on the use of sexuality to target women's and feminist organizing worldwide. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University; he has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Budapest, and for two years was a Senior Fulbright Professor of American Literature at the University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Kenji Yoshino, Deputy Dean for Intellectual Life and Professor of Law, Yale Law School "The End of Civil Rights?: The Supreme Court's Rejection of Identity Politics" Moffett Lecture, Co-sponsored by UCHV and LAPA April 5, 2007 Kenji Yoshino is professor of law and deputy dean for intellectual life at Yale Law School. The author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on our Civil Rights, Yoshino was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale Law School. He is a specialist in constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, and law and literature and he has published work in a wide variety of academic journals, including the Columbia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. His writing has been featured in The Boston LAPA Public Lectures and Workshops 3 LAPA Review Spring 2007 Globe, The Nation, The New York Times, and The Village Voice, and he has appeared on The Charlie Rose Show, Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, and the Tavis Smiley Show. He lives in New Haven, CT, and New York City. Oona Hathaway, Yale Law School “International Law and Domestic Authority” Seminar Co-sponsored by LAPA/Center for Global Governance April 2, 2007 Oona A. Hathaway is an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She earned her B.A. at Harvard University and her J.D. at Yale Law School. Before joining the faculty at Yale, she served as a law clerk for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and for D.C. Circuit Judge Patricia Wald, held fellowships at Harvard University's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Center for the Ethics and the Professions, and served as an Associate Professor at Boston University School of Law. Her current research focuses on how international law shapes countries' behavior. Her recent articles include Revisionism and Rationalism in International Law, Between Power and Principle: An Integrated Theory of International Law, The Cost of Compliance, and Do Human Rights Treaties Make a Difference? A 2004 Carnegie Scholar, she is working on a book on the promise and limits of international law. Robert Gordon, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History, Yale Law School “The Legal Profession, 1870-2000”, Seminar co-sponsored by LAPA/American Studies February 22, 2007 Robert Gordon is the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History at Yale Law School. His subject areas are contracts, American legal history, evidence, the legal profession, and law and globalization. Prior to coming to Yale, he taught at The University of Wisconsin and Stanford. Professor Gordon has an A.B. and J.D. from Harvard. Peter W. Galbraith, Senior Diplomatic Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Nuclear Nonproliferation; former US Ambassador to Croatia. "The End Of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created A War Without End", Public Lecture Co-sponsored by LAPA/WWS October 10, 2006 LAPA Public Lectures and Workshops 4 LAPA Review Spring 2007 Peter W. Galbraith served as the first US Ambassador to Croatia and has held senior positions in the US Government and the United Nations. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End (2006). Currently, he is the Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and a principal at the Windham Resources Group LLC. Walter F. Murphy, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Princeton University “The Constitution, Dead or Alive?” Constitution Day Event Public Lecture Co-sponsored by the Madison Program/LAPA September 19, 2006 Walter F. Murphy, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Princeton University, is among the most distinguished constitutional scholars of the 20th century. A decade after joining the Princeton faculty, he was named the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, succeeding Woodrow Wilson, Edward S. Corwin and Alpheus T. Mason in one of the nation’s most prestigious endowed chairs. Professor Murphy is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association, Law and Courts Section, and the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award in 1980 for his novel, The Vicar of Christ. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a senior fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Study in America. He is the author of Wiretapping on Trial, Elements of Judicial Strategy, and Congress and the Court, as well as works of fiction exploring important political and religious themes, including Upon This Rock: The Life of St. Peter and The Roman Enigma. Professor Murphy earned a Purple Heart, Distinguished Service Cross, three Battle Stars, and a Presidential Unit Citation for his service in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. President Carl Baudenbacher, Court of Justice of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), “Judicial Dialogue among the European Supreme Courts: The European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and the European Free Trade Association Court" Public Lecture, September 18, 2006 Professor Carl Baudenbacher presides over the EFTA court, which hears disputes between European Union member states and the near-EU members (Iceland, Norway, Lichtenstein). He is also a Professor at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The LAPA Public Lectures and Workshops 5 LAPA Review Spring 2007 author of more than 40 monographs and edited collections, Professor Baudenbacher has written on a wide range of subjects - from European competition (antitrust) and intellectual property law to comparative constitutional law.

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