Centennial Lecture
The Centennial Visitor lecture series was inaugurated in fall 1987 as part of a yearlong celebration to mark the founding of Chicago College of Law, forerunner of IIT Chicago-Kent, in 1888.
Angela Onwuachi-Willig will give the 2021 Centennial Visitor Lecture. Onwuachi-Willig is dean of Boston University School of Law and is a renowned legal scholar and expert in critical race theory, employment discrimination, and family law. The virtual event will take place at 3 p.m. CST on February 3, 2021. It is free and open to the public. More information is available at this link.
Centennial Visitors have included
- 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
"Has the Supreme Court Lost Faith in the Courts?"
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California Irvine School of Law, 2013 Centennial Visitor