Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lectures - 1991 - 2010
Robert M. O'Neil
Professor of Law and Founding Director
Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of
Free Expression
University of Virginia
"Inaugural Lecture"
1992
Lee C. Bollinger
Dean and Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
"The Open-Minded Soldier and the University"
1993
Catharine R. Stimpson
University Professor and Dean of the Graduate
School
Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey
"Dirty Minds, Dirty Bodies, Clean Speech"
1994
Walter P. Metzger
Emeritus Professor of History
Columbia University
"A Walk Along the New Frontiers of Academic Freedom"
1995
Linda Ray Pratt
Professor of English
University of Nebraska-Lincoln and
Past-President, AAUP
"Academic Freedom and the Merits of Uncertainty"
1996
Avern Cohn
United States District Judge
Eastern District of Michigan
"Academic Freedom: A Trial Judge's View"
1997
Roger Wood Wilkins
Clarence J. Robinson Professor of
History and American Culture
George Mason University
1998
Eugene L. Roberts, Jr.
Professor of Journalism
University of Maryland - College Park
1999
David A. Hollinger
Chancellor's Professor of History
University of California at Berkeley
"Universities and Cosmopolitanism"
2000
Anthony Lewis
Columnist
The New York Times
"Freedom: The Seamless Web"
2001
Vartan Gregorian
President
Carnegie Corporation of New York
"Universities in the Twenty-first Century: Perils, Challanges, and Prospects"
2002
Catharine A. MacKinnon
Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
"From Powerlessness to Power: The Uses of Academic Freedom"
2003
David D. Cole
Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
"Freedom and Terror: September 11th and the 21st Century Challenge"
2004
Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Illegal but Legitimate: A Dubious Doctrine for the Times"
2005
Floyd Abrams
William J. Brennan, Jr. Visiting Professor of
First Amendment Law
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Partner, Cahill, Gordon & Reindel
"Whose Academic Freedom? "
2006
Bill Keller
Executive Editor, The New York Times
"Editors in Chains:
Secrets, Security and the Press"
2007
Nadine Strossen
President, American Civil Liberties Union
Professor of Law, New York Law School
"Defending Freedom:
Even for Thoughts We Hate"
2008
Cass R. Sunstein
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
"My University.com; My
Government.com:
Is the Internet Really a Blessing for Democracy"
2009
Philip Hamburger
Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law
Columbia University Law School
"Galileo's Ghost: 17th
Century Censorship
in 21st Century America"
2010
Michael A. Olivas
William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law
Director of the Institute
for Higher Education Law and Governance
University of Houston Law
Center
"“God, Grades, and Sex:
The
Developing Law of the College Classroom” "
2011
Ellen W. Schrecker
Professor of History
Yeshiva University
"The Lost Soul of Higher
Education:
Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom,
and the End of the
American University"
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