Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lectures - 1991 - 2007

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

" Opportunity and Academic Integrity"

1998

Eugene L. Roberts, Jr.
Professor of Journalism
University of Maryland - College Park

" Free Speech, Free Press: Free Society"

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 11^th and the 21^st Century Challenge"

2004

Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Illegal but Legitimate: A Dubious Doctrine for the Times"