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Donahue Lecture Series: 2007-2008
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| The Suffolk University Law Review sponsors the Donahue Lecture Series, which annually attracts lecturers from among the nation's top legal scholars and jurists. Each Donahue Lecturer is an exceptionally prominent legal scholar who delivers a lecture at Suffolk University Law School that forms the basis for a Lead Article to be published in the Law Review shortly thereafter.
The Law Review instituted this lecture series in 1980 to commemorate the Honorable Frank J. Donahue, former faculty member, trustee, and treasurer of Suffolk University. Judge Donahue graduated from Suffolk University Law School in 1921, and served as an Associate Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts for forty-two years -- the longest term in that court's history. As Chairman of the Law School Committee of the Board of Trustees, Judge Donahue played an active role in the expansion of the faculty, library, and other facilities at the law school. For many years, he served as president of the Law School Alumni Association, and in that capacity personally raised thousands of dollars of scholarship funds to promote, encourage, and reward the pursuit of scholastic excellence.
Over the years, the Donahue Lecture Series has featured a number of outstanding legal scholars and jurists, including Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Richard A. Posner, former United States Attorney General Edwin Meese III, and consumer protection activist Ralph Nader.
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Shockwaves from Appellate Decisions on District Courts
Thursday, November 8, 2007 4:00 pm
The Honorable Colleen McMahon
District Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
The Honorable Colleen McMahon was appointed to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in October 1998. A graduate of The Ohio State University (summa cum laude and with distinction in Political Science) and of Harvard Law School (1976), she spent almost two decades in private practice at the distinguished New York City firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where she was the first woman litigator elected to partnership (1984). In 1980, she took a “time out” from practice to serve as special assistant and speechwriter for Donald F. McHenry during his term as United States Ambassador to the United Nations. In June 1995, Judge McMahon was appointed to the New York Court of Claims. She served as an Acting Justice of the New York State Supreme Court from the time of her appointment until she joined the federal bench.
During her years in private practice, Judge McMahon was involved in numerous bar activities, primarily at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where she chaired the Committees on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction and Women in the Profession. Under her auspices, the latter committee commissioned Cynthia Fuchs Epstein’s groundbreaking 1991 study on the "glass ceiling" at large law firms. She was the principal author of two City Bar Association briefs amicus curiae in the United States Supreme Court. Judge McMahon chaired “The Jury Project,” Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye’s successful initiative to reform jury service in New York State, and wrote its highly acclaimed report. She also served a term in the House of Delegates of the New York State Bar Association. Earlier in her career, Judge McMahon worked with Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and authored or co-authored several articles relating to arts law, as well as the second edition of “Poor Dancers’ Almanac,” a guide for artists about the legal aspects of pursuing their careers. She served as Vice Chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of New York from 1992-95 and has remained active in church governance, currently as chair of the Diocesan Committee on Canons.
In her spare time, Judge McMahon enjoys the company of her husband, her daughter and two sons. A passionate amateur musician, she sings in several chamber and church choirs and occasionally plays organ. She will teach a course on The Law of War at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law during the 2008 Spring Term.
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The Road to Guantanamo:
Executive Detention in the 21st Century
Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:00 pm
Professor Kermit Roosevelt
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Professor Kermit Roosevelt
is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he has been
teaching since 2002. Prior to joining the Penn faculty, he was an associate with Mayer, Brown,
Rowe & Maw in Chicago, a law clerk to Judge Stephen F. Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Justice David H. Souter of the United States Supreme Court, and a resident fellow with the Yale Law School Information Society Project.
Professor Roosevelt is the author of several books, including The Myth of Judicial Activism
(Yale University Press 2006); Conflict of Laws: Cases, Comments, Questions (West, 7th Ed. 2006) (with David Currie, Herma Hill Kay, and Larry Kramer); and the novel In the
Shadow of the Law (Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2005), which won the Philadelphia Athenaeum annual literary award in 2006. He has also published numerous articles in law reviews, including “Constitutional Calcification: How the Law Becomes What the Court Does,” University of Virginia Law Review; “Guantanamo and the Conflict of Laws: Rasul and Beyond,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review; “Light From Dead Stars: The Procedural Adequate and Independent State Ground Reconsidered,” Columbia Law Review; and “The Myth of Choice of Law: Rethinking Conflicts,” Michigan Law Review. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. |
How the Supreme Court Talks About Abortion:
The Implications of a Shifting Discourse
Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:00 pm
Panel discussions to follow from 2:00–5:30 pm
The Roberts Court — A New Juriprudential Era?
Linda Greenhouse
Supreme Court Correspondent, The New York Times
Linda Greenhouse has been the Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times since 1978. In previous positions at The Times, she covered state and local government and politics in New York.
Ms. Greenhouse has received several major journalism awards, including the Pulitzer Prize (1998) and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard
University’s Kennedy School (2004). Her biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun, was published in 2005.
Ms. Greenhouse is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where she serves on the council, and is one of two non-lawyer honorary members of the American Law Institute. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, which in 2005 awarded her its Henry Allen Moe Prize for writing in the humanities and jurisprudence. For two academic years, 2004 and 2005, she was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, lecturing and teaching at colleges and universities around the country. She also lectures frequently to law school and judicial audiences.
She received her undergraduate education at Radcliffe College (Harvard). In 1977–78, she attended Yale Law School on a Ford Foundation fellowship and received the degree of Master of Studies in Law.
NOTE: To attend Linda Greenhouse's Donahue Lecture you must register here. |
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