Donahue Lecture Series
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 Rehnquist, Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor, Judge Richard Posner, former United States Attorney General Edwin Meese, and consumer protection activist Ralph Nader.
The Following is a Representative, but Currently Incomplete List of Prior Donahue Lecturers
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Bernard Schwartz | Webb Professor of Law, New York University Law School |
| Peter L. Strauss | Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law |
| The Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. | United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit |
| Philip B. Kurland | William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago School of Law |
| Theodore J. St. Antoine | James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School |
| G. Edward White | Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law |
| Grant Gilmore | Professor of Law, Vermont Law School |
| Lawrence M. Friedman | Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law, Stanford Law School |
| The Honorable Antonin Scalia | United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, now Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court |
| John E. Nowak | Professor of Law, University of Illinois School of Law |
| The Honorable Edward D. Re | Chief Judge of the United States Court of International Trade |
| Derrick A. Bell, Jr. | Dean, University of Oregon School of Law |
| Paul R. Verkuil | Dean of the Law School, Tulane University School of Law |
| Raoel Berger | Charles Warren Senior Fellow, Harvard University Law School |
| Jerold S. Auerbach | Professor and Chairman of the History Department, Wellesley College |
| The Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson | United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
| Jerome A. Barron | Dean of the George Washington University National Law Center |
| The Honorable Richard A. Posner | United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit |
| The Honorable William H. Rehnquist | Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
| Ronald D. Rotunda | Professor of Law, University of Illinois |
| Ralph Nader | Lawyer and Consumer Protection Activist |
| Irving Younger | Marvin J. Sonosky Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School |
| The Honorable Constance Baker Motley | United States District Court for the Southern District of New York |
| L. Kinvin Wroth | Dean of the University of Maine School of Law |
| Lino A. Graglia | Rex G. Baker and Edna Heflin Baker Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Texas School of Law |
| Charles E. Rice | Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School |
| Jules B. Gerard | Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law |
| Bernard H. Siegan | Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law |
| Edwin Meese III | Former United States Attorney General |
| Sarah Weddington | Lawyer and Lecturer, University of Texas and Texas Women's University |
| The Honorable Stephen Breyer | United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, now Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court |
| The Honorable Stanley Sporkin | United States District Judge for the District of Columbia |
| Louis Fisher | Senior Specialist in Separation of Powers Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress |
| Jack Greenberg | Dean of Columbia University |
| The Honorable Patricia McGowan Wald | United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia |
| Cass R. Sunstein | Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago Law School |
| Owen M. Fiss | Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Public Law, Yale University Law School |
| Rodney A. Smolla | Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law and Director, Institute of Bill of Rights Law, College of William and Mary, Marshall-Whythe School of Law |
| Douglas J. Whaley | James W. Shocknessy Professor of Law, Ohio State University College of Law |
| The Honorable Shirley S. Abrahamson | Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court |
| A.E. Dick Howard | White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Virginia |
| E. Allan Farnsworth | Alfred McCormack Professor of Law, Columbia University |
| Michael J. Perry | Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law, Northwestern University Law School |
| Rt. Hon. A. Kim Cambell | Former Canadian Prime Minister |
| George P. Fletcher | Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia University School of Law |
| Emma Coleman Jordan | Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center |
| Paul B. Stephan, III | Percy Brown, Jr. Professor of Law and the Hunton & Williams, Research Professor, University of Virginia |
| The Honorable Bruce M. Selya | United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit |
| The Honorable Sonia Sotomayor | United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, now Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court |
| Daniel R. Coquillette | Former Dean and Professor of Law, Boston College Law School |
| Akhil Reed Amar | Southmayd Professor of Law, Yale Law School |
| The Honorable Charles Fried | Associate Justice for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court |
| The Honorable Patti B. Saris | United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts |
| The Honorable Richard J. Leon | Partner, Baker & Hostetler, now District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
| The Honorable Alex Kozinski | United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
| The Honorable Edward D. Re | Chief Judge Emeritus for the United States Court of International Trade and Distinguished Professor of Law, St. John’s University School of Law |
| The Honorable Nancy Gertner | United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts |
| The Honorable Loren A. Smith | Chief Judge of the United States Court of Claims |
| Erwin Chemerinsky | Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Southern California Law Center |
| The Honorable Joyce London Alexander | United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts |
| Dean Alice Gresham Bullock | Dean and Professor, Howard University School of Law |
| The Honorable Sandra L. Lynch | United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit |
| Charles H. Whitebread | George T. Pfleger Professor of Law, The Law School, University of Southern California |
| The Honorable Gerald E. Rosen | United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan |
| Laurie L. Levinson | Professor of Law, William M. Rains Fellow, Loyola Law School |
| Professor David D. Cole | Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center |
Last Update: February 22, 2013
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