Conference and Distinguished Speaker Series
Information on Past Conferences
The Seventh Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Conference
April 7-8, 2000
"Law And Character"
Speakers
- Vincent A. Blasi, Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties, Columbia Law School.
- The Honorable David M. Ebel, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Circuit Judge.
- Dennis J. Hutchinson, Associate Dean of the College, Professor and Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Law School.
- Laura Kalman, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Pnina Lahav, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law.
- B. Kent Newmyer, Professor of Legal History, Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Connecticut.
- Richard Polenberg, Goldwin Smith Professor of American History, Cornell University.
- James E. Scarboro, Esq., Arnold & Porter, Denver.
- Character and Common law - Richard Polenberg
- Character and Judicial Discretion - Pnina Lahav
- Hand, Holmes and Brandeis: Free Speech, Temperament, and Majority rule - Vincent Blasi
- John Marshall, American Original: Some Thoughts on Personality and Judicial Statesmanship - Kent Newmyer
- Does Character Affect Judicial Performance? - Laura Kalman
- Justice White: Impatient Skeptic - Dennis Hutchinson
- Byron R. White: A Justice Shaped by the West - Judge Ebel
- Good Judgment as a Manifestation of Character in the Opinions of Justice Byron R. White - James Scarboro





