From the Archives: Subversive Legacies @ Texas

Date: 11/22/2002 – 11/23/2002
Title: Subversive Legacies
Speaker(s): Karen Engle, Nathaniel Berman, Adrienne Davis, Janet Halley, Vicki Schultz, Elizabeth Schneider, Susan Heinzelman, Kristin Brandser, Lisa Moore, Domino Perez, Janet Staiger, Zipporah Wiseman, Kathryn Abrams, Katherine Franke, David Kennedy, Gretchen Ritter
Location: University of Texas
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)

Note: Video is available only for the roundtables, not the panel presentations.

• Roundtable: Subversive Legal Moments?
• Roundtable: Subversion in Literature and Film
• Roundtable: Is Subversion Subversive?

From the archives: Duke Environmental Leadership Forum

Date: 11/20/2002 – 11/21/2002
Title: Second Duke Environmental Leadership Forum:
Dealing With Disasters: Prediction, Prevention, and Response
Speaker(s):
Location: Duke Law School
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)

• Keynote (1:12:02)
  Richard A. Meserve
• Session 1 (1:19:16)
  Jonathan Wiener, Norm Christensen, Ken Cornell
• Session 2: Prediction of Disasters (1:19:17)
  James Clark, Gordon Woo
• Session 3: Prevention of Disasters (1:25:32)
  Chris Holmes, John Koskinen, Bruce Jentleson
• Session 4: Response to Disasters (1:11:29)
  Peter Haff, Marianne Lamont-Horinko, Francis McGovern
• Dinner Speaker (40:32)
  Michael Brown
• Session 5: Chemical Facility Accidents (1:18:22)
  Christopher Schroeder, Howard Kunreuther, Mark Tucker
• Session 6: Eco Security (1:47:26)
  William Schlesinger, Laura Meyerson, Stephen Pyne
• Session 7: Conclusions and Closing (1:15:09)
  Norm Christensen, Henry Petroski

From the archives: Death Penalty Panel @ Brooklyn

Date: 11/19/2002
Title: Capital Punishment Under Siege: Where Are We as a Society going with Respect to the Death Penalty? (57:00)
Speaker(s): Ursula Bentele, Hon. William M. Erlbaum, Norman L. Greene
Location: Brooklyn Law School, City Club of New York
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)

From the archives: Posner/Fletcher and Dershowitz/Fletcher @ Columbia

Date: 11/15/2002
Title: Fletcher/Posner Debate: The Rights and Wrongs of Going to War
Speaker(s): George Fletcher, Richard Posner, Lori Damrosch, Catharine MacKinnon
Location: Columbia
Presentation Type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)

Richard Posner is the Chief Judge of the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. According to Calvin Woodward of the New York Times Book Review, Richard Posner is “one of the nation’s most influential thinkers…. He spearheaded the law and economics movement that has, in the eyes of many, revolutionized the entire legal enterprise….”

George Fletcher is the Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School. His most recent book is titled, Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism. His previous book, Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy (2001), was designated by the American Association of Publishers as the best book on law published in 2001.

MODERATOR: Lori Damrosch, Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization, Columbia Law School INTERLOCUTOR: Catharine MacKinnon, Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School

Date: 11/1/2002
Title: Fletcher/Dershowitz Debates: The Morality of Attacking Iraq
Speaker(s): George Fletcher, Alan Dershowitz, Chris Hedges
Location: Columbia
Presentation Type: Streaming video (Real Player)

Alan Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His most recent book is titled, Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge.

George Fletcher is the Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School. His most recent book is titled, Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism.

MODERATOR: Chris Hedges is a former Middle East Bureau Chief and a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for The New York Times.

Nixon Legacy @ Duke

Date: 11/14/2002
Title: The Nixon Legacy: Duke Law, the Nation, the World (1:58:55) Speaker: David L. Lange, Philip Lacovara, Edward Nixon, Randall Cook, Ole Hosti
Location: Duke Law School
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)

From the announcement:

Twenty-eight years after Richard M. Nixon ’37 resigned as president, a panel of Nixon experts, including his younger brother Edward, gathered at Duke Law on Nov. 14 to discuss his legacy at the School and the changes he wrought on the nation and the world. With a room full of Duke Law alumni, students, faculty and guests looking on, panel members addressed some of the questions and criticisms left behind by the former president, who resigned in 1974 and died in 1994.

David Lange, a professor of law at Duke who started his Law School career during the Nixon era, moderated the discussion of Nixon’s life and legacy, including his presidency, resignation among discussions of impeachment, and subsequent writings and public service. The panelists took a decidedly kind view of Nixon, who remains one of the nations most controversial presidents.

Edward Nixon, who graduated from Duke University in 1952, shared his views on his brother’s early years at Duke as well as the presidency and Richard Nixon’s later years. The legacy of Richard Nixon, he said, is not entwined with questions of his portrait or presidential library, neither of which is housed at Duke. It resides in the minds of the people around the world, many of whom consider Nixon a far greater president than do Americans.

Raymond Price Jr., former special consultant to the president and head of his research and writing staff, spoke of the close ties he had with the former president, both during and after the presidency. Price characterized President Nixon as “a man of large vision who knew the world, whose actions were calculated and consequential in the arena in which he fought…Millions of people who have only known the defeats will live more safely because of his victories.” One of the biggest victories, said Price, echoed by other panelists, was the improvement of U.S. relations with China, a potential superpower.Ole Holsti, the George V. Allen professor of political science at Duke University, spoke of the many foreign policy achievements of President Nixon. Professor Holsti pointed out argued that the environment in which Nixon started his presidency – including the conflict in Vietnam and an unfriendly Congress at home – was among the worst in history. Yet Nixon’s achievements during his six years in office were superior, Holsti said. Although Nixon might have failed in some arenas, he made great strides elsewhere, such as China.

Philip Lacovara, who was counsel to the Watergate prosecutor and argued the Nixon tapes case before the U.S. Supreme Court, spoke of the many legal milestones Nixon set. Lacovara, who also was an assistant Solicitor General in the Nixon administration, said the legal legacies of President Nixon often are overlooked. For good or for ill, Nixon was the only U.S. president to be a named party in four Supreme Court cases, he presided over the passage of the War Powers Resolution and the Independent Counsel Act – each with continuing relevance – and he was part of early discussions on campaign finance reform.

From the archives: Ogletree @ Illinois (Baum)

Date: 11/4/2002
Title: The Current Reparations Debate
Speaker: Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Location: University of Illinois
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)

From the archives: Stephen Carter @ Harvard

Date: 11/2/2002
Title: The Emperor of Ocean Park (1:15:32)
Speaker: Stephen Carter
Location: Harvard Law School
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)