Frankel Lecture 2011: “Codes of Conduct for a Twilight War”
The Houston Law Review is pleased to host the 16th Annual Frankel Lecture on Friday, November 4, 2011, at the Doubletree Hotel – Houston Downtown.
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The annual Frankel Lecture series aspires to promote academic exchange by featuring prominent scholars from across the nation who can bring the latest cutting edge legal debate directly to the Houston Law Center. The Frankel Lecture Series provides the Houston Law Review with an opportunity to support and publish presentations by internationally recognized legal scholars such as Harold Hongju Koh, Judge Alex Kozinski, David Nimmer, Pamela Karlan, Kevin R. Johnson and many others. In addition to the lecture itself, the articles written by the Keynote Speaker and the Commentators are published in the Houston Law Review. The Houston Law Review is generously supported by the Frankel Family Foundation.
2011: “Codes of Conduct for a Twilight War”
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Phillip Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, University of Virginia
Previous Topics:
2010: The Cost/Benefit Analysis of Environmental Regulation
Keynote Speaker: Professor Richard L. Revesz, Lawrence King Professor of Law and Dean of New York University School of Law
Commentator: Douglas A. Kysar, Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Commentator: Alexander Volokh, Assistant Professor of Law, Emory Law
The video from the event is available here.
2009: 25th Amendment: Revisiting Constitutional Provisions for Presidential Succession
Keynote Speaker: Professor Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale Law School
Commentator: John D. Feerick, Sidney C. Norris Chair of Law in Public Service, Fordham University School of Law
Commentator: Joel K. Goldstein, Vincent C. Immel Professor of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law
2008: Legal and Managerial ‘Cultures’ in Corporate Representation
Keynote Speaker: Professor Geoffrey C. Hazard, Thomas E. Miller Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law
Commentator: Professor Edward B. Rock, Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law, University of Pennsylvania
Commentator: Professor Stephen V. Arbogast, Executive Professor of Finance, University of Houston C. T. Bauer College of Business
2007: Hurricane Katrina: Lessons About Immigrants in the Modern Administrative State
Keynote Speaker: Professor Kevin R. Johnson, University of California Davis School of Law
Commentator: Professor Anna Shavers, University of Nebraska Law School
Commentator: Professor Raquel Aldana, University of Nevada-Las Vegas School of Law
2006: The Voting Rights Act
Keynote Speaker: Professor Pamela Karlan, Stanford Law School
Commentator: Professor Ellen Katz, University of Michigan Law School
Commentator: Professor Nina Perales, Southwest Regional Counsel for MALDEF in San Antonio, Texas
2005: Taking Affirmative Action Seriously: Getting Beyond the Numbers
Keynote Speaker: Dorothy A. Brown, Washington and Lee U. School of Law
Commentator: Carla D. Pratt, Dickinson School of Law at Penn State
Commentator: Dean Evan H. Caminker, U. of Michigan Law School
2004: Free Will, Religious Liberty, and the French Prohibition of Religious Paraphernalia in Public Schools
Keynote Speaker: Steven Gey, Florida State University School of Law
Commentator: Professor Robert Destro, Catholic U. School of Law
Commentator: Professor T. Jeremy Gunn, Emory School of Law
Commentator: Professor Dina Alsowayel, University of Houston
2003: Doing Well by Doing Good: Exploring the Role of Public Service in the Careers of Black Corporate Lawyers
Keynote Speaker: David Wilkins, Harvard Law School
Commentator: Bryant Garth, Director, American Bar Foundation
Commentator: Robert W. Gordon, Yale Law School
2002: The Crisis in Corporate Governance: 2002 Style
Keynote Speaker: Robert W. Hamilton, University of Texas School of Law
Commentator: Larry Ribstein, University of Illinois College of Law
Commentator: Robert Thompson, Vanderbilt University Law School
2001: American Violence as a Shaper of Gun Law
Keynote Speaker: Robert Weisberg, Stanford University
Commentator: Jonathan Simon, University of Miami School of Law
Commentator: Erik Luna, University of Utah College of Law
2000: Copyright in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Authorship and Originality
Keynote Speaker: David Nimmer, University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law
Commentator: James L. Oaks, Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals
Commentator: Martha Woodmansee, Case Western Reserve University
1999: The Relevance of Legal Scholarship to the Judiciary and Legal Community
Keynote Speaker: Judge Alex Kozinski, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Commentator: Judge Lynn N. Hughes, United States District Court, Southern District of Texas
Commentator: David R. Dow, University of Houston Law Center
1998: Bringing International Law Home
Keynote Speaker: Harold Hongju Koh, Yale Law School
Commentator: Thomas M. Franck, New York University School of Law
Commentator: Robert O. Keohane, Duke University