The Frankel Lecture

Upcoming: Frankel Lecture 2008

The Houston Law Review is also pleased to announce that Professor Geoffrey Hazard from the University of California Hastings School of Law will be the Keynote Speaker at the 13th Annual Frankel Lecture on November 7th, 2008. E-mail symposium@houstonlawreview.org for more information or call the Law Review office at 713-743-2247.

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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.

Previous Topics:

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