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Bar Library Lecture Series

On May 9, 2007, the Bar Library held the inaugural lecture in its series of lectures and symposia on law-related topics. Below is a list of those speakers who have participated in the series.


September 12, 2016
Professor Jeffrey Rosen
"Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet"

June 7, 2016
Professor Clare Huntington - Honorable Yvette M. Bryant - Julie Ellen Landau, Esquire
"Family Law & Practice Appreciation Night"

April 6, 2016
Mr. Gil Sandler
"Mr. Gil Sandler On Harry B. Wolf & The Murder Of William B. Norris"

March 10, 2016
Ms. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
"Henry Louis Mencken & George Samuel Schuyler"

February 11, 2016
Professor Garrett Power
"Atticus Finch, Jim Crow & Baltimore's Best"

December 3, 2015
Professor James O'Hara
"Justice Samuel Chase"

November 12, 2015
Dr. Paul R. McHugh
"Recovered Memory And Issues Of Truth And Justice"

October 1, 2015
Honorable Reggie B. Walton
"An Evening With the Honorable Reggie B. Walton"

June 23, 2015
Professor Robert P. George
"Conscience And Its Enemies"

June 2, 2015
Dr. Jonathan White
"Lincoln on Law, Leadership, and Life"

April 15, 2015
Stephen B. Mercer, Esquire
"D.N.A. Profiles & Databases"

December 9, 2014
Honorable Diane P. Wood
"What Has Happened to Habeas Corpus?"

November 18, 2014
Professor James O'Hara
"Justice John Archibald Campbell"

November 6, 2014
Honorable Mary Ellen Barbera
An Address On The Judicial Branch Of The State Of Maryland

November 6, 2014
E. Clinton Bamberger, Jr., Esquire
"A Portrait Of John L. Brady"

November 6, 2014
John J. Connolly, Esquire
Portraits Of Honorable George William Brown – Arthur W. Machen, Sr., Equire - Jeannette Rosner Wolman, Esquire – Charles H. Dorsey, Jr., Esquire

October 29, 2014
Ms. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
"Mencken & The American Presidency"

September 23, 2014
Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher
An Evening With "KAL"

July 17, 2014
Professor Byron L. Warnken
"Maryland Criminal Procedure"

March 12, 2014
E. Clinton Bamberger, Jr., Esquire - John Martin Jones, Jr., Esquire - Lindesy Duvall, Esquire - Honorable Joseph H. H. Kaplan - Honorable Gregg Bernstein, State’s Attorney for Baltimore City - Honorable Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
"Fiftieth Anniversary Commemoration of Brady V. Maryland"

February 25, 2014
Honorable Shirley Watts
Black Legal History Month Lecture

February 18, 2014
Honorable George Russell, Jr. - Honorable George Russell, III - Honorable William Murphy - Hassan Murphy, Esquire
Black Legal History Month Lecture

February 11, 2014
A. Dwight Pettit, Esquire
"Under Color Of Law: The Story Of An American Family"

December 19, 2013
Professor Constance Jordan
"The Correspondence Of Learned Hand"

November 12, 2013
Professor James O'Hara
"Chief Justice Taney: A Closer Look"

October 30, 2013
Randall Tietjen, Esquire
"Clarence Darrow's Letters"

October 17, 2013
Dr. Jonathan White
"Lincoln's Dreams"

May 9, 2013
Honorable Gregg L. Bernstein, State’s Attorney for Baltimore City – Honorable Paul B. DeWolfe, Public Defender for Maryland – Honorable Elizabeth L. Julian, District Public Defender for Baltimore City; Honorable Rod J. Rosenstein, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland
“Criminal Law & Practice Appreciation Night”

April 30, 2013
Ms. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
"Mencken & The Red Scare"

February 28, 2013
Honorable Lynne A. Battaglia
History Of Women Lawyers In Maryland

February 26, 2013
Professor Larry Gibson
"Young Thurgood Marshall: The Making of a Supreme Justice"

February 19, 2013
Honorable Robert M. Bell
Baltimore Riots & The Law

February 12, 2013
Mr. Antero Pietila
"Not In My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City"

February 5, 2013
Honorable Clifton Gordy
"From Plows to Pleadings: A Life Story"

October 16, 2012
Honorable Andre M. Davis
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines

September 20, 2012
Mr. Chilton Williamson, Jr. - Matthew T. Vocci, Esquire - Mr. Chris Ross
"Immigration as a Political Issue: A Discussion"

September 13, 2012
Prof. Paul DeWitt Carrington - Prof. Phillip Closius - Dean Phoebe Haddon - Dean Ronald Weich
"Law Schools: Their Role and their Costs"

May 10, 2012
Dr. Jonathan White
"The Peculiarly Insignificant Role of the Supreme Court in the Civil War"

April 17, 2012
Stan M. Haynes, Esquire
"Presidential Conventions In Baltimore"

April 3, 2012
Mr. Taylor Branch & Chancellor William E. Kirwan
"The Shame of College Sports"

March 27, 2012
Ms. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
"Mencken & Lynchings"

March 8, 2012
Prof. Richard Briffault
"A Government For Our Time? Business Improvement Districts And Urban Governance"

February 23, 2012
Dean F. Michael Higginbotham – Professor Martha S. Jones – Professor Ira Berlin
“The Impact Of Race Laws On The Migration Of African Americans From Southern States To Baltimore During The Early 1900’s”

September 7, 2011
Prof. William A. Fischel - John J. Delaney, Esquire - Prof. Robert Nelson
"The Law of Zoning: Issues & Developments"

June 1, 2011
Dr. Jonathan White - Dr. Edward Papenfuse - George W. Liebmann, Esquire
"Sesquicentennial Commemoration of Ex Parte Merryman"

March 10, 2011
Robert C. Embry, Jr., Esquire
Commentary on "WAITING FOR SUPERMAN" and the Current Educational Environment and Conditions.

March 9, 2011
H. Furlong Baldwin
"Remember Banks, Those Stable And Secure Bastions Of Our Financial World - What The Hell Happened?"

February 8, 2011
Ms. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
"Mencken, Ritchie & Prohibition"

December 1, 2010
Fred Kelly Grant, Esq. - Hon. Charles E. Moylan, Jr. - Howard L. Cardin, Esq. - Hon. Peter D. Ward
"The Baltimore City States Attorney's Office Responds To Crisis: Recollections Of The Baltimore Riots Of 1968"

October 14, 2010
John J. Connolly, Esquire
"The Guantanamo Lawyers"

June 8, 2010
Prof. Bradley J. Birzer
"American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll"

April 20, 2010
Melvin Urofsky
"Louis D. Brandeis: A Life"

April 8, 2010
Antero Pietila
"Not In My Neighborhood"

March 2, 2010
John Connolly, Esquire
"The Guantanamo Lawyers"

February 24, 2010
Bill Kauffman
"Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin"

December 1, 2009
Melvin J. Sykes, Esq. - Allan J. Gibber, Esq. - Rabbi Avrum Kowalsky
"Jewish Family Law and Its Contemporary Relevance"

September 10, 2009
Martin Mayer, Esq., nationally known economist and author
"The Financial Crisis and Needed Reforms"

January 21, 2009
Jacob A. Stein, Esq., noted author and litigator
"Perjury, False Statements & Obstruction of Justice"

December 2, 2008
Bennett Boskey, Esq., former law clerk to Judge Learned Hand, Justice Stanley Reed and Chief Justice Harlan Stone
"The Learned Hand & Harlan Stone Courts"

October 14, 2008
C. Fraser Smith, author of "Here Lies Jim Crow: Civil Rights In Maryland" - Mr. Keiffer Jackson Mitchell - C. Christopher Brown, Esq.
"Civil Rights In Maryland"

September 16, 2008
Robert S. Bennett, Esq., former counsel to President William Jefferson Clinton
"Defense of Criminal Cases Under the Current Rules & Sentencing Guidelines"

May 22, 2008
Honorable Richard W. Neely, former Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
"The Effect of the Act of Measuring on Things Measured in Child Custody Litigation"

March 20, 2008
Honorable Kenneth W. Gideon, Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury - Lee Sheppard, Esq., Tax Analysts contributing editor
'Developments in the Federal Tax Law"

November 29, 2007
Honorable George Nilson, Baltimore City Solicitor - John C. Murphy, Esq. - Andrew Bailey, Esq. - Steven Anderson, Esq., Institute for Justice
"The Law of Eminent Domain"

September 26, 2007
Professor Stephen A. Saltzburg, George Washington University Law School - Judge Charles E. Moylan, Jr., Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
"Sentencing Guidelines & Recent Developments in the Criminal Law"

May 9, 2007
Honorable William Donald Schaefer, former governor of the State of Maryland
"Reflections on His Early Years in the Practice of Law"


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