Starting with the first Mitchell Lecture, Hon. Robert H. Jackson's 1951 address, selected lectures, commentary, and conference papers have been published in the University at Buffalo's law journals. This collection contains all of the proceedings published in the Law School's journals.
Submissions from 2019
Tempered Power, Variegated Capitalism, Law and Society, John Braithwaite
Submissions from 2018
The First Amendment in the Second Gilded Age, Jack M. Balkin
Reining in the Web's Robber Barons: Mitchell Lecture Tackles Free Speech and Capitalism, UB Law Forum
Submissions from 2017
Notes on the Future of the Legal Profession in the United States: The Key Roles of Corporate Law Firms and Urban Law Schools, Bryant G. Garth
Some Thoughts on the Future of Legal Education: Why Diversity and Student Wellness Should Matter in a Time of Economic “Crisis”, Kevin R. Johnson
Submissions from 2016
Should We Fix the Bugs? Mitchell Lecturers Discuss Emerging Issues in Genetics and the Law, UB Law Forum
Two-Part Mitchell Lecture Looks at A Changing Profession, UB Law Forum
Submissions from 2013
When Caring Is Work: Home, Health, and the Invisible Workforce: Introduction, Dianne Avery and Martha T. McCluskey
Two Stories about Two Currencies of Care, Hendrik Hartog
"We Have to Take It to the Top!": Workers, State Policy, and the Making of Home Care, Jennifer Klein and Eileen Boris
Who Will Care for the Elderly?: The Future of Home Care, Peggie R. Smith
Learning by Doing, 2013 Mitchell Lecture: Looking at Fandom, Commerce and the Freedom to Play, UB Law Forum
Submissions from 2012
Bringing Nuremberg Home: Justice Jackson's Path back to Buffalo, October 4, 1946, John Q. Barrett
Law, Power, and "Rumors of War": Robert Jackson Confronts Law and Security after Nuremberg, Mary L. Dudziak
Address at the University of Buffalo Centennial Convocation, October 4, 1946, Robert H. Jackson
Justice Jackson's 1946 Nuremberg Reflections at Buffalo: An Introduction, Alfred S. Konefsky and Tara J. Melish
Of Nazis, Americans, and Educating Against Catastrophe, Eric L. Muller
Labor or Love? Mitchell Lecture to Address the Shifting Nature of Personal Caretaking, UB Law Forum
Submissions from 2011
The Origins of African American Interests in International Law, Henry J. Richardson III
Submissions from 2010
Beyond Race: in Mitchell Lecture, Civil Rights Icon Says Post-Racial Society Remains Elusive, UB Law Forum
Mitchell Lecture: International Law Scholar to Speak on Oct. 27, UB Law Forum
Submissions from 2009
Submissions from 2008
Wartime Security and Liberty under Law, Robert H. Jackson
The Rule of Law and the Politics of Fear: Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century, Irene Zubaida Khan
Quo Vadis, Habeas Corpus?, James Robertson
Submissions from 2006
Corporate Power and Its Discontents, Gerald Berk
In (Faint) Praise of the Large APs: Comments on Marc Galanter, Planet of the APs, Meir Dan-Cohen
Planet of the APs: Reflections on the Scale of Law and Its Users, Marc Galanter
Galanter v. Weber, David A. Westbrook
Submissions from 2005
Dr. Frankenstein’s Lawyers?: Mitchell Lecture Speaker Addresses Increasing Power of “Artificial Persons”, UB Law Forum
Submissions from 2004
Who Gets In? The Quest for Diversity after Grutter, Athena D. Mutua, Sheldon Zedeck, Frank H. Wu, Charles E. Daye, Margaret E. Montoya, and David L. Chambers
Submissions from 2003
What Good Is the Media?' Asks 2003 Mitchell Lecture, UB Law Forum
Submissions from 2002
A Half-Century Tradition: Mitchell Lecture Renews Its Prominence, UB Law Forum
Submissions from 1993
Environmental Racism Topic of Mitchell Lecture, UB Law Forum
Submissions from 1988
The James McCormick Mitchell Lecture—Language As Violence v. Freedom of Expression: Canadian and American Perspectives on Group Defamation, Alan Borovoy, Kathleen Mahoney, Barry Brown, Jamie Cameron, Mari Matsuda, and David Goldberger
The James McCormick Mitchell Lecture—Legal Education for a Changing Legal Profession, Buffalo Law Review
The 1987 James McCormick Mitchell Lecture—Looking toward the Future: Feminism and Reproductive Technologies, Isabel Marcus, Rhonda Copelon, Ruth Hubbard, Barbara Katz Rothman, and Barbara Omolade
Submissions from 1985
Feminist Discourse, Moral Values, and the Law—A Conversation, Ellen C. Dubois, Mary C. Dunlap, Carol J. Gilligan, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow, Isabel Marcus, and Paul J. Spiegelman
Submissions from 1984
The 1983 James McCormick Mitchell Lecture—A Hurdle Too High: Class-based Roadblocks to Racial Remediation, Derrick Bell, Alan Freeman, Monroe Fordham, and Sidney Willhelm
Submissions from 1982
Past Premises, Present Failures, and Future Needs in Labor Legislation, Clyde Summers
Submissions from 1979
Privacy, Secrecy, and Reputation, Richard A. Posner
Submissions from 1977
Comparative Criminal Procedure: A Plea for Utilizing Foreign Experience, Rudolf B. Schlesinger
Submissions from 1974
Notes Toward a History of American Justice, Lawrence M. Friedman
Submissions from 1964
Civil Rights and the Limits of Law, Paul A. Freund
Submissions from 1963
Some Reflections about the Impact of Federal Taxation on American Private Law, Joseph T. Sneed
Submissions from 1960
Civil Procedure—Reflections on the Comparison of Systems, Benjamin Kaplan
Submissions from 1959
Tort Law in Midstream: Its Challenge to the Judicial Process, Fleming James Jr.
Submissions from 1958
Reason and Reality in Jurisprudence, Jerome Hall
Submissions from 1955
A Comparison of the Constitutions of Australia and the United States, Zelman Cowan
The Technique of Public Order: Evolving Concepts of Criminal Law, George H. Dession
Submissions from 1951
Wartime Security and Liberty under Law, Robert H. Jackson