NOTABLE LECTURES & SYMPOSIA

Fortifying the Scholarly Community

Even amid the challenges of the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, Berkeley Law remained a hub for thoughtprovoking lectures and symposia. Here are a few highlights from the 2021-2022 academic year.

New York University Law Professor Melissa Murray, Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture Speaker, 2022

STEFAN A. RIESENFELD ’37 SYMPOSIUM

“Big Money, Big Enforcement: New Frontiers In Global Antitrust Regulation” (co-sponsored by the Berkeley Journal of International Law, the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, and the Berkeley Center for Law and Business)

Keynote speaker and Riesenfeld Award win-

ner: Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition and Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age

HERMA HILL KAY MEMORIAL LECTURE

Speaker: Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network, New York University School of Law: “Race-ing Roe: Reproductive Justice, Racial Justice, and the Battle for Roe v. Wade”

ROBERT A. KAGAN LECTURE IN LAW AND

REGULATION (sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law and Society) Speaker: Timothy D. Lytton, Distinguished University Professor, Professor of Law, and Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development, Georgia State University, “Confronting Deep Uncertainty in Regulatory Science: Contaminated Lettuce and the Elusive Quest for Food Safety” Discussants: Edward L. Rubin, University Professor of Law and Political Science, Vanderbilt University Law School, and David J. Vogel, Soloman P. Lee Chair Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Business Ethics, Berkeley Haas, and Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley Political Science Department

IRVING TRAGEN LECTURE ON COMPARATIVE LAW

Speaker: Intisar Rabb, Professor of Law and History and Director of the Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School: “Metacanons: Comparative Textualism at SCOTUS and in Islamic Law”

JORDE SYMPOSIUM (co-hosted by the California Law Review, the Brennan Center for Justice, and Berkeley Law) Speaker: Steven Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University: “The Third Founding: The Rise of Multiracial Democracy and the Authoritarian Reaction Against It” Discussants: Richard Albert, University of Texas Law School; Miriam Seifter, University of Wisconsin Law School; and Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago Law School

Steven Levitsky, Harvard University Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government, Jorde Symposium Speaker

HARRY & JANE SCHEIBER LECTURE IN OCEAN LAW & POLICY

Speaker: Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, University of Chicago, “The Law of the Sea and Democracy”

KADISH LECTURE

Speaker: Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Criticizing Blame”