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Feb 5, 2025

The World in 2025

Featuring Kwame Anthony Appiah, Michael Froman, Laurie L. Patton, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Adam Tooze
New York
The relief sculptures on the pediment of Supreme Court Building on a sunny day. Beneath the states are the words “Equal Justice Under Law.”
Dec 4, 2024

Achieving Civil Justice

Featuring John G. Levi, Martha Louise Minow, Daniel B. Rodriguez, Rebecca L. Sandefur, and Diane P. Wood
Zoom Webinar
Sep 21, 2024

Ceremony - 2024 Induction Weekend

Featuring Cherry A. Murray, Charles F. Gammie, Cristián T. Samper, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Daniel E. Ho, Paula J. Giddings, Jhumpa Lahiri, John G. Palfrey, and Cecilia Ann Conrad
Cambridge, MA
May 17, 2022

Bridging Divides in America

Featuring Andy Barr, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Derek Kilmer, Farah Pandith, Laurie L. Patton, Eric P. Liu, and David W. Oxtoby
Online
Feb 28, 2022

Night at the Museums

Featuring Scott Vernon Edwards, Jon McVey Erlandson, Matt Friedman, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Victoria L. Sork, and David W. Oxtoby
Online
May 20, 2021

Artists at Work

Featuring Oskar Eustis, Thelma Golden, David W. Oxtoby, and Laura Zabel
Online
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Mar 24, 2021

Honoring Margaret Atwood

Featuring Margaret Atwood, Gish Jen, Nancy C. Andrews, and David W. Oxtoby
Online
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Mar 10, 2021

Empathy and Our Future

Featuring Eric P. Liu, Sherry Turkle, and David W. Oxtoby
Online
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Jan 6, 2021

Honoring William Labov

Featuring William David Labov, Penelope Dorothy Eckert, Wendell Pritchett, and David W. Oxtoby
Online
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Sep 16, 2020

Earning Trust in the Age of the Pandemic

Featuring David W. Oxtoby, Victor J. Dzau, Francis Sellers Collins, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Seth Mnookin, Monica Schoch-Spana, and Erica Palma Kimmerling
Online
May 13, 2020

Gender, Work, and COVID-19

Featuring David W. Oxtoby, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, Frances McCall Rosenbluth, and Debora L. Spar
Online
The Charles E. Simons Jr. Federal Court House, Aiken, South Carolina
May 21, 2019

The Hidden Crisis in Civil Legal Services

Featuring Robert H. Frank, Nathan L. Hecht, Joseph Kennedy III, John G. Levi, Andrew M. Perlman, Rebecca L. Sandefur, James Joseph Sandman, and Diane P. Wood
Washington, D.C.
May 11, 2019

Access to Justice Teach-In

Featuring Kenneth C. Frazier, Martha Louise Minow, David M. Rubenstein, and Rebecca L. Sandefur
Washington, D.C.
Apr 11, 2019

Annual Awards Ceremony

Featuring Ashton Baldwin Carter, Ernest J. Moniz, Lucia B. Rothman-Denes, and Edward S. Boyden
Cambridge, MA
Feb 13, 2019

Book Launch: The Privileged Poor

Featuring David W. Oxtoby, Bridget Terry Long, Anthony Jack, and Danielle Allen
Cambridge, MA
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DNA sequencing gel
Oct 29, 2018

Science & the Legal System

Featuring Shari Seidman Diamond, Richard Owen Lempert, Jed S. Rakoff, Nancy Gertner, and David S. Tatel
Washington, D.C.
Oct 6, 2018

2018 Induction Weekend: Induction Ceremony

Featuring Lindy T. Elkins-Tanton, Huda Y. Zoghbi, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Robert Gooding-Williams, David W. Miliband, and André Watts
Cambridge, MA
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Apr 12, 2018

The Annual Awards Ceremony

Featuring David Conrad Page, Barbara Jean Meyer, Paul D. Guyer, and Martha Craven Nussbaum
Cambridge, MA
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Bryson Symposium on Climate and Energy Policy
Mar 1, 2018

Bryson Symposium on Climate and Energy Policy

Featuring Thomas F. Rosenbaum, John Randell, Maxine L. Savitz, Mary D. Nichols, Ronald O. Nichols, Ralph Cavanagh, Robert Weisenmiller, Nathan S. Lewis, and Dallas Burtraw
Pasadena, CA
Sep 26, 2017

Genomics in Medicine

Featuring John Mendelsohn, Andrew Futreal, Richard Gibbs, Brendan Lee, and Huda Y. Zoghbi
Houston, TX
Jun 1, 2016

Russia Beyond Putin

Featuring Timothy J. Colton and George W. Breslauer
Cambridge, MA
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May 19, 2016

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty at 20

Featuring Lassina Zerbo, Rose Gottemoeller, Siegfried S. Hecker, Robert Rosner, Arun Rath, Scott D. Sagan, Chen Kane, Leonard S. "Sandy" Spector, and Rachel Bronson
Cambridge, MA
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Feb 2, 2016

Water: California in a Global Context

Featuring Christopher Bower Field, Anna M. Michalak, Holly Doremus, Isha Ray, Annie Maxwell, and Joya Banerjee
Stanford, CA
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Feb 1, 2016

Consensus & Controversy in Science

Featuring Randy W. Schekman, Jennifer A. Doudna, Richard A. Muller, and Pamela Ronald
Berkeley, CA
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Nov 11, 2015

Making Justice Accessible

Featuring Diane P. Wood, Goodwin Liu, and David S. Tatel
Cambridge, MA
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Jun 30, 2015

Writing About War

Featuring Scott D. Sagan, Natasha D. Trethewey, and Phil Klay
Stanford, CA
Dec 4, 2014

The Invention of Courts

Featuring Judith Resnik, Jonathan Lippman, Carol S. Steiker, Susan S. Silbey, Jamal Greene, and Linda Greenhouse
Cambridge, MA
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Jan 23, 2014

Humanities in the Digital Age

Featuring Richard P. Saller, Joshua Cohen, Michael A. Keller, Franco Moretti, and Elaine Treharne
Palo Alto, CA
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Apr 18, 2013

The Third Wave of Immigration

Featuring Mary C. Waters, Douglas Steven Massey, and Jorge G. Castañeda
Cambridge, MA
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Higher Education Forum 2025

Featuring Kevin Bae, Bonita J. Brown, Monique Chism, Michael Collins, Meagan Ehlenz, Matt Gianneschi, Jason Gonzales , Elizabeth L. Hillman, Jonathan Scott Holloway, Jamie Lewis Keith, Robert Kelchen, Harrison Keller, Anne Kim, Timothy G. Lynch, M. Elizabeth Magill, Sarah C. Mangelsdorf, Kimberly D. McCorkle, Kelly McManus, Edward L. Mienie, Marie Lynn Miranda, Ted Mitchell, Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Kelly Otter, Laurie L. Patton, Skye L. Perryman, David J. Provost, Judith Scott-Clayton, Katie Shilton, Suzanne E. Spaulding, Nancy Thomas, H. Holden Thorp, Bill Tucker, Rajiv Vinnakota, Lee Andrew Weiss, Charles L. Welch, Daria J. Willis, and Jason Wingard
Aspen, CO

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