Justice John Paul Stevens

Justice John Paul Stevens with former Dean Phil Weiser at the inaugural Stevens Lecture

Justice Ginsburg

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former Dean Phil Weiser at the 2nd Annual Stevens Lecture

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at the 3rd Annual Stevens Lecture

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Professor Melissa Hart at the 3rd Annual Stevens Lecture

Justice Scalia

Justice Antonin Scalia at the 4th Annual Stevens Lecture

Justice Sotomayor

Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Professor Melissa Hart at the 5th Annual Stevens Lecture

Judge Lucero

10th Circuit Judge Carlos Lucero and Professor Suzette Malveaux atthe 7th Annual Stevens Lecture

Stevens Lecture 2018

Justice Elena Kegan and Professor Suzette Malveaux atthe 8th Annual Stevens Lecture

Justice Yacoob and Professor Malveaux

South African Constitutional Court Justice Zak Yacoob and Professor Suzette Malveaux at the 9th Annual Stevens Lecture

Judge Bernice Donald with Professor Suzette Malveaux

6th Circuit Judge Bernice Donald with Professor Suzette Malveaux at the 10th Annual Stevens Lecture

The annual John Paul Stevens Lecture brings a distinguished jurist to Colorado Law to discuss judging and the state of the judiciary. United States Associate Justice John Paul Stevens delivered the inaugural lecture in September 2011. Since then, the lecture has been given by Associate Justice Sabrina McKenna of the Hawaii Supreme Court (2023); Chief Justice Angela Riley of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma Tribal Court (2022); the Honorable Bernice B. Donald of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (2021); former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa Zak Yacoob (2020); U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan (2019); Judge Carlos F. Lucero, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (2018); former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, New York Court of Appeals (2017); Justice Sonia Sotomayor (2016); Justice Antonin Scalia (2014); Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (2013), and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2012). The signature fireside chat format of the lecture presents an opportunity for law students, lawyers, and community members to hear about the jurists’ approach to the bench, career, legal philosophy, and law school advice. The lecture often attracts over 2,000 people to CU Boulder’s Macky Auditorium, and is streamed for a national audience.

Thirteenth annual John Paul Stevens Lecture featuring the Honorable Stephen A. Higginson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Presiding Judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review

The Honorable Judge Stephen A. Higginson

The Byron R. White Center proudly presented the Thirteenth Annual John Paul Stevens Lecture on Thursday, October 24, 2024. This year's guest jurist wasthe Honorable Stephen A. Higginson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Presiding Judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review. Judge Higginson’s lecture wasentitled, The Nuremberg Trials: Lessons for Law 鶹Ժ, Lawyers, and Judges. He wasthe first former law clerk to Justice Byron R. White to deliver the Stevens Lecture. In conversation with Professor Deep Gulasekaram, Director of the Byron White Center, Judge Higginson discussed his research on the Nuremberg Trials, focusing on their contemporary and continuing relevance for advocates and judges today.