The George Wythe Lecture Series, begun in 1976, is named in honor of the occupant of the first Chair of Law at the College of William & Mary and in the United States.

Lectures from 2023

PDF

Civil Rights Without Representation, Joanna C. Schwartz
(64 William & Mary Law Review 641-706 (2023))

Lectures from 2022

PDF

Abortion, Sterilization, and the Universe of Reproductive Rights, Melissa Murray

Lectures from 2021

PDF

A New Compact for Sexual Privacy, Danielle Keats Citron

Lectures from 2019

PDF

Property Beyond Exclusion, Lee Anne Fennell

Lectures from 2018

PDF

Whom Should We Punish, and How? Rational Incentives and Criminal Justice Reform, Keith N. Hylton
(59 William & Mary Law Review 2513-2573 (2018))

Lectures from 2016

PDF

Some Thoughts on the Study of Judicial Behavior, Lee Epstein
(57 William & Mary Law Review 2017-2073 (2016))

Lectures from 2015

PDF

Policymaking through Enforcement--in Immigration Law and Beyond (Program), Cristina Rodríguez

PDF

The Third Pillar of Jurisprudence: Social Legal Theory, Brian Z. Tamanaha
(56 William & Mary Law Review 2235-2277 (2015))

Lectures from 2014

PDF

When Should Bankruptcy Be an Option (for People, Places, or Things)?, David A. Skeel Jr.
(55 William & Mary Law Review 2217-2253 (2014))

PDF

The Third Pillar of Jurisprudence: Social Legal Theory (Program), Brian Z. Tamanaha

Lectures from 2013

PDF

Privacy and Consent Over Time: The Role of Agreement in Fourth Amendment Analysis, Christine Jolls
(54 William & Mary Law Review 1693-1714 (2013))

PDF

The Good Cop: Knowing the Difference Between Lawful or Effective Policing and Rightful Policing — And Why it Matters, Tracey L. Meares
(54 William & Mary Law Review 1865-1886 (2013))

Lectures from 2012

PDF

Privacy and Consent Over Time: GPS Monitoring, Hard Drive Imaging, and Other Government Surveillance (Program), Christine Jolls

PDF

The Good Cop: Knowing the Difference between Lawful or Effective Policing and Rightful Policing (and why it matters) (Program), Tracey Meares

PDF

When Should Bankruptcy Be an Option (for People, Places or Things)? (Program), David A. Skeel Jr.

Lectures from 2011

PDF

On the Evasion of Executive Term Limits, Tom Ginsburg, James Melton, and Zachary Elkins
(52 William and Mary Law Review 1807-1872 (2011))

Lectures from 2010

PDF

On the Evasion of Executive Term Limits (Program), Tom Ginsburg

Lectures from 2008

PDF

Can Public Debt Enhance Democracy?, Clayton P. Gillette
(50 William and Mary Law Review 937-988 (2008))

PDF

Can Public Debt Enhance Democracy? (Program), Clayton P. Gillette

Lectures from 2007

PDF

Child Welfare's Paradox, Dorothy E. Roberts
(49 William and Mary Law Review 881-901 (2007))

PDF

Child Welfare’s Paradox (Program), Dorothy E. Roberts

Lectures from 2006

PDF

How Market-Driven News Promoted the Punitiveness Revolution: The News Media’s Influence on Criminal Justice Policy (Program), Sara Sun Beale

Lectures from 2005

Patenting Nanotechnology, Mark Lemley

PDF

Patenting Nanotechnology (Program), Mark A. Lemley

Lectures from 2004

PDF

Technological Evolution and the Devolution of Corporate Financial Reporting, Donald C. Langevoort
(46 William and Mary Law Review 1-32 (2004))

Lectures from 2003

Technological Evolution and the Devolution of Financial Reporting, Donald C. Langevoort

PDF

Technological Evolution and the Devolution of Financial Reporting (Program), Donald C. Langevoort

Lectures from 2002

PDF

The Constitution and Guantanamo (Program), Harold Hongju Koh

PDF

Judges as Altruistic Hierarchs, Lynn A. Stout

PDF

Living Brown: Equal Opportunity, Social Justice, and the Development of the Black Corporate Bar (Program), David B. Wilkins

Lectures from 2001

PDF

On Judges, Corporate Directors, and Other Hierarchs (Program), Lynn A. Stout

Lectures from 2000

PDF

Legal Reasoning: The Simultaneous Equation (Program), Melvin A. Eisenberg

PDF

Promises and Paternalism, E. Allan Farnsworth
(41 William and Mary Law Review 385-409 (2000))

Lectures from 1998

PDF

The Sixties Shift to Formal Equality and the Courts: An Argument for Pragmatism and Politics, Mary Becker
(40 William and Mary Law Review 209-277 (1998))

PDF

Conceptual Gulfs in City of Boerne v. Flores, Douglas Laycock
(39 William and Mary Law Review 743-792 (1998))

Lectures from 1997

Three Models of Tax Reform, Alvin C. Warren

PDF

Three Versions of Tax Reform, Alvin C. Warren Jr.
(39 William and Mary Law Review 157-175 (1997))

Lectures from 1995

PDF

The Congress and Dennis Cochran vs. The Supreme Court and the Commonwealth of Virginia: The Constitutionality of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (Program), Douglas Laycock

Lectures from 1994

PDF

Missing The "Play of Intelligence", Daniel A. Farber
(36 William and Mary Law Review 147-171 (1994))

PDF

The Missing 'Play of Intelligence': Thoughts About the Impoverishment of Legal Discourse (Program), Daniel A. Farber

Lectures from 1993

PDF

Chaos Theory and the Justice Paradox, Robert E. Scott
(35 William and Mary Law Review 329-351 (1993))

PDF

Chaos Theory and the Justice Paradox (Program), Robert E. Scott

Lectures from 1991

PDF

Textualism, Constitutionalism, and Federal Statutes, Jerry L. Mashaw
(32 William and Mary Law Review 827-845 (1991))

Lectures from 1990

PDF

The Revolutionary Idea of University Legal Education, Paul D. Carrington
(31 William and Mary Law Review 527-574 (1990))

PDF

So That's What We Meant?: A Legislator's Guide to the Supreme Court's New Constitutionalism and to the Interpretation of Federal Statutes (Program), Jerry L. Mashaw

PDF

Spies, Subversives, Terrorists and the British Government: Free Speech and Other Casualties, Graham Zellick
(31 William and Mary Law Review 773-821 (1990))

Lectures from 1988

PDF

Chief Justice Marshall, Justice Holmes, and the Discourse of Constitutional Adjudication, G. Edward White
(30 William and Mary Law Review 131-148 (1988))

Lectures from 1986

PDF

Judicial, Legislative and Administrative Lawmaking: A Proposed Research Service for the Supreme Court (Program), Kenneth Culp Davis

Lectures from 1984

PDF

Tolerance and the First Amendment (Program), Lee C. Bollinger

Lectures from 1983

PDF

Congressional Attempts to Amend the Constitution by the Back Door, Thomas F. Eagleton

Lectures from 1979

PDF

The First Two Vinerian Professors: Blackstone and Chambers, Rupert Cross
(20 William and Mary Law Review 602-624 (1979))

PDF

The Third Annual George Wythe Lecture (Program), William W. Van Alstyne

Lectures from 1976

PDF

The Prospects of University Law Training, Francis A, Allen