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
Civil Rights Without Representation, Joanna C. Schwartz
(64 William & Mary Law Review 641-706 (2023))
Lectures from 2022
Abortion, Sterilization, and the Universe of Reproductive Rights, Melissa Murray
Lectures from 2021
A New Compact for Sexual Privacy, Danielle Keats Citron
Lectures from 2019
Property Beyond Exclusion, Lee Anne Fennell
Lectures from 2018
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
Some Thoughts on the Study of Judicial Behavior, Lee Epstein
(57 William & Mary Law Review 2017-2073 (2016))
Lectures from 2015
Policymaking through Enforcement--in Immigration Law and Beyond (Program), Cristina Rodríguez
The Third Pillar of Jurisprudence: Social Legal Theory, Brian Z. Tamanaha
(56 William & Mary Law Review 2235-2277 (2015))
Lectures from 2014
When Should Bankruptcy Be an Option (for People, Places, or Things)?, David A. Skeel Jr.
(55 William & Mary Law Review 2217-2253 (2014))
The Third Pillar of Jurisprudence: Social Legal Theory (Program), Brian Z. Tamanaha
Lectures from 2013
Privacy and Consent Over Time: The Role of Agreement in Fourth Amendment Analysis, Christine Jolls
(54 William & Mary Law Review 1693-1714 (2013))
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
Privacy and Consent Over Time: GPS Monitoring, Hard Drive Imaging, and Other Government Surveillance (Program), Christine Jolls
The Good Cop: Knowing the Difference between Lawful or Effective Policing and Rightful Policing (and why it matters) (Program), Tracey Meares
When Should Bankruptcy Be an Option (for People, Places or Things)? (Program), David A. Skeel Jr.
Lectures from 2011
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
On the Evasion of Executive Term Limits (Program), Tom Ginsburg
Lectures from 2008
Can Public Debt Enhance Democracy?, Clayton P. Gillette
(50 William and Mary Law Review 937-988 (2008))
Can Public Debt Enhance Democracy? (Program), Clayton P. Gillette
Lectures from 2007
Child Welfare's Paradox, Dorothy E. Roberts
(49 William and Mary Law Review 881-901 (2007))
Child Welfare’s Paradox (Program), Dorothy E. Roberts
Lectures from 2006
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
Patenting Nanotechnology (Program), Mark A. Lemley
Lectures from 2004
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
Technological Evolution and the Devolution of Financial Reporting (Program), Donald C. Langevoort
Lectures from 2002
The Constitution and Guantanamo (Program), Harold Hongju Koh
Judges as Altruistic Hierarchs, Lynn A. Stout
Living Brown: Equal Opportunity, Social Justice, and the Development of the Black Corporate Bar (Program), David B. Wilkins
Lectures from 2001
On Judges, Corporate Directors, and Other Hierarchs (Program), Lynn A. Stout
Lectures from 2000
Legal Reasoning: The Simultaneous Equation (Program), Melvin A. Eisenberg
Promises and Paternalism, E. Allan Farnsworth
(41 William and Mary Law Review 385-409 (2000))
Lectures from 1998
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))
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
Three Versions of Tax Reform, Alvin C. Warren Jr.
(39 William and Mary Law Review 157-175 (1997))
Lectures from 1995
Lectures from 1994
Missing The "Play of Intelligence", Daniel A. Farber
(36 William and Mary Law Review 147-171 (1994))
The Missing 'Play of Intelligence': Thoughts About the Impoverishment of Legal Discourse (Program), Daniel A. Farber
Lectures from 1993
Chaos Theory and the Justice Paradox, Robert E. Scott
(35 William and Mary Law Review 329-351 (1993))
Chaos Theory and the Justice Paradox (Program), Robert E. Scott
Lectures from 1991
Textualism, Constitutionalism, and Federal Statutes, Jerry L. Mashaw
(32 William and Mary Law Review 827-845 (1991))
Lectures from 1990
The Revolutionary Idea of University Legal Education, Paul D. Carrington
(31 William and Mary Law Review 527-574 (1990))
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
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
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
Judicial, Legislative and Administrative Lawmaking: A Proposed Research Service for the Supreme Court (Program), Kenneth Culp Davis
Lectures from 1984
Tolerance and the First Amendment (Program), Lee C. Bollinger
Lectures from 1983
Congressional Attempts to Amend the Constitution by the Back Door, Thomas F. Eagleton
Lectures from 1979
The First Two Vinerian Professors: Blackstone and Chambers, Rupert Cross
(20 William and Mary Law Review 602-624 (1979))
The Third Annual George Wythe Lecture (Program), William W. Van Alstyne
Lectures from 1976
The Prospects of University Law Training, Francis A, Allen