LAW DAY LECTURES

Speaker
Notes
Year
Audio/Video
Herman E. Talmadge, Georgia Governor
First annual Law Day Celebration
1952
No
Richard B. Russell, Georgia U.S. Senator
Dedication of Institute of Law & Government Building
1954
No
S. Ernest Vandiver, Georgia Lieutenant Governor

1955
No
Robert B. Troutman, Sr. Atlanta attorney

1956
No
Charles L. Gowen, Atlanta attorney

1957
No
Pope F. Brock, General Counsel, The Coca Cola Co.

1958
No
Justice Thomas S. Candler, Georgia Supreme Court

1959
No
Whitney Gilliland, Chairman of the US Civil Aeronautics Board

1960
No
Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General
Text from the National Archives
1961
No
J. Strom Thurmond, South Carolina U.S. Senator

1962
No
John J. Flynt, Jr., Georgia U.S. Representative

1962
No
James A. Farley, Chairman of the Board, Coca-Cola Export Corp.

1964
No
Dean Lindsey Cowen, UGA School of Law

1965
No
Samuel G. Ervin, North Carolina U.S. Senator

1966
No
Judge Griffin B. Bell, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

1967
No
Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State

1968
No
Carl E. Sanders, former Georgia Governor

1969
No
Judge Walter P. Gewin, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

1970
No
Nicholas Katzenbach, former U.S. Attorney General

1971
No
Justice Tom C. Clark, U.S. Supreme Court
Sibley Lecture 1972 -Law Reform
1972
No
Joseph T. Sneed, U.S. Deputy Attorney General

1973
No
Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts U.S. Senator

1974
Video
Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Connecticut U.S. Senator

1975
No
Soia Mentschikoff, Association of American Law Schools President and University of Miami Law School Dean

1976
No
Cyrus R. Vance, U.S. Secretary of State

1977
Video
Andrew J. Young, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

1978
Video
Griffin B. Bell, U.S. Attorney General

1979
Audio/Video
Roger Young, Information Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

1980
No
Justice Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court
Sibley lecture 1981 and dedication of Law Library Annex
1981
Audio
Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President
Sibley Lecture 1982
1982
Audio/Video
Ted Stevens, Alaska U.S. Senator

1983
No
Sam A. Nunn, Georgia U.S. Senator
1984 Audio
Mack Mattingly, Georgia U.S. Senator

1985
No
Ed Jenkins, Georgia U.S. Representative

1986
Audio
Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Secretary of Transportation

1987
Video
Howell T. Heflin, Alabama U.S. Senator

1988
Audio
Robert MacCrate, 1988 President, American Bar Association

1989
Audio
William Sessions, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

1990
Audio
Pierre Howard, Georgia Lieuenant Governor

1991
Audio
Edmund S. Muskie, former U.S. Secretary of State
Also ground breaking for Rusk Center Addition
1992
Video
Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte, Immediate Past President, American Bar Association

1993
Audio
Alexander D. Forger, President, The Legal Services Corporation; Chair, American Bar Association Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly

1994
Audio
Roberta Cooper Ramo, President-elect, American Bar Association
1995
Audio
Michael J. Bowers, Georgia Attorney General

1996
Audio
Sonny Seiler, Commentator; Prof. Ronald L. Carlson; Mock Trial & Moot Court Students
Re-enactment of the Jim Williams murder trial: "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"
1997
Video
Prof. Edward J. Larson, Commentator; Prof. Ronald L. Carlson; Mock Trial & Moot Court Students
Re-enactment of the Scopes Monkey Trial: "Summer for the Gods"
1998
Video
Prof. Thomas A. Eaton, Jan R. Schlichtmann, attorney for plaintiffs; Ben L. Weinberg, Jr., Long, Weinberg, Ansley Wheeler
Civil Justice: An Oxymoron? Re-enactment of three scenes from the Woburn litigation
1999
Video
Roy E. Barnes, Georgia Governor; Otis A. Brumby, Jr., Chairman, State School Board; Stephen R. Portch, Chancellor, Board of Regents
The Future of Education in Georgia: A+ Education Reform Act of 2000 2000
Streaming