The Karl Llewellyn Lecture honors the celebrated legal scholar Karl Nickerson Llewellyn. Llewellyn, a former professor at both Columbia University and the University of Chicago, is considered to be one of the founders and thought leaders of American legal realism. Llewellyn’s considerable contributions to American jurisprudential scholarship continue to influence legal doctrine, education, and practice to this day.
On March 19, 2024, Columbia Law Review hosted the inaugural Karl Llewellyn Lecture, featuring the Honorable Judge Guido Calabresi. Judge Calabresi spoke on the promise and peril of “Law and . . .” disciplines, such as Law and Economics and Law and History.
“We, and no others, carry the burden of making the law worth having—over the long run, and from day to day.”
Karl N. Llewellyn, The Bramble Bush: The Classic Lectures on the Law and Law School (2008)
ANNOUNCING THE THIRD ANNUAL KARL LLEWELLYN LECTURE
The Columbia Law Review is thrilled to announce our Third Annual Karl Llewellyn Lecture.
Floyd Abrams, a distinguished First Amendment litigator and Senior Counsel at Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, will present his Lecture, “Reviving the Press Clause.” The Lecture will detail the unique importance of the freedom of the press in the Founding Era, highlight present-day threats to press freedoms, and advocate for a more sympathetic reading of the Press Clause that safeguards the critical role of a free press in an informed democracy. The Lecture will be held on Thursday, February 12th at 6 pm in Jerome Greene Hall 101.
To attend, please RSVP here by Monday, February 9th.
Second Karl Llewellyn Lecture | November 15, 2024
On November 15, 2024, the Professor Justin Hansford delivered the second annual Karl Llewellyn Lecture. His remarks, which also opened the Columbia Law Review’s Law of Protest Symposium, are published here.
Inaugural Karl Llewellyn Lecture | March 19, 2024