The Judge James J. Clynes Jr. Visiting Chair in the Ethics of Litigation within the Judicial Process is named after Notre Dame alumnus Judge James J. Clynes Jr. (1945). The visiting chair may be held by members of the judiciary at the trial and appellate levels, distinguished law professors, and prominent members of the bar to teach or deliver public lectures on the ethics of litigation or judicial decision-making.
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2019 Clynes Chair Lecture: Justice Alan Page
Notre Dame Law School; Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights; Sports, Communications and Entertainment Law Forum; and Black Law Students Association
Football, Civil Rights, and Doing Justice: A Conversation
The Law School welcomes former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page. Page, B.A. ’67, is a former Notre Dame All-American football player and NFL Hall of Fame member. After his football success, he became the first African American justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
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2018 Clynes Chair Lecture: Judge Margaret Ryan
Notre Dame Law School
A Brief Overview of the Appellate Process
Judge Margaret Ryan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Wednesday, January 31, 2018 | 12:30 PM | Eck Hall of Law, Room 1140
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2018 Clynes Chair Lecture: Judge Raymond T. Chen
Notre Dame Law School
Circuit Judge Raymond T. Chen will speak about the joys and perils of deciding Intellectual Property cases, and the relationship between courts and agencies. Please join us on Thursday, November 8, 2018, at 12:30 p.m., Eck Hall of Law, Room 1130.
He was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack H. Obama in 2013, confirmed by the Senate on August 1, 2013 and assumed his office on August 5, 2013.
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2017 Clynes Chair Lecture: Cass Sunstein
Notre Dame Law School; Program on Constitutional Structure; and Program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Originalism, Sometimes (with special reference to impeachment)
Originalism might be defended on two very different grounds. The first is that it is in some sense mandatory – for example, that it follows from the very idea of interpretation, from having a written Constitution, or from the only legitimate justifications for judicial review.
The second is that originalism is best on broadly consequentialist grounds. While the first kind of defense is not convincing, the second cannot be ruled off-limits. In an imaginable world, it is right; in our world, it is usually not. But in the context of impeachment, originalism is indeed best, because there are no helpful precedents or traditions with which to work, and because the original meaning is (at least) pretty good on the merits. These points are brought to bear on recent defenses of originalism; on conflicts between precedents and the original meaning; on conflicts between traditions and original meaning; and on nonoriginalist approaches, used shortly after ratification.
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Location: 1130 Eck Hall of Law
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2016 Clynes Chair Lecture: Greg Hobbs
Notre Dame Law School
Water and the West: A View from the Bench
Greg Hobbs, Jr., B.A. ’66, former justice of the Colorado Supreme Court,
12:30 p.m. Monday, April 4, 2016 | Faculty Meeting Room, 2130 Eck Hall of Law.
Hobbs – who retired from the bench in 2015 – is an expert on water law and the author of numerous and influential opinions on the topic. He will be visiting as the Judge James J. Clynes, Jr. Visiting Chair.
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2016 Clynes Chair Lecture: Mbuyiseli Madlangaand
Notre Dame Law School
Judging According to Personal Attributes: Tension with the Oath of Office?
Thursday, April 14 I 5:30 P.M. I 1130 Eck Hall of Law I Reception To Follow
Mbuyiseli Madlanga, L.L.M. '90 a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the Judge James J. Clynes, Jr. Visiting Chair in the Ethics of Litigation within the Judicial Process, will deliver the Clynes Chair Lecture at Notre Dame Law School.
Notre Dame Human Rights Law Graduate Appointed to South African Constitutional Court
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2016 Clynes Chair Lecture: Michael J. Gableman
Notre Dame Law School
State Supreme Courts: Law or Politics?
Join us for an afternoon discussion with Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael J. Gableman. Justice Gableman will talk about his journey to the bench, clerkships and share some advice on how to get through law school.
WHERE: 1140 Eck Hall of Law WHEN: Feb. 10, 2016 TIME: 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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2014 Clynes Chair Lecture: Eduardo Ferrer MacGregor
Notre Dame Law School
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Judicial Dialogue?
Eduardo Ferrer MacGregor, Judge, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, discusses the growing influence of court dialogue.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Center for Civil and Human Rights news release.
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2013 Clynes Chair Lecture: Randall T. Shepard
Notre Dame Law School
The Future of Legal Education
Former Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice and Judge James J. Clynes, Jr., Visiting Chair in the Ethics of Litigation Within the Judicial Process
Notre Dame Law School
September 25, 2013 • 4:00 p.m. in The Patrick F. McCartan Courtroom
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2002 Clynes Chair Lecture: Chief Justice William Rehnquist
Notre Dame Law School
Military Tribunals in the United States During Times of War
Chief Justice William Rehnquist's lecture presented a historical perspective on the Supreme Court's past views on the use of these tribunals. It was a timely topic, as the chief justice delivered his speech around the one-year anniversary of 9/11.
Rehnquist also attended a First Amendment class taught by Professor Richard Garnett, who clerked for the chief justice during the Supreme Court’s 1996-97 term.