Kormendy Lecture Series

In 1980 a lectureship in the College of Law was established through an endowment gift from Helen E. Kormendy, widow of the late Dr. Steven W. Kormendy. The Dr. Steven W. Kormendy and Helen E. Kormendy Law Lecture Fund is used each year to bring prominent individuals to campus to address matters of law in a public forum in the College of Law.

Dr. Kormendy, who died on January 6, 1985, graduated from the ONU College of Law in 1928 and was posthumously awarded the honorary LL.D. degree in 1985. The Ohio State Bar Association honored him for fifty years of law practice, and he was long active in events in the Hungarian community in Cleveland.

At ONU he was a member of the Henry Solomon Lehr Society, the Leadership Gifts Committee, and the N Men. He was a President's Fellow for ten years. Mrs. Kormendy passed away in 1998.

Lecture:

2010 Kormendy Lecture, Sanford Levinson, (bio)
- “Who, if Anyone, Really Trusts ‘We the People’?”
  October 28, 2009 @ 7:00 p.m.
  Moot Court Room, College of Law

Previous Lectures:

2009, Professor Barbara Aronstein Black, (bio), "Who Judges? Who Cares? History Now and Then"

2008, Professor Pamela S. Karlan, "Bullets, Ballots, and Battles on the Roberts Court"

2007, Professor David W. Kennedy, "The Mystery of Global Governance"

2006, Professor Akhil Reed Amar, "Ohio and Electoral College: Past, Present, and Future"

2005, James J. White, Robert A. Sullivan Professor of Law, University of Michigan, “Against E-mail”

2004, Mark V. Tushnet, Carmack Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, “A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law”

2003, E. Allan Farnsworth, Alfred McCormack Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law, “OOPS! The Waxing of Alleviating Mistakes”

2002, William E. Nelson, Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, “Law and the Problems of Authority in Early Virginia”

2000, Derrick Bell, Visiting Professor of Law, New York University Law School, “Racism: Law and Legal Education”

1998, Father Robert F. Drinan, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center,“Human Rights: The World’s Moral Bond in the Next Century”

1997, Deborah L. Rhode, Professor of Law, Bernard D. Bergreen Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law School, “Speaking of Sex”

1996, Diane P. Wood, Circuit Judge United States Court of Appeals for Seventh Circuit, "Regulation in the Single Global Market: From Anarchy to World Federalism"

1995, Russell Means, Indian Activist, "America: The Largest Indian Reservation"

1994, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court of the United States "Freedom: A Responsibility Not A Right"

1993, Associate Justice Alan C. Page, Minnesota Supreme Court, "A Message You May Not Hear in Law School"

1992, Morris S. Dees, Jr., Co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, "A Season for Justice"

1991, Nina Totenberg, Law Correspondent for National Public Radio, "Behind the Marble, Beneath the Robes" April 18, 1990, Former Justice Dennis Archer, Michigan Supreme Court, "The Changing Environment of the Legal Profession"

1989, L. Stanley Chauvin, Jr., Former ABA President, "Professionals: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"

1988, Ramsey Clark, Former Attorney General, "History of the Civil Rights Movement"

1987, Orrin Hatch, U.S. Senator, “The Framers' Intent and the Constitution"