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:

Professor David W. Kennedy (bio), 2007 Kormendy Lecture
- "The Mystery of Global Governance"
  January 25, 2008 @ 11:30 a.m.
  Moot Court Room, College of Law

Previous Lectures:
October 23, 2006, Professor Akhil Reed Amar, "Ohio and Electoral College: Past, Present, and Future"

November 16, 2005, James J. White, Robert A. Sullivan Professor of Law, University of Michigan, “Against E-
mail”

September 22, 2004, Mark V. Tushnet, Carmack Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, “A
Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law”

October 16, 2003, E. Allan Farnsworth, Alfred McCormack Professor of Law, Columbia University School of
Law, “OOPS! The Waxing of Alleviating Mistakes”

September 20, 2002, William E. Nelson, Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law, New York University School of
Law, “Law and the Problems of Authority in Early Virginia”

January 27, 2000, Derrick Bell, Visiting Professor of Law, New York University Law School, “Racism: Law
and Legal Education”

October 29, 1998, Father Robert F. Drinan, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center,“Human
Rights: The World’s Moral Bond in the Next Century”

November 19, 1997, Deborah L. Rhode, Professor of Law, Bernard D. Bergreen Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law
School, “Speaking of Sex”

April 22, 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"

March 15, 1995, Russell Means, Indian Activist, "America: The Largest Indian Reservation"

April 7, 1994, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court of the United States "Freedom: A
Responsibility Not A Right"

April 26, 1993, Associate Justice Alan C. Page, Minnesota Supreme Court, "A Message You May Not Hear in
Law School"

April 30, 1992, Morris S. Dees, Jr., Co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, "A Season for Justice"

April 4, 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"

April 17, 1989, L. Stanley Chauvin, Jr., Former ABA President, "Professionals: Yesterday, Today and
Tomorrow"

April 26, 1988, Ramsey Clark, Former Attorney General, "History of the Civil Rights Movement"

May 1, 1987, Orrin Hatch, U.S. Senator, “The Framers' Intent and the Constitution"