In 1964, the trustees of the Loridans Foundation established the John A. Sibley Lectures. These talks honor the leadership and public spirit of this 1911 University of Georgia School of Law graduate. It is hard to place the contributions of John Adams Sibley in any given decade, for his service to the law school and to the state of Georgia extended over a period of almost 80 years
Submissions from 2012
The Role of the World Court Today, Joan E. Donoghue
Submissions from 2011
Death, Taxes and Systemic Risk: Dealing with the Inevitable, John C. Coffee Jr.
Submissions from 2010
Noah's Curse and Paul's Admonition: Civil Rights, Religious Liberty, Gay Equality, William Eskridge, Jr.
Submissions from 2009
Saving Lives, Saving from Death, Saving from Dying, Mark G. Kelman
Fall 2009 Sibley Lecture Photos, Frederick F. Schauer
When and How (If at All) Does Law Constrain Official Actions?, Frederick F. Schauer
Submissions from 2008
The Concept and the Rule of Law, Jeremy Waldron
Submissions from 2007
A Balanced View of American Power, Lee Hamilton
Submissions from 2006
There Is No Textualist Position: Why a Text Can Only Mean What Its Author Intends, Stanley Fish
Submissions from 2005
Labor Pains in America's New Birth of Freedom: How the Reconstruction Amendments Were Enacted, Akhil Reed Amar
Constitutional Norms in a State of Permanent Emergency, Sanford V. Levinson
Submissions from 2004
50th Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of Education Decision, Chester C. Davenport
A Tale of Two Cites: The Supreme Court and Georgia’s Recent Redistricting, Pamela S. Karlan
Submissions from 2003
100 Million Unneccesary Returns - A Fresh Start for the U.S. Tax System, Michael J. Graetz
Submissions from 2002
A Need for a New Kind of Lawyering, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
The Emerging Law of the Internet, Arthur Miller
Submissions from 2001
Lawyers as Prophets, Counsels, Neighbors, Thomas L. Shaffer
Submissions from 2000
Political Parties, the Constitution and Democratic Competition, Samuel Issacharoff
Submissions from 1999
Internet Governance and the Open Source Software Movement, Lawrence Lessig
Submissions from 1998
The Sins of the Press, Anthony Lewis
Submissions from 1997
Strategies for Conservation: From Ancient Hunting to Global Warming, Carol Rose
Submissions from 1996
Crusades: The American Experience of Religious Freedom, John T. Noonan
The Expressive Function of Law, Cass Sunstein
Submissions from 1995
Rational Emotions and the Judicious Spectator, Martha Nussbaum
Submissions from 1994
International Human Rights at the End of the Twentieth Century, Louis Henkin
Submissions from 1993
Predators and Parasites: Emerging Anti-Lawyer Themes, Marc Galanter
Telling Stories in Law School (The Pedagogy of Legal Ethics) (Part 1), Stephen Gillers
Telling Stories in Law School (The Pedagogy of Legal Ethics) (Part 2), Stephen Gillers
Submissions from 1992
Individual Rights and Governmental Powers, Richard H. Fallon Jr.
Panel Discussion Part 1, Richard H. Fallon Jr. and Milner S. Ball
Panel Discussion Part 2, Richard H. Fallon Jr. and Milner S. Ball
Law and Intelligence: Thoughts on Its Past, Present and Future (Part 1), Elizabeth Rindskopf
Law and Intelligence: Thoughts on Its Past, Present and Future (Part 2), Elizabeth Rindskopf
Submissions from 1991
The Beginning and End of the Rise of American Tort Law (Part 1), Gary T. Schwartz
The Beginning and End of the Rise of American Tort Law (Part 2), Gary T. Schwartz
Submissions from 1990
Cruzan & The Right to Die Symposium (Part 1), John A. Robertson and Yale Kamisar
Cruzan & The Right to Die Symposium (Part 2), John A. Robertson and Yale Kamisar
Cruzan & The Right to Die Symposium (Part 3), John A. Robertson and Yale Kamisar
Cruzan & The Right to Die Symposium (Part 4), John A. Robertson and Yale Kamisar
Cruzan & The Right to Die Symposium (Part 5), John A. Robertson and Yale Kamisar
Cruzan & The Right to Die Symposium (Part 6), John A. Robertson and Yale Kamisar
Submissions from 1989
The Death of the Legal Process Ideal: Constitutional Theory and Practice in a World Where Courts Are No Different From Legislatures, John Hart Ely
Reflections on the Constitution, Antonin Scalia
The Role of the Security Council in World Affairs, Crispin Tickell
Submissions from 1988
Sexuality and Law, Paul D. Carrington
The Problem of Surrogate Motherhood, John Kaplan
Submissions from 1987
Judicial Review and Judicial Restraint, James R. Browning
Between Brennan and Bork: The Role of the Court in Protecting Fundamental Rights, Guido M. Calabresi
Submissions from 1986
Some Observations on Professional Responsibility, Daniel M. Gribbon
The Congress, The Purse, The Purpose, and The Power, Abner J. Mikva
Submissions from 1985
The Media, the Law and Beyond, Zelman Cowen
Mass Torts and Litigious Disaster, Alvin B. Rubin
Submissions from 1984
Promise Benefit and Need: Ties that Bind Us to the Law, R. Kent Greenawalt
The Supreme Court's 1983 Term: Individual Rights, Freedom and the Statue of Liberty, Rex E. Lee
Submissions from 1983
The Power of Lawyers, John P. Heinz
Constitutional Law Theory and the State Courts, Hans A. Linde
Why the Courts Don't Work, Richard Neely
Submissions from 1982
Unique Activities of a President, Jimmy Carter
Arguing the Law: The Advocate's Duty and Opportunity, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
Arguing the Law: The Advocate's Duty and Responsibility, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
Why Equality Matters, Kenneth L. Karst
Submissions from 1981
Remarks of Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun at Dedication of Law Library Annex, Harry A. Blackmun
The Affimative Side of the First Amendment, Thomas I. Emerson
Inviting Judicial Activism: A 'Liberal' or 'Conservative' Technique, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Submissions from 1980
Congressmen in Court: The New Plaintiffs, Carl McGowan
The New Age of Political Reform: Looking Back, Ralph K. Winter Jr.
Submissions from 1979
The Academy and the Court, Wade H. McCree Jr.
Submissions from 1978
The Decline of the Rehabilitative Ideal in American Criminal Justice, Francis A. Allen
The Right of Privacy, Richard A. Posner
Submissions from 1977
American Jurisprudence Through English Eyes: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream, H.L.A. Hart
Submissions from 1973
John A. Sibley Lecture, Earl Warren
An Activist Judge: Mea Maxima Culpa. Apologia Pro Vita Mea, Charles E. Wyzanski Jr.
Submissions from 1966
Jurisprudence for a Free Society, Myres S. McDougal