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 2009

Saving Lives, Saving from Death, Saving from Dying, Mark G. Kelman

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

Desegregation of Public Higher Education in Georgia Revisited: Background, Court Cases and the Aftermath as Witnessed by a Major Participant, Horace Ward

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

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

Individual Rights and the Powers of Government, Richard H. Fallon Jr.

Submissions from 1982

Arguing the Law: The Advocate's Duty and Opportunity, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

Submissions from 1978

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