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.
In addition to the photographs scrolling above, the law school and law library have a vast archival collection of Sibley Lecture historical photographs. The Sibley Lecture Photograph Archive was digitized in 2021 and made available in 2022 thanks to a subgranting program through the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG).
Lectures from 2024
The Necessary and Proper Stewardship of Judicial Data, Aziz Z. Huq
Lectures from 2023
American Democracy in Peril, J. Michael Luttig
Lectures from 2022
Civil Right Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality, Tomiko Brown- Nagin
Lectures from 2021
Who's Going to Law School? Trends in Law School Enrollment Since the Great Recession, Goodwin Liu
Lectures from 2020
The Case for Racism Response Funds: A Collective Response to Racist Acts, Monica Bell
Lectures from 2019
Are Supreme Court Decisions the Law of the Land?, David A. Strauss
Lectures from 2018
The Lessons of Lawyering: Why Ours is an Honorable Profession, Heather Gerken
What's Government Good For?: Fiscal Policy in an Age of Inequality, Edward D. Kleinbard
Lectures from 2016
Bringing Terrorists to Justice, Richard C. Tallman
The Accountants are Coming--Again!, David B. Wilkins
Lectures from 2014
Inexcusable Wrongs, John C.P. Goldberg
Anatomy of a Legal Decision, Janet Napolitano
Lectures from 2013
Social Justice Lawyering: Confronting Power, Racial and Economic Injustice and Hopelessness Within the Law, Bryan Stevenson
Toward a Jurisprudence of the Civil Rights Acts, Robin L. West
Lectures from 2012
The Role of the World Court Today, Joan E. Donoghue
Lectures from 2011
Death, Taxes and Systemic Risk: Dealing with the Inevitable, John C. Coffee Jr.
Lectures from 2010
Noah's Curse and Paul's Admonition: Civil Rights, Religious Liberty, Gay Equality, William Eskridge, Jr.
Lectures from 2009
Saving Lives, Saving from Death, Saving from Dying, Mark G. Kelman
When and How (If at All) Does Law Constrain Official Actions?, Frederick F. Schauer
Lectures from 2008
The Concept and the Rule of Law, Jeremy Waldron
Lectures from 2007
A Balanced View of American Power, Lee Hamilton
Lectures from 2006
There Is No Textualist Position: Why a Text Can Only Mean What Its Author Intends, Stanley Fish
Lectures 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
Lectures 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
Lectures from 2003
100 Million Unneccesary Returns - A Fresh Start for the U.S. Tax System, Michael J. Graetz
Lectures from 2002
A Need for a New Kind of Lawyering, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
The Emerging Law of the Internet, Arthur Miller
Lectures from 2001
Lawyers as Prophets, Counsels, Neighbors, Thomas L. Shaffer
Lectures from 2000
Political Parties, the Constitution and Democratic Competition, Samuel Issacharoff
Lectures from 1999
Internet Governance and the Open Source Software Movement, Lawrence Lessig
Lectures from 1998
The Sins of the Press, Anthony Lewis
Lectures from 1997
Strategies for Conservation: From Ancient Hunting to Global Warming, Carol Rose
Lectures from 1996
Preserving the Rule of Law Through Professionalism, Michael J. Bowers
Crusades: The American Experience of Religious Freedom, John T. Noonan
The Expressive Function of Law, Cass Sunstein
Lectures from 1995
Rational Emotions and the Judicious Spectator, Martha Nussbaum
Lectures from 1994
International Human Rights at the End of the Twentieth Century, Louis Henkin
Lectures 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
Lectures 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
Lectures from 1991
The Beginning and End of the Rise of American Tort Law, Gary T. Schwartz
Lectures 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
Lectures 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
Lectures from 1988
Sexuality and Law, Paul D. Carrington
The Problem of Surrogate Motherhood, John Kaplan
Lectures 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
Lectures from 1986
Some Observations on Professional Responsibility, Daniel M. Gribbon
The Congress, The Purse, The Purpose, and The Power, Abner J. Mikva
Lectures from 1985
The Media, the Law and Beyond, Zelman Cowen
Mass Torts and Litigious Disaster, Alvin B. Rubin
Lectures 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
Lectures 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
Lectures from 1982
Unique Activities of a President, Jimmy Carter
Arguing the Law: The Advocate's Duty and Opportunity, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
Why Equality Matters, Kenneth L. Karst
Lectures 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
Lectures from 1980
Congressmen in Court: The New Plaintiffs, Carl McGowan
The New Age of Political Reform: Looking Back, Ralph K. Winter Jr.
Lectures from 1979
The Academy and the Court, Wade H. McCree Jr.
Lectures from 1978
The Decline of the Rehabilitative Ideal in American Criminal Justice, Francis A. Allen
The Right of Privacy, Richard A. Posner
Lectures from 1977
American Jurisprudence Through English Eyes: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream, H.L.A. Hart
Lectures from 1973
John A. Sibley Lecture, Earl Warren
An Activist Judge: Mea Maxima Culpa. Apologia Pro Vita Mea, Charles E. Wyzanski Jr.
Lectures from 1966
Jurisprudence for a Free Society, Myres S. McDougal