Past DeWitt Higgs Memorial Lectures
You can view the past Higgs Lectures online through the UCSD-TV website. For more information about DeWitt Higgs Lectures, contact warrenwritingprogram@ucsd.edu.
2022: Laura E. Gómez
Latinx Racial Identity on Census 2020 and What That Says About Race in America
2021: Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
How To Save A Planet
2019: Carmen G. Gonzalez
2019: The Ito Sisters
An American Story
2018: George Takei
Where No Story Has Gone Before
2017: Phillip Atiba Goff, Ph.D.
2015: Hank Relchman & David Theo Goldberg
Disorderly Speech: Freedom of Speech in the Post Civil Rights Era
2014: Susan Crawford
2013: Gabriel J. Chin
2012: Steven B. Bright
2011: Geoffrey R. Stone
2009: David C. Iglesias
2008: Jerome Cohen
2007: The Right Honorable Geoff Hoon
2006: Mark Danner
2005: Gavin Newsom
The Status of Same-Sex Marriage
2003: David Cole
Enemy Aliens & American Freedoms: Why Sacrificing Immigrants' Rights in the War on Terrorism Undermines Both Our Security and Our Liberty
Panel:
- Prof. Paul Frymer, UCSD Sociology Department (moderator)
- Prof. Glenn Smith, Political Science/California Western Law School
- Prof. Gerald Doppelt, UCSD Philosophy Department
- Sina Shayesteh, UCSD Political Science major/Shawna Brown, Student, California Western School of Law
2002: Erwin Chemerinsky
Racial Profiling
Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky, University of Southern California Law School
Panel:
- Prof. Robert Horwitz, Communication (moderator)
- David Bejarano, Chief of Police, San Diego Police Department
- Prof. Laurence Benner, California Western School of Law
- Prof. Peter Irons, UCSD Political Science Department
- Prof. Pat Washington, Women’s Studies, San Diego State University
2000: Yale Kamisar
Will Miranda Live or Die at Age 34?
Prof. Yale Kamisar, University of Michigan Law School
1999: Allen Buchanan
Genes and Justice
Prof. Allen Buchanan, Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona
1997: Lawrence Lessig
The Laws of Cyberspace
Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School
1996: Daniel Schorr
Forgive Us Our Press Passes
Daniel Schorr, Veteran Reporter-Commentator
1992: Sylvia Law
The Future of Reproductive Rights
Prof. Sylvia Law, New York University School of Law
1991: Anthony Lewis
Remembering Earl Warren
Anthony Lewis, Columnist for the New York Times
1990: Charles Lawrence
But Words Can Never Hurt You: The Limits of the First Amendment
Prof. Charles Lawrence, Stanford Law School
1989: Lawrence Gostin
AIDS and the Law
Prof. Lawrence Gostin, Harvard Law School; Executive Director of the American Society of Law & Medicine
1988: Frank Richardson & Joseph Grodin
Judging Judges: How Should We Choose Our State and Federal Judges?
Frank Richardson and Joseph Grodin, Former Justices of the California Supreme Court
1987: Judge Miles Lord
Corporate Responsibility
Judge Miles Lord, Retired Chief Judge of the Federal Court for the District of Minnesota
1986: Ira Glasser
The Limits of Law Enforcement
Ira Glasser, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union
1985: Ramsey Clark
Liberty and Justice for All
Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United States
1983: Ann Fagan Ginger
Men, Women, and Families: Changing Legal Realities
Ann Fagan Ginger, President of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute in Berkeley
1982: Charles Keely
The Failure of U.S. Immigration Policy
Charles Keely, Deputy Director, Center for Policy Studies; The Population Council, New York