• Michael Bazyler, professor of law at Chapman University’s Dale E. Fowler School of Law, and Lindsey Hagen, a JD student at the same institution, discussed how the Nuremberg trials can serve as a model for seeking justice for genocide during the Ukraine War at a lecture and discussion on Oct. 23. “Preserving the Post WWII Legal Order: The Necessity of Delivering Nuremberg-style Justice to Ukraine War Perpetrators” was hosted by the Center for Freedom and Western Civilization and co-sponsored by the Forum on the Study of Cultural Heritage and the Russian and Eurasian Studies Program.
    January 9, 2024
  • Robert Eccles, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Anson Frericks, co-founder and president at Strive Asset Management, debated the positive and negative impacts of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Policies on American corporate profits, during the “Has American Capitalism Gone Woke?” debate Oct. 18, sponsored by the Center for Freedom and Western Civilization.
    January 9, 2024
  • Julian Davis Mortenson, James G. Phillipp Professor of law at the University of Michigan, speaks during Colgate’s Constitution Day Debate Sept. 13, as Gary Lawson, Philip S. Beck Professor of law at Boston University, and debate moderator and Professor of Political Science Stanley Brubaker listen, seated at a table.
    Colgate’s Constitution Day Debate on Sept. 13 focused on the constitutionality of the administrative state. Debate moderator and Professor of Political Science Stanley Brubaker praised the speakers — Gary Lawson, Philip S. Beck Professor of law at Boston University, and Julian Davis Mortenson, James G. Phillipp Professor of law at the University of Michigan — for showing the audience how to debate while maintaining humor and friendship.
    September 26, 2023
  • Headshot of Yuri Yanchyshyn
    Yuri Yanchyshyn, Fulbright U.S. specialist 2016 and scholar 2018–19 in Ukraine, principal and senior conservator of two firms in the New York City metropolitan area, spoke to students and faculty during a lecture and discussion March 29 in Persson Hall, highlighting Ukraine’s 20th-century and recent history, and the individuals who impacted its preservation.
    April 19, 2023
  • Mark Galeotti hosts a lecture and discussion with an audience in Persson Hall. Photo Credit the Maroon News.
    Mark Galeotti, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies; Royal United Service Institute for Defense and Security Studies, hosted a lecture and discussion Feb. 8, on "The War in Ukraine: Implications for Russian Power and American Security" with faculty and students in Persson Hall.
    March 7, 2023
  • Richard H. Sander, and Randall L. Kennedy
    Can colleges and universities consider race in their admissions policies?  This question, with enormous importance for higher education, comes before the Supreme Court this fall in SFFA v. Harvard/UNC. 
    September 16, 2022