1930 "Cooperation in Enforcement of Law"
Roscoe Pound, President, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Dean of Harvard

1931 "The Lawyer in American Public Life"
Hon. James Grafton Rogers, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State

1932 "Trends in American Government"
Henry M. Bates, Commissioner of Uniform State Laws; Dean, University Michigan Law School

1933 "Has the NRA Killed the Constitution?"
Chester H. Rowell, Lecturer on Political Science, University of California and Stanford University

1934 "A Tide in the Affairs of Lawyers"
Will Shafroth, Chairman, Publicity Committee, American Bar Association; Secretary to National Conference of Bar Examiners

1935 "Whither Civilization?"
Dr. Robert A. Millikan, Chairman, Executive Council of California Institute of Technology; Nobel Prize in Physics (1923)

1936 "This Profession of Ours"
George Wharton Pepper, Esq., U.S. Senator

1937 "The Judge to the Jury"
Hon. Merrill E. Otis, U.S. District Court, Western District, Missouri

1938 "The Conflict Between Individual and Group Rights in America"
Col. O. R. McGuire, Former Chairman, Special Committee of the American Bar Association on Administrative Law

1939 "Some Influences of American Lawyers on the Growth of English Law"
Hon. Henry Hague Davis, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

1940 "The Law-Its Champions and Detractors"
Lloyd Paul Stryker, author, The Art of Advocacy

1941 "The Benefit of Counsel"
Hon. Walter P. Armstrong, President, ABA (1941-1942)

1942-1945 No lectures.

1946 "New Instruments of Public Power or The Administro-Judicial Process and the Struggle for the Supremacy of Law"
Hon. Joseph C. Hutchison, Jr. U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

1947 "The Open Window and the Open Door: An Inquiry Into Freedom of Association"
Hon. Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. U.S. District Judge for the District of Massachusetts

1948 "The Political Way of Life"
Dr. Thomas Vernor Smith, Maxwell Professor of Citizenship and Philosophy, Syracuse University

1949 "The Fiduciary Principle"
Austin W. Scott, Lane Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

1950 "Some Principles of Judicial Administration"
Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of New Jersey

1951 "Advocacy Before the United States Supreme Court"
Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the U.S.

1952 "The Evolution of the American Bar"
Albert J. Harno, University of Illinois, Urbana

1953 "The Foreign Student Exchange Program"
J. William Fulbright, U.S. Senator, Arkansas

1954 "Enemy to Port"
Frank H. Bartholomew, United Press International

1955
Hon. Lewis W. Douglas, U.S. House of Representatives; Budget Director; Ambassador to the Court of St. James; President, McGill University; President, Mutual Life Insurance Company

1956 "A Study in Contrasts"
Hon. Harold R. Medina, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

1957 "Law and Society: Fixed Principles and Changing Applications"
Hon. Stanley F. Reed, Associate Justice (Ret.), Supreme Court of the U.S.

1958 "Fools Rush In"
Erwin N. Griswold Dean, Harvard Law School

1959
Catherine Drinker Bowen, author, The Lion and The Throne,(1957)

1960 "Use and the Cold War"
Gen. Mark Clark, (Ret.) Commander, U.N. Forces in Korea; President, The Citadel Military School

1961 "The Lawyer and His Clients"
Eugene V. Rostow, Dean, Yale Law School

1962 "The Supreme Court and the Federal System"
Archibald Cox, Solicitor General of the U.S. (1961-65)

1963 "The Lawyer and the Courts"
Arthur H. Dean, Esq., Sullivan & Cromwell; American Ambassador to USSR

1964 "The United States and the Problem of China"
Ambassador George F. Kennan, US Ambassador to USSR (1952) and to Yugoslavia (1961-63)

1965 "The Bill of Rights as a Code of Criminal Procedure"
Judge Henry J. Friendly, U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit

1966 "The Concept and the Problems Involved in Industrial-Union Bargaining"
Dr. Harlan Hatcher, President, University of Michigan

1967 "New Challenges to Our Statesmanship"
John J. McCloy, Esq., Principle Negotiator on President's Disarmament Committee (1961-74)

1968 "The Social Revolution and the Legal Profession"
Albert E. Jenner, Jr., National Commission of the Causes and Prevention of Violence in the United States

1969 "Life and Law in Our Time"
Right Hon. Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls, London, England

1970 "Crime, Punishment, Violence and Dissent: A Crisis of Authority"
Edward Bennett Williams, Williams & Connolly

1971 "Fear of Freedom"
Sam J. Ervin, Jr., U.S. Senator, North Carolina

1972 "The 'Uninhibited, Robust and Wide-Open' First Amendment"
Prof. Alexander M. Bickel, Professor at Yale Law School

1973 "Some Reflections of a Trial Judge"
Hon. Edward T. Gignoux, U.S. District Court, Maine

1974 "What Lawyers Ought to Know About Judges"
Justice William H. Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the U.S.

1975 "The Legal Services Corporation-The Task Ahead"
Roger C. Cramton, Dean, Cornell Law School and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation

1976 "Ending Emergency Government"
Frank Church, U.S. Senator, Idaho

1977 "What About the Next 50 Years?"
Francis T. P. Plimpton, Esq. Debevoise & Plimpton; U.S. Deputy Representative to the U.N.; President, Bar Association of the City of New York

1978 "Comments on Work of the Commission"
Eleanor Holmes Norton, Chair, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

1979 "The Old Lawyer Said: 'I Look Out for My Paying Clients,' The Young Lawyer Responded: 'But Good Lawyers Must Also Do Some Free Public Service'"
Chesterfield Smith, Esq., Holland & Knight, LLP

1980 "Curia Regis: Some Comments on the Divine Right of Kings and Courts 'To Say What the Law Is'"
Prof. Philip B. Kurland, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago

1981 "The View From an Inferior Court"
Judge Carl McGowan, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

1982 "Bureaucratic Justice: A First Alert"
Wade H. McCree, Jr., Solicitor General of the U.S. (1977-1981)

1983 "Self-Inflicted Wounds: Judges and Journalists"
Fred W. Friendly, Professor of Journalism, Columbia University

1984 "Common Sense and Uncommon Ability: Advances in Law Enforcement"
William H. Webster, Director, FBI

1985 "The Zenger Case-Then and Now"
Floyd Abrams, Esq., Cahill Gordon & Reindel

1986 "The Office of Special Prosecutor"
James F. Neal, Esq., Associate Special Prosecutor, Watergate Special Prosecution Force (1973-1974)

1987 "The Constitution"
Robert D. Raven, Esq., Morrison & Foerster, LLP; President-Elect, ABA

1988 "The Iran-Contra Affair"
Arthur L. Liman, U.S. Senate Committee Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair

1989 "The Inner Lawyer"
Prof. Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.Law Professor, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, and Yale University

1990 "Current Developments in the U.S. Supreme Court"
Kenneth W. Starr, Solicitor General of the United States

1991 "Lawyers and Lawyer-Bashers"
Abner J. Mikva, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals

1992 "Law as a Learning Profession"
Christine Durham, Associate Justice, Utah Supreme Court

1993 "Law and the Second Russian Revolution"
Sergei Plekhanov, Former Deputy Director of the Soviet Academy of Sciences

1994 "Where We Get Our Law: New and Old Sources of Rights in California"
Professor Michael Tigar, Joseph D. Jaimail Centennial Chair in Law, University of Texas

1995 "The Duty of the Profession to Provide Pro Bono Services"
Alexander D. Forger, President, Legal Services Corporation

1996 "The Art and Science of Judging: Lessons from Learned Hand"
Professor Gerald Gunther, Law Professor at Columbia University & Stanford University

1997"Challenge to the Legal Profession-Equal Justice for All"
Hon. David S. Tatel, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia

1998 "Important Issues Facing the Legal Profession"
Honorable Dennis W. Archer, Mayor of Detroit; Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice

1999 "A Revolution in Access"
Esther Lardent, President, Pro Bono Institute

2000 "Once and Future Law"
Shirley & Seth Hufstedler, Morrison & Foerster, Los Angeles

2001 "The New Judicial Federalism"
John P. Dwyer, Dean, Boalt Hall School Law, University of California, Berkeley

2002 "Beyond Billable Hours: The Tyranny of the Billable Hour"
Robert E. Hirshon, Immediate Past President, ABA

2003 "Terrorists, War Criminals and the New International Criminal Court: Finding the Right Fit"
Hon. Patricia McGowan Wald, Chair, Open Society Justice Initiative; Former Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia Circuit; Former Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the Hague

2004 No lecture.

2005 "The U.S. Supreme Court in Transition"
Linda Greenhouse, Pulitzer Prize winning Supreme Court Correspondent, The New York Times