Podcasts & 
Webcasts
September 26, 2008
Lecture: American Challenge and Opportunity in Global Trade
Ambassador John K. Veroneau, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, lectures on current issues in international trade. John K. Veroneau was nominated by President Bush and confirmed by the Senate in 2006 to be Deputy United States Trade Representative (USTR). He previously served as USTR's General Counsel and, until returning to Government, was a partner at the international law firm of DLA Piper in Washington. Ambassador Veroneau also served in the Clinton Administration, having been nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate in 1999 to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense under Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen. Prior to his Executive Branch service, Ambassador Veroneau held various senior policy positions in the United States Senate. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Maine and a law degree from the University of Maine School of Law.
September 17, 2008
Lecture: Constitution Day
Professor Melvyn Zarr reflections on Federal Constitutional Law derived from the most recent term of the Supreme Court.
April 23, 2008
Lecture: A Presidential Vice President: Lessons from the 1968 Muskie Campaign
Dr. Joel K. Goldstein from St. Louis University School of Law speaks about the Role of the Vice Presidency in Presidential Elections with a focus on Senator Edmund Muskie's 1968 Candidacy. Dr. Goldstein is a Presidential scholar best known for his work on the vice presidency. He has consulted on vice presidential selection and is often interviewed on the subject. Dr. Goldstein currently holds a joint appointment as a visiting research professor at the USM Muskie School of Public Service and University of Maine School of Law and is researching former Maine Governor, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State and 1968 vice-presidential candidate Edmund S. Muskie.
February 19, 2008 - April 9, 2008
Workshops: 2008 Maine Bar Review
Currently the podcasts are available for these workshops, the webcast should be available in the next couple weeks.
Click here to go to the workshop directory.
March 27, 2008
Lecture: Hip Hop Theory of Justice
Paul Butler teaches in the areas of criminal law, civil rights, and jurisprudence. His scholarship has been published in the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and UCLA Law Review. Prior to teaching law at George Washington University Law School, Professor Paul Butler was a federal prosecutor with the United States Department of Justice, where he experienced the reluctance of some juries to convict minority defendants. In this lecture, Professor Butler explores the lyrics of hip hop music and the artists’ belief that a better criminal justice system is needed; one that would prosecute crimes more fairly.
November 20, 2007
Lecture: The University of London LLM Program and Careers in International Law
Dr. James Busuttil is the Director of the University of London Master of Laws Program, and Professor of Public Internal Law and Policy. He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, has practiced International Law at Sherman & Sterling, NOAA, and the Unites States Department of State. He has served as Director of the British Institute of Humans Rights and Professor at the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague, Netherlands.
November 8, 2007
Lecture: Race, American Law, and the Value of Injury: Historical Foundations, Contemporary Implications
Professor Wriggins is an influential pioneer in analyzing the role of race and racism in U.S. Law. She is nationally known scholar whose articles on race, gender, tort law, insurance law, and family law are frequently reprinted and cited in articles, books, and on blogs. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, she is currently writing a book with Professor Martha Chamallas of Ohio State University entitled The Measure of Injury: Race, Gender, and the Law of Torts.
September 17, 2007
Lecture: Repairing Our Human Rights Reputation
Harold Hongju Koh is Dean at Yale Law School and the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law. He has served in the U.S. State Department as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. A leading expert on international law and a prominent advocate of human and civil rights, Dean Koh has published numerous books and articles on international law, foreign relations and constitutional law. He has served on the Council of the American Law Institute, the Board of Overseers of Harvard University, the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association, the National Democratic Institute and Human Rights First and the Board of Trustees of the Brookings Institution.
April 11, 2007
Lecture: Hewing Stones of Hope: African Lawyers Reclaim Human Rights To Challenge Global Poverty
Professor Lucie White’s Lecture will focus on Africa’s
human rights movement. The African continent is challenged by armed
conflict, epidemic diseases, extreme poverty, and the indelible scars of the
slave trade and colonial occupation. Yet in many domains, such as the arts,
civil society, and democratic governance, we are witness to what some have
called an African renaissance. One of these fields of energy, innovation, and
hope is a new human rights movement. This lecture will explore this new
African human rights movement, highlighting how it is creating a new
paradigm of human rights theory and practice, one that has far reaching
implications for social justice advocacy across the globe.
