Lecture Series
The Annual Friedrich A. von Hayek Lecture in Law - 2009
The New York University Journal of Law & Liberty is pleased to invite you to announce the Fifth Annual Friedrich A. von Hayek Lecture. This year's lecturer is Judge Stephen F. Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The lecture, entitled Transitions into--and out of--Liberal Democracy, will be held on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. in Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge. A reception will immediately follow the lecture.
Judge Williams was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in June 1986, and took senior status in September 2001. He graduated from Yale College (B.A. 1958) and from Harvard Law School (J.D. 1961). Judge Williams was engaged in private practice from 1962 to 1966 and became an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1966. From 1969 until his appointment to the bench, Judge Williams taught at the University of Colorado School of Law. During this time, he also served as a Visiting Professor of Law at UCLA, University of Chicago Law School, and Southern Methodist University and was a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States and the Federal Trade Commission. He is the author of Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime: The Creation of Private Property in Russia, 1906-1915 (Hoover Institution Press, 2006) and is currently working on a biography of Vasily Maklakov, a criminal defense lawyer and a leader of the Constitutional Democratic party from 1905 to 1917.
Please register online at www.law.nyu.edu/alumni/OnlineRegistration.html or complete a registration form and fax it to the Office of Conferencing and Special Events at (212) 995-4709. If you have any questions, please contact David Mora in the Office of Conferencing and Special Events at david.mora@nyu.edu.