Cecil A. Wright Memorial Lecture

During the last 20 years, some of the world’s most distinguished scholars have been invited to the law school to deliver a public lecture in memory of the late former dean Cecil A. Wright, who founded U of T’s modern law school.

The 2012-13 Wright Lecture

Professor James Whitman
Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, Yale Law School

“Of Wars and Trials:  Can a War be a Lawful Procedure for Claiming Rights?”

4:00 - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

McCarthy Tétrault Classroom (A)
Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park Cres.
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

Watch the webcast of the lecture

The 2012 Wright Lecture was based on  James Whitman’s forthcoming book, The Verdict of Battle, published in late October 2012. 

James Whitman is the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School. His subjects are comparative law, contracts, criminal law, and European legal history. His published books and articles include The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial; Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe; and The Two Western Cultures of Privacy: Dignity versus Liberty. Professor Whitman received a B.A. and a J.D. from Yale, an M.A. from Columbia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

See the Wright Lecture archives to read more detailed accounts of past lectures, and watch the complete lectures on the web (beginning with 2002).