King Lecture Series (Dean Kagan) - October 6, 2008

In the most recent event held by the NHSCS, Elena Kagan, Dean of Harvard Law School spoke in the second installment of the John W. King Lecture Series.

In Dean Kagan's speech she spoke about Harvard's current curriculum changes. She spoke on the current need to change the way lawyers are trained. Kagan explained how the training of future lawyers "has an effect far beyond both lawyers and the legal profession, extending to every one of you and in fact, to everyone in this country and the world beyond it."

Along with Dean Kagan's speech on Harvard's current curriculum changes the Society also displayed some recently discovered art work made by Chief Justice Robert Peaslee. The exhibit displayed drawings that depicted court officials and plaintiffs that Chief Justice Roberts Peaslee saw while serving on from 1900-1902 while acting as an associate justice for the Supreme Court.

Society members Hon. Philip S. Hollman, chair of the NH Bar Foundation, Justice John T. Broderick Jr., Chief Justice of the NH Supreme Court, and Dean John D. Hutson, president and dean of Franklin Pierce Law Center all spoke briefly during the event.

Sponsored by a Justice grant from the New Hampshire Bar Association
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