Named to honor the sixth dean of The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, Brendan Francis Brown (1949–54), this occasional lecture series seeks to provide the law school community with an opportunity to participate in an exchange of views on a variety of topics within both a formal and informal context.
Submissions from 2022
A Light Unseen: A History of Catholic Legal Education, John M. Breen and Lee Strang
Submissions from 2019
Refugees – Whose Responsibility?, Mark Hetfield
Submissions from 2018
A Conversation with Noel Francisco, Noel Francisco
Submissions from 2017
The Ballot and the Testament, Cornell William Brooks
A Conversation with Judge Sri Srinivasan, Judge Sri Srinivasan
Submissions from 2016
A Conversation with Director James B. Comey, Jr., James B. Comey
The Need for 'Honest Faith in a Higher Law', Honorable Janice Rogers Brown
Submissions from 2015
Reflections on Civil Liberties and National Security, Judge Thomas F. Hogan
The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis, The Honorable Jerome H. Powell
Submissions from 2014
Unconventional Responses to Unique Catastrophes: Tailoring the Law to Meet the Challenges, Kenneth M. Feinberg Esq.
The Catholic Law School and Constitutional Self-Government, The Honorable Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain
Submissions from 2012
Constitutional Challenges: Religious Liberty and the HHS mandate, Mark L. Rienzi, Stephen Schneck, and Emily Hardman
Submissions from 2011
Securing the Future: Making the Most of Your Law School Years, Phyllis C. Borzi
Submissions from 2009
Reinvigorating the Rule of Law in Iraq, Coral Wong Pietsch and James H. Pietsch
Submissions from 2008
The Future for EU-- U.S. Political and Economic Relations, Ambassador John Bruton
Submissions from 2006
Climate Change: An Alaskan Perspective, The Honorable Lisa Murkowski
Submissions from 2005
Is Terrorism Always the Same?, Philip Chase Bobbitt
Sovereignty During the Saeculum: Implications of a Jurisprudence of Subjectivity, Patrick M. Brennan
The Trial of Saddam Hussein — Victor’s Justice?, Charles H.B. Garraway OBE
Submissions from 2004
Brown v. Board of Education and an Independent Judiciary, The Honorable Peggy A. Quince
Submissions from 2003
Shaping the Church: Resisting Scandal and Avoiding Secularization, Mark Chopko
Anatomy of a Love-Hate Relation: America and International Organizations, W. Michael Reisman
Submissions from 2002
The Irish Peace Process: A Personal Perspective, The Honorable Sean O'Huiginn
Life on the Court, The Honorable Antonin Scalia