Annual Lecture by the Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

The inaugural recipients of this award, Professor Harry Krause, Max L. Rowe Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois College of Law, and William N. Eskridge, Jr., John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School, both follow this pattern: impactful scholars who have mentored countless other scholars. Professor John Witte, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory Law School, and Professor Naomi Cahn, Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School, received lifetime achievement awards in 2016 and 2017, as well. We look forward to continuing to grow the list of distinguished recipients of this award.

 

Naomi R. Cahn
Harold H. Greene Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
Sept. 14, 2017, “The New ART of Family: Developments in the Law of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”

 
 

PAST AWARD WINNERS

Witte Lifetime Achievement Award

2016—John Witte Jr.
John Witte Jr., Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director, Center for the Study of Law & Religion at Emory University School of Law. His lecture “Why No Polygamy” occurred on Constitution Day, September 16, 2016.

Harry Krause and William Eskridge

2015—Harry Krause and William Eskridge, Inaugural Honorees
Harry Krause, Max L. Rowe Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois College of Law, and William N. Eskridge, Jr., John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School, received the Inaugural Awards for Lifetime Achievement in Family Law.  Professor Eskridge delivered the lecture “Latter-Day Constitutionalism” on September 10, 2015.