Recent Guest Speakers

Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report and Survive the War in Iraq by Kimberly Dozier, CBS News correspondent
Monday, April 21, 2008

“Sports Governance and Equal Opportunity: The Life's Perspectives of Pittsburgh Steelers' Chairman Dan Rooney”
Several Penn State centers with a focus on the sports industry sponsored this interdisciplinary panel discussion with Pittsburgh Steelers' Chairman Dan Rooney, son of the Steelers' founder Art “the Chief” Rooney.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Format: Video

"Preserving Martin Luther King’s Legacy" — Work and Poverty
“We, as a people, will get to the Promised Land” — Poverty, Inequality, and Workplace Justice, by Professor Ellen Dannin, Professor of Law, The Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University
April 4, 2008
Format: Video

Informal Discussion by Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School
March 28, 2008
Professor Lessig is a leading figure in the United States and internationally in cyberlaw, a field that lies at the previously unexplored intersection of constitutional law and intellectual property law.

"Preserving Martin Luther King’s Legacy" — Access to Education
Choice, Desegregation, or Funding? Courts and the Black Struggle with Equal Educational Opportunity
Preston C. Green III, Associate Professor of Education and Law, The Pennsylvania State University
March 21, 2008
Format: Video

'The Tax Advantage of "Sweat Equity" and the Carried Interest Controversy'
by Michael Knoll, the Theodore K. Warner Professor of Law & Professor of Real Estate at University of Pennsylvania
March 20, 2008

"Examining the Motivations Behind Non-qualified Deferred Compensation Plans"
by Brant Hellwig, associate professor at South Carolina University School of Law
Professor Hellwig discusses what non-qualified plans are and addresses why employees are willing to accept such (generally unsecured) compensation packages.
March 6, 2008

"Implications for World Peace given the Forced Removal of Democratically Elected Governments by Foreign Powers:  Haiti, A Case Study"
by Randall Robinson, author of An Unbroken Agony and the national bestsellers The Debt , The Reckoning , and Defending the Spirit and founder of the Free South Africa Movement
February 26, 2008
Format: Video

Baseball Salary Arbitration
by Larry Silverman, general counsel of the Pittsburgh Pirates
February 25, 2008