Faculty Events

Winston College of Law Faculty Events

Throughout the academic year, the University of Tennessee Winston College of Law hosts a number of events that feature scholars in the legal profession. 

The goal of these events is to enhance the intellectual life of the law school and provide a venue for dialogue among faculty members and between our faculty and outside scholars. Doing so helps us maintain an environment that challenges and enhances critical areas of law and society.

Events include:

Distinguished Speaker Series 2025-2026

Brooke Coleman

Fredric C. Tausend Professor of Law
Seattle University School of Law

Brooke Coleman is the Fredric C. Tausend Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. A scholar of procedure and procedural justice, Professor Coleman has been published in the NYU Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, California Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, and William & Mary Law Review, among others. She is also the author of A Guide to Civil Procedure: Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives, and an innovative casebook, Learning Civil Procedure. At Seattle, she teaches civil procedure, advanced litigation, and federal courts. She previously served as the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and has been recognized as SU’s teacher of the year five times.

Brandon Garrett

David W. Ichel Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Wilson Center for Science and Justice
Duke University School of Law

Brandon Garrett is the David W. Ichel Distinguished Professor of Law and the Director of the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke University School of Law. A leader scholar of criminal justice outcomes, evidence, and constitutional rights, he is the author of eight books and several law review articles. In just the last three years, Professor Garrett has published (or has work forthcoming) with the law reviews of Stanford, Texas, Georgetown, Southern California, Cornell, Florida, and Michigan. His work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, lower federal courts, state supreme courts, and courts outside of the United States. He formerly served as the White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs and Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia and as a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University.

The Joe Cook Jurisprudence Lectureship: Jamal Greene

Dwight Professor of Law
Columbia Law School

Jamal Greene is the Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. An expert on the structure of legal and constitutional argument, Professor Greene is the author of How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession With Rights Is Tearing America Apart, as well as numerous law review articles published in the top journals. From January 2023 to December 2024, Professor Greene served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also served as a senior visiting scholar at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, and Columbia Law’s Vice Dean for Intellectual Life. Professor Greene has also frequently written for the popular press, including for The New York Times, Slate, New York Daily News, and Los Angeles Times. He served as a clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

Daniel Hemel

Professor of Law
NYU School of Law

Daniel Hemel is a Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. The author of more than 50 scholarly articles and essays, Professor Hemel has published in the Columbia Law Review, NYU Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and the Stanford Law Review, among others. He has also testified before Congress and has assisted lawmakers in drafting tax legislation. He has written for the popular press—he’s been published in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Professor Hemel previously taught as a visitor at Harvard, Stanford, and Yale, and formerly was on the faculty at the University of Chicago Law School. He served as a clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.

The Richard L. Rose Lecture: L. Song Richardson

Chancellor’s Professor of Law
University of California, Irvine School of Law

L. Song Richardson is the Chancellor’s Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law. A former dean at UC Irvine and president of Colorado College, Professor Richardson is a scholar of criminal law and procedure and law and social science. She has published with law journals at Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Cornell, Duke, and Northwestern, among others. Professor Richardson is known for her transformational leadership within education, and she serves on several boards of higher education. She has repeatedly been awarded for her leadership—including with the AALS’ Derrick Bell Award, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s Trailblazer Award, GlobalMindED’s Inclusive Leader Award for Higher Education, and the Council of Korean Americans’ Empower Award. Prior to joining UC Irvine, Professor Richardson held law professorships at DePaul, American, and Iowa.

Rebecca Roiphe

Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor of Law
New York Law School

Rebecca Roiphe is the Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor of Law at New York Law School. A leading voice in criminal law and ethics and a trained historian, Professor Roiphe’s scholarship examines the country’s tradition of prosecutorial independence. She has written for The New York Times, Slate, The New York Review of Books, Politico, and Washington Post. Professor Roiphe appears regularly on MSNBC and CNN and is a contributing legal analyst at CBS News. She recently completed a term on the Mayor’s Advisory Council on the Judiciary. At NYLS, she teaches Professional Responsibility and Criminal Procedure, and she formerly served as NYLS’s Co-Dean for Faculty Scholarship.

Distinguished Speaker Series Archives

The University of Tennessee’s Winston College of Law Faculty Colloquium Series brings to campus legal scholars from across the country to discuss their scholarship in a colloquium setting.

Contact Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Law Zack Buck (zbuck@tennessee.edu) for more details. 

2024 – 2025

  • Ruth L. Okediji, Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  • Barbara L. McQuade, Professor from Practice, University of Michigan Law School
  • Allison K. Hoffman, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
  • J.B. Ruhl, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law and the Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor, Vanderbilt University Law School
  • Paul A. Lombardo, Regents’ Professor and Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
  • Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California Berkeley School of Law

2023 – 2024

  • Christopher S. Yoo, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
  • Brad Desnoyer, Clinical Professor of Law, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
  • Jared Ellias, Scott C. Collins Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  • Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Executive Vice President – General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, The Home Depot
  • Eric Segal, Georgia State University College of Law, Ashe Family Chair Professor of Law
  • Leticia Saucedo, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, University of California Davis School of Law
  • Steven A. Drizin, William M. Trumbull Clinical Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

2022 – 2023

  • Michael J. Gerhardt, Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, University of North Carolina
  • Mark Nevitt, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Law
  • W. Bradley Wendel, Edwin H. Woodruff Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
  • Gina Gail S. Fletcher, Professor of Law, Duke Law School
  • Edward B. Foley, Charles W. Ebersold and Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law; Director, Election Law at Ohio State, Ohio State University

2021 – 2022

  • Melissa Mortazavi, Second Century Presidential Professor and Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma College of Law

 

2020 – 2021

  • Lisa Avalos, Hermann Moyse, Sr. Professor of Law, Louisiana State University
  • Catherine Janasie, Research Counsel for the National Sea Grant Law Center, University of Mississippi School of Law
  • Thomas Bennett, Associate Professor and Wall Family Fellow, University of Missouri School of Law
  • Meera E. Deo, The Honorable Vaino Spencer Chair/Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School

 

2019 – 2020

  • Fred Smith, Jr., Professor of Law, Emory University
  • Hillel Levin, Alex W. Smith Professor of Law, University of Georgia
  • Shirin Sinnar, Professor of Law and John A. Wilson Faculty Scholar, Stanford University
  • Michele Bratcher Goodwin, Chancellor’s Professor of Law, University of California

 

2018 – 2019

  • Corrina Lain, S. D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law, University of Richmond
  •  Joseph Fishkin, Marrs McLean Professor in Law, University of Texas, Austin
  • Dan Simon, Richard L. and Maria B. Crutcher Professor of Law, University of Southern California
  • Randy Barnett, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown University
  • Sean Seymore, Professor of Law and Professor of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University

 

2016 – 2017

  • Felix Chang, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for the Global Practice of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law
  • Mark Hall, Fred D. and Elizabeth L Turnage Professor Of Law,  Wake Forest University College of Law
  • Patricia J. Zettler, Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
  • Martin H. Redish, Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
  • Kate Sablosky, Assistant Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law
  • Eric Chaffee, Distinguished University Professor, University of Toledo