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 2026-2027

The 2026-2027 Distinguished Speaker Series will be announced in the coming weeks. Check back for updates! 

Distinguished Speaker Series 2026-2027

The 2026-2027 Distinguished Speaker Series will be announced in the coming weeks. Check back for updates! 

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. 

2025 – 2026

  • Brandon Garrett, David W. Ichel Distinguished Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
  • Brooke Coleman, Fredric C. Tausend Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law
  • Jamal Greene, Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
  • Rebecca Roiphe, Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor of Law, New York Law School
  • Daniel Hemel, John S. R. Shad Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
  • James Forman Jr., J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, Yale Law School

 

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