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                           The Fall Frankel Lectures

      The brainchild of an ambitious young editor in chief and a
dedicated “young” faculty advisor,22 the Frankel Lecture Series
started as an idea in the Law Review’s Ground Floor offices and
culminated in one of the nation’s top annual legal symposia.
Immediate evidence during Decade 5 appeared in Volume 41,
which featured a keynote lecture by David B. Wilkins of Harvard
on Doing Well by Doing Good? The Role of Public Service in the
Careers of Black Corporate Lawyers,23 with commentary by
Robert W. Gordon of Yale and American Bar Foundation Director
Bryant Garth.

      In Volume 43, Michigan professor Evan Caminker (opining
on a critically important Supreme Court opinion involving his
home institution) provided commentary, along with Carla D.
Pratt of Penn State, on the keynote address, Taking Grutter
Seriously: Getting Beyond the Numbers, by Washington & Lee’s
Dorothy A. Brown.24 Later in the decade, such topics as cost-
benefit analysis in environmental regulation, presidential
succession, and amending the Voting Rights Act drew
scholarship from Michael A. Livermore (NYU), Richard L. Revesz
(NYU), Douglas A. Kysar (Yale), Alexander Volokh (Emory),
Akhil Reed Amar (Yale), John D. Feerick (Fordham), Pamela S.
Karlan (Stanford), and Ellen D. Katz (Michigan).

      Timeliness and relevance proved to be continuing features of
the Frankel Lectures throughout the decade. Witness, for
example, Volume 49’s publication of Codes of Conduct for a
Twilight War, in which HLR alumnus and former 9/11
Commission Executive Director Dr. Philip Zelikow keynoted a
discussion on the use of “enhanced interrogation” in the wake of
the 10-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks, with commentary from David Cole of Georgetown and
Mark Danner of UC Berkeley. Other examples throughout the
decade included Volume 42’s discussion of France’s ban on
conspicuous religious symbols in public schools (keynote by
Steven G. Gey of Florida State; commentary by T. Jeremy Gunn
of Emory and Dina Alsowayel of Houston; with a position paper
from French Consul General Denis Simonneau), Volume 50’s
examination of municipal bankruptcies in the years following the
2008 financial crisis (keynote by David Skeel of Penn;
commentary by Clayton Gillette of NYU and Anna Gelpern of
American University), and Volume 45’s lecture on immigrant
rights in the wake of Hurricane Katrina (keynote by Kevin R.
Johnson of UC Davis; commentary by Raquel E. Aldana of
Harvard and Anna Williams Shavers of Nebraska).
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