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Former Senator John Warner (R-VA) talked about his political career at a College of William and Mary forum on the future of representative democracy. Then, Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA),…

Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), former George W Bush White House adviser Karl Rove, and former South Carolina Governor Jim Hodges (D) joined a discussion about executive-leg…

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card talked about the impact and future of representative …

Chief Judge Roger Gregory of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, National Constitution Center President Jeffrey Rosen, and University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard talked …

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, NBC News Correspondent Andrea Mitchell, and journalist Robin Wright talked about global challenges to democracy. They spoke at a forum on the future of…

Robert Mueller gave the commencement address to the 2013 graduating class of the College of William and Mary.

Professor Paul Mapp talked about the interactions between the European colonial powers and Native American tribes on the Great Plains during the 1700s, and how horses and guns provided advan…

Condoleezza Rice gave the commencement address to the 2015 graduating class of the College of William and Mary. She spoke about liberty, freedom, discrimination, service, and the responsibil…

Melvin Ely compared the participants, tactics, and lasting changes of the Reconstruction and Civil Rights eras. He spoke about many similarities and differences between the post-Civil War So…

Brett Rushforth talked about France’s impact on North America in the early 1700s. He also detailed the territorial tensions between the French and Great Britain that brought the Seven Years …

Justice Antonin Scalia gave the commencement address to the 2014 graduating class of the Mashall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary. He criticized a proposal that would a…

College of William and Mary professor Andrew Fisher talked about the first conservation effort in American history to protect forests from rampant logging and hydraulic mining. During the Pr…

Lawyers and scholars participated in a Moot court session to argue the case Graham v. Florida. The case focused on sentencing juveniles to life in prison without parole for crimes other than…

Legal scholars spoke about the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term and the possible impact that Justice Sotomayor would have on the court. Following their remarks they answered questions from t…

Legal scholars spoke about the future of the Supreme Court and potential issues for the court in 2020. Among teh topics they addressed were business and economic law, federalism, and social …

The Bill of Rights Institute and William and Mary Law School hosted a moot court on the FCC v. Fox Television indecency case. The case rests on the FCC’s ban against the use of curse words i…

The panel talked about the impact of the presidency on the Supreme Court. They focused on the results of the 2008 Presidential Election and the role that the winner would play in changing th…

Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spoke to the Virginia General Assembly. In her remarks, she talked about U.S.-British relations and world affairs. She resigned as prime minister in 1…

A moot court on “Guantanamo Detainees and the Military Commissions Act” was held in the McGlothlin Court Room as part of the College of William and Mary School of Law 20th Annual Supreme Cou…

A panel of Supreme Court experts talked about the Boumediene v. Bush case scheduled for oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court on December 5, 2007, to decide if the Military Commissions…