In the 1970s and 1980s, a series of legal history lectures were delivered at the Law School in memory of Professor William W. Crosskey.

The 2006 Fulton Lecture will be delivered by Professor Richard Painter on Thursday, May 11, 2006. The topic of the lecture will be announced soon. The lecture will take place at 4:00pm at the University of Chicago Law School. All are welcome.

The Fulton and Crosskey Lecturers are listed below.

The Fulton lectures

• Charles Donahue, Jr., "The Monastic Judge: Social Practice and Formal Rule in Medieval Marriage" (November 19, 1987 inaugural lecture).
• Harold Hyman, "States' Wrongs, Individuals' Rights and the Nation's Duty: Our First Civil Rights Act" ( January 12, 1989).
• G. Edward White, "Judge Holmes' Life Plan: Confronting Passion, Ambition and Powerlessness" ( October 19, 1990).
• William Twining, "Karl Llewellyn's Unfinished Agenda" ( May 14, 1993).
• Brian Tierney, "Natural Rights: Before and After Columbus" ( November 17, 1994).
• Herbert Hovenkamp, "Law and Morals in Classical Legal Thought" ( May 15, 1996).
• Harold J. Berman, "Interaction of Spiritual and Secular Law: The Sixteenth-Century and Today" ( May 6, 1997).
• Morton Horwitz (May 5, 1998).
• John Langbein, "The Origins of Defensive Safeguard in Anglo-American Criminal Procedure" (May 5, 1999).
• Jack Rakove, "A Tale of Two Confederations: the Iroquois, the Americans and the Origins of a Constitutional Dilemma" ( May 17, 2000).
• Richard Helmholz, "Fundamental Human Rights in Medieval Law" ( May 2, 2001).
• Michael Stolleis, "Hesitating to Look in the Mirror: German jurisprudence after 1933 and after 1945" ( November 9, 2001).
• Franklin Zimring, "The American Jury Project and the Chicago Law School" (May 1, 2003).
• A.W.B. Simpson, "The European Convention on Human Rights: Taking Stock after Half a Century" (May 6, 2004).
• Avner Greif, "Rules of Law and Economic Realities: an Historical Reconsideration" (May 12, 2005).

The Crosskey lectures

• Grant Gilmore, "The Age of Antiquarius: Legal History in a Time of Troubles" (May 4, 1972 - inaugural lecture).
• William E. Leuchtenberg, "A Klansman Joins the Court" (February, 28, 1973).
• Gerald Gunther, "Some Reflections on the Hand-Frankfurter Relationship" ( November 18, 1976).
• John Langbein, "Torture and Plea Bargaining" ( October 19, 1978) (reprinted at 46 U. Chi. L. Rev. 3 (1978).
• Alfred W. B. Simpson, Cannibals at Common Law" (February 19, 1981).
• Lawrence Friedman, "All in the Family: Historical Reflections on the Law of Domestic Relations" ( April 28, 1982).
• Morris Arnold, "Towards an Ideology of the Early Common Law of Obligations" ( April 3, 1986).