Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 04-16-2025 | Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Professor, University of Michigan Law School |
The Common Ground of Michigan’s Tribal and State Courts: A Historical Perspective |
| 04-11-2024 | Justin Simard, Professor, MSU College of Law |
Slavery’s Legal Legacy and Its Meaning for Michigan Lawyers |
| 04-20-2023 | Judge Joan Larsen, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals |
Lessons From Thomas M. Cooley |
| 05-26-2022 | Martin Hershock, Professor, University of Michigan-Dearborn |
“Booted and Spurred”: Railroads, the Range, and the Public Good, the Case of Williams v The Michigan Central |
| 10-28-2021 | Paul Moreno, Professor, Hillsdale |
Frank Murphy and the Roosevelt Court |
| 05-14-2020 | Cancelled: Due to COVID-19 | |
| 04-18-2019 | Jennifer Grieco, SBM President |
A Century of Suffrage |
| 04-18-2019 | Chief Justice Bridget M. McCormack | Thomas M. Cooley #freesoil |
| 04-19-2018 | Donald Rockwell, SBM President |
A Man from Flint: Justice Otis Smith |
| 04-19-2018 | Vincent Wellman | Michigan’s Reception of the Common Law |
| 04-20-2017 | Lawrence P. Nolan, SBM President |
Ferguson v Gies: A Supreme Decision |
| 04-14-2016 | Lori Buiteweg, SBM President |
Shaping Justice: How Michigan Supreme Court Justices and Bar Leaders Have Faced the Future, and What Might Come Next |
| 04-10-2016 | Justice Joan Larsen | Justice Scalia |
| 04-16-2015 | David Chardavoyne | Michigan Supreme Court Historical Reference Guide, Second Edition |
| 04-10-2014 | David A. Collins | Michigan’s High Court Says No to Absentee Voting for Absent Civil War Soldiers |
| 05-2-2013 | Thomas E. Brennan, | Society 25th Anniversary |
| 04-19-2012 | Judge Larry Glazer | Wounded Warrior: The Rise and Fall of Michigan Governor John Swainson |
| 04-28-2011 | Mark Hurwitz | The Evolution of Michigan’s Hybrid Electoral System |
| 04-29-2010 | John G. Fedynsky | All Roads Lead to Lansing |
| 04-30-2009 | Norman Otto Stockmeyer | Road Trip! A Look at the Places and Personalities Made Famous By Sherwood v. Walker |
| 04-24-2008 | Chief Justice Clifford Taylor |
Society 20th Anniversary |
| 04-18-2007 | Paul D. Carrington | Chief Justice Cooley |
| 04-27-2006 | Paul Finkelman | The Surprising History of Race and Law in Michigan |
| 04-28-2005 | Frederick M. Baker Jr. | John Voelker: Justice, Author, Fisherman, Friend |
| 04-24-2003 | Justice Marilyn Kelly | Virtual Tour of the Hall of Justice |
| 04-18-2002 | Governor John Engler | Governor Engler’s Judicial Philosophy |
| 04-26-2001 | Thomas E. Brennan | Reflections of a Former Chief Justice |
| 04-13-2000 | Dennis W. Archer | Baseball’s Reserve Clause |
| 05-20-1998 | James L. Ryan | Remarks – Annual Luncheon Vignette |
| 05-15-1997 | Gene Mossner | Eugene Snow Huff v. The Supreme Court of Michigan |
| 04-18-1996 | Avern Cohn | A Footnote to a Footnote |
| 05-11-1995 | Charles W. Joiner | Remarks – Annual Luncheon Vignette |
| 04-28-1994 | John W. Reed | It’s Worth Remembering |
| 03-19-1992 | Thomas E. Brennan | Remarks – Annual Luncheon Vignette |