Dyson Distinguished Lecture

April 26, 2012, 4pm Moot Court Room Professor Steven M. Wise "The Nonhuman Rights Project's Struggle for Nonhuman Personhood"

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Steven M. Wise has taught "Animal Rights Law" or "Animal Rights Jurisprudence" at the Harvard, Lewis and Clark, Vermont, University of Miami, St. Thomas, and John Marshall Law Schools. He has written Rattling the Cage - Toward Legal Rights for Animals, Drawing the Line - Science and the Case for Animal Rights, Though the Heavens May Fall -  The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery, and An American Trilogy - Death, Slavery, & Dominion on the Banks of he Cape Fear River, and numerous law review articles. He directs the Nonhuman Rights Project, comprised of dozens of intelligent committed volunteers, including lawyers, law students, social scientists, natural scientists, mathematicians, film makers, and media experts, dedicated to persuading state high courts that a nonhuman animal should be declared a common law person. He regularly lectures throughout the world on animal rights jurisprudence.

DYSON LECTURE HISTORY

The Dyson Distinguished Lecture was endowed in 1982 by a gift from the Dyson Foundation made possible through the generosity of the late Charles H. Dyson, a 1930 graduate, trustee, and long-time benefactor of Pace University. The principal aim and object of the Dyson Distinguished Lecture is to encourage and make possible scholarly legal contributions of very high quality in furtherance of Pace Law School's educational mission.

Charles H. Dyson was born August 2, 1909, and died at the age of 87 on March 14, 1997. He was well known as a financier, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He was considered a pioneer in the field of leveraged buyouts and was best known for his government service. After graduating from Pace Institute in 1930, he began a career in public accounting. Dr. Dyson was a lifelong Democrat who worked for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and served in World War II. In 1954, he founded the Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation, a New York investment company that has become one of the nation's largest privately held corporations. Pace University's Dyson College of Arts and Sciences is also named in his honor.

PAST DYSON LECTURES

	February 9, 2012 Professor Heidi M. Hurd David C. Baum Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois “Fouling Our Nest: Is An (Environmental) Ethic Impotent Against (Bad) Economics”   >> View lecture video      >> View lecture photos
	November 12, 2010 Janet Halley Royal Professor of Law, Harvard Law School "After Gender? Examining International Justice Enterprises"   » View lecture video              » View lecture photos
	January 25, 2010 Sunny Schwartz, Esq.  Programs Administrator, San Francisco Sheriff's Department Founder, Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP) "Can Prisons Make Us Safer?: Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice Reform"
	April 16, 2009 Dr. Cornel West Class of 1943 University Professor, Princeton University Center for African American Studies "In the Age of Obama"
	April 23, 2008 Howard Lesnick Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School “The Practice of Teaching, the Practice of Law: What Does It Mean to Practice Responsibly?”
	2006 The Honorable Janet DiFiore District Attorney, Westchester County, NY "The Evolving Role of the Modern District Attorney"
	2005 Kevin R. Johnson Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Mabie/Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies University of California at Davis, School of Law "The Forgotten 'Repatriation' of Persons of Mexican Ancestry and Lessons for the War on Terror"
	2003 Professor Harvey J. Goldschmid, Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia University "Post Enron America and SEC Perspectives"
	2002 Professor Daniel Farber McKnight Presidential Professor of Public Law, University of Minnesota "Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Rethinking Environmental Law After American Trucking"
	2001 Professor Jesse H. Choper Earl Warren Professor of Public Law, University of California, Berkeley "The Presidential Election of 2000 and the Role of the United States Supreme Court"
	1997 William E. Kennard General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) "Implementing the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Toward Consolidation or Competition?"
	1996 John C. Coffee, Jr. Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia Law School "Class Actions After the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and MCA and What Should be Done About It"
	1993 The Honorable Joseph W. Bellacosa New York State Court of Appeals "Ethical Impulses From the Death Penalty: 'Old Sparky's' Jolt to the Legal Profession"
	1992 Sylvia A. Law Professor of Law, New York University School of Law "Crystal Eastman"
	1991 Panel Presentation: "Justice Brennan: Foundation for the Future" Panelists: Nadine Strossen Professor of Law, New York Law School Justice Brennan and the Religion Clauses Gerald Rosberg Partner, Dewey Ballantine Justice Brennan and the Law of Obscenity Ronald Tabak Special Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Justice Brennan and the Death Penalty Bennett L. Gershman Professor of Law, Pace University School of Law The Moral Force of His Language Ralph Michael Stein Professor of Law, Pace University School of Law Justice Brennan and the First Amendment Minefield: In Respectful Appreciation
	1990 David G. Owen Webster Professor of Tort Law, University of South Carolina "Products Liability: Principles of Justice for the 21st Century"
	1989 Panel Presentation Julius L. Chambers, Sally E. Burns, John A. Powell, William Kunstler
	1986 Charles L. Black Sterling Professor of Law Emeritus, Yale University "The Forest and the Trees in Constitutional Law"
	1985 Eugene Rostow Sterling Professor of Law Emeritus, Yale University; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law and Diplomacy, National Defense University "Why Is It So Hard to Negotiate with the Russians?"
	1985 Abram Chayes Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School "The ABM Treaty and the Strategic Defense Initiative"
	1983 Harry W. Jones Cardozo Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence, Columbia University "Precedent and Policy in Constitutional Law"