The Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine & Psychiatry was created by a gift from the late Thomas Detre, MD, former Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences. That gift has been augmented by gifts from BNY Mellon Financial Corp; Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, PC: the late Edwin Klett, Esq., Mark and Nikki Nordenberg, and Loren H. and Ellen Roth.
Past Nordenberg Lecturers
Paul S. Appelbaum, 2000
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Marvin S. Swartz, 2001
Duke University
Jennifer S. Bard, 2002
University of Texas Medical Branch
Richard J. Bonnie, 2003
University of Virginia Law School
Lawrence Gostin, 2004
Georgetown University
Grant H. Morris, 2005
University of San Diego School of Law
Norman L. Cantor, 2006
Rutgers University School of Law-Newark
Michelle M. Mello, 2007
Harvard School of Public Health
Henry T. “Hank” Greely, 2008
Stanford University Law School
Gail H. Javitt, 2009
Johns Hopkins University
Anne Tamar Mattis, 2010
Advocates for Informed Choice
Jessica Wilen Berg, 2011
Case Western Reserve University Schools of Law and Medicine
Edward F. Lawlor, 2012
Washington University in St. Louis
Robert Klitzman, 2013
Columbia University
Sidney D. Watson, 2014
St. Louis University School of Law
Nancy M.P. King, 2015
Wake Forest University
Kathryn L. Tucker, 2016
Disability Rights Legal Center (DRLC)
Lois Shepherd, 2017
University of Virginia School of Law
Jeannie Suk Gerson, 2018
Harvard Law School
Barak D. Richman, 2019
Harvard Law School
Michele Bratcher Goodwin, 2021
University of California, Irvine
Melissa Murray, 2022
New York University School of Law
Samuel Bagenstos, 2023
US Department of Health and Human Services, University of Michigan School of Law
Dr. Jonathan Metzl, 2024
Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University