Speaker: Lech Garlicki

Former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights and Visiting Professor of Law, Washington University in Saint Louis

Professor Garlicki’s talk will be entitled Courts and Abusive Constitutionalism. It will explore the targeting of courts as part of a phenomenon known as “abusive constitutionalism”: when a democratically-elected regime exploits a nation’s legal and constitutional framework to consolidate power and weaken checks and balances. Professor Garlicki will focus on recent examples involving regimes in Hungary and his native Poland, and will reflect on how these countries’ experiences can serve as a cautionary tale for the United States.

Professor Garlicki served as a judge on the European Court of Human Rights from 2002 to 2012, and prior to that as a judge on the Constitutional Court of Poland. Currently serving as a Visiting Professor of Law at Washington University in Saint Louis, he has also taught courses at Yale, New York University, the University of Chicago, the University of Toronto, the University of Paris I (Sorbonne), and the University of Hong Kong. We are delighted to announce that Professor Garlicki will be joining Lewis & Clark Law as an adjunct professor starting in Fall 2024, teaching Comparative Law.

To reserve a lunch from Dang’s Thai Kitchen for this event, please RSVP here by February 1st. Vegan and meat lunch options will be provided.

A leading voice in Civil Procedure, Simona Grossi, Theodore A. Bruinsma Fellow Professor of Law at the Loyola Law School of Loyola Marymount University, is the 2022-23 International Law Distinguished Visitor with her lecture, “Substantive Due Process After Dobbs v. Jackson: A Principled Approach to Protect our Constitutional Rights Against the Current Challenges.”

Professor Grossi’s Lecture will discuss her cutting-edge paper, THE U.S. CONSTITUTION IS NOT A CODE: UNRAVELING THE IDEA AND THE MEANING OF SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS, that was recently selected by the National Civil Justice Institute for presentation at a Southern Methodist University Symposium. Professor Grossi has granted us special permission to share an early release of the paper prior to its publication. The paper is attached as “Related Content” to this event listing.

Lunch with Tulinabo Mushingi, US Ambassador to Angola and São Tomé y Principe and former ambassador to Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, & Burkina Faso, together with Ambassador Niels Marquardt (retired), Lewis & Clark College Diplomat in Residence. Ambassadors Mushingi and Marquardt will talk about international career options, including at the State Department and foreign service, as well as other ways to work abroad. They are also happy to share some of the challenges they have faced and the fun they have had as America’s top diplomat in nine different African nations. 

 Join Professor George Foster as he discusses careers in international law with three Lewis & Clark Law School Graduates.