Prominent among our programs are our two lecture series, the Cutler and George Wythe Lectures, and the Carter O. Lowance Fellowship.

The Cutler Lecture series was established in 1927 by James Goold Cutler, of Rochester, New York, to provide for an annual lecture at the College of William & Mary by "an outstanding authority on the Constitution of the United States." The original series of 16 lectures ran from 1927 to 1944. After a period of dormancy, the Cutler Lectures were revived in the 1980-81 academic year under the auspices of the William & Mary School of Law, with each lecture published in the William and Mary Law Review.

The annual George Wythe Lecture series was begun in 1976. This lecture series was named in honor of the occupant of the first Chair of Law at William & Mary and in the United States. George Wythe was not only the law teacher of distinguished American patriots--Jefferson and Marshall among them--but was himself one of the most distinguished lawyers and judges of that late colonial and early national period.

The Carter O. Lowance Public Service Fellowship in the Institute of Bill of Rights Law was established in 1989 by friends of the late Carter Lowance as a tribute to his distinguished public service to the people of Virginia. The Lowance Fellowship is awarded each year to a person in public life whose achievements merit special recognition. The Lowance Fellow is in residence at the Law School to deliver lectures, meet informally with students and participate generally in the life of the Law School and the College.

Previous lecturers have included:

Cutler

• R. Kent Greenawalt, Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University School of Law
• John Hart Ely, Dean of Stanford Law School
• Geoffrey R. Stone, Professor of Law, University of Chicago School of Law
• Gerhard Casper, Dean of University of Chicago School of Law
• Louis Henkin, University Professor, Columbia University School of Law
• Michael Perry, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
• Vincent Blasi, Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties, Columbia University School of Law
• Kenneth L. Karst, Professor of Law, University of California at Los Angeles
• Dean Gene R. Nichol of the University of Colorado School of Law
• Martha Minow, Professor of Law, Harvard University Law School
• Frank Michelman, Professor of Law, Harvard University Law School
• Thomas C. Grey, Nelson Bowman Sweitzer and Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law, Stanford University School of Law
• William N. Esbridge, Jr., Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
• Stephen L. Carter, Professor of Law, Yale University School of Law
• Lucas A. Powe, Jr., Anne Green Regents Chair, University of Texas School of Law
• David P. Currie, Edward H. Levi, Distinguished Service Professor and Arnold & Frieda Shure Scholar, University of Chicago
• Samuel Issachoroff, Professor, Columbia University School of Law
• Edward L. Rubin, Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School

George Wythe

• Dean Robert Scott, University of Virginia School of Law
• Daniel Farber, Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law and Associate Dean, University of Minnesota School of Law
• Douglas Laycock, Alice McKean Young Regents Chair and Associate Dean, University of Texas School of Law
• John C. Coffee, Jr., Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbus University School of Law
• Alvin C. Warren, Professor, Howard Law School.
• Mary E. Becher, Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law, University of Chicago
• Donald C. Langevoort, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
• Mark A. Lemley, William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford University Law School

Lowance Fellows

• The Honorable William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• The Honorable Lewis F. Powell, Associate Justice (retired) of the United States Supreme Court
• Roger H. Mudd, distinguished journalist
• The Honorable Elizabeth B. Lacy, Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court
• Fred Graham, Court TV
• The Honorable Abner J. Mikva
• Senator Hunter Andrews
• Charles S. Robb, Former Governor of Virginia and U.S. Senator