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Kellogg Lecture

The biennial lecture series is made possible through the generosity of Frederic R. and Molly S. Kellogg

The Frederic R. and Molly S. Kellogg Biennial Lecture in Jurisprudence

The Kellogg Biennial Lecture in Jurisprudence presents the most distinguished contributors to international jurisprudence, judged through writings, reputation and broad and continuing influence on contemporary legal scholarship. Previous Kellogg lecturers include Ronald Dworkin, Joseph Raz, Amartya Sen, Michael Sandel, Jeremy Waldron, Martha Nussbaum, and Jeffrey Stout.

Conversation with Frederic and Molly Kellogg

Frederic Rogers Kellogg was born in Boston and attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He served as an assistant U.S. attorney and later as an adviser to Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson during the Watergate crisis. He later earned a doctorate in jurisprudence at the George Washington University and published two books on Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Mr. Kellogg was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Poland and Brazil, a Sir Neil MacCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and a former visiting professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil.

Molly Shulman Kellogg was born in Dallas and grew up in Kilgore. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1963 and moved to Washington, D.C., where she served for 30 years as executive assistant to Congressman J.J. “Jake” Pickle of Austin. She serves on the board of the General Henry Knox Museum in Thomaston, Maine.

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