University
of Virginia School of Law 175th Anniversary Celebration
Law Schools,
Lawyers, and the Future of American Law
Friday, October 26, 2001
1:30 - 3:00 p.m., Caplin Auditorium
- Welcome: John C. Jeffries, Jr., Dean, University
of Virginia School of Law
- The View From the Bench
- Moderator: Lillian R. BeVier, Henry L.
and Grace Doherty Foundation Professor of Law, University
of Virginia School of Law
- Panelists:
- The Honorable Edward Becker, Chief
Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third
Circuit
- The Honorable Carolyn King, Chief
Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Circuit
- The Honorable Boyce Martin, '63,
Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the
Sixth Circuit
- The Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson
III, '72, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals
for the Fourth Circuit
3:15 - 4:45 p.m., Caplin Auditorium
- Challenges From the Bar
- Moderator: George A. Rutherglen, OM Vickers
Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
- Panelists:
- Ralph H. Baxter, Jr. '74, Chairman
and CEO, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
- Jeffrey L. Humber, Jr. '78, Senior
Vice President, Merrill Lynch
- Gordon F. Rainey, Jr. '67, Chairman,
Executive Committee, Hunton & Williams
- Lyn G. Walker, '78, Partner, Day,
Berry & Howard
7:00 p.m., Cocktails, Clay Hall
8:00 p.m., Dinner, Caplin Pavilion
- Speaker: Thomas H. Jackson, President, University
of Rochester, and Eighth Dean of the University of Virginia
School of Law
Saturday, October 27, 2001
9:00 - 10:30 a.m., Caplin Auditorium
- Clients and the World of Commerce
- Moderator: Richard A. Merrill, Daniel
Caplin Professor of Law, and Seventh Dean of the University
of Virginia School of Law
- Panelists:
- Alfonso L. Carney, Jr., '74, Vice
President and Associate General Counsel, Phillip Morris
- Edward J. Kelly, III, '81, Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer, Mercantile Bankshares
- Donald M. James, '77, Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer, Vulcan Materials Company
- John R. Towers, '66, Vice Chairman,
State Street Corporation
10:45 -12:15 p.m., Caplin Auditorium
- Legal Education in the Twenty-First
Century
- Moderator: Robert E. Scott, Lewis F.
Powell Jr. Professor of Law and William L. Matheson and
Robert M. Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law, and
Ninth Dean of the University of Virginia School of Law
- Panelists:
- Katharine T. Bartlett, Dean, Duke
University
- Anthony T. Kronman, Dean, Yale Law
School
- David W. Leebron, Dean, Columbia
Law School
- Karen H. Rothenberg '79, Dean, University
of Maryland
12:30 p.m., Caplin Auditorium
- Keynote: The Honorable William H. Rehnquist,
Chief Justice of the United States
