DeWitt Higgs Memorial Lecture
The DeWitt Higgs Memorial Lecture is an endowed lecture sponsored jointly by the Law and Society Program and Earl Warren College at UC San Diego, California Western School of Law, and the Higgs family.
DeWitt Higgs was a pillar of the San Diego legal community. He was a founding member of the firm Higgs, Fletcher, and Mack. He served as a UC Regent for 16 years. To honor his contributions, the topic of each Higgs Lecture is related to field of law and society.
The list of recent speakers includes San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, UC Berkeley professor and journalist Mark Danner, Geoff Hoon (former leader of the British House of Commons), and NYU professor Jerome Cohen.
View past Higgs Lectures online through the UCSD-TV website.
Read about the 2009 Higgs Lecture.