Symposium explores Michelman's contributions to comparative constitutional law and law and philosophy

An array ofluminaries from academia and the bench—and from around the world—came toHarvard Law School to celebrate Professor Frank Michelman '60 and hisinfluential work, as he prepares to retire after nearly half a century on theHLS faculty.

A symposium inhonor of Michelman, Robert Walmsley University Professor, held on Feb. 10 and11, focused on two of his signal achievements: his comparative constitutionallaw work, particularly his counsel to South Africa in the drafting of itspost-apartheid constitution, and his scholarship on law and philosophy.Additionally, many speakers offered personal testimonials saluting Michelmanfor his kind and inquisitive nature and, as Dean Martha Minow noted, the"contagious zest and passion" that he conveys to his colleagues and students.

Watch the Feb. 10 panel on Comparative Constitutional Law: Click to Play

Watch the Law and Philosophy Panel : Click to Play Provocations: Dean of Yale Law School Robert Post and Thomas Scanlon, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Harvard University. Panelists: Rosalie Abella, justice, Supreme Court of Canada; Guido Calabresi, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; Nancy Rosenblum, Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government, Harvard University; Margaret Jane Radin, Henry King Ransom Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School; Michael Sandel, Anne T. Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University. Moderated by Harvard Law School Professor Charles Fried.