The Charles E. Green Lecture in Law and Technology addresses the impact of technology on society, on legal relationships, and on methods of law study and practice. The lectureship was endowed in 1977 by Mrs. Joseph Galvin, a longtime benefactor of IIT and of the law school. Charles E. Green (1894–1981) was a 1915 graduate of Chicago-Kent. Mr. Green was a founder of the law firm of Green and Nystrom, and for many years served as secretary and general counsel for Motorola Inc.
Past Green Lecturers Have Included
The Honorable Arthur J. Gajarsa of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Professor Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law School
Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss of New York University School of Law
Professor Jane Ginsburg of Columbia University School of Law
Professor J.C. Smith of the University of British Columbia
Professor Henry H. Perritt, Jr., formerly of Villanova University School of Law
Professor Peter Seipel of the University of Stockholm
Professor Colin Tapper of Oxford University
Professor Jon Bing of the University of Oslo
Peter Martin, former dean of Cornell Law School
Kenneth Dam, vice president of law and external relations at IBM Corporation
