The Storrs Lectures: The Age of Anxiety

Abstract

On three October afternoons last fall, we attended a presentation of the Storrs Lectures, entitled "The Ages of American Law." The William Lucius Storrs Lectureship was endowed in 1889 by Mary and Eliza Robinson, in memory of their great-uncle, the Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. The first lecture was given the following year by Judge Cooley on the Interstate Commerce Commission; he had just been appointed its first Chairman. The Storrs Lectures have remained the Law School's most distinguished lecture series; even a partial list includes some of the most influential legal figures and ideas of the past 85 years. Sometimes annually, sometimes not, a speaker from outside the Law School is invited. This year the Lectures coincided with the Sesquicentennial of the Law School, and Grant Gilmorec had promised to deliver them.