John W. Hager served as a faculty member at The University of Tulsa College of Law for 39 years. Teaching was one of his greatest joys, and he did it with enthusiasm, passion, and humor. John Hager retired from TU in 1989, taking the title of Professor Emeritus, but passed away just two years later in August of 1991. The John W. Hager Distinguished Lecture in Law endowment was established through the generosity of members of his family and the many friends, colleagues, and students who cherished the opportunity to know and learn from Hager. This important endowed lectureship brings distinguished speakers to TU to honor the legacy of John W. Hager and his standard of excellence by sharing ideas about law and justice.
John W. Hager Distinguished Lecture in Law
2024 Hager Distinguished Lecture Erwin Chemerinsky
With a career spanning more than four decades, Erwin Chemerinsky, the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at Berkeley Law and dean of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, is renowned as a preeminent figure in Supreme Court and Constitutional law in the United States. His expertise and invaluable contributions have solidified his position as the leading authority in this complex discipline. With a prolific career spanning universities such as UC Irvine, Duke, and USC, and numerous appearances before the Supreme Court representing clients, including in the seminal case Van Orden v. Perry, Chemerinsky has published more than 16 books, including prescient works such as his latest, “Worse than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism.”
