On Monday, August 11, 2025, Princeton University professor Kim Lane Scheppele was Chautauqua Institution’s 21st annual Robert H. Jackson Lecturer on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Click here to watch Professor Scheppele’s Jackson Lecture:
(I am honored to have introduced Professor Scheppele’s lecture.)
The annual Jackson Lecture at Chautauqua Institution is a leading expert’s consideration of the Supreme Court, its Justices, significant decisions, and related topics in the weeks following the Court’s start of its annual summer recess.
Chautauqua Institution’s twenty-one Jackson Lecturers have been:
- 2005: Geoffrey R. Stone, University of Chicago professor;
- 2006: Linda Greenhouse, New York Times writer and Yale Law School lecturer;
- 2007: Seth P. Waxman, WilmerHale partner and former Solicitor General of the United States;
- 2008: Jeffrey Toobin, legal writer and book author;
- 2009: Paul D. Clement, Clement & Murphy PLLC partner and former Solicitor General of the United States;
- 2010: Jeff Shesol, historian, communications strategist, and former White House speechwriter;
- 2011: Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate and Amicus podcast host; 2012: Pamela Karlan, Stanford University professor;
- 2013: Charles Fried, Harvard University professor and former Solicitor General of the United States;
- 2014: Akhil Reed Amar, Yale University professor;
- 2015: Laurence H. Tribe, Harvard University professor;
- 2016: Tracey L. Meares, Yale University professor;
- 2017: Judge Jon O. Newman, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit;
- 2018: Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, of the Supreme Court of Canada;
- 2019: Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP partner and former Solicitor General of the United States;
- 2020 (online): Ruth Marcus, then a Washington Post associate editor and columnist and now a New Yorker magazine writer;
- 2021 (online): Melissa Murray, New York University professor and Strict Scrutiny podcast co-host;
- 2022: Reva Siegel, Yale University professor;
- 2023: Justin Driver, Yale University professor;
- 2024: Kate Shaw, University of Pennsylvania professor; and
- 2025; Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University professor.


