2021 World Health Day Keynote, University of Chicago

World Health Day Keynote Address Center for Global Health, University of Chicago John Palfrey, April 7, 2021 Thank you, Dr. Olopade, for your kind introduction. Thanks to Dean Gorman-Smith and all of you at the University of Chicago Center for Global Health for inviting me to speak this morning in honor of World Health Day. … Read more

2021 Klinsky Lecture, Harvard Law School

Klinsky Lecture: Technology in the Public InterestHarvard Law SchoolApril 2021John Palfrey Thank you, Dean Manning, for your kind introduction and for the opportunity to serve as the Klinsky Visiting Professor of Practice for Leadership and Progress in this auspicious year. It is such a treat to be back with all of you at Harvard Law … Read more

Danner: Taming Multiplicity in a Post-Print Era

Prof. Richard Danner of Duke Law School is giving a truly inspiring lecture today at Harvard about libraries and legal information.  He has grounded his talk in a lecture by Morris Cohen, a former Harvard Law School library director and professor (later, he had both jobs at Yale as well), about the “multiplicity” of legal … Read more

Upcoming Lecture: Richard Danner on Open Access (4/29 at 12:30 p.m. at Harvard)

I’m just thrilled that Richard Danner has agreed to give a major lecture on the Harvard campus about open access on April 29, 2010.  As a rookie law library director, I’ve asked many people in the profession about the leaders in the field, and roads inevitably lead to Danner, among a small handful of others … Read more