Noted philosopher Martha Nussbaum delivered the Robert S. Stevens Lecture at Cornell Law School on November 6, 2009. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.
The Stevens Lecture was established in 1955 in honor of former dean of the Cornell Law School, Robert S. Stevens. The series provides law students with an opportunity to expand their legal education beyond the substantive and procedural law taught in the law school.