On February 5 at Harvard Law, Kenji Yoshino, author and Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU, gave a talk on "Civil Ceremonies: Same-Sex Marriage on Trial". The talk is part of the Francis Biddle Memorial Lecture series sponsored by the HLS Dean's Office.

In 2013, Prof. Vicki Jackson marked her appointment to the Thurgood Marshall Professorship of Constitutional Law with a lecture titled "Proportionality and Judging in American Constitutionalism."

On April 10, 2013, Harvard Law School Professor Richard Lazarus '79 delivered a lecture entitled "Environmental Lawlessness" on the occasion of his appointment as the Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law.