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.

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.

Harvard Law School Prof. John Goldberg marked his appointment as Eli Goldston Professor of Law in 2013 with a lecture on "Inexcusable Wrongs." Goldberg focuses his scholarship on questions of responsibility, studying how law balances liberty of action against accountability for wrongdoing.