Honored Speaker

Chief Justice Leo E. Strine, Jr.

Chief Justice Leo E. Strine, Jr., the 8th Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, will be the inaugural speaker in the Harold E. Kohn Lecture series.  Chief Justice Strine is among the nation's preeminent jurists, widely recognized as a leading authority on matters of corporate law as well as larger questions of governance in complex environments.  

Before becoming the Chief Justice, Strine served on the Delaware Court of Chancery as Chancellor and Vice Chancellor.  He holds adjunct teaching positions at Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt, and UCLA Schools of Law, where he teaches diverse classes in corporate law.  He is a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Program on Corporate Governance, as well as the Austin Wakeman Scott Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School.  Chief Justice Strine has served as the special judicial consultant to the ABA's Committee on Corporate Laws since 2006.

An engaging, insightful, and sometimes provocative speaker, Chief Justice Strine does not shy from controversy.   Temple Law School is honored to host the Chief Justice as the first speaker in this occasional series.