Downie also used the lecture, named after the late war correspondent and broadcaster, to criticise a journalistic culture which has led to "tabloid invasions of privacy".
In his recent Keir Hardie lecture (named after Labour's first leader) David Miliband evoked his party's pre-war tradition of mutual guilds and moral seriousness, rather than the mix of Fabian statism and cultural relativism that has prevailed since.
Mr. Ryan is to deliver the prestigious Whittington Lecture, named for an associate dean who was killed on the airplane that crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
As a former law clerk to Rehnquist, not to mention his immediate successor as Chief Justice, Roberts was an obvious choice to deliver the annual lecture named for Rehnquist at the University of Arizona law school in February.
The lecture, named in honour of legendary DJ Peel, who died in 2004, will be part of the Radio Festival in Salford at the end of this month.
Each year, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists remembers by holding a distinguished lecture named in honor of Jonathan M. Mann.
(For the purposes of the study, "invited lectures" includes named invited lectures, invited keynote addresses, invitations to overseas meetings, and presentations at premier research universities, but excludes local departmental seminars).
Even Harvard's department of sociology, which he had served for over 30 years, recently discontinued a lecture series named for him after only two years.
On the other side of the court's ideological spectrum, as another L.A. Times article noted, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg maintains involvement in a lecture series named for her that is co-sponsored by New York City's bar association and the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, which frequently participates in Supreme Court cases.
The lecture is named in honour of late BBC Radio 1 broadcaster John Peel, who died in 2004.
