University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø law Professor Richard Delgado was named the 18th annual Wayne Morse Professor of Law and Politics at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
The Wayne Morse Chair was established by an act of Congress to commemorate the fiercely independent and long-serving senator from Oregon. Previous occupants include former presidential candidates George McGovern and Eugene McCarthy, journalist Fred Friendly, former U.S. Sen. Tim Wirth and lawyer John Echohawk.
Delgado is CU's Jean Lindsley Professor of Law. While in Eugene, he gave a series of talks, seminars, and colloquia, culminating in his Wayne Morse Address titled "No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America's Social Agenda."
Delgado also was recently selected to deliver the annual Hugo Black lecture at the University of Alabama Law School at Tuscaloosa. Established in memory of the late U.S. Supreme Court justice and defender of civil liberties, the lecture provides an opportunity for a judge, law professor or other legal figure to address cutting-edge social issues. The title of Delgado's address was "Arguments Against -- and the Future of -- Affirmative Action."
This fall, Delgado delivered the Corcoran Lecture at Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich., and the keynote address on the role of diversity in higher education at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.