Catalogue of
Speeches, Addresses and Lectures of
Circuit Judge
Frank M. Coffin
Frank M. Coffin Catalogue of Speeches, Addresses and Lectures
I. The
Judiciary as an Institution
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The Three
Branches and How They Rub |
The Examiner
Club |
December 1,
1969 |
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The
Quality-Quantity Crunch |
Maine State
Bar Association |
January 25,
1973 |
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Untitled
Remarks |
Rhode Island
Bar Association |
September 24,
1973 |
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The Continuing
Quest for Principle |
The Examiner
Club |
November 5,
1973 |
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The Founding
Fathers and The Courts |
Portland
Kiwanis Club |
April 29, 1975 |
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"Justice
and Workability" - Five Years Later |
No venue noted |
April 28, 1976 |
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Justice as a
Coiled Spring |
Immanuel
Baptist Church, Portland, ME |
January 22,
1978 |
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The Three
Branches: Accountability In a Mixed System |
Boalt Hall Law
School, Berkley, CA |
February 26,
1979 |
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Address to the
People: What the Oracle Told Brookline |
Brookline
District Court Centennial Celebration |
May 23, 1982 |
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The Federalist
No. LXXXVI: On the Relations Between the Judiciary and Congress |
October 22,
1985 |
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Colloquium on
Congressional/Judicial Relations |
The Brookings
Institution |
November 13,
1986 |
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Working with
the Congress of The Future |
Bicentennial
Conference of Judges of the United States Courts of Appeal |
October 26,
1988 |
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A Venture in
Governance |
Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars |
May 15, 1989 |
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Judges and Legislators:
A Prospectus For Joint Venture |
Conference on
Legislative-Judicial Relations, National Center for State Courts &
National Conference of State Legislatures, Denver, CO |
October 2,
1989 |
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Communication
Among the Three Branches: The Bar as Catalyst |
New Hampshire
Bar |
May 3, 1991 |
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Triage and
Justice |
Maine Judicial
Conference |
November 14,
1991 |
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Approaching
the Future |
Committee on
the Judicial Branch |
June 8, 1992 |
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The Fourth
Estate and the Third Branch |
Knight Center
for Specialized Journalism Seminar: Covering Appellate Courts |
May 1, 1994 |
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Citizen
Support for the Courts: Getting Specific |
Conference of
Justices of the Supreme Courts of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont |
May 25, 1994 |
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Citizens As
Friends of Court |
Law Day
Ceremony at Penobscot County Courthouse |
May 1, 1996 |
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"What Can
We Do?" |
Kennebec-Somerset
Legal Secretaries Association |
May 16, 1996 |
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Testimony
before a congressional committee considering the creation of a National Court
of Appeal |
II. Judging
|
Justice and
Workability: Un Essai * |
V Suffolk
Univ. L. Rev. 567 |
1971 |
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Reflections on
the Craft of Appellate Judging |
Franklin
Thomas Backus School of Law, Case Western Reserve University |
April 18, 1977 |
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Philosophy,
Cybernetics, and The X Factor |
New England
Fellows of The American College of Trial Lawyers |
January 27,
1978 |
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Judges and
Jurisprudents |
Maine Judicial
Conference |
May 10, 1979 |
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Beyond
Competence II |
3rd Circuit Judicial
Conference |
September 1,
1981 |
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Address to the
Judges: Justice - A House of Many Mansions |
Brookline
District Court Centennial Celebration |
May 23, 1982 |
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Collegiality:
A Judicial Discipline |
Federal
Appellate Judges Seminar Federal Judicial Center |
December 15,
1982 |
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The Roles of
Separate Opinions in a Collegial Court |
Federal
Appellate Judges Seminar Federal Judicial Center |
December 15,
1982 |
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Judex
Americanus: An Endangered Species? |
Eighth Circuit
Judicial Conference |
July 8, 1983 |
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Is There an
"Art of Judging" |
First Annual
Convocation For Experienced Trial Judges, Boston, MA |
January 30,
1984 |
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The Anatomy of
Judicial Collegiality |
Seminar for
Newly Appointed Federal Appellate Judges, Federal Judicial Center |
May 1, 1985 |
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Remarks |
Commission on
Executive, Legislative and Judicial Salaries |
October 21,
1986 |
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Housekeeping
in the Age of Statutes |
DC Circuit
Conference |
May 24, 1988 |
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Grace Under
Pressure: A Call For Judicial Self-Help * |
50 Ohio State
L.J. 399 |
1989 |
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Testimony |
United States Senate
Committee On Governmental Affairs |
January 31,
1989 |
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Judging in the
Constitutional Workshop |
Bowdoin
College |
February 13,
1989 |
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Untitled
Remarks |
Second
National Conference of the Federal Judges Association |
May 23, 1989 |
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What It Means
To Be A Federal Appellate Judge - A Fable |
Luncheon for New
Judges; National Workshop for Appellate Judges |
February 8,
1993 |
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Judges' Pay:
The Federal Experience |
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The Making of
Tomorrow's Appellate Judge |
Federal
Judicial Center Seminar for New Federal Appellate Judges |
June 25, 1994 |
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Acceptance of Distinguished
American Award |
State of Maine
Chapter, National Football Fall Foundation and College Hall of Fame |
May 24, 1995 |
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The Art of
Judging |
Maine Judges
Continuing Judicial Education Session |
July 14, 1995 |
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Love With A
Proper Stranger: Collegiality on an Appellate Court |
ABA Appellate Judges
Conference |
March 2, 2002 |
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My Judicial
Key Ring |
Morton A.
Brody Award for Distinguished Judicial Service, Colby College |
March 19, 2006 |
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Draft Remarks |
Retirement
Dinner with the First Circuit |
May 2, 2006 |
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Thoughts About
"Retirement" |
Law Clerk's
Picnic |
July 2, 2006 |
III. The
Law
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Some
Reflections on the Roots of Rights |
Rotary Club,
Portland, ME |
April 29, 1966 |
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Untitled
Remarks |
National
Council on Crime and Delinquency |
September 8,
1966 |
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The Dark Side
of the Law |
Rotary Club,
Lewiston-Auburn, ME |
October 27,
1966 |
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A Charter for
all Seasons |
Rotary Club,
Waterville, ME |
May 8, 1967 |
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Confederation
and Interdependence |
Colby College,
Waterville, ME |
June 1, 1975 |
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A Backward
Look Forward * |
XII Suffolk
Univ. L. Rev. 203 |
1978 |
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Two Thirds of
a Century: Sights Taken in 1911 and
1978 |
Cumberland
County Bar Association |
January 24,
1978 |
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The Frontier
of Remedies: A Call for Exploration * |
67 California
L. Rev. 983 |
1979 |
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Our Continuing
Constitutional Convention: The Three Faces of Freedom |
The Meiklejohn
Lecture, Brown University |
May 4, 1983 |
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Living With
Our Constitution |
Maine
Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution |
September 17,
1986 |
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A Genealogy of
Founders * |
39 U. ME L.
Rev. 247 |
1987 |
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The Rocky Road
to Ratification - and the Massachusetts Pot Hole |
The Examiner
Club |
January 4,
1987 |
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Judicial
Balancing: The Protean Scales of Justice * |
63 New York
Univ. L. Rev. 16 |
1987 |
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Our
Constitution: Edifice of Four Stories |
The Davies
Forum, University of San Francisco |
April 27, 1987 |
IV. The
Legal Profession
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The Faces of
Advocacy |
Harvard Legal
Aid Bureau, Harvard Law School |
March 10, 1966 |
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The Bench and
the Pit |
Maine State
Bar Association |
August 24,
1966 |
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A Gift to the
Class of 1978 |
University of
Maine School of Law |
May 27, 1978 |
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Shape of the
Law - Eve of the Third Millennium |
35th Reunion
of the Harvard Law School Class of 1943 |
June 1978 |
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The Judge as
Advocate's Consumer: On Reading Briefs and Hearing Arguments |
Boalt Hall
School of Law, University of California, Berkley |
February 27,
1979 |
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Beyond
Competence |
Massachusetts
Bar Foundation |
June 19, 1981 |
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Address to New
Members of The Maine Bar |
Cumberland
County Courthouse |
April 23, 1982 |
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The Law - A
Humanistic Profession? |
The Morell E.
Sharp Memorial Luncheon, Washington State Bar Foundation |
1983 |
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The
Androscoggin Bar - Past and Future |
Androscoggin
County Bar Association |
May 23, 1983 |
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Finding
Serenity in the Practice of Law |
Renewing
Fealty to the Law: A Liberal Arts Seminar for Lawyers, Grinnell College |
June 9, 1984 |
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Reflections on
the Future as a Tool |
Maine State
Bar Association |
January 20,
1984 |
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Our Search for
Shangri-Law |
Maine State
Bar Association |
January 20,
1984 |
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Looking Ahead
at Our Profession |
Rhode Island
State Bar Association |
June 22, 1984 |
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Our Appellate
Advocacy - A Unique and Wonderful Institution |
Judicial
Conference of the Second Circuit |
September 13,
1984 |
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Lecture on
Oral Argument: Appellate Advocacy Colloquium |
Franklin
Pierce Law Center |
November 18,
1985 |
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Pressure
Points in the Appellate Process |
University of
Maine School of Law |
February 20,
1986 |
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High Pressure
Cookery: Warm Counsel and Hot Bencher |
No venue noted |
January 22,
1987 |
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A Call for
Renaissance In Legal Ethics |
Boston
University Law School |
January 8,
1990 |
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Federal Court
Practice: A Day in the Life of the Federal Court, the Appellate Prospective |
No venue noted |
May 11, 1990 |
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A Scroll from
the Ashes |
University of Maine
School of Law |
May 12, 1990 |
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Remarks |
Centenary
Banquet, Maine State Bar Association |
April 5, 1991 |
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The Bar and
the Courts: A New Dimension |
New England
Bar Association |
September 27,
1991 |
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Thoughts on
"Looking Ahead" |
Governance
Institute Conference: The Law Firm and the Public Good |
June 23, 1995 |
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Time For A
Second Wind |
Cumberland Bar
Association |
January 24,
1996 |
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Commencement
Address |
Boston College
Law School |
May 26, 1996 |
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"Neither
Trick Nor Treat" |
Fall Forum II |
October 31,
1996 |
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Acceptance
Remarks |
Presentation
of the Maine Bar Foundation's Howard H. Dana, Jr. Award, Maine State Bar
Association |
January 17,
1997 |
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Remarks |
30th
Anniversary of Pine Tree Legal Assistance |
December 1,
1997 |
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Our
Professionalism |
First Circuit
Judicial Conference |
October 12,
1999 |
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The Symbiotic
Professions and the Appellate Process |
The American
College of Trial Lawyers |
June 15, 2002 |
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Remarks |
10th Year
Celebration of the Coffin Fellows Program |
November 7,
2007 |
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Remarks |
Coffin Fellows
Luncheon |
September 18,
2006 |
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Thinking Like
A Lawyer |
Commencement
Address for the Class of 2008, University of Maine School of Law |
May 24, 2008 |
V. Legal
Education
|
On the
Importance of Being Yourself |
Cape Elizabeth
High School |
June 16, 1966 |
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Gullible's
Travails: A Prospective Law Student Visits Brobdingnag, a Professional
Corporation |
Northeastern
University School of Law 34 Journal of Legal Education |
April 23, 1983 |
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The Law School
and the Profession: A Need for Bridges |
Center for Study
of Law, Nova University |
January 28,
1987 11 Nova L.
Rev. 1055 |
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The Judicial
Clerkship: A Venerable American Institution |
Ninth Circuit
Law Clerk Orientation Seminar |
September 25,
1996 |
VI. Tributes
|
On the Death
of Martin Luther King, Jr. * |
20 University
of Maine L. Rev. 171 |
1968 |
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Judge Edward
T. Gignoux Distinguished Service Award |
Maine State
Bar Association |
June 20, 1983 |
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Remarks at
Induction of Judge Gene Carter |
Federal
Courthouse Portland, ME |
July 5, 1983 |
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Judge Edward
T. Gignoux - A Personal Appreciation
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36 University
of Maine L. Rev. 191 |
1984 |
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Introduction
of Congressman Barney Frank |
Maine State
Bar Association |
January 25,
1985 |
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Thomas E. Delahanty |
Androscoggin
County Courthouse |
June 29, 1985 |
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The Legend of Sirs
John and Harry |
Retirement of
Court Officer and Reporter, Portland Country Club |
January 10,
1986 |
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Chronicle of
the First Joint Revel of the Expanded (by spouses) High Courts of Maine and
the First Circuit |
First Circuit
Maine Conference |
March 7, 1986 |
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Judge Bailey
Aldrich Argument to the Really Supreme Court |
First Circuit
Judges Meeting |
May 6, 1987 |
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Remarks in
Memory of Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. |
Federal
Courthouse, Boston, MA |
June 9, 1987 |
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Portrait
Presentation |
Edward T.
Gignoux Courthouse |
February 3,
1989 |
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Reflections on
the Presentation of my Portrait |
Federal
Courthouse, Boston, MA |
September 8,
1989 |
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Judge Hugh
Bownes - One of a Kind |
First Circuit
Judges Meeting |
February 8,
1990 |
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Remarks at Induction
of Judge D. Brock Hornby |
Federal
Courthouse, Bangor, ME |
June 11, 1990 |
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Remarks at the
Portrait Presentation for Judge Frank M. Murray |
Federal
Courthouse, Boston, MA |
October 23,
1990 |
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Remarks at
Induction of Judge Morton A. Brody |
Federal
Courthouse, Bangor, ME |
October 7,
1991 |
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Remarks at
Portrait Presentation for Senior Circuit Judge Levin H. Campbell |
Federal
Courthouse, Boston, MA |
October 9,
1992 |
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Introduction
of Justice William Brennan and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. |
First Coffin
Lecture on Law and Social Policy, University of Maine School of Law |
October 13,
1992 |
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Remarks at
Presentation of Portrait of Former Chief Justice Vincent McKusick of the Maine
Supreme Judicial Court |
Cumberland
County Courthouse |
June 17, 1993 |
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Introduction
of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
Second Annual
Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service |
October 7,
1993 |
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Remarks on
Installation of Juan Torruella as Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for
the First Circuit |
Federal
Courthouse, Boston, MA |
September 7,
1994 |
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Introduction
of US Circuit Judge Patricia M. Wald |
Third Annual
Frank M. Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service, University of Maine School
of Law |
September 28,
1994 |
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A Maine
Pantheon of Heroes and Worthies |
The Neil W.
Allen, Jr. Lecture on Maine Legal and Social History on the Occasion of the
175th Anniversary of Statehood |
March 15, 1995 |
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Introduction
of Solicitor General Drew S. Days III |
Fourth Annual
Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service, University of Maine School of Law |
September 13,
1995 |
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Introduction
of Alvin J. Bronstein |
Fifth Annual
Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service, University of Maine School of Law |
October 8,
1996 |
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Donald W.
Webber: Memorial Remarks |
Androscoggin
County Courthouse |
October 10,
1996 |
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Jean Byers
Sampson: Memorial Remarks |
Bates College |
December 1,
1996 |
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Celebration of
Bailey Aldrich's Commencement of his 10th Decade |
The Harvard
Club, Boston, MA |
May 7, 1997 |
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Introduction
of Robert B. Reich |
Sixth Annual
Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service, University of Maine School of Law |
October 6,
1997 |
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Remarks at the
Unveiling of the Portrait of Justice Stephen G. Breyer |
United States
Courthouse, Boston, MA |
January 5,
1998 |
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Introduction
of Warren Rudman |
Seventh Annual
Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service, University of Maine School of Law |
October 1,
1998 |
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Remarks at
Induction of Robert Katzman |
United States
Courthouse, NY |
October 25,
1999 |
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Introduction
of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
Eighth Annual
Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service, University of Maine School of Law |
November 22,
1999 |
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Remarks In
Memory of Judge Morton A. Brody |
Beth Israel
Synagogue, Waterville, ME |
March 27, 2000 |
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Introduction
of Alan Morrison |
Ninth Annual
Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service |
October 12,
2000 |
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Introduction
of Professor Chai Feldblum |
Tenth Annual Coffin
Lecture on Law and Public Service, University of Maine School of Law |
October 15,
2001 |
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Remarks In
Memory of Judge Bailey Aldrich |
First Circuit
Conference, Chatham, MA |
October 4,
2002 |
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Judge Bailey Aldrich
Memorial Remarks |
Harvard
Memorial Church |
October 5,
2002 |
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Dana H. Gallup
Memorial Remarks |
First Baptist
Church |
October 16,
2002 |
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Introduction
of Judge Cruz Reynoso |
Eleventh
Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service |
October 17,
2002 |
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Remarks at
Portrait Presentation for Daniel Wathen |
Kennebec
County Courthouse |
April 11, 2003 |
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Remarks at
Induction of John Woodcock, Jr. |
United State
Courthouse, Bangor, ME |
October 2,
2003 |
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Introduction
of Scott Harshbarger |
Twelfth Coffin
Lecture on Law and Public Service, University of Maine, School of Law |
October 15,
2003 |
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Memorial
Remarks for Judge Hugh H. Bownes |
United States
Courthouse, Concord, NH |
December 13,
2003 |
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Video Tribute
to Muskie Awardee Shep Lee and Comments on Brown v. Board of Education |
Chambers |
March 25, 2004 |
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Introduction
of Justice Richard J. Goldstone |
Thirteenth Coffin
Lecture on Law and Public Service, University of Maine School of Law |
October 14,
2004 |
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Edward
Godfrey: The Passing of a Venerable |
First Parish
Church |
February 5,
2005 |
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Introduction of
Eliot Spitzer |
Fourteenth
Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service, University of Maine School of Law |
October 18,
2005 |
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Introduction
of Kenneth R. Feinberg |
Fifteenth
Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service, University of Maine School of Law |
October 18,
2007 |
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Chief Judge
Judith Kaye |
Sixteenth Coffin
Lecture on Law and Public Service, University of Maine School of Law |
November 6,
2008 |
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Introduction
of Dean Kurt L. Schmoke |
Seventeenth
Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service, University of Maine School of Law |
October 23,
2009 |
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Portrait
Presentation for Judge John D. Clifford, Jr. |
Edward T.
Gignoux Courthouse |
November 6,
2009 |
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