John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellow Lecture
2022-2023 Raben Lecture: (From left) YLS Deputy Dean Yair Listokin '05, Stanford Bus. Prof. Joshua D. Rauh, YLS Prof. and Center Dir. Roberta Romano '80, and Center Exec. Dir. Nancy Liao '05
2021-2022 Raben Lecture: World Bank Group SVP and Chief Economist Carmen Reinhart
2018-2019 Raben Lecture: Northwestern Prof. of Arts and Sciences Joel Mokyr
2017-2018 Raben Lecture: MIT Sloan Prof. Robert Gibbons
Audience at 2017-2018 Raben Lecture with MIT Sloan Prof. Robert Gibbons
2016-2017 Raben Lecture: Princeton Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Prof. Simon Levin
2015-2016 Raben Lecture: Harvard History Prof. Niall Ferguson
2014-2015 Raben Lecture: Harvard Econ. Prof. Sendhil Mullainathan
2013-2014 Raben Lecture: MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew W. Lo
Audience at 2013-2014 Raben Lecture with MIT Sloan Prof. Andrew W. Lo
2012-2013 Raben Lecture: MIT Sloan Prof. Antoinette Schoar
2011-2012 Raben Lecture: H. Rodgin Cohen, Partner and Senior Chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
2010-2011 Raben Lecture: U. of Chicago Booth Prof. Richard H. Thaler
2008-2009 Raben Lecture: (From left) U. of Chicago Booth Prof. Luigi Zingales and YLS Prof. and Center Dir. Roberta Romano '80
2007-2008 Raben Lecture: U. of Chicago Booth Prof. Raghuram Rajan
2006-2007 Raben Lecture: MIT Econ. Prof. Bengt Holmstrom
2005-2006 Raben Lecture: (From left) Then YLS Dean Harold Koh, Harvard Econ. Prof. Oliver Hart, and YLS Prof. and Center Dir. Roberta Romano '80
2004-2005 Winter Lecture: Harvard Law Prof. Lucian Bebchuk
Administered by the Center, the John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellowship Fund brings to the Law School a leading expert in securities law or the accounting for business enterprises, among other things, who delivers a public lecture at the School.
Most Recent Raben Lecture
The Ormond Family Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
“Regulating Investment Management and Retirement Plans in the Age of ESG.”
Bebchuk, Lucian (Harvard Law) (2004-2005)
Coffee, John C. Jr. '69 (Columbia Law) (2000-2001)
Cohen, H. Rodgin (Sullivan & Cromwell LLP) (2011-2012)
Ferguson, Niall (Harvard) (2015-2016)
Gibbons, Robert (MIT Sloan) (2017-2018)
Gilson, Ronald J. '71 (Stanford and Columbia Law) (2001-2002)
Hart, Oliver (Harvard) (2005-2006)
Holmstrom, Bengt (MIT) (2006-2007)
Levin, Simon (Princeton) (2016-2017)
Lo, Andrew W. (MIT Sloan) (2013-2014)
Mahoney, Paul G. '84 (UVA Law) (2002-2003)
Mokyr, Joel (Northwestern) (2018-2019)
Mullainathan, Sendhil (Harvard) (2014-2015)
Rajan, Raghuram G. (U. of Chicago Booth) (2007-2008)
Ramseyer, J. Mark (Harvard Law School) (2003-2004)
Rauh, Joshua D. (Stanford GSAS) (2022-2023)
Reinhart, Carmen (World Bank) (2021-2022)
Schoar, Antoinette (MIT Sloan) (2012-2013)
Thaler, Richard H. (U. of Chicago Booth) (2010-2011)
Zingales, Luigi (U. of Chicago Booth) (2008-2009)
John R. Raben ’39
“No chronicle of any length could capture how potent a figure John’s character, intellect and spirit made him with his clients and those with whom he dealt on behalf of his clients, and with his partners, associates and other co-workers at Sullivan & Cromwell… For all of John’s intensity and rigor as a lawyer, he never confused anyone for very long about what the man was like; warm and thoughtful, generous and forgiving. And in spite of the strength and confidence he projected, there was a boyish element, a shyness in him, a paradox with roots, one judges, in his awareness that his great gifts were, after all, gifts.”
— John F. Cannon, then a younger partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, speaking of John R. Raben for a firm history.
John R. Raben '39 was a partner of the Sullivan & Cromwell law firm. He was counsel to investment banking and accounting firms and associations, including the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and counsel to the industry task force that helped draft the Securities Investor Protection Corporation Legislation. Upon his death in 1975, Sullivan & Cromwell established a fellowship fund in his honor at the Law School, which was augmented by his friends.