On Dec. 4, 2025, John Shattuck, international legal scholar, diplomat, human rights leader, will be the keynote speaker for the 2025 Howard Zinn Lecture Series at Boston University.
From Shattuck’s biography page:
Professor Shattuck is an international legal scholar, diplomat, human rights leader and former university president. He began his career as a law clerk in New York in the early 1970s before teaching as a visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Politics at Princeton University. From teaching, he went on to be National Staff Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, where he worked on more than two dozen federal court cases at trial and appellate levels, including Halperin v. Kissinger, a successful challenge to the warrantless wiretapping program conducted by the Nixon White House. He was appointed director of the ACLU Washington office in the late 1970s, directing lobbying on national civil liberties and civil rights issues with the U.S. Congress and executive branch agencies during the Carter and Reagan administrations.
