By the bequest of
India Crago Harris, a trust in honor of her husband,
Addison C. Harris, was established to fund a public lecture series at
Indiana University Bloomington's
Maurer School of Law. The first lectures in this series were delivered in 1949. Several of them have been published in the
Indiana Law Journal, including
Chief Justice Earl Warren's keynote address in 1957 at the dedication ceremonies for the new Law School building. More recently,
Jack Balkin of
Yale Law School delivered "The Recent Unpleasantness: Understanding the Cycles of Constitutional Time", on September 13, 2017. Addison C. Harris was admitted to the bar in 1865, following his graduation from Western Christian University (present-day
Butler University) in 1862 and law studies with
Indiana Supreme Court Justice Samuel E. Perkins. Harris became a prominent Indianapolis lawyer, a member of the
Indiana Senate (1876 to 1880), and served as
U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (ambassador) to Austria-Hungary (1899 to 1901) during
President William McKinley's administration. In addition, Harris was a founder and president (1899 to 1904) of the Indiana Law School, which was a forerunner to the
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis, and president of the
Indiana State Bar Association (1904), among his other civic contributions. ==Notable contributors==