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The Honorable Sundaresh Menon, Chief Justice of Singapore, presented the James P. White Lecture on Legal Education. His address took place in the Inlow Hall Wynne Courtroom on October 30.

Justice Menon's topic was "Law Schools -- A Time of New Burdens and New Beginnings." He talked about how the practice of law continues to change in response to globalization, technology, and market pressures, and presented how legal education needs to respond to these challenges. He served as a member of the Senate of the Singapore Academy of Law, and as Chairman of the Advisory Board for the School of Law of Singapore Management University. He received his LL.B. with first-class honors from the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.

Justice Menon served as Attorney General before being appointed as a Judge of Appeal of the Court of Appeal, and took office as Singapore's fourth Chief Justice in 2012. He is the first non-Chinese, youngest, and the first Singapore-born Chief Justice in the country's history.

Professor White, for whom the lecture is named, retired in 2000 after 26 years as Consultant on Legal Education to the ABA; he continues to serve as Consultant Emeritus. The office is responsible for law school accreditation, collection of statistics, among other duties. He continues to represent the ABA in a number of international legal education activities. The ABA and friends established this annual endowed lecture on legal education at IU McKinney in his honor.

In the photo from left are Professor Emeritus James P. White, Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, and Dean Andrew R. Klein.