Publications, Lectures, and Courses

Over the course of my career, I have published on a wide variety of issues, taught law and policy courses and delivered public lectures across the world.

New Publications

Transformation, Renewal and Regeneration
By Lydia Lazar | December 2023

Eco-Ag is Regenerative Ag—and Vice Versa!
By Lydia Lazar | March, 2023

Ai Weiwei and Free Expression in the 21st Century
By Lydia Lazar | January, 2022

Soil Health is National Security
By Lydia Lazar | October, 2021

Fairly Recent Publications

Dean Lazar's Golden Guide: Pragmatic Career Advice for Everyone 2020 edition

Century of the City?
By Lydia Lazar | December 9, 2013

Will Technology Save or Sink Higher Ed?
By Lydia Lazar | November 26, 2013

Will Private Equity Save Higher Ed?
By Lydia Lazar | November 11, 2013

Meeting the Global Demand for Higher Ed
By Lydia Lazar | November 5, 2013

Earlier Publications

Babel in Bangkok,
Illinois State Bar Association Newsletter (Spring 2007)

Stop the Genocide in Darfur: Bribe the Chinese!
Illinois State Bar Association Newsletter (Winter 2006)

NAFTA: Structural Damage to the Ship of State?
2001 Employment Law Update, edited by Henry H. Perritt, Jr.

NAFTA Dispute Resolution: Secret Corporate Weapon?
Journal of Global Financial Markets (Winter 2000).

Even Earlier Publications (as Lydia Herman)

Cogeneration in the Nonprofit Sector, NOPEC NETWORK (Spring 1986)

New York State's Bottle Bill:The Experience After Two Years, Nuova Ecologia v.8, No.23 (February 1986, Rome, Italy)

Hunger in New York, Scienza ed Experienza v.2, No.6 (September 1983, Milan, Italy)

Mexico City:1983. Final Report of Investigative Team, with David Wilk, Urban Resource Systems (1983)

The New York Metropolitan Area Produce Market: A New Opportunity to Preserve Long Island Farmland, with Richard Carlson, T. Goldfarb and B. Commoner. Final Report to the J.M. Kaplan Fund. CBNS Publication (1982)

2018–2020 Golden Guide Presentations

• Job Hunting During the Pandemic

  • Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico April 2020

• Networking Like a Pro

  • UIC Global April 2019

• Career THINKING 101

  • American Marketing Assn Collegiate Conference April 2019

• Storytelling and Networking

  • Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Career Day May 2018

• Networking Like a Pro

  • Women of Dartmouth INSPIRE Workshop April 2018

• Introduction to Career Thinking For Undergraduates

  • DePaul University February 2018

Public Lectures

• Trends in Digital Education

  • Police Administration in the Digital Age. Bangkok, Thailand (March 2019)

• Love Our Constitution

  • The Promise and Challenge of an Independent Judiciary (2017)

• Making a Difference as an Individual

  • offered from 2012-2015 at the following universities in China:

    • Wuhan University of Technology (2015)

    • Beijing University of Posts and Telegraphs; Tongji University, Hunan Women's University, Communications University (2014)

    • Renmin University; China University of Political Science and Law, (2013)

• Selected topics in Law

  • offered 2007-2009 in law schools

    • 2009: Delhi, Mumbai, and Pune, India

    • 2008: Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil

    • 2007: Argentina and Brazil

• 2006

  • U.S.-Thailand Free Trade Agreement—Investment Chapter Issues. Panel Participant, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

• 2005

  • Crisis in Darfur, Sudan: Panel Participant, Dartmouth Lawyers’ Association, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

• 2005

  • LLM and Exchange Programs: Lessons Learned, Challenges Ahead. Address to the AALS Law School Deans’ Conference, Beijing, China

• 2003–2006

  • Now and Then: Constraints on Civil Liberties in the United States. Augsburg, Cologne, and Dusseldorf Law Faculties (Germany) and the University of Metz (France)

• 2004

  • Judicial Review: New Scholarship. Talk for Magistrates in Trento, Italy

  • Investor-Sovereign Dispute Resolution in the Global Trading System. Talk for PhD Students at University of Trento, Italy

• 2003

  • Investor-Sovereign Dispute Resolution Language: Corporate Windfall or Free Trade Necessity? Faculty Talk at City University of Hong Kong

Law and Policy Courses

• Law and Veterans’ Issues:

  • University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, Winter 2013.

• Introduction to the American Legal System and American Legal Terminology

  • The 21st Century Institute, 2014

  • Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2001-2010

    • Full Semester (Chicago)

    • 2 Week Intensives in China (Shenzhen, Beijing) and in Bangkok, Thailand

  • University of Trento, Italy, (3 weeks) 2004