Events and Speakers (2025-26)


ANNUAL MEETING AND LUNCHEON

Topic: TBD
Featured Speaker: Professor Martin S. Flaherty*
Friday, May 8, 2026
10:30 am to 1:30 pm
(luncheon and speaker portion of event begins at 11:45am)
Scarsdale Golf Club

*Speaker bio:

Martin S. Flaherty is Leitner Family Professor of International Human Rights Law and Founding Co-Director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School. He is also a longtime Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where he was Fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs and also currently teaches at Columbia Law School and Barnard College. Professor Flaherty has previously taught at China University of Political Science and Law and the National Judges College in Beijing, Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Queen’s University Belfast. Professor Flaherty earlier served as a law clerk for Justice Byron R. White of the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Judge John Gibbons of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Flaherty received a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was Book Reviews and Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review, an M.A. and M.Phil., with distinction, from Yale (in history), and B.A. summa cum laude from Princeton. Flaherty’s scholarly publications focus upon constitutional law and history, foreign affairs, and international human rights and appear in such journals as the Columbia Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Michigan Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, the Harvard Journal of Law and Policy, and the Harvard Human Rights Journal. He has written, appeared, or been quoted in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, the Boston Globe, the Daily News, Newsday, the PBS Newshour, CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. He is also the author of the Restoring the Global Judiciary: Why the Supreme Court Should Rule in Foreign Affairs (Princeton University Press, 2019).



Events from Earlier this Year


FALL MEMBERSHIP COFFEE

Friday, September 26, 2025
10:00 am to 11:30 am
Scarsdale Public Library, Scott Room
Topic: Village Projects and Priorities
Featured Guests: Village Manager Alex Marshall, Mayor Justin Arest, Deputy Mayor Dara Gruenberg, and Village Trustee Jason Kofman


FOOD FOR THOUGHT SPEAKER EVENT


WINTER COCKTAIL PARTY AND FUNDRAISER

Saturday, January 24, 2026
5 pm to 7 pm
Private Home

Our winter social is an event not to be missed! All are welcome to enjoy a fun and festive evening with good food and League friends.