Chief Justice Frank J. Williams, who has served on a military commission review panel for Guantanamo Bay tribunals, will speak at the University of Hawai'i law school on Thursday.

The lecture is meant to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.

Williams, a Lincoln scholar and chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, will give a lecture called, "Leadership During Wartime: Abraham Lincoln, Wartime Law and Contemporary Lessons for Presidential Power."

The free lecture is open to the public. It kicks off at 6 p.m. in classroom 2 at the law school.

For a half hour before the lecture, a reception will be held in the law school courtyard.