A SUPREME COURT REVIEW
WEDNESDAY, July 8, 2009, 6:30 P.M.
$9 members, $15 non-members, $7 students and teachers.
Reservations Required.
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LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Annenberg Center for Education and Outreach
F.M. Kirby Auditorium
National Constitution Center
Independence Mall
525 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA
Please note: The garage at the National Constitution Center will be closed for guests of this program. Parking is available for $9.00 at the IVC garage located on 6th Street between Market and Arch Streets.
As the Supreme Court of the United States concludes its current session, the National Constitution Center welcomes veteran Supreme Court correspondent Lyle Denniston to lead a discussion with other prominent legal scholars and court experts including Dahlia Lithwick and Richard Pildes about the most significant rulings and how these decisions will impact the lives of Americans. The program will also address the announced retirement of Justice David H. Souter and how the nature of the Court might change when his successor joins the bench. This program is presented as part of the Knight Constitutional Conversations series.
Lyle Denniston, now in his 61st year as a journalist, has reported on the Supreme Court for 51 years and covered one fourth of the Justices ever to sit on the Supreme Court bench. Denniston is currently covering the Court for SCOTUSblog, an online clearing house of information about the Supreme Court’s work. He is the author of The Reporter and The Law: Techniques of Covering the Courts (Columbia University Press, 1992) and contributed two chapters to 100 Americans Making Constitutional History (CQ Press, 2004).
Miguel A. Estrada is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Co-Chair of the firm's Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group. Estrada has argued a broad range of matters before the United States Supreme Court. He was also part of the team that successfully presented then-Governor Bush’s position to the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore. From 1992 until 1997, Estrada served as Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States. He previously served as Assistant U.S. Attorney and Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York. Estrada served as a law clerk to the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy in the U.S. Supreme Court and to the Honorable Amalya L. Kearse in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate, writes the column "Supreme Court Dispatches" and has covered the Microsoft trial and other legal issues. Before joining Slate, she worked for a family law firm in Reno, Nevada, and clerked for Procter Hug, chief justice of the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1996. Her work has appeared in the New Republic, Commentary, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Elle and on CNN.com. She is a weekly legal commentator for the NPR show, Day to Day. She is co-author of Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World and I Will Sing Life: Voices from the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.
Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been honored as a Guggenheim and Carnegie fellow. He is one of the nation's leading academics, lawyers, and public commentators on legal issues concerning the design of democratic processes and institutions. Co-author of the casebook, The Law of Democracy, and an editor of The Future of the Voting Rights Act, Pildes’ scholarship is cited frequently in Supreme Court decisions. His major academic work focuses on the role of Congress and the President in areas including national security; the Voting Rights Act; the history of disfranchisement; and numerous issues in constitutional theory. As a lawyer, he has won cases in the United States Supreme Court and several federal Courts of Appeal. He was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
The Knight Constitutional Conversation series has been generously underwritten by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation promotes excellence in journalism worldwide and invests in the vitality of the U.S. communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Knight Foundation focuses on projects with the potential to create transformational change. For more, visit www.knightfoundation.org.
Parking for this event is available for $9.00 at the IVC garage on located on 6th Street between Market and Arch Streets. Parking availability is subject to change, so please call the Center on the day of the program or check our web site for more information. Please also see our directions by public transportation.
For reservations please call 215.409.6700 or register online. Programs at the National Constitution Center begin promptly and latecomers may not be admitted to the program. Please note that this program is subject to change.
Related Links:
Supreme Court of the United States
The Interactive Constitution, Article III
SCOTUSblog
