The Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, recently presented a Supreme Court term review panel hosted virtually at the National Constitution Center. Moderator and veteran Supreme Court journalist Dahlia Lithwick was joined by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of Berkeley Law, former Solicitor General of the United States and current Supreme Court advocate Paul Clement, Georgetown Law professor Frederick Lawrence, and NYU Law professor Melissa Murray. This panel was streamed live on July 8, 2021.
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This episode was produced by Jackie McDermott, Tanaya Tauber, John Guerra, and Lana Ulrich. It was engineered by Greg Scheckler, Kevin Kilbourne, and Jackie McDermott.
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Erwin Chemerinsky is the 13th dean of Berkeley Law and the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law. He has previously served as the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at University of California, Irvine School of Law, with a joint appointment in political science. He is the author of 12 books, including his most recent, The Religion Clauses: The Case for Separating Church and State (with Howard Gillman).
Paul Clement is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Clement served as the 43rd Solicitor General of the United States from June 2005 until June 2008. Before his confirmation as Solicitor General, he served as Acting Solicitor General and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General. Clement is also a Distinguished Lecturer in Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, a Distinguished Lecturer in Government at Georgetown University, and Senior Fellow of the Law Center’s Supreme Court Institute.
Frederick Lawrence is the 10th Secretary and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and a distinguished lecturer at the Georgetown Law Center. He has previously served as president of Brandeis University, dean of the George Washington University Law School, and visiting professor and senior research scholar at Yale Law School. Lawrence is the author of Punishing Hate: Bias Crimes Under American Law and frequently contributes op-eds to various news sources.
Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate and writes the magazine's “Supreme Court Dispatches” and “Jurisprudence” columns. Lithwick also hosts Slate's legal news podcast Amicus. She won a 2013 National Magazine Award for her columns on the Affordable Care Act, has been twice awarded an Online Journalism Award for her legal commentary, and was the first online journalist invited to be on the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press.
Melissa Murray is Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law and the Faculty Director of the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network at NYU Law. She is an expert in constitutional law, family law, and reproductive rights and justice. Murray is the author, most recently, of "The Symbiosis of Abortion and Precedent,” published this year in the Harvard Law Review. She is also a co-host of the podcast Strict Scrutiny.
Karen Levit is the National Civil Rights Counsel at ADL. Levit leads policy and drives advocacy on civil rights issues including voting rights, criminal justice, security and civil liberties, and immigration and refugee rights. She provides specialized strategic, legal, and legislative guidance to staff around the country on civil rights issues and advocates for policies that further ADL’s mission, including the need to secure justice and fair treatment to all. Prior to joining ADL, Karen served as a staff attorney in the Juvenile Rights Practice at the Legal Aid Society in New York.
Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
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