Today on We the People, we’re sharing a conversation from a private event hosted by the National Constitution Center this week in Coral Gables, Florida, recorded with permission from the speakers.
In it, President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen moderates a conversation with five experts about two of the biggest issues before the Supreme Court this term: abortion and guns.
Those five experts are: Melissa Murray of NYU Law, Akhil Amar of Yale Law School, Clark Neily of the Cato Institute, Kimberly Atkins Stohr of The Boston Globe, and David French of The Dispatch.
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This episode was produced by Melody Rowell. Research was provided by Sam Desai and Lana Ulrich.
Participants
Melissa Murray is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network at NYU Law. She’s also one of the hosts of Strict Scrutiny. She is a leading expert in family law, constitutional law, and reproductive rights and justice. Prior to joining the NYU faculty, Murray was on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she was the recipient of the Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction. From March 2016 to June 2017, she served as interim dean of the Berkeley Law.
Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School. His work has won awards from both the American Bar Association and the Federalist Society, and he has been cited by Supreme Court justices across the spectrum in more than 40 cases.
Clark Neily is senior vice president for legal studies at the Cato Institute. His areas of interest include constitutional law, overcriminalization, coercive plea bargaining, police accountability, and gun rights. Before joining Cato in 2017, Neily was a senior attorney and constitutional litigator at the Institute for Justice and director of the Institute’s Center for Judicial Engagement.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr is a senior opinion writer and columnist for Boston Globe Opinion. She is also the inaugural columnist for The Emancipator, a joint independent antiracist multimedia project from Globe Opinion the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, and author of its newsletter Unbound. She is also an MSNBC contributor, and co-host of the Politicon podcast #SistersInLaw.
David French is a senior editor for The Dispatch, where he also co-hosts the weekly podcast Advisory Opinions. He is a columnist for Time and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute. French is the author or co-author of several books, including his most recent book Divided We Fall. He has also served as a senior writer for the National Review, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a lecturer at Cornell Law School.
Additional Resources
- Listen to our three episodes of We the People on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- Listen to our episode, “Is There a Constitutional Right to Concealed Carry?”, which previewed arguments in the case New York State Rifle in Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen
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