Erwin Chemerinsky, Frederick Lawrence, and Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick examine the Supreme Court’s 2017-2018 term. Melissa Garlick of the Anti-Defamation League moderates the discussion; Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, provides a brief introduction.
This event is presented in partnership with the Anti-Defamation League.
Participants
- Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate, and in that capacity, writes the “Supreme Court Dispatches” and “Jurisprudence” columns, and hosts the podcast Amicus – a show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Commentary, among other places. 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. Lithwick has also testified before Congress and is a frequent television commentator.
- Frederick Lawrence is the 10th Secretary and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation’s first and most prestigious honor society, founded in 1776. Lawrence is a Distinguished Lecturer at the Georgetown Law Center, and 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 one of the nation’s leading experts on civil rights, free expression and bias crimes. Lawrence has published widely and lectured internationally. He is the author of Punishing Hate: Bias Crimes Under American Law, examining bias-motivated violence and the laws governing how such violence is punished in the United States.
- Erwin Chemerinsky is the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law and 13th Dean of the University of California Berkley Law School. He is the author of 11 books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction, and has published more than 200 law review articles. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court.
- Melissa Garlick works for the Anti-Defamation Legue on policy and advocacy work regarding immigrant and refugee rights as well as a range of civil rights issues.
- 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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