Town Hall

2023 Annual Supreme Court Review

July 14, 2023

The National Constitution Center and the Anti-Defamation League present an America’s Town Hall featuring legal experts Erwin Chemerinsky, Miguel EstradaGregory G. GarreFrederick M. Lawrence, and Dahlia Lithwick to discuss the most significant decisions of the term, including cases on affirmative action, religious accommodation, social media regulation, voting rights, and more. Journalist Amy Howe moderates. Introductory remarks are provided by Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and Marjorie Zessar, chair of ADL’s Legal Affairs Committee.

This program is presented in partnership with ADL.


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Erwin Chemerinsky is Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law and dean of the Berkeley Law School, University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of 15 books, including Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism and Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable.

Miguel A. Estrada is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He has argued 24 cases before the United States Supreme Court, and briefed many others. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he served as Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States as well as Assistant U.S. Attorney and Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York.

Gregory G. Garre is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins and Global Chair of the firm’s Supreme Court & Appellate Practice. He previously served as the 44th Solicitor General of the United States, Principal Deputy Solicitor General, and as an Assistant to the Solicitor General. He has argued 48 cases before the Supreme Court and has briefed and served as counsel of record in hundreds of additional cases before the Court at both the merits and certiorari stage.

Amy Howe served as the editor and reporter for SCOTUSblog until September 2016, where she continues to serve as an independent contractor and reporter. She previously served as counsel in over two dozen merits cases at the Supreme Court and argued two cases there. She has also held teaching posititons at Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, American University’s Washington College of Law, and Vanderbilt Law School.

Frederick M. Lawrence is the 10th Secretary and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is also 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, visiting professor and senior research scholar at Yale Law School, and Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Dahlia Lithwick  is the senior legal correspondent at Slate and host of AmicusSlate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law. Her work has also appeared in The New York TimesHarper’s MagazineThe New YorkerThe Washington PostThe New Republic, and Commentary, among other places. She is the author of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America.

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