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A Conversation With Justice Neil Gorsuch on ‘The Human Toll of Too Much Law’

September 17, 2024

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The Honorable Neil M. Gorsuch, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and NCC honorary co-chair, and his co-author and former law clerk Janie Nitze, join for an America’s Town Hall program in celebration of Constitution Day 2024 and the release of their latest book, Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.

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Neil M. Gorsuch is an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. His previous book, A Republic, If You Can Keep It, was a New York Times bestseller and won the 2022 Burton Award for Book of the Year in Law. His new book (with Janie Nitze) is Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law. He serves as Honorary Chairman of the National Constitution Center.

Janie Nitze is a former board member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Previously, she was a law clerk to Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor of the Supreme Court of the United States. She also served as an attorney with the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice. Her new book (with Neil M. Gorsuch) is Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law.

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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