Through a smash Broadway hit, Alexander Hamilton has reentered the American imagination. Judge Ketanji Jackson, Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Joshua Douglas of the University of Kentucky College of Law, and attorney Vanessa Nadal discuss what Hamilton has to teach us about the Constitution and the law. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
This event is presented in conjunction with the Center’s exhibit, Hamilton: The Constitutional Clashes That Shaped a Nation, event is presented in partnership with the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law.
Participants
- Ketanji Brown Jackson is a judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Until December of 2014, she also served as a Vice Chair and Commissioner on the United States Sentencing Commission. Prior to her four years of service on the Sentencing Commission, Jackson worked for three years as Of Counsel at Morrison & Foerster LLP, with a practice that focused on criminal and civil appellate litigation in both state and federal courts, as well as cases in the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Erwin Chemerinksy 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.
- Joshua Douglas is Thomas P. Lewis Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law. He is the author of Vote for US: How to Take Back our Elections and Change the Future of Voting, a co-author of an Election Law case book, and co-editor of Election Law Stories. Douglas has published in top journals, including the Georgetown Law Journal, Penn Law Review Online, Vanderbilt Law Review, Washington University Law Review, George Washington Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, and the Election Law Journal, among others.
- Vanessa Nadal is legal counsel for 5000 Broadway Productions. She also works with the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund and with the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham. Nadal serves on the NYC Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. Previously, she was a commercial litigation associate at Jones Day.
- 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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