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Justice Antonin Scalia: Life and Legacy

February 08, 2018

The Center commemorates the constitutional legacy of the late Justice Antonin Scalia two years after his death with two back-to-back panels featuring Supreme Court commentators and former Scalia law clerks.

The National Constitution Center commemorates the constitutional legacy of the late Justice Antonin Scalia two years after his death. Edward Whelan, leading Supreme Court commentator and editor of Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived (featuring a forward by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg), will present Justice Scalia’s opinions in his own words. A conversation with Richard Hasen, author of The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption, Kannon Shanmugam, leading Supreme Court advocate and former Scalia law clerk, and Elizabeth Wydra, president of the Constitutional Accountability Center, follows. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
 

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