In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Warren Court, join legal scholars Geoffrey Stone and David Strauss for an online America's Town Hall as they examine the lasting impact of the landmark era in constitutional history defined by Chief Justice Earl Warren. Stone and Strauss discuss some of the biggest cases decided by the Warren Court, including Brown v. Board of Education, Loving v. Virginia, Gideon v. Wainwright, and Miranda v. Arizona, as described in their new book Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Participants
- Geoffrey Stone is the is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books on constitutional law, including more recently Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court (with David Strauss); The Free Speech Century; and Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century. He has also written amicus briefs for constitutional scholars in a number of Supreme Court cases.
- David Strauss is the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law and faculty director of the Jenner & Block Supreme Court and Appellate Clinic at the University of Chicago. He has published articles on a variety of subjects, principally in constitutional law and related areas. He is the author of Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court (with Geoffrey Stone) and The Living Constitution. He has argued 19 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 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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