Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the shakespeare theater companys annual dinner and mock trial. Before we begin, please take this time to silence all Electronic Devices that may disrupt this evenings proceedings. Photography of this trial was tricky prohibited. Please join me in welcoming trustee and chair of the Bar Association, abby david lowell. Thank you for joining us. All the things we do, being involved in the board, doing the things we do to keep this alive. The mock trial in the Bar Association is the most joyous. Tonights annual dinner, and the support of this theater. On the text of the oresteia which was adapted by ellen the goffman and adopted from the original the oresteia with violence that can be stopped when society peers into its own soul and sees the depths of revenge, its complicity and the way out. Our performance and hope everybody got a chance to see it, our beloved artistic director at the end of his 33 years of being an artistic director. Not too long ago to cr
This book . We have all been concerned how contentiousness and vicious the confirmation process has gotten over the years. A first i was trying to figure out how much has changed is it more importantly, like, but looking through the data one of the most obvious things is it is getting more difficult on average for judicial nominees to the federal courts, it particularly has got much more difficult for the very brightest and the most influential of these to get on the court. Just a couple of numbers to summarize if you look at nominee is of the federal Circuit Court prep although the Supreme Court, for those who went to the top than law school and graduated of the law review at the top of their class, those nominees took 65 percent maunder to get to the confirmation process then someone who did not go to a top law school. Even a better way to measure the influence hatter to other judges rely on the opinions that they bright . If anything it is the impact if you look at the federal Circu
Youre watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on cspan2. Booktvs Online Book Club selection for october is representative john lewis walking with the wind a memoir of the movement. As a young child, i tasted the bitter fruits of segregation and Racial Discrimination, and i didnt like it. I asked my mother and my father, my grandparents, my great grandparents, why segregation . Why Racial Discrimination . And they said, thats the way it is. Dont get in trouble. Dont get in the way. But in 955 when 1955 when i was in the tenth grade, 15 years old, i heard of rosa parks. I heard the voice of Martin Luther king jr. On the old radio, and the words of dr. King inspired me to find a way to get in the way. In 1956 with my brothers and sisters and is some of my first cousins, we went down to the Public Library in the little town of troy, alabama, trying to get library cards, trying to check some books out. And we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites onl
Bargain and what both parties to the contract had to do, we have this messy thing called love into the bargain and it is a fancier way to up the ante again. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Booktv continues with john lott who argues partisan politicians dont like to nominate smart judges because my judge lets have the ability to think independently and influence other judges. Judges who graduated in the top10 of their law classes go through a much longer confirmation process than judges who dont. This is all little over an hour. Thanks for having me again. Is always nice to get back to the southern california. I have to say i cant take credit for having taught in a couple of those schools but i had Research Positions at them. How did i get started on this book . I think we all have been concerned by how contentious and vicious the confirmation process has gotten over the years and at first i was just trying to figure out exactly how much has changed and more
spate american bar association panel voted last week to drop the requirement that law school applicants take the lsat or another standardized test in a debate over the impact of those tests on diversity in law school admissions. the accrediting council voted overwhelmingly to do away with its testing mandate. but critics warned the move could lead to law schools admitting students who are unlikely to succeed. even as they incur significant student debt by the panel s decision comes in schools braced for a supreme court ruling on whether or not race can be a factor in college admissions. top law schools including harvard and yale announced they will no longer participate in the annual rankings published by u.s. news & world report. in part because of its emphasis on admission scores for back with dan tenure, kyle petersons and kate. so kate, where the schools doing this is really about diversity? think are some mixed motive sprayed some of the things that