Our basic structures which are very, very much the ones that were given us in 1787. But it also means theres been a lot of what lawyers have come to call informal amendment where congress or the president will act aggressively, and then the Supreme Court will basically uphold it. Or on occasion the Supreme Court is innovative, and what in some of the american states or in other countries might actually be the subject of formal amendment in this country takes place in inform always in part, as i say informal ways in part, as i say, as part of a mixture that the constitution is extraordinarily difficult to amend and anybody who suggests amendment is going to run headon into newspaper editorials and the like of how dare you think of amending our perfect constitution. I dont think our constitution anywhere close to perfect. I really wish we had a dialogue, popular dialogue that addressed the need for more amendment. One of the things i find very interesting about the president ial race tha
Of lawyer and legal writer 30 years a author of three previous books and from the Connecticut School of law and english from university of california riverside. The United States court of appeals and senior lecturer joining in conversations tonight at the law school in is here please 22 bulk of them now. [applause] so now i will plunge into a question of the biographer so when you were the age of some of the people in this room as an undergrad as a fabulous scholar with interest in literature what made you decide to go to law school . And was the default graduate choice and my father was of lawyer. But then to decide not for me. I dont think i considered anything else. Was at n informative impression was. Talk about the academic experience. It is next but they do something clever they put their best teachers and to the first year of law school so you get a good start and then the second third year is when was interesting then i realized i skipped my last Year Highschool the was only 16