President ial debates on American History tv on cspan3. The Senate Judiciary subcommittee on intellectual property held a hearing on u. S. Copy right law and the 1998 copy right act which says when hosts must remove pirated content. This hearing will come to order turn your microphone. This hearing will come to order. While im disappointed we cant be together in person today, im grateful to chairman graham and Ranking Member feinstein and our clerk for facilitating todays hearing through webex. I want to make clear that this hearing is no way distracting from the full committee and my personal work on other pressing issues facing our nation. Congress must address issues of Police Brutality and the horrific circumstances that led to the murder of george floyd and the senseless deaths of so many of our africanamerican brothers and sisters. Thats why im grateful to chairman graham and Ranking Member feinstein for agreeing to hold a full Committee Hearing on policing in america and i will
Our next speaker will be one of the justices biographers, professor Wendy Williams of the georgetown law faculty. Professor williams . Ok, i think were having some technical problems. So just for a moment actually, f i could, call on professor bernstein, one of the justices clerks. Professor, youre a member of the georgetown law faculty, director of our Supreme Court institute. I clerked for her on the d. C. Circuit, i didnt get the job in a typical way. In 989, i was working as a staff attorney watching memos for motions and pro se appeals. I was seven years out of law school, living with a 1yearold insomniac. I got a call from r. B. G. s chambers, the judge wanted to speak to me. The judge picked up the phone said she noticed my writing and wanted to know if i wanted to clerk for her. To my eternal mortification i didnt immediately say yes. I said i wasnt sure i could work the hour she is expected of her clerks because i had a young child. What followed was a prolonged silence from t
We are honored to have as our lecturer john sexton of nyu, whose topic tonight is Warren Burger, Warren Burger is the founder of our society and of immense importance to us. There is no one more qualified than president sexton to deliver this lecture. He was a Warren Burger clerk, but he had a long history before that. It is worth a moment. President sexton earned his ba in history and his ma and phd in religion, and taught religion in brooklyn before he went to harvard law school. He went to harvard law school, graduating 1979 magna cum laude, and was the Supreme Court editor of the harvard law review. He then clerked for judge basil on and judge leventhal on the d. C. Circuit court before he clerked for chief Justice Burger. After his clerkship, he went to nyu in 1981, and by 1988, he was dean of the law school. His tenure there was extremely successful. The law school is firmly ensconced in the rankings as one of the top five in the country. By 2002, he had been elevated to presiden
Society and of immense importance to us. There is no one more qualified than president sexton to deliver this lecture. He was a Warren Burger clerk, but he had a long history before that. It is worth a moment. President sexton earned his ba his ma and phd and religion, and taught religion in brooklyn before he went to harvard law school. He went to harvard law school, graduating 1979 magna cum laude, and was the Supreme Court editor of the harvard law review. He then clerked for judge basil on and judge leventhal on the d. C. Circuit court before he clerked for chief Justice Burger. After his clerkship, he went to nyu in 1981, and by 1988 he was dean of the law school. His tenure there was extremely successful. The law school is firmly ensconced in the rankings as one of the top five in the country. By 2002, he had been elevated to president of nyu. He served there until the end of 2015. During that tenure, freshman applications doubled. The endowment grew by over 200 . Minority enroll
Historical society this is almost an hour. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the trustees of the historical society, welcome to our 42nd annual lecture. Before we do anything else, i will ask everyone to take out their phones and turn them off. Even on silent mode, they will interfere with the sound system here in the court. I am greg joseph, president of the society. Welcome. We are delighted to have you here today. We are honored to have resident emeritus of nyu john sexton, whose topic tonight is Warren Burger, the founder of our society and of immense importance to us. There is no one more qualified than president sexton to deliver this lecture. He was a Warren Burger clerk, but he had a long history before that. President sexton earned his ba in history and in a and phd and religion, and taught religion in brooklyn before he went to harvard law school. He went to harvard law school, graduating 1979 magna cum laude, and was the Supreme Court editor of the harvard la