Obama finds no easy answers and plenty of contradictions and the problems of our time. But his other books include the breakthrough essay collection, my misspent youth and the unspeakable, which won the penn center usa award for creative nonfiction. Shes also received fellowships from the guggenheim and National Endowment for the arts fellowships and she teaches in the mfa writing program at columbia university. Thank you all for coming out. Im always really relieved when people show up. I love coming to the strand and i love seeing people very early in my career, not that really, actually earlier i was on a book tour i was in minneapolis, in st. Paul and it turned out to be the same night that David Sedaris was doing a reading at the university in minneapolis and in like a stadium basically. Anybody who was anybody who cared about this went to see david who did errors except for one young woman who showed up at my event and she had driven 100 miles from her parents farm to come see me
Pennsylvania lawsuit cool pennsylvania law school. It is my pleasure to introduce Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. We are proud to partner with the National Constitution center tonight. Amy gottman will introduce Justice Ginsburg along with ceo jeff rosen in a moment, but first i want to introduce a bit of history of the roberts lecture. The lecture is named for supreme in g. Ustice and dean oh roberts. Wording of the original agreement about the lecture it says the lecture is to be delivered by a nationally prominent person in either public or academic life who might be expected to make a significant contribution in legal thought. I think we have met and exceeded and blown out of the water that standard tonight with Justice Ginsburg and we celebrate her toy five years on the Supreme Court as well as groundbreaking contributions to american judas lower court judge before she joined the court. Justice roberts himself, was a graduate of penn law. He went on to a tremendous career. He served
Ginsburg. This is one hour and 20 minutes. [applause] good evening. I am the dean of the university of Pennsylvania Law School and it is my great pleasure to welcome Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. We are very proud to partner with the National Constitution center tonight. First i want to introduce a bit of the history of the roberts lecture. The lecture is named for our Supreme Court Justice Roberts and was established in 1956. It was cosponsored by the law school. The wording of the original agreement about the lecture says, the lecture is to be delivered by a nationally prominent person who might be expected to make a significant contribution in legal thought. I think we have met and exceeded and blown out of the water that standard tonight with Justice Ginsburg. We celebrate her 25 years on the Supreme Court as well as groundbreaking contributions to american jurisprudence both while on the court and in her tremendous career as a legal scholar, litigator, and lower court judge before
Welcome Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. We are very proud to partner with the National Constitution center tonight. The present will introduce justins ginsburg Justice Ginsburg. I want to introduce a bit of the history of the roberts lecture. The lecture is named for our Supreme Court Justice Roberts and was established in 1956. The wording of the original agreement about the lecture says, the lecture is to be delivered by a nationally prominent person who might be expected to make a significant contribution in legal thought. [laughter] i think we have met and exceeded and blown out of the water that standard tonight with Justice Ginsburg. We celebrate her 25 years on the Supreme Court as well as groundbreaking contributions to american prudence obama court and as her tremendous career as a legal scholar, litigator, and lower court judge before she will joined the court. Justice roberts himself, was a graduate of penn law. Will will and he served for 20 years on the faculty and then went
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