Mikvah on the d. C. Circuit judge, followed by a clerkship with Justice Thurgood marshall here on the Supreme Court. And a couple years of law practice, then in 1991, entering academia, teaching at the university of chicago law school, where she met professor barack obama. Two years later, invited back to washington tow ork to work for the Senate Judiciary committee at the request of the chairman, then senator joe biden. Two years later, judge mikvah becomes white House Counsel for president clinton. Justice kagan is asked to come to the white house, serve as associate white House Counsel. Stays there for a couple years. Two more years in domestic policy roles on behalf of the Clinton Administration and the white house. Then president clinton nominates Justice Kagan to be a judge on the d. C. Circuit judge, but the republicans have no interest in confirming judges at that time so that doesnt come to pass. She then returns to academia, this time at Harvard Law School, joining the facult
Foreign minister. 0. Today on the front its now officially a pandemic so how do you stop the spread of the corona virus and a year on from the massacre of muslims in christchurch how big is the threat from white nationalism. The corona virus has now hit every continent except antarctica on wednesday the World Health Organization officially declared it a pandemic so how do we stop it to discuss this im joined by Eric Feingold doing an epidemiologist and visiting scientist at Harvard Health economist and a fellow at the federation of american scientists eric thanks for being on the show very rarely do we have a story like this that affects every corner of the world all of our viewers watching up front on almost every continent theres a tendency when we talk about story this big for some people to say you know what you guys are overplaying youre overstating your hyping it up the media is exaggerating and sensationalising what do you say to them i think theres absolutely no hype to this be
Thank you, jerry, so much. As you can tell from that introduction, before coming here, i couldnt keep a job. Jerry, thank you for everything you do for the Supreme Court Historical Society and everything that the Supreme Court Historical Society does for the Supreme Court. The Historical Society does extremely important work in reminding people of the importance of our constitution and our judicial system and its history. And were deeply appreciative. This evening marks the second of the societys 2019 leon silverman lecture series, which is devoted this year to dissents and the spupreme court. On my way over here, professor driver and also jerry libin reminded me that ive written a few of those. Tonights speaker is professor justin driver, professor of law at yale law school. He teaches and writes in the area of constitutional law, and hes the author, most recently, of a book called the schoolhouse gate public education, the Supreme Court, and the battle for the american mind. That boo
May or may not know already. Born in new york. Raised in new york. Educated at princeton, oxford and Harvard Law School. Then became a clerk to judge abner mickva on the d. C. Circuit, followed by a clerkship with Justice Thurgood marshall here at the Supreme Court. Then a couple of years of law practice, and then in 1991, entering academia teaching at the university of Chicago Law School where she met professor barack obama. Two years later, invited back to washington to work for the Senate Judiciary committee as special counsel at the request of the chairman, then senator joe biden. Two years later, judge mickva becomes white House Counsel for president clinton. Justice kagan is asked to come to the white house. Serve as associate white House Counsel. Stays there for a couple of years in that role and then two more years in domestic policy roles on behalf of the clinton administration. In the white house. And then president clinton nominates Justice Kagan to be a judge on the d. C. C
Aljazeera. Today on the front its now officially a pandemic so how do you stop the spread of the corona virus and a year on from the massacre of muslims in christchurch how big is the threat from white nationalism. The corona virus has now hit every continent except antarctica on wednesday the World Health Organization officially declared it a pandemic so how do we stop it to discuss this im joined by Eric Feingold doing an epidemiologist and visiting scientist at Harvard Health economist and senior fellow at the federation of american scientists eric thanks for being on the show very rarely do we have a story like this that affects every corner of the world all of our viewers watching out front on almost every continent theres a tendency when we talk about story this big for some people to say you know what you guys are overplaying youre overstating your hyping it up the media is exaggerating and sensationalising what do you say to them i think theres absolutely no hype to this becaus