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
Again this year in the porter room and thank you to Marsha Tucker the probono reporter for making the arrangements. Thanks to cspan for covering us again this year. If you have a problem with the backch your head being on cspan take this opportunity to slither off to the side. Youll be able it is not being broadcast live. Can you watch the video on the cspan website probably starting sometime tomorrow. And many thanks to my former aclu cleg fritz mull houser who is the executive producer of the show coordinating the many requirement of the d. C. Bar arnold importer and cspan. Our main sponsor the section on courts, lawyers and the administration of justice concentrates on matters involving Court Administration and rules, the relationship between the bench and the bar and all aspects of a lawyers relationship to the profession such as ethics, discipline and admission standrds. The section focused on improving access to justice for everyone in d. C. It is one of 20 sections of the d. C.
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