I would like to welcome you to the Supreme Court Institute Spring book fair. When i was a kid i looked forward to my School Book Fair and now i am lapy in the position i get to go to the law school one. Here i want to thank Anthony Franze especially for coming up with the idea and recruiting this wonderful panel on authors. Really looking forward to hearing about books i will actually want to read. Not mocking law articles or briefs but it is starting to get old so i am looking forward to hearing what these folks have come up with. We have tony mauro here to led the discussion. We has been covering the he Supreme Court for about 36 years and there is no one who would be better able to lead the panel. Thank you very much for hosting this and thanks also to anthony for organizing it. I hope it will be a fun event. It always is when you talk about Supreme Court books it is kind of a genre that keeps growing in literature, fiction and nonfiction, we had a panel like this three years ago an
This is booktv on cspan2. I would like to welcome you to the Supreme Court Institute Spring book fair. When i was a kid i looked forward to my School Book Fair and now i am lapy in the position i get to go to the law school one. Here i want to thank Anthony Franze especially for coming up with the idea and recruiting this wonderful panel on authors. Really looking forward to hearing about books i will actually want to read. Not mocking law articles or briefs but it is starting to get old so i am looking forward to hearing what these folks have come up with. We have tony mauro here to led the discussion. We has been covering the he Supreme Court for about 36 years and there is no one who would be better able to lead the panel. Thank you very much for hosting this and thanks also to anthony for organizing it. I hope it will be a fun event. It always is when you talk about Supreme Court books it is kind of a genre that keeps growing in literature, fiction and nonfiction, we had a panel li
Kind of a genre that keeps growing in literature, both fiction and nonfiction. We had a panel like this three years ago, and it really was intended to celebrate the fact that the Supreme Court is, seems to be the subject of more and more books of all kinds. And judging by the corner of my desk where i stack books about the court that have come in from publishers, the genre has only increased since the last event. So we thought wed do this again especially since the Supreme Court is in the news more than ever these days. Im especially pleased with the panel thats been assembled this evening. Ive written about all of these fine authors and mentioned all of them in my annual lists of the top ten books for the Supreme Court officionado in your life. Ive praised each one of them not just because of their books, but because their books, each in their own way, have shed new light on the Supreme Court which sorely needs more light. So ill introduce each of them briefly, then start the discussi
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