Annual history symposium entitled reconstruction in the long reconstruction to 150 years towards freedom. I am the chief historian, you can call me truck. Please not call me the guy in charge because none of this couldve happened without the involvement of so many here, in this society. It is an all hands, all board operation. Taking charge of the logistics and influencing much of the symposium contacted lauren borchard, the societys director of historical programs, she has helped along by charlotte cummings, and several other Staff Members as well as a whole host, of enthusiastic volunteers. Theyll do this not just once a year, but are not routine races on our Public Program including a noontime lecture series. The next one is coming up on the 29th of may, the other ones is a halfpage red fire on the registration flyer outside and i would like you to encourage you to fill out the questionnaire that you found on the desk in front of you when you came in. I will leave to the society Jan
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
Will be featured in our new season of landmark cases, which begins tomorrow. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center. Beautiful. That is so inspiring. Wonderful live cspan audience, you can see that the great members of the National Constitution center are inspired i this nonpartisan mission of constitutional education and believe it is crucially important for citizens to educate themselves about the constitution so american democracy can thrive. In this mission, we are so excited to be partners with cspan. We have a wonderful collaboration. Landmark cases, which describes the human stories behind some of the most Important Supreme Court cases of all times. That series was inspired by the comments of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg at the National Constitution center a few years ago, where she said how inspiring it would be to hear those stories so people can relate to the cases. Series was such a success that by popular demand we are launching tonight