York america in august of 1619. Good evening. [ applause ] im k. C. Matthews, chief of staff here at the somebuchombur center poo center. Im obviously not kevin young. Listed in your program. Kevin has been looking forward to this event for ytwo years an upset hes not able to join us tonight. Kevin is not feeling well and not able to be here. He hopes to join us tomorrow and saturday for the remainder of the program and is watching along online. It is my honor tonight to welcome all of you who are here in the audience and welcome folks who are watching online as well. This is the Second Annual conference presented by our Lapidus Center for the study of transatlantic slavery. This morning Public Library and vch shomburg city event the historical analysis of transatlantic slavery. Youll hear more about and from mr. Lapidus shortly. This is a banner week for the Schomburg Center. Just a few things i want to mention to you. We and our director are part of a documentary, t rary premiered we
Barnes and nobles outside this building and they will be available for signing. Christmas is coming so dont just think of yourself. Buy a book and maybe one for someone for christmas too. At the conclusion, we ask everyone to leave quickly so that the next event can be set up. There is a button under my desk that none of you can see where if your cell phone goes off, it will catapult you into a crocodile pit underneath your chair. The event today is organized around nonfiction which is an annual Nonfiction Book prize. Founded in 19 1999, and it has all the best stories that are true. Sports, biography, autobiography. Eight is my huge privilege to be the prizes director. The award is named for Bailey Gifford which is an Management Firm and i am usually grateful to them and to the organizers of the festival for making this event possible today. I am thrilled to welcome two of the most recent winning books, their brilliant and landmark books and its a great privilege to have them here tod
To welcome you all to her breakfast. For reporters if youre not familiar with the alliance a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to convening and educating the Health Policies and we are so thankful to support the alliance with the series with that support to see guest and Panel Discussions over the last couple of years including joseph rogan i believe you have the distinction to have our first repeat guest he joined us a year ago as an associate director we look forward to hearing about your new role and healthcare priorities for the Domestic Policy Council thank you for being here and we will get it started. On behalf of the alliance these are important alliances we believe strongly that wellinformed press is important to the washington dc world and the dialogue is important we really appreciate you joe willing to come and subject yourself to the questioning of this group. Senior director here. Joe and i have known each other for quite some time working in the Bush Administration toge
Supreme court clerks to celebrate 100th anniversary, and weve just heard a wonderful panel about experiences and we will hear one about life at clerkships. Joshua, publisher, professor at georgetown, very distinguished distinguished lawyer and author of impeachment, take it away, josh. Thank you all very much for coming, if its okay, i will start by introducing my colleagues in this panel, im joined today by clerk for justice brennan, former chairman , carlisle group, Justice Kennedy, private practice, worked as ausa. Following justice ruben, author of many bestselling books, if i listed them all we will be here a while. His career includes time work at ausa, Investigation Unit in baltimore, Deputy Attorney general of maryland, and candidate for mayor of city of baltimore, thank you all very much for joining. Today we will be discussing clerk and strange topic, literally every clerk had a life after clerking and diverse as the professional world has brought, encompass every field of go
National Constitution Centers symposium on 100 years of Supreme Court clerkships. The symposium took place at the George Washington University Law school in washington, d. C. Celebrating the 100thans of the Supreme Court clerkships. Im jeffrey rosen, head of the National Constitution center in philadelphia and a law professor here at g. W. The National Constitution center is so honored to have con veed this Extraordinary Group of former Supreme Court clerks to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the federal statute creating the Supreme Court, clerkships, and we have just heard a wonderful panel about experiences during the clerkship and now we will hear one about life after the clerkship. And moderating this panel is joshua matt. Pub lusher of the take care blog, adjunct professor at georgetown. He is a very distinguished constitutional lawyer and author of important book on impeachment, we he came to the National Constitution center to discuss with riveting detail recently. He clerked