Hosted by Georgetown University and runs about one hour 15 minutes and begins with remarks by the universities president. [applause] good afternoon everyone and welcome. Its a pleasure to be with all of you. Azhar Spring Semester draws to a close for our bernstein symposium. I wish to begin by expressing our deepest appreciation to Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg forn joining us here on campus today. Its an honor to welcome her to gaston hall and to hear her reflections this afternoon. I also wish to express our gratitude to the honorable Robert Katzmann, chief judge of u. S. Court of appeals for the Second Circuit, for all his efforts to make this extraordinary symposium possible for our community. I look for to sharing a few more words about judge katzmann in just a moment. Id also like to thank professor Mary Hartnett and professor Wendy Williams from our Georgetown Law Center who will join Justice Ginsburg in conversation today. Ive has a hartman and professor williams are Justice Gins
This. Robert and i are wishing, we usually do a lot of the advertising. We didnt even have to advertise this one and everything sold out right away, so we have a lot of returning people, a lot of firsttime people and its great to have three great friends here who ill introduce in a moment and im also very thankful for cspan. We have cspan here, and i think this is the first time that cspan has been here to our beautiful campus. I love cspan. Everything that they do, they just bring the camera and no filter, right . No comment tear, they just see whats going on and they let it speak for itself. Ive to give one credits, because hes one of the people on the he said, ive never seen a lineup like this. Theyll come. Youve got to invite him, and he was right. He called that exactly right. So i have five minutes right now to set these up and introduce these guys and get out of the way because we go until 11 00, and i was thinking how do you introduce the topic and this is the 100th anniversary
Cohen welcome to the broadcast. I am roger cohen anything for charlie rose. Tonight, a consideration of wikileakss release of thousands of cia documents and files. We talk to greg miller of the Washington Post. It looks like the cias sort of Cyber Weapons arsenal as to, has to a large extent been laid bare. We havent seen wikileaks posting actual code that somebody could sort of aim and shoot to carry out an actual hack. Cohen we continue with a look at Civic Education with judge Robert Katzmann of the second circumstance and Kathleen Hall jamieson of the university of pennsylvania. When i was growing up in new york, Public Schools of new york, Civic Education was so important. Our teachers understood that our democracy is fragile and that to have an understanding of that democracy, we needed to know about government. It is the old line from john dewey that for every generation democracy must be born anew with education as its midwife. I think that is what has happened overtime is that
Cohen welcome to the broadcast. I am roger cohen anything for charlie rose. Tonight, a consideration of wikileakss release of thousands of cia documents and files. We talk to greg miller of the Washington Post. It looks like the cias sort of Cyber Weapons arsenal as to, has to a large extent been laid bare. We havent seen wikileaks posting actual code that somebody could sort of aim and shoot to carry out an actual hack. Cohen we continue with a look at Civic Education with judge Robert Katzmann of the second circumstance and Kathleen Hall jamieson of the university of pennsylvania. When i was growing up in new york, Public Schools of new york, Civic Education was so important. Our teachers understood that our democracy is fragile and that to have an understanding of that democracy, we needed to know about government. It is the old line from john dewey that for every generation democracy must be born anew with education as its midwife. I think that is what has happened overtime is that
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