Historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr. Chief justice may appease the port. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions, once that the court took quite unpopular. Let us go through a few places that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of different people who helped stick together because they believed in a rule of law. Good evening. Tonights landmark cases, 1960 fives griswold v. Connecticut, with a seven to two decision, the justices in this case establish a constitutional right to privacy. Its set in motion the expansion of privacy rights that continue till today over the next several decades. To give you a sense of continuing importance in our society, we put together a short video that is a modernday reference to the grizzle case. There is wild v connecticut, which recognized a right to privacy in the constitution i agree with the griswold v. Connecticut that marital privacy extends to contraception griswold v. Connecticut griswold v. Co
This is a great army day. And secretary started this morning. And youre in for a real treat this afternoon with us Authors Forum two panels. Each panel consists of three authors there will be a q a time so im so pleased to be able to be your moderator today. And we have the first panel has a theme of the challenges of command that will run from about 1 00 to 2 00. And then the second panel is the sharp end of deterrence, which will be from 2 to 3. We will time at the end of each panel for the authors to answer questions from the audience, and youll see a microphone here where you can come to the microphone. I also encourage you to meet the authors and their publishers after the forum and throughout conference. They will be in the aca membership pavilion, which i think john smith alluded to west salon of the main entrance across from registration. Now let me introduce your three distinguished authors of this panel, the gentleman closest to the is Major General gregg f martin, the United
Morning. And youre in for a real treat this afternoon with us Authors Forum two panels. Each panel consists of three authors there will be a q a time so im so pleased to be able to be your moderator today. And we have the first panel has a theme of the challenges of command that will run from about 1 00 to 2 00. And then the second panel is the sharp end of deterrence, which will be from 2 to 3. We will time at the end of each panel for the authors to answer questions from the audience, and youll see a microphone here where you can come to the microphone. I also encourage you to meet the authors and their publishers after the forum and throughout conference. They will be in the aca membership pavilion, which i think john smith alluded to west salon of the main entrance across from registration. Now let me introduce your three distinguished authors of this panel, the gentleman closest to the is Major General gregg f martin, the United States army. Hes the author of bipolar general my fo
The organization of american historians hosted this 90minute event at their annual meeting in new orleans. Ok. Ok, so, i think we are ready to get started. Sorry for the delay, but welcome to the first Plenary Session of the 2017 annual meeting of the organization of american historians. Our session is called historians in court. It examines the complex roles of historians applying their scholarly skills to courtroom litigation. Thanks, first, to the o. A. H. For organizing this session and, in particular, to the president , nancy cott, for her support of our endeavor here today. Today, we will address a timely topic the participation of historians in courtroom proceedings. Theres no systematic study, but the evidence we have indicates that the use of, for instance, scholarly amicus briefs, where scholars file amicus briefs in court proceedings, has been increasing. Theres a long history of scholarly input into Appellate Court cases stretching back at least to the famous brandeis brief
Okay. So i think were ready to get started. Sorry for the delay. But welcome to the first meeting. Our session is called historians in court, examines the complex role of historians applying their scholarly skills to courtroom litigation. Thanks first to the oah for organizing this session and in particular to the president , nancy cott, for her support of our endeavor here today. Today we will address a timely topic, the participation of historians in courtroom proceedings. There is no systemic study, but the evidence we have indicates that the use of, for instance, scholarly am kus briefs where scholarings filed briefs in Court Proceedings has been increasing. Now, there is a long history of scholarly input into Appellate Court cases stretching back at least to the famous brandis brief in 1908. But for our purposes, our pedigree as historians will be traced back to the brown versus board of education in which the distinguished historians helped the naac thrks make the case against Sc