Bauer, who is my supremely wise, talented, and collegial codirector of the nyu law schools legislative and regulatory process clinic, i wanted to welcome you here today to the fourth year of the Sidley Austin forum. We are joined this year by another nyu law entity, the center on law and security, a nonpartisan, multidisciplinary institute. And the director, richard gold brenner who is here, has been invaluable in helping pull together the program for this afternoon. This forum would not be possible without the generous support of Sidley Austin, a Renowned International law firm. So it gives me great pleasure to introduce peter roskam him, who is a partner in their Chicago Office Company Knows a lot about what we are talking about today. He served his district in illinois in the u. S. House of representatives for six terms, from 20072019. And during that time he held a number of very significant positions. One of those most pertinent to what were talking about today is that he chaired
I see that as a feature, not a bug in our system of government. You help the president fight for his share of the turf based on article to authorities. Each branch takes care of what it has to do to defend its own boundaries. It makes it easier to just everyone will see everything through the lens of today, not 10 years ago or 10 years from now. I represented a lot of people in the u. S. Senate. They really love that they have a big say in picking who is on federal courts but in the constitution the president makes the nomination with advice and consent of the senate. The question when mike lee speaks, what about the stuff the senate has come up with over the years, Institutional Senate prerogatives where the constitution refers to the senate but is a subset of the senate. It is my job to say the senates view is i think we should take this seriously. The view is the president makes the choice and they will hate when i say this but i will get in trouble with somebody, and that is someth
Pleasure to introduce a panel of three of americas most distinguished historians of the Early Supreme Court to teach us about significant justices that we may not have learned about before. Gerard mallioka is the Samuel R Rosen professor of law at the Indiana University Robert H Mckinney school of law. Hes the author of many books which weve had the pleasure of discussing at the ncc and the most recent which were here to talk about is washingtons air the life of justice, bushrod, washington. Maybe marcus is Research Professor of law and directer of the institute for constitutional studies at the George Washington University Law school where weve been colleagues for many years as editor of the documentary history of the Supreme Court of the United States 1789 to 1800 professor marcus published eight volumes with many articles on legal history. She was appointed by the librarian of congress as the general editor of the Oliver Wendell holmes devised the history of the Supreme Court of the
Evening for us and were delighted that Justice Ginsburg is here, as well. The Society Depends on the support of the justices of the court and they have been most generous. Otherwise, we would be unable to host this kind of event in this impressive surrounding of the Supreme Court courtroom so we are very grateful for your generosity and support. Im now going to offer a brief introduction for Justice Kagan who all of you know. Shell be introducing our lecturer for the evening. Justice kagan was born in new york city. She received her undergraduate education at princeton where she graduated summa cum laude. She then visited Oxford University as the daniel m. Sax graduate fellow from princeton and she earned her masters degree there. She returned to Harvard Law School, graduated three years later magna cum laude as being supervising editor of the harvard law review, then distinguished clerk ships. She first clerked for judge admiral migva of the d. C. Court of appeals and then for thurgoo
Evening for us and were delighted that Justice Ginsburg is here, as well. The Society Depends on the support of the justices of the court and they have been most generous. Otherwise, we would be unable to host this kind of event in this impressive surrounding of the Supreme Court courtroom so we are very grateful for your generosity and support. Im now going to offer a brief introduction for Justice Kagan who all of you know. Shell be introducing our lecturer for the evening. Justice kagan was born in new york city. She received her undergraduate education at princeton where she graduated summa cum laude. She then visited Oxford University as the daniel m. Sax graduate fellow from princeton and she earned her masters degree there. She returned to Harvard Law School, graduated three years later magna cum laude as being supervising editor of the harvard law review, then distinguished clerk ships. She first clerked for judge admiral migva of the d. C. Court of appeals and then for thurgoo