Nancy caught, 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 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 inef in a Supreme Court case 1908, but for our purposes, our pedigree as historians might be traced back to the brown versus board of education litigation in which the distinguished cptorians helped the in aa casee naacp make the against School Segregation. More recently, 400 historians signed an amicus brief in the case of webster versus reproductive services, the abortion rights case from 1989, tell youanelists will about things that are both older and more recent. In addition, historians testifying at trial has a quite long pedigree. As j
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
When we acquired that book Jonathan Karp down here, and ask if there was anything we could do for the ebook specifically and we brainstorm and some ideas and talked about when the right time to act on those ideas might be but we were thinking of that as a Digital Product from the very beginning. My role is National Media in partnership with the communications team. What is an effective Media Campaign . Where do you go . Depends on what the book is and it depends on what the potential for the book is. There is what i think the best topdown campaigns which are campaigns like Hillary Clintons which begin with National Media and breakout from there. A few big hits generate a number of things that create themselves. My role with the clinton title has been to work on the marketing side of that which involved a website for the book dedicated to the book, Facebook Page, production of promotional videos, the release of content on the web. At my role up to now has been the Digital Marketing role
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this is all in response to the growing presence of russian personnel in ukraine s crimea reign. hundreds of gunman surround ukraine s military base in crimea and we re seeing armored vehicles and mounted machine guns. the gunman are unidentified for the most part, but many of their vehicles have russian license plates. their demand, that ukrainian troops disarm and the russian parliament just yesterday unanimously approved vladimir putin s request for military intervention. the response in ukraine was swift and concerning. its prime minister calling president putin s actions a declaration of war against ukraine. meanwhile, in crimea, which is predominantliety ethithnically russian, protesters took to the street. it all comes, of course, in the wake of president obama s friday warning that a russian military intervention of any kind in ukraine could constitute a violation of territorial sovereignty and would carry significant consequences. on saturday, president obama followed