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Whatever gadgets you may have. So they dont interfere with our system here. Thank you, now, as you know warehouse tonight is Justice Sonia sotomayor, we are very pleased to have the justice with those tonight. I want to thank her on behalf of the society for giving her time, when we call upon her to participate in events like this. Because its quite important to us, and quite important to you. And we marry much appreciate it. Ill tell you briefly a little bit about the justice. She is a native new yorker, born in the bronx, very unhappy about last nights baseball game i guess, the boston red sox. She did her undergraduate work at princeton, and then to yell last school. Then joined the District Attorney in new york county, as an assistant District Attorney. After several years there in private practice in new york s ....
Constitutional issues the Supreme Court faced during world war i. The first from Supreme Court justice and then a virginia Commonwealth History professor. Im Vice President of the historical society. I want to welcome everybody here to our first lecture of the leon silverman lecture series dealing with the Supreme Court and world war i. This being the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i. We have a very interesting series tonight. Before i go further, however, i am instructed to tell you to please turn off any cell phones, apple watches, whatever other gadgets you may have so they dont interfere with our system here. As you know, our host tonight is justice sonya sowed mior. I want to thank her on beh ....
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 ....
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 ....