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The Roberts Court: A Term to Remember
Saturday, September 30
3:00 - 4:15 pm
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Listen to the panel (1 hr 14 min, 84.7 mb) |
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| Join Earl Warren Professor of Public Law Jesse Choper, court-focused journalists Jess Bravin '97 of the Wall Street Journal and Jami Floyd '89 of Court TV, and UC Berkeley Political Science Professor Gordon Silverstein for reactions and appraisals of John Roberts' first term on the Supreme Court. The panel will examine the Roberts Court from various perspectives, including a review of major decisions and other specific cases of special interest, and thoughts about new directions that the Court appears likely to take. |
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Jesse Choper served as law clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren '14 of the U.S. Supreme Court following graduation from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1960, and at the University of Minnesota Law School from 1961 to 1965.
In1965, he joined the Boalt faculty, where he is the Earl Warren professor of public law and served as dean for 10 years (1982 to 1992). For nearly two decades ending in 1998, Jesse was one of the three major lecturers at U.S. Law Week's Annual Constitutional Law Conference in Washington, D.C. He has also delivered 20 titled lectures at major universities. He has served on the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools, and on the executive council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (of which he is vice president). He was a national president of the Order of the Coif and is a member of the American Law Institute. In 1998, he received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. The Boalt Hall Alumni Association presented Jesse with the Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
Jesse's major books include Judicial Review and the National Political Process: A Functional Reconsideration of the Role of the Supreme Court, which received the Order of the Coif Triennial Book Award in 1982, and Securing Religious Liberty: Principles for Judicial Interpretation of the Religion Clauses. His recent publications include the 10th edition of his Constitutional Law casebook; the sixth edition of his Corporations casebook; and the second edition of The Supreme Court and Its Justices.
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Jess Bravin '97 became the Supreme Court correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in 2005, after stints as the paper's California editor and United Nations correspondent. He has reported extensively about legal issues in the war on terrorism. Jess recently received a John Jacobs Fellowship from UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies for his forthcoming book on the Guantanamo military tribunals and the Hamdan case, to be published by Basic Books.
Jess has written for newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post; contributed to such magazines as Harper's Bazaar and Spy; and appeared on news programs including Nightline, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and All Things Considered. He is the author of Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme and a contributor to several books, including A Concise Introduction to Logic; Violence in America: An Encyclopedia; and the forthcoming second edition of Crimes of War. While a Boalt student, Jess served as a regent of the University of California and later as a member of the City of Berkeley Police Review Commission and the UC Berkeley Police Review Board. He holds a B.A. from Harvard University.
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Jami Floyd '89 anchors her own daily program, Jami Floyd: Best Defense, on Court TV. She has worked for major media networks as a legal correspondent, reporter, anchor and legal analyst since 1993. Jami was an award-winning reporter for ABC News and has covered breaking news and contributed news coverage for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, 20/20, Good Morning America and Nightline.
Since joining Court TV in March 2005, Jami has covered several major transitions at the U.S. Supreme Court, including extensive coverage of the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the death of Chief Justice Rehnquist and the nomination and confirmation of Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts. Jamibegan her career at the California Supreme Court as law clerk to the late Honorable Allen E. Broussard '53. She then joined Morrison & Forrester and ultimately worked for the Office of the San Francisco Public Defender. She also served as a White House fellow, assigned first to the Office of First Lady Hillary Clinton and later to the Office of Vice President Al Gore.
Jami holds a B.A. in political science from Binghamton University and graduated with honors from Boalt Hall. She holds a Masters of Laws degree from Stanford Law School, where she also taught. Jami has received numerous awards for reporting, including a Murrow Award and Unity Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Association. She was honored by Boalt in 1993 with the Young Alumnus Award.
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Gordon Silverstein joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 2003 as an assistant professor of political science. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in constitutional law, civil liberties, comparative constitutionalism and the separation of powers. Before coming to Berkeley, Gordon held faculty positions in political science, law and administrative science at Rice University, Dartmouth College, the University of Minnesota and Lewis & Clark College. In addition, he served as a program director for the nonprofit, nonpartisan New America Foundation in Washington, D.C.
Gordon's research interests include comparative and American constitutional law and the separation of powers, with a particular focus on the ways in which legal rulings and legal precedent shape and constrain American policy. Gordon is the author of Imbalance of Powers: Constitutional Interpretation and the Making of American Foreign Policy (1997), and is finishing work on a new book, How Law Kills Politics (forthcoming 2007). In 2007-08 he will be helping to lead an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar titled The Dilemmas of Judicial Power: Constitutional Courts, Politics and Society at UC Berkeley's Center for the Study of Law and Society. Gordon also serves as an officer of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.
Following his undergraduate education at Cornell University, where he was editor in chief of the Cornell Daily Sun, Gordon worked as a journalist for The Wall Street Journal and the San Francisco Chronicle, before earning his Ph.D. at Harvard University.
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