Date: Thursday, October 19, 2017
Lecture: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm (Room 110, Boalt Hall)
Reception: 6:00 pm – 6:45pm (West Courtyard)
Sterling Professor Emeritus Owen Fiss
About the Speaker
Owen Fiss is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale University. In 2015, he published, A War Like No Other/The Constitution in a Time of Terrorism, and this May he published, Pillars of Justice/Lawyers in the Liberal Tradition.
Commentators:
California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu
The Honorable Goodwin H. Liu is an Associate Justice of the California Supreme court. He was confirmed to office by a unanimous vote of the California Commission on Judicial Appointments, following his appointment by Governor Edmund G. Grown, Jr., on July 26, 2011. Prior to joining the court, Goodwin Liu served as a member of the Berkeley Law faculty, focusing his teaching and research on constitutional law, education policy, civil rights, and the Supreme Court.
Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor of Law Richard Primus
Richard Primus, the Theordore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor of Law, teaches the law, theory, and history of the U.S. Constitution. In 2008, he won the first-ever Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies for his work on the relationship between history and constitutional interpretation. His writing has appeared in many leading law reviews as well as in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and Politico, and his scholarship has been cited in opinions of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
About the Jorde Symposium:
The Brennan Center (New York University School of Law) named the Symposium in honor of its major benefactor Thomas M. Jorde, former Brennan clerk and Professor of Law at Berkeley Law School. A unique feature of the Symposium is that, each year, the honored lecturer presents the same lecture at two different sites, one in the fall, and another in the spring, with a different pair of prominent commentators at each site. The fall lecture is typically held at Berkeley Law School, where Tom Jorde taught for many years. The spring lecture is at a different law school every year. Both lectures and the four commentaries are published annually in the California Law Review.