Location
Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Courtroom
Event Website
http://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/institutes-centers/institute-on-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states/iscotus-events/symposium-supreme-court-american-public
Start Date
16-11-2012 3:00 PM
End Date
16-11-2012 4:15 PM
Description
Presentations on the Supreme Court justices' limited public interactions and the motivations they have in going beyond their written opinions.
Jason Mazzone (Professor, Lynn H. Murray Faculty Scholar in Law, University of Illinois College of Law) discusses the justices' appearances before congressional committees for the court's annual budget request. Jeffery Rosen (Professor of Law, George Washington Law; Legal Affairs Editor, The New Republic) examines what justices are trying to achieve when they address the public outside their written opinions through his personal journalistic experiences with them. Christopher Schmidt (Assistant Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law; Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation) discusses what justices want to do when they speak to the public beyond the written opinion with historical examples.
This is the fifth of five sessions from the Symposium on the Supreme Court and the American Public, hosted by IIT Chicago-Kent's Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Beyond the Written Opinion: When Justices Speak to the Public
Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Courtroom
Presentations on the Supreme Court justices' limited public interactions and the motivations they have in going beyond their written opinions.
Jason Mazzone (Professor, Lynn H. Murray Faculty Scholar in Law, University of Illinois College of Law) discusses the justices' appearances before congressional committees for the court's annual budget request. Jeffery Rosen (Professor of Law, George Washington Law; Legal Affairs Editor, The New Republic) examines what justices are trying to achieve when they address the public outside their written opinions through his personal journalistic experiences with them. Christopher Schmidt (Assistant Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law; Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation) discusses what justices want to do when they speak to the public beyond the written opinion with historical examples.
This is the fifth of five sessions from the Symposium on the Supreme Court and the American Public, hosted by IIT Chicago-Kent's Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States.
https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/sscap/Presentations/Friday/4
