The Least Dangerous Branch, Part I: Judging the Judges—What Makes a Justice a Good Justice?
This symposium, presented by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, hosted by Boston College, and titled “The Least Dangerous Branch? Liberty, Justice, and the U.S. Supreme Court,” examines the United States Judiciary—dubbed, by Alexander Hamilton (in The Federalist, No. 78), “the least dangerous” branch.
Part one focuses on the qualities that make a good justice. The panelists are Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Renée M. Landers, an associate law professor at Suffolk University Law School and coauthor of Domestic Electronic Surveillance and the Constitution; and David Greenberg, a professor of history and journalism and media studies at Rutgers University and author of Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image. The panel is moderated by Jeffrey Rosen, the legal affairs editor for the New Republic.
The panel is introduced by David Harris, managing director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School and chair of the board of directors of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. Welcoming remarks are offered by David Tebaldi, executive director of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
Presenter(s): David Greenberg, Renée Landers, Richard Posner, Jeffrey Rosen
Date: October 21, 2006
Location: Robsham Theater
Sponsor(s): Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities; hosted by Boston College
URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/mfh1/
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