The Least Dangerous Branch, Part II: Deciding Justice—What Makes a Decision a Good Decision?
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 two focuses on some defining Supreme Court decisions and what characterizes a “good” decision. The panelists are Marci Hamilton, holder of the Verkuil Chair in Public Law at Cardozo School of Law and author God vs. The Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law; Akhil Reed Amar, the Southmayd Professor of Law at Yale Law School and author of America’s Constitution: A Biography; and Mary-Rose Papandrea, an assistant professor at Boston College Law School. The panel is moderated by Lincoln Caplan, a visiting fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University and former editor of Legal Affairs.
The panel is introduced by Charles Clough, Jr., a member of the Boston College Board of Trustees.
Presenter(s): Marci Hamilton, Akhil Reed Amar, Mary-Rose Papandrea
Date: October 21, 2006
Location: Robsham Theater
Sponsor(s): Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities; hosted by Boston College
URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/mfh2/
The information on this page is accurate as of October 2006