The Least Dangerous Branch, Part III: The Supreme Court, Jurisprudence, and Presidential Powers
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 three focuses on the interaction between the Supreme Court and the president, through the lens of the war on terror. The panelists are Jack Landman Goldsmith, a former assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush; Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate magazine; and Anthony Lewis, a former New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner for his Supreme Court coverage for that paper. The panel is moderated by Randall Kennedy, the Michael R. Kline Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
The panel is introduced by Nancy Netzer, director of the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College and a member of the board of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
Presenter(s): Jack Landman Goldsmith, Dahlia Lithwick, Anthony Lewis
Date: October 21, 2006
Location: Robsham Theater
Sponsor(s): Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities; hosted by Boston College
URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/mfh3/
The information on this page is accurate as of October 2006