CANCELED – Lecture – 'Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court'

When: March 17, 2020 4:00pm

Due to concerns about the new coronavirus, this event has been canceled.

Geoffrey R. Stone is an author, prominent First Amendment scholar, and the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Stone joined the faculty in 1973, after serving as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr. He later served as dean of the law school and provost of the University of Chicago. His latest book, "Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court," has been met with critical acclaim and is the focus of this lecture.

Stone is the author of many books on constitutional law, including "The Free Speech Century" (2018); "Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion and Law From America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century" (2017); "Speaking Out: Reflections of Law, Liberty and Justice" (2010, 2016, 2018); "Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark" (2007), "War and Liberty: An American Dilemma" (2007), "Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime" (2004), and "Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era" (Chicago 2002). He is also an editor of two leading casebooks, "Constitutional Law" (eighth edition, 2017) and "The First Amendment" (fifth ed, 2016). Stone is an editor of the "Supreme Court Review" and chief editor of a 20-volume series, "Inalienable Rights," which is being published by the Oxford University Press. 

Stone has also written amicus briefs for constitutional scholars in a number of Supreme Court cases, including Obergefell v. Hodges, Whole Woman's Heath v. Hellerstadt, Lawrence v. Texas, United States v. Windsor, United States v. Stevens, and Rasul v. Bush. He was also one of the lawyers who represented President Bill Clinton in the Supreme Court in Clinton v. Jones. 

He was appointed by President Obama to serve on the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, which evaluated the government's foreign intelligence surveillance programs in the wake of Edward Snowden's leaks. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the America Law Institute, the National Advisory Council of the American Civil Liberties Union, a member of the American Philosophical Society and he has served as chair of the board of both the American Constitution Society and the Chicago Children's Choir.
 


Audience: All
Audience size: Medium (51-100)

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Campus: Main Campus

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Bernadette Wilkinson James E. Rogers College of Law

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