Speaking

American Justice 2016

The Harvard Coop Bookstore,
Cambridge, MA
(November 16, 2016)
Link


American Justice 2016:
The Political Supreme
Court

Yale Law School Library Book Talk,
Q&A with Noah Messing, Lecturer in the Practice of Law and Legal Writing,
New Haven CT
(November 15, 2016)
Link


The Election and
the Supreme Court

Inside Charlottesville, with Coy Barefoot,
Charlottesville, VA
(November 7, 2016)
Link

 


National Constitution Center,
Philadelphia, PA
(October 26, 2016)
Link

 

The Supreme Court
in Transition: 
A View from the
Frontlines


RadioTimes, with Marty Moss-Coane,
WHYY Public Media,
Philadelphia, PA
(October 26, 2016)
Link

Examining the
Supreme Court:
Clinton Court v.
Trump Court


The Political
Supreme Court


The Fadeout of American Justice:
The Nation's 
State Court Crisis


The Solicitor General and the
Supreme Court

Moderator of a discussion among Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr. and former SGs Drew Days III,  Theodore Olson, and Kenneth Starr, ABA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
(August 2015)


The Death Penalty v.
The Constitution

The New Hampshire Coalition to Abolish
the Death Penalty, Concord, NH
(October 2014)


Hopkins and Brown v. Board of Education

Hopkins School, New Haven, CT  
(June 2014) 


What is Journalism?

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
(February 2014)


What is the Mission of a Law School?

Jackson Hole Gathering of Law School Deans,
Jackson Hole, WY (May 2012)


Covering the Supreme Court

Washington College, Chestertown, MD
(February 2012)


The Harkness Plan

Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University,
New Haven, CT (April 2007)


The Presidency and the Courts

White House Fellows Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. (October 2005)


Let Us Now Praise Federal Judges

Amherst College, Amherst, MA
(April 2005)


Why Blawgs aren’t Blogs

Supreme Court Fellows, Washington, D.C.
(February 2005)


The Role of the Solicitor General

The Supreme Court Historical Society, moderator of event and introductory speaker with three former Solicitors General, Washington, D.C. (April 2004)


The Lawyer as Citizen

The Library of Congress, moderator of Law Day event and introductory speaker for the American Bar Association, Washington, D.C. (April 2004)


The State of the Legal Profession

The Judicial Conference for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Boston, MA
(September 2003)


Legal Eloquence

The Marbury Institute, DLA Piper, New York City (July 2003)


The Michigan Cases and You: The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action

Annual meeting of the Presidents of the Great Lakes Colleges and the Midwestern Colleges,
Chicago, IL (June 2003)