As many of you [probably don't] know, Congress recently passed a law creating Constitution Day. It was created with the intent of ensuring that kids around the country learned about civics and the awesomeness of the Founding Document by requiring all public institutions of learning to provide educational programming about the Constitution.
Boalt's contribution to that was this nifty panel discussion held today during the lunch hour where Dean Edley and other faculty and notable legal people talked about the challenges the Constitution faces as the world continues to change in ways the Founders never dreamt possible.
Anyways, I went to check it out because Dean Edley, John Yoo, and Judge Fletcher were there.
- Dean Edley's wry sense of humor is always amusing, and he didn't disappoint.
- John Yoo is somewhat infamous in the political and legal world because he worked for the Bush Administration, where he wrote a series of memos justifying torture in the name of the War on Terror.
- Judge Fletcher is a judge on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is cool in and of itself. But it was also nifty to see him because he is one of the three guys who wrote my Civil Procedure casebook.The other two teach Civil Procedure at Boalt and Penn Law (Tyler actually has one of them for his CivPro class).
- The other speakers were also good. Jesse Choper wrote a Constitutional Law casebook that I read as an undergrad. Erin Murphy just joined the law school faculty
It's pretty mind-blowing to be in the presence of legal minds like these. The resumes for each of these guys is HUGE. My only gripe about this event? No free food. :-(
2 comments:
Hey it's Nan. I was wondering, do you know Eileen Aghnami? She graduated Civil Engineering from UCLA and I'm pretty sure she's going to Stanford Law too.
Hey Nan! Haha I prolly didn't run into her because uh.. I'm at Berkeley Law :-P
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