Virtual Forum Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics
Join Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, author of The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics for a Concord Museum Forum on Thursday, December 9, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm.
In his new book, The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer reflects upon the authority of the Supreme Court –how that authority was gained and how measures to restructure the Court could undermine both the Court and the constitutional system of checks and balances that depends on it.
This virtual forum will feature a pre-recorded one-on-one conversation with Justice Breyer followed by a live panel discussion. Featured panelists include Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Senior Opinion Writer and Columnist, Boston Globe, former Supreme Court reporter; Nancy Gertner, former U.S. District Court Judge; member, Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court; Jamal Greene, Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School; Testified before the Presidential Commission; and Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor, Slate; Legal Podcast Host, Amicus, Contributing Editor, Newsweek.
This virtual forum is free. To register go to www.concordmuseum.org. Participants will be emailed a live link on Thursday, December 9th.
This Concord Museum event is in partnership with the Boston Globe, National Archives, Mass Humanities, and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
was born in San Francisco, California, August 15, 1938. He married Joanna Hare in 1967 and has three children—Chloe, Nell, and Michael. Justice Breyer received an A.B. from Stanford University, a B.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk to Justice Arthur Goldberg of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1964 Term, as a Special Assistant to the Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Antitrust, 1965–67, as an Assistant Special Prosecutor of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 1973, as Special Counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, 1974–75, and as Chief Counsel of the committee, 1979–80. He was an assistant professor, professor of law, and lecturer at Harvard Law School, 1967–94, a professor at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, 1977–80, and a visiting professor at the College of Law, Sydney, Australia and at the University of Rome. From 1980 to 1990, he served as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as its Chief Judge, 1990–94. He also served as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States, 1990–94, and of the United States Sentencing Commission, 1985–89. President Clinton nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat August 3, 1994.
