Supreme Court Review 2019

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20th Anniversary of ADL’s Supreme Court Review 2019

Watch ADL’s 20th annual Supreme Court Review, which was livestreamed on Tuesday, July 9th from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia as scholars discussed the most important cases of the term.

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With a new Supreme Court justice on the bench and additional challenges to executive policies, this year has been an eventful term with significant ramifications.

At an America’s Town Hall program with distinguished legal scholars Erwin Chemerinsky, Paul Clement, Frederick Lawrence, and Dahlia Lithwick discussed the most important cases of the term, including the citizenship question to the 2020 census, partisan gerrymandering and religious symbols in the public square.

They also discussed challenges to the president’s executive policies in the lower courts and what to expect at the Supreme Court next year.

The event was presented by ADL and the National Constitution Center.

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July 9, 2019

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Distinguished legal scholars Erwin Chemerinsky, Paul Clement, Frederick Lawrence and Dahlia Lithwick will tackle many pressing legal questions from this year.

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Erwin Chemerinsky

Erwin Chemerinsky

Chemerinsky is the current Dean of Berkeley Law. Prior to assuming this position he was the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law, and has taught at Duke University, USC Law School and UCLA Law School. He is the author of eleven books, more than 200 law reviews and numerous op-eds in newspapers across the country. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2017, National Jurist again named him as the most influential person in legal education in the U.S.

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Paul Clement

Paul Clement

Paul Clement is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Paul served as the 43rd Solicitor General of the United States from June 2005 until June 2008. He has argued over 90 cases before the United States Supreme Court. Paul is a Distinguished Lecturer in Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and a Distinguished Lecturer in Government at Georgetown University. He also serves as a Senior Fellow of the Law Center’s Supreme Court Institute.

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Fred Lawrence

Frederick Lawrence

Frederick M. Lawrence is the 10th Secretary and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, American's first and most prestigious honor society, founded in 1776. Lawrence is a Visiting Professor at the Georgetown Law Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, and has previously served as president of Brandeis University, Dean of the George Washington University Law School, and Visiting Professor and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School.

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Dahlia Lithwick

Dahlia Lithwick

Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate, where she writes the “Supreme Court Dispatches” and “Jurisprudence." Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and Commentary. In 2013 she won a National Magazine Award for her columns on the Affordable Care Act. She has been twice awarded an Online Journalism Award for her legal commentary and was the first online journalist invited to the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press. She has appeared on CNN, ABC, The Colbert Report and The Rachel Maddow Show.

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