Supreme Court

Retired Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court John Paul Stevens spoke about his past legal decisions and personal experiences while serving on the court before a packed audience in Richardson Auditorium on Monday afternoon.

Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76 returned to the University as part of the “She Roars” conference on Friday afternoon to discuss women’s leadership potential.

Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada delivered the annual John Marshall Harlan ’20 Lecture in Constitutional Adjudication to a nearly full Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall on Thursday night. Her talk, titled “Global Justice: The Power and the Pity,” was hosted by the Wilson School’s Program in Law and Public Affairs.

The Senate voted 63-37 to confirm Solicitor General Elena Kagan ’81 as the next Supreme Court justice, a historic move that marks the first time three women will serve simultaneously on the nation’s highest court.

David Brooks is definitely right to think that there’s a certain chilling effect among lawyers who want to become federal judges... Nominees since Robert Bork have routinely claimed — with extreme implausibility — that they really don’t know how they would rule on so controversial an issue as Roe v. Wade.