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Professor Thomas Merrill talked about Learned Hand’s interpretation of statutory law, which are laws generated by a legislative body. Judge Learned Hand served on the U.S. Second Circuit Cou…

Former law clerks and colleagues, including Chief Justice John Roberts and D.C. Circuit Court Chief Judge Merrick Garland, talked about the legacy of the late Second Circuit Appeals Court Ju…

Former law clerks to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall spoke about his legacy. He served from 1967 to 1991. Panelists, including Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, remembered their tim…

Harold Holzer talked about Abraham Lincoln and freedom of the press during the Civil War. He examined the reasoning behind the imprisonment of newspaper editors during the Civil War, and the…

Second Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral argument in Arar v. Ashcroft. All 12 appeals judges sat in an en banc session to hear the appeal to the 2 to 1 ruling in June 2008 by a Second Circ…

Legal experts talked about the professional evaluation of judicial nominees made by various organizations for members of Congress. Among the topics they addressed were the criteria by which …