O’Connor Distinguished Lecture Series Features Justices Scalia and Breyer
In its continued efforts to enhance student development, the Texas Tech University School of Law’s Sandra Day O’Connor Distinguished Lecture Series will feature a joint presentation by United States Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer.
(Media-Newswire.com) - In its continued efforts to enhance student development, the Texas Tech University School of Law’s Sandra Day O’Connor Distinguished Lecture Series will feature a joint presentation by United States Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer. The public presentation will be held at 5 p.m. Nov. 12 at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center and is open to the public.
Antonin Scalia, the most senior associate justice of the nation’s high court, is making a return trip to Lubbock as he drew a crowd of nearly 5,000 in 2008 in the second year of the lecture series. A first-time speaker in the series, Stephen Breyer took his seat as associate justice on the Supreme Court in August 1994 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton.
Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Justice Scalia, a native of Trenton, N.J., advocates textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in constitutional interpretation. He received his A.B. from Georgetown University ( valedictorian and summa cum laude, 1957 ) and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and his LL.B. from Harvard Law School ( magna cum laude, 1960 ), and was a Sheldon Fellow of Harvard University from 1960–1961.
Justice Breyer, a San Francisco native, graduated from Stanford University ( magna cum laude, 1959 ), Oxford University ( first-class honours, 1961 ) and Harvard Law School ( magna cum laude, 1964 ), where he served as articles editor of the Harvard Law Review. Breyer believes judges sometimes must be guided by more than the language of laws, if the words are ambiguous or embody a value that must be applied to specific circumstances.
“Texas Tech University School of Law and the larger community look forward to the presentation by two brilliant jurists and public servants,” said Susan Saab Fortney, Texas Tech School of Law Interim Dean and Paul Whitfield Horn Professor. “We are deeply honored to host not only one Supreme Court justice, but two. Our law students and other audience members will learn a great deal from hearing the justices’ perspectives on constitutional interpretation.”
The lecture series began in 2007 and was made possible by Houston-based attorney and 1984 Tech Law alumnus Mark Lanier, who founded the Lanier Law Firm with offices in Houston, New York, Los Angeles and Palo Alto, Calif. Lanier, whom underwrites the series, is also the benefactor of the Mark & Becky Lanier Professional Development Center addition to the School of Law, which opened its doors in April 2008.
Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was the featured speaker in 2007 for the inaugural lecture of the Sandra Day O’Connor Distinguished Lecture Series.
Admission is by ticket only. Complimentary tickets are available at the law school, by calling ( 806 ) 742-3787, ext. 248 or by emailing specialevents.law@ttu.edu.
Contact: Tina Dechausay, communications coordinator, Texas Tech School of Law, ( 806 ) 742-3990 ext. 260, or tina.dechausay@ttu.edu
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