Evening for us and were delighted that Justice Ginsburg is here, as well. The Society Depends on the support of the justices of the court and they have been most generous. Otherwise, we would be unable to host this kind of event in this impressive surrounding of the Supreme Court courtroom so we are very grateful for your generosity and support. Im now going to offer a brief introduction for Justice Kagan who all of you know. Shell be introducing our lecturer for the evening. Justice kagan was born in new york city. She received her undergraduate education at princeton where she graduated summa cum laude. She then visited Oxford University as the daniel m. Sax graduate fellow from princeton and she earned her masters degree there. She returned to Harvard Law School, graduated three years later magna cum laude as being supervising editor of the harvard law review, then distinguished clerk ships. She first clerked for judge admiral migva of the d. C. Court of appeals and then for thurgoo
In cooperation with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 759, earnest miranda, petitioner, versus arizona. Well hear arguments in number 18, roe against wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took the quite unpopular 54, 45, these decisions change our lives lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who had helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening, and welcome to cspans history series landmark cases. Tonight is number 10 in our 12part series, and youll hear about the 1962 tennessee reapportionment case. It was one that chief Justice Earl Warren called the most important of his tenure. And remember, this is the court that wrote brown versus board of education. Well learn why during the next 90 minutes. This case began
Evening for us and were delighted that Justice Ginsburg is here, as well. The Society Depends on the support of the justices of the court and they have been most generous. Otherwise, we would be unable to host this kind of event in this impressive surrounding of the Supreme Court courtroom so we are very grateful for your generosity and support. Im now going to offer a brief introduction for Justice Kagan who all of you know. Shell be introducing our lecturer for the evening. Justice kagan was born in new york city. She received her undergraduate education at princeton where she graduated summa cum laude. She then visited Oxford University as the daniel m. Sax graduate fellow from princeton and she earned her masters degree there. She returned to Harvard Law School, graduated three years later magna cum laude as being supervising editor of the harvard law review, then distinguished clerk ships. She first clerked for judge admiral migva of the d. C. Court of appeals and then for thurgoo
In cooperation with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 759, earnest miranda, petitioner, versus arizona. Well hear arguments in number 18, roe against wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took the quite unpopular 54, 45, these decisions change our lives lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who had helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening, and welcome to cspans history series landmark cases. Tonight is number 10 in our 12part series, and youll hear about the 1962 tennessee reapportionment case. It was one that chief Justice Earl Warren called the most important of his tenure. And remember, this is the court that wrote brown versus board of education. Well learn why during the next 90 minutes. This case began
Graduate of penn state university. During her summer, she spent time as a seasonal historian. Greensboro on to unc were laura and i spent some time for year before i moved on to West Virginia university. Andcompleted her masters has had a very her first job was at stratford and hall, the birthplace of robert e lee. Recently, she is the deputy education director at the Hampton Roads naval museum. She works as an educator and does special event. She also worked at fort munro museum. Today, she will be speaking to shipwreck. Vil war in my seven years here, i dont think we have done any naval operations. She will be talking about shipwrecks of the uss cumberland before she comes on page. Note that laura and her husband have recently published a book. You can see a copy of it just in front of the podium. The title of the book is never. All me a hero me introduce laura lawfer. [applause] afternoon. How is everybody . Good. They went after lunch. I have to start out with a matter of disclosur