Want to book this week and every weekend here on cspan2. I am very delighted to welcome you to our event today but is on the conservative case for class actions, a book written by professor fitzpatrick that galvanize this debate. We got three outstanding speakers, panelists, i should say. Our first is the head of the class action practice, he has litigated and defended countless class actions including over 20 dismissals of class action cases. You may have a sense for his position on match. He is a graduate of georgetown, undergraduate and university of Virginia Law School which he was on the law review and he is also the author of a chapter in the popular guided series on [inaudible] so please welcome christopher. [applause] our next panelist is the professor himself who wrote the book, he is a graduate of notre dame where he is a runner up valedictorian but he did offer that when he went to Harvard Law School in one the diploma for being the top student to graduate in his class. He i
Throughout the u. S. And the world with interactive maps. Watch ondemand anytime unfiltered at cspan. Org coronavirus. I am very delighted to welcome you to our event today. Its on a conservative case for class actions, a book written by professor fitzpatrick that galvanized this debate. We have three outstanding speakers, panelists i should say. Our first is the head of the class action practice here it gets indented coach rivera key has litigated in the fitted doubtless class actions including over 20 dismissals of class action cases. So you may have a sense of where his position is on that. He is a graduate of georgetown, undergraduate and the university of Virginia Law School where he was the long review and hes also the author of a chapter in the popular better guide series on 1702 and claims, so please welcome christopher. [applause] our next panelist is professed himself wrote the book. He is a graduate of notre dame where he was runnerup valedictorian, but he made up for that w
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Lee is a graduate of georgetown and the university of Virginia Law School our review and also the author on the series. So please welcome our gas. [applause] our next panelist is the professor himself and is a graduate of notre dame. But made up for that from Harvard Law School to graduate in his class. And to be a lot easier. And at vanderbilt. And a compelling case but our moderator today is a judge on the ninth circuit. To go at cornell and Harvard Law School. And the associate white House Counsel and recently appointed to the ninth circuit. [applause] thank you for the introduction i think we will have a great debate we have two experts on class actions i will give the professor fitzpatrick the floor for about ten or 15 minutes to make his case and then we will give another ten or 15 minutes for rebuttal and after that we will open the floor for questions. And we lived on the same dorm floor. So brian in law school was. [laughter] to have sterling credentials with Justice Scalia wo