Good evening, it is my very great pleasure to welcome you to the Memorial Church for this lecture on a Meaningful Life. Tonight we are deeply honored to have as our speaker associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [cheers and applause] this event, this event, as you may know, has a rich history at stamford. Thatiginated in a lecture a stanford law professor in the 1930s to the 1950s decided to give about the meaning of life his businessay of law class one spring. The lecture was such a success that it turned into an annual tradition at stanford for many years, until the his professor retired. It was revived in 2008, supported by a generous gift to the office of religious life by the foundation for global community, which established the henry enemy henry and emelia fund for exploring what leads to a Meaningful Life. Each year a visiting fellow is selected to come to stamford to deliver this lecture and spend time with our faculty, students, and
We take you live to Georgetown Law School in washington, d. C. For the nomination of neil gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Its just getting under way. Ill introduce our moderator who is the Supreme Court correspondent for what i like to call the New York Times purviewer of genuine news. He will introduce other panelists. Take it away. Thank you all for being here. Thank you. So i see in our flyer that we promised you an engaging roundtable of experts. Im going to introduce the panelists and then talk a little bit about the formatting and get under way. To my right is a partner from jones day where he wanders the empty hallways. Hes a graduate of law school and a former law clerk to Justice Scalia. To hit right is the president of the american constitution society. Shes a graduate of Columbia Law School and works at the aclu. Then christine lucias who is a graduate of georgetown law and has served as chief counsel of the Judiciary Committee working for senator Patrick Lahey in a variety of
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So i guess well get started as folks continue to wander this from class in from class. Im joy bernstein, i direct the Supreme Court institute here at georgetown, and on behalf of our executive director and assistant director, we are, were happy to welcome all of you here to what promises to be a very interesting discussion of the pending nomination to the u. S. Supreme court. Ill introduce our moderator, adam liptak, who is a Supreme Court correspondent for what i like to call the new york times, purveyor of genuine news. [laughter] and he will introduce our other panelists ask take it away. Thank you, i just call it the failing new york times. [laughter] so we promised you an engaging round table of experts. The expertise real and the engaging, well find out. [laughter] im going to introduce the panelists and then talk a little bit about the format and then get underway. To my right is shay def relates sky whos a partner be at jones day where im guessing he now wanders the hallways. H
Nominee judge neil gorsuch. This was posted at the University Law center. [inaudible conversations] so i guess we will get started. [inaudible] who want to welcome all of you here to a discussion of the nomination of the Supreme Court. I will introduce [inaudible] he will introduce the other panelists. Take it away. Thank you for coming. Thank you. So we promised you an engaging roundtable of experts. [inaudible] i am going to introduce the panelists. On the talk about the format and then get underway. To my right history into common a partner at jones day where im guessing he now wonders he and steve holy spirit is a graduate of your law school, former law clerk for justice kalina and argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court. To his right history and three, president of the american constitution society. She is a graduate [inaudible] and then, Kristine Lucius is a graduate of georgetown law. Served as chief counsel of the judiciary committee, spending the last 10 years working f