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I would like to welcome you to the Supreme Court Institute Spring book fair. When i was a kid i looked forward to my School Book Fair and now i am lapy in the position i get to go to the law school one. Here i want to thank Anthony Franze especially for coming up with the idea and recruiting this wonderful panel on authors. Really looking forward to hearing about books i will actually want to read. Not mocking law articles or briefs but it is starting to get old so i am looking forward to hearing what these folks have come up with. We have tony mauro here to led the discussion. We has been cov...

This is booktv on cspan2. I would like to welcome you to the Supreme Court Institute Spring book fair. When i was a kid i looked forward to my School Book Fair and now i am lapy in the position i get to go to the law school one. Here i want to thank Anthony Franze especially for coming up with the idea and recruiting this wonderful panel on authors. Really looking forward to hearing about books i will actually want to read. Not mocking law articles or briefs but it is starting to get old so i am looking forward to hearing what these folks have come up with. We have tony mauro here to led the d...

Good evening everybody. It is my pleasure to be the moderator tonight for professor Kermit Roosevelt. As you probably know, he is the greatgreatgrandson of Theodore Roosevelt. Roy we discussed beforehand whether there is a shorter word than greatgreatgrandson in english, but apparently there is not. So, that is so we are stuck with. The honor of having him here though, is much more founded in his skill in both his legal backgrounds and in his writing ability, he has produced several books on constitutional law, u. S. G served as a clerk to Supreme Court under Justice David souter. He has writt...

Books on law. Tonight, there will be at least some discussion about his latest novel, entitled allegiance. It is about the incarceration of the japanese during the second world war. That is enough for me. Let me introduce professor Kermit Roosevelt to you. [applause] prof. Roosevelt iii thank you for that introduction. Thank you all for coming, it is a will pleasure to be here. Im going to talk about the significance of Theodore Roosevelts vision of the constitution and it will connect to some larger ideas about who we are, and we want to be. The constitution is our central organizing document...

As you probably know, he is the greatgreatgrandson of Theodore Roosevelt. We discussed beforehand whether there is a shorter word than greatgreatgrandson in english, but apparently there is not. So, that is so we are stuck with. The honor of having him here though, is much more founded in his skill in both his legal backgrounds and in his writing ability, he has produced several books on constitutional law, having served as a clerk to u. S. Supreme court under Justice David souter. He has written both novels and books on law. Tonight, there will be at least some discussion about his latest nov...