We thought you take this opportunity to be in prime time this week. Were focusing on books related to the Supreme Court. It began its fall session monday october 5th and here are the books we will be showing you tonight. We will begin with Erwin Chemerinsky who has written a book called the case agaist the Supreme Court. After that in the biography on thurgood marshall. And a new book out called sisters is lot about the first to women to serve on the Supreme Court and their relationship. Finally we will visit with the Justice Stephen breyer whose book is out about international what. Would Dash International law. First is Erwin Chemerinsky ti if and the case agaist the Supreme Court from thethinks hl tucson book festival last march. Sure it is actually off. With that i am very pleased to introduce the founding dean of the university of California School of law which the six short years as one of the finest law schools in the country. A prolific scholar a legendary teacher of constituti
Will be doing a call in program with cspan said he cannot sign books until 4 00 then he will have a very short window before he passed to catch his flight t consign books from 4 00 through 4 20 p. M. I hope you can catch him then. [laughter] that is at the bookstore attend on the ball at the university of arizona bookstore they are purchased at that location if you are enjoying the festival we encourage you to become a friend of the festival your taxdeductible donation allows to offer programming free of charge learn more about friends of the festival benefits that the information with our at tucson book festival website at of respect for the author and fellow audience members please turn off yourself comes at this time if he thinks you have please double check to make sure it is actually off. With that i am very pleased to introduce the founding dean of the university of California School of law which the six short years as one of the finest law schools in the country. A prolific scho
Members please turn off yourself comes at this time if he thinks you have please double check to make sure it is actually off. With that i am very pleased to introduce the founding dean of the university of California School of law which the six short years as one of the finest law schools in the country. A prolific scholar a legendary teacher of constitutional law and related subjects he himself argued many cases before the United States federal courts including the Supreme Court. A frequent public commentator on issues and perhaps the most gifted translator legalese into plain english. [laughter] which the public oppose him a huge debt of gratitude. Caller. Thank you. Let me start by thanking the tucson festival of books for having me and for all of you for coming it is enormously gratifying for me as an author but to see so many people on a beautiful afternoon coming to hear about the Supreme Court and the constitution is wonderful. [applause] thankyou. I will tell a story that the
Every weekend, booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, on cspan 2 keep watching for more television for serious readers. Booktv is live this weekend from the tucson festival of books. Start agent 1 00 p. M. Eastern 10 00 a. M. Pacific well be covering several author panel on topics such as race and politics, Supreme Court, environment, immigration, and more. All this live from the university of arizona the site of the seventh annual tucson festival of books. I give an example in god, guns, grits and gravy of this guy who is heading green peace in europe, and so he is all about wanting to reduce co2 emissions. But in all of an audit of green peace shows he is flying from his home to lux. Boring a couple of times a month, and the output of co2 he is expending because of his jet travel is like 100 times that of the average person. And so when confronted about it, here was his answer. He said well, the train trip would take 12 hours and that would be time away from my f