Professor Jeffrey Rosen Discusses His Book “Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet”

When

Monday November 7, 2016: 7:00pm to 8:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Rackham Amphitheater, 915 E. Washington St. Ann Arbor

Description

As America confronts a new, intensely contested Supreme Court vacancy, there is no justice who can teach us more about our current constitutional debates than Louis D. Brandeis. Brandeis waited 125 days between his nomination and his confirmation a hundred years ago on June 1, 1916, and his confirmation battle was the most contentious in Supreme Court history.

Once he joined the Court, Brandeis wrote some of the most influential opinions on issues we are still grappling with today, including privacy, free speech, and excesses of corporate and federal power. He was also the first Jewish justice, the leader of the American Zionist Movement, a powerful advocate for the role of education in democracy, and a jurist whose emphasis on facts transformed the way the Court does business.

Join us as Professor Jeffrey Rosen discusses his powerful book Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet. This event, part of the Jewish Book & Arts Festival 2016, will include a book signing and books will be for sale.

Professor Jeffrey Rosen is President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center, a professor at The George Washington University Law School, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a contributing editor for The Atlantic. He is a highly regarded journalist whose essays and commentaries have appeared in The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic, on National Public Radio, and in The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer.

The Chicago Tribune named him one of the 10 best magazine journalists in America and a reviewer for the Los Angeles Times called him “the nation’s most widely read and influential legal commentator.”

He received the 2012 Golden Pen Award from the Legal Writing Institute for his “extraordinary contribution to the cause of better legal writing.”

This event is sponsored by the U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, the Ann Arbor District Library, the Jewish Federation Cardozo Society, and the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor.