Monday, October 1, 2007

Tushnet Conference at Quinnipiac

Quinnipiac University School of Law will host the sixth Conference on Law and Philosophy: The Work of Mark Tushnet

Saturday, Oct. 6, from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the School of Law Center Faculty Commons.

Mark Tushnet is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and former law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall. Tushnet is a prominent scholar of comparative constitutional law, 20th-century American legal history and constitutional law. He earned both his law degree and master’s degree in history from Yale University and a BA from Harvard University. He is the author of more than 15 books.

The following people will present papers at the conference:

Anthony V. Baker, associate professor of law, Campbell University School of Law
Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School
Mary Dudziak, Judge Edward J. & Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History, and Political Science, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Vicki Jackson, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Penelope Pether, law professor, Villanova University School of Law
Louis Michael Seidman, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Tushnet will respond to the papers.

To register for the free conference, please contact Georgianna Coleman at georgianna.coleman@quinnipiac.edu.

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