AL Constitution Day Event: U.S. Supreme Court Conversation, Today!
The annual Constitution Day event has returned to the Alexandria Campus in-person! Join us on today, Sept. 14, at 11:10 a.m. in Room AA-196 of the Bisdorf Building. This year’s topic will be the U.S. Supreme Court, its role as guarantor of the U.S. Constitution and what its interpretation of that role has meant throughout our political history to the present day. This event will feature the following panelists:
- Amy Howe, attorney and Supreme Court journalist, will leverage her career in journalism and discuss the “Roberts Court” as well as her experience arguing cases before the Supreme Court to discuss the personalities and political persuasions of the modern court, as well as some of its more prominent decisions. Please click here for more on Ms. Howe.
- Dr. Steven Teles of Johns Hopkins University and the Niskanen Center will present an overview of the conservative legal movement, about which he has researched and published extensively. Click here for more.
- Dr. Stefan Wheelock of George Mason University will focus on the 19th Century impact of the Supreme Court on American culture, particularly slavery, and how it helped define the discourse and institutional violence perpetrated in that era by the United States on people who were enslaved. Frederick Douglass will feature prominently. Click here for more.
- Dr. Daniel Kirsch (moderator), professor of political science, NOVA Alexandria.
Panelists will each give a ten-minute overview of their work as it relates to the Supreme Court, and then after some brief commentary by the panel chair Dr. Daniel Kirsch, there will be an opportunity for questions from attendees for the panel to address.
Submitted by:
Mohamed Ali, AL-Ed. Support Spec., MMAli@nvcc.edu