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Public Affairs Discussion Group
"The First Year of the Roberts Court"
September 1, 2006
First Floor Lounge, Guilford House
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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Jonathan Entin, J.D.
Professor of Law and Political Science
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Kenneth Ledford, Ph.D., J.D.
Associate
Professor of History and Law |
Dear Colleagues:
The Friday Lunch discussions resume on Friday, Sept 1,
from 12:30 -1:30 p.m., on the first floor of Guilford
House. This week’s topic is whether and how the Supreme
Court changed during the first year with Chief Justice
Roberts – and, perhaps more significantly, with Justice
Alito replacing Justice O’Conner. Jon Entin, Professor
of Law and Political Science, will lead the discussion,
which will be hosted by Ken Ledford, Associate Professor
of History and Law.
May the new term bring only good things.
All the best,
Joe White
Joseph White, Ph.D.
Luxenberg Family Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
Director, Center for Policy Studies
Case Western Reserve University
Mather House 111
11201 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland OH 44106-7109
(216) 368-2426
joseph.white@case.edu
More About Our Guest
Jonathan Entin has taught Constitutional Law,
Administrative Law, Courts, Public Policy, and Social
Change, and a Supreme Court Seminar. Before joining the
faculty in 1984, he clerked for Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg (when she was on the U.S. court of Appeals) and
practiced in Washington with Steptoe & Johnson. The
recipient of several teaching awards and a former
co-editor of the Journal of Legal Education, he is at
work on a book about equal protection. Among his recent
publications are "An Ohio Dilemma: Race, Equal
Protection, and the Unfulfilled Promise of a State Bill
of Rights," Cleveland State Law Review (2004), and
"Judicial Selection and Political Culture," Capital
University Law Review (2002).
Kenneth Ledford is a social historian of modern
Germany, from 1789 to the present. His research
interests focus primarily upon processes of class
formation, particularly the emergence and decline of the
profound influence of the educated, liberal middle-class
of education, the Bildungsbürgertum. The salient
ideology of this social group was classical liberalism,
whose vocabulary both shaped and was shaped by the
primary social institution of the Bürgertum, law and the
legal order. Thus, Professor Ledford has written about
German lawyers in private practice, and his present work
is on a book about the Prussian judiciary between 1848
and 1918; in all my work, a clearer analysis of the
complex interplay among state, civil society, and the
ideology of the state ruled by law (Rechtsstaat) remains
the goal. Professor Ledford's teaching interests extend
beyond German history since 1789 to include the history
of the European middle classes, the history of the
professions, European legal history, other processes of
class formation including German and European labor
history, as well as the history of European
international relations and diplomatic history.
Professor Ledford enjoys interdisciplinary intellectual
work by belonging to the faculties of the College of
Arts and Sciences as well as the School of Law, and by
participating in both the International Studies and
German Studies programs within the College.
Fall Semester Schedule
Sept 1: Ken Ledford,
Associate Professor of History and Law, hosts Jon Entin,
Professor of Law and Political Science, to discuss the
first year of the Supreme Court with John Roberts as
Chief Justice.
Sept 8: Leonard Lynn, Professor and Chair of the
Department of Policy and Management at the Weatherhead
School of Management, on what U.S. leadership in
engineering could mean with the rise of India and China.
Sept 15: Mark Naymik, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, on
this year’s statewide elections in Ohio.
Sept 22: Greg Eastwood, Interim President of Case
Western Reserve University, on “The Interim Period:
Tasks for Today and Ideas for the Future.”
Sept 29: Alan Weinstein, Professor and Director, Law and
Public Policy Program, Cleveland-Marshall College of the
Law, eminent domain: “State Legislative Responses to Kelo vs. New London: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.”
Oct 6: Amy Hanauer, Executive Director, PolicyMatters
Ohio, on raising the minimum wage
Oct 13: Marty Kress, Executive Director of the National
Space Science and Technology Center, University of
Alabama at Huntsville, on Organizing NASA for Space
Exploration. NOTE: Tentative room change to Mather House
100.
Oct 20: Michael Wager, Vice Chair and Chair Elect of the
Port Authority, on its role in local economic
development issues.
Oct 27: Pete Moore, Assistant Professor of Political
Science, on whatever is happening in the Middle East at
the time.
Nov 3: Justin Buchler, Assistant Professor of Political
Science, and Andrew Lucker, Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Political Science: Midterm Election forecast.
Nov 10: Eric J. Topol MD, Professor of Genetics, on
concerns about conflicts of interest in medical
research.
Nov 17: Norman Robbins, Emeritus Professor of
Neurosciences, on class bias in who gets to vote.
Nov 24: THANKSGIVING BREAK
Dec 1: Jerome Liebman MD, Emeritus Professor of
Pediatrics, on National Health Insurance
Dec 8: Terry Wolpaw MD, Associate Dean for Curricular
Affairs, School of Medicine, on the new demands on or
expectations of medical education.
Parking: For
those people who seek to make special arrangements about
parking, the contact person now will be Fay Alexander.
Her phone number is 368-4440, and her e-mail is
fabrienne.alexander@case.edu.
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