ND professor speaks on NPR about Supreme Court

Among Chief Justice John Roberts’ first full term highlights were a number of decisions on race and public schools, free speech, and abortion. Richard W. Garnett, the John Cardinal O’Hara, CSC associate professor of law at Notre Dame University participated in a discussion with two other leading U.S. Supreme Court watchers in front of a live audience at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

The July 10 event analyzed highlights of the latest term of the Supreme Court and addressed the question, “How has the new conservative majority affected the court?” The 51-minute program aired on National Public Radio’s “Justice Talking” and is available on the Web at http://www.justicetalking.org/viewprogram.asp?progID=612. A follow-up question and answer session is also available for download from the Web site.

Other speakers were Supreme Court reporter for ABC News Jan Crawford Greenburg, and Geoffrey Stone, a law professor at the University of Chicago.

Garnett’s areas of research interest and expertise include school choice, church/state relations, free speech and expressive association, federalism and criminal law, and the death penalty. He previously clerked for Chief Judge Richard S. Arnold of the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.

Greenburg is the author of “Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court,” published this year. Previously she was the Chicago Tribune’s national legal affairs reporter, where she won the paper’s top reporting award for her coverage of the 2000 presidential election.

Stone is the Harry Kalven Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He is the author of “War and Liberty: An American Dilemma and Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime,” which received eight national book awards. He is a member of the American Constitution Society Board of Directors.