Justice O'Connor to deliver annual Pedrick Lecture
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (ret.) will give the Fourteenth Annual Willard H. Pedrick Lecture at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 31, in the Great Hall of Armstrong Hall at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.
Free tickets are available at http://pedrick2010.eventbrite.com/.
Justice O'Connor will speak on judicial independence and the importance of merit selection processes for judges.
The lecture is hosted by the Pedrick family, and was established in 1997 in memory of the founding dean of the College of Law. The annual lecture brings to the law school outstanding legal scholars, jurists or practitioners to enrich the intellectual life of the College and the community.
Previous lecturers and their titles at the time were:
2008-09: The Honorable Harry T. Edwards, Senior Circuit Judge and Chief Judge Emeritus, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
2007-08: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
2006-07: Martin D. Ginsburg, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
2005-06: Sir Neil MacCormick, Regius Professor of Law, University of Edinburgh
2004-05: Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
2003-04: Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
2001-02: Ronald Dworkin, Frank H. Sommer Professor of Law, New York University Law School
2000-01: Yale Kamisar, Clarence Darrow Distinguished University Professor of Law, University of Michigan
1999-2000: Martha A. Field, Langdell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
1998-99: Andrew D. Hurwitz, Esquire, Osborn Maledon, P.A.
1997-98: Kathleen M. Sullivan, Stanley Morrison Professor, Stanford University
1996-97: Robert Post, Professor, University of California Berkeley, and Benjamin Barber, Professor, Rutgers University
Judy Nichols, Judith.Nichols@asu.edu
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