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Supreme Court Justice Scalia to give public lecture
Monday, October 15, 2007
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will present a public lecture Oct. 18 at Valparaiso University during visit in which he will preside over the final round of Valparaiso’s 19th annual Luther M. Swygert Memorial Moot Court Competition.
Justice Scalia’s lecture will focus on “Constitutional Interpretation” and begin at 1 p.m. in the Chapel of the Resurrection on campus. The talk is free and open to the public.
Justice Scalia was appointed to the nation’s highest court in 1986 and is the second longest serving associate justice on the Supreme Court. Before being nominated to the Supreme Court, he was a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, taught law at the University of Chicago and held a variety of positions in the federal government.
This summer, Justice Scalia joined Valparaiso School of Law faculty in teaching law students enrolled in a summer study program in England. Fellow Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas, as well as the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, have also taught in Valparaiso’s annual summer law program in England.
The Valparaiso University School of Law’s Swygert Competition provides law students an opportunity to address a contemporary constitutional issue, including a final round in which distinguished federal judges read the students’ briefs and hear their arguments. In this year’s competition, law students are addressing First Amendment issues relating to time, place and manner restrictions on protesters at the funerals of soldiers killed in war, as well as the power of a school to regulate the off-campus activities of a student involved in such a protest.
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