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Our Legal Foundation The Invisible Constitution and the Rule of Law

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  • ABOUT Frank H. Easterbrook

    Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook of the United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, has served as Chief Judge since 2006. Early in his career Easterbrook worked for the Solicitor General’s office before being nominated by Ronald Reagan to the court. He was on George W. Bush’s short list for Supreme Court Justice.

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  • ABOUT Geoffrey Stone

    Geoffrey Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. A faculty member since 1973, Stone has served as both dean of the University of Chicago Law School and provost of the University of Chicago. One of the nation's leading scholars of the First Amendment, he has published several books and more than a hundred articles in the field of constitutional law. His publications have won numerous national awards.

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  • ABOUT Laurence Tribe

    Laurence Tribe, professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard University, is the author of American Constitutional Law and the Invisible Constitution. He is one of the founders of the American Constitution Society and was a legal advisor to Barack Obama during his campaign for president. Profile
  • ABOUT Diane Wood

    Diane Wood is a circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a senior lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School. Judge Wood attended the University of Texas at Austin, earning her B.A. in 1971 and her J.D. in 1975. She is a former faculty member of the Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Chicago Law School and also served as deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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The Constitution of the United States contains our most cherished and widely held beliefs about rights, yet admits to varied readings and meanings far beyond its written words. A panel of some of today’s greatest legal minds–both jurists and scholars–convened to discuss the Constitution serves as a foundational document for the rule of law in the United States.

Panelists Frank Easterbrook, Geoffrey StoneLaurence Tribe, and Diane Wood range in views from left to right, suffusing this roundtable with the full breadth of contemporary judicial thought. They illuminated such topics as the “unwritten” Constitution, presidential politics, and the life tenure of Supreme Court Justices, providing a dynamic discussion on the decisions that affect the entire country.

This lecture was generously sponsored by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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Geoffrey Stone: Perilous Times Free Speech in Wartime

Stone, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and a foremost authority on the First Amendment, discusses his new history of U.S. government actions that had the potential to endanger fundamental rights during periods of war.

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