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Supreme Court Expert, Kermit
L. Hall, Addresses Arkansas Judicial Council
"The single most important
development in the modern history of the judiciary
has been the judicialization of public policy"
Contact:
Catherine Herman (518) 437-4980
ALBANY,
N.Y. (April 21, 2005) -- Kermit L. Hall, constitutional
law scholar, professor of history, and president
of the University at Albany, State University
of New York, will present "Perpetuating
the Judiciary: The Judicialization of Public
Life and the Independence of the Judiciary
in American History" at the 2005 Spring
Judicial Council Meeting in West Memphis, Arkansas.
Hall is the author and editor of 21 books
on the American legal and constitutional system,
including the award-winning Oxford
Companion to the Supreme Court of the United
States (New
York, Oxford University Press, 2nd revised
edition, 2005), and the Oxford
Companion to American Law (New York, Oxford University Press,
2002). He is also the author of The Law of the Land: A
History of the Supreme Court (Prince Frederick, Maryland: Recorded Books, 2003, fourteen 35-minute
lectures on the history of the Supreme Court
of the United States), and The
Magic Mirror: Law in American History (New York, Oxford University Press, 1989; 2nd revised
edition forthcoming in 2006). His books have been main and alternate selections
of the History Book Club and the Book of the Month Club.
In addition, Hall was one of five Americans
appointed by President Bill Clinton to the
Assassination Records Review Board in 1992
to review and release to the public documents
related to the assassination of U.S. President
John F. Kennedy. For his commitment to openness
in government, the American Library Association
bestowed its James Madison Award on him in
1999. He received his Ph.D. in 1972 from the
University of Minnesota, a master’s degree
in 1967 from Syracuse University and a master
of studies in law from Yale University in 1980.
The talk is April 21, 2005; 10:15 to 11:45
a.m. at the Holiday Inn, I-55/I-40 & Ingram
Blvd., West Memphis, Arkansas.
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