UPDATE - CANCELED: Arizona Law to Host U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan
Feb. 14 UPDATE: Due to the death this weekend of Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Kagan has canceled her visit to Arizona Law. Justice Scalia was her close friend and colleague, a man she had recently characterized as having the "most important impact on how we think and talk about the law in years." Justice Kagan offers sincere regrets at not being able to deliver the McCormick Lecture.
United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan will speak at the University of Arizona for the 37th McCormick Lecture, sponsored by the James E. Rogers College of Law and the J. Byron McCormick Society for Law and Public Affairs.
Event: “A Conversation with Justice Elena Kagan,” moderated by College of Law Dean Emerita Toni Massaro and Dean Marc Miller. An informal reception will follow the lecture.
When: Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Where: The University of Arizona School of Music, Crowder Hall, 1017 N. Olive Road. Campus map: http://map.arizona.edu/
Who may attend: This event has reached capacity, and attendance is limited to those who have already registered.
Elena Kagan clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1986 to 1987 and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1987 term. After briefly practicing law in Washington, D.C., she became a law professor, first at the University of Chicago Law School and later at Harvard Law School. She also served for four years in the Clinton Administration, as Associate Counsel to the President and then as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. Between 2003 and 2009, she served as the dean of Harvard Law School. In 2009, President Obama nominated her as the Solicitor General of the United States. A year later, the president nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. She took her seat on Aug. 7, 2010. Kagan has an A.B. from Princeton, an M. Phil. from Oxford, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
The J. Byron McCormick Society for Law and Public Affairs was formed to honor the memory of J. Byron McCormick, who served Arizona with distinction as president of the University of Arizona, as dean of the College of Law, and as an advisor to the Arizona Board of Regents. Members of the McCormick Society foster dialogue about the critical issues of our time through an annual public lecture. Past speakers in the series have included former U.S. Representative Barney Frank, former U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe, and PBS commentator and New York Times columnist David Brooks.
Event Contact: Bernadette Wilkinson, senior program coordinator, UA James E. Rogers College of Law, bwilkins@email.arizona.edu, 520-626-1629.