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The Seventh Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Conference
April 7-8, 2000

"Law And Character"

Speakers

  • Vincent A. Blasi, Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties, Columbia Law School.
  • The Honorable David M. Ebel, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Circuit Judge.
  • Dennis J. Hutchinson, Associate Dean of the College, Professor and Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Law School.
  • Laura Kalman, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara.
  • Pnina Lahav, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law.
  • B. Kent Newmyer, Professor of Legal History, Professor of History, Emeritus, University of Connecticut.
  • Richard Polenberg, Goldwin Smith Professor of American History, Cornell University.
  • James E. Scarboro, Esq., Arnold & Porter, Denver.
Conference Papers
  • Character and Common law - Richard Polenberg
  • Character and Judicial Discretion - Pnina Lahav
  • Hand, Holmes and Brandeis: Free Speech, Temperament, and Majority rule - Vincent Blasi
  • John Marshall, American Original: Some Thoughts on Personality and Judicial Statesmanship - Kent Newmyer
  • Does Character Affect Judicial Performance? - Laura Kalman
  • Justice White: Impatient Skeptic - Dennis Hutchinson
  • Byron R. White: A Justice Shaped by the West - Judge Ebel
  • Good Judgment as a Manifestation of Character in the Opinions of Justice Byron R. White - James Scarboro