A host of prominent legal scholars, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, will gather at the CU-Boulder School of Law Jan. 24-25 to discuss the legal career of former Justice Byron White.
Titled "Justice White and the Exercise of Judicial Power," the 10th Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Conference will be held at the Fleming Law Building on the Boulder campus. All presentations are open to the public but a registration fee is required. Fees are $5 for CU alumni and higher for others.
"Justice Byron White served on the Supreme Court during 31 years of great expansion in federal judicial power, and this course has continued since his retirement," said Richard Collins, director of the Byron White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law. "He was a conscientious objector from many decisions that assumed judicial supervision over new aspects of American life, more than other justices during his tenure, though there were important areas in which he joined the expansion."Ìý
Ginsburg, appointed to replace White in 1993, will give the closing address, "Remembering Justice White," Jan. 25 at 2 p.m.
Other participants include Yale University Professor Kate Stith-Cabranes, University of Chicago Professor Dennis J. Hutchinson, University of Michigan Professor Phillip Soper, Rutgers University Professor Bernard Bell, Fordham University Professor Martin Flaherty, Yeshiva University Professor Michael Herz and New York University Professor William E. Nelson.
"In this conference, leading constitutional scholars will probe the values and methods that underlay the justice's understanding of the extent of the judicial power of the United States," said Collins.
White graduated from CU-Boulder in 1938. An All-America football player and Rhodes Scholar, he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Kennedy in 1962. He died in April 2002.
The conference is sponsored by the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law and the University of Colorado Law Review. The Byron White Center was founded in 1990 through a generous donation by Law School Alumnus Ira. C. Rothgerber Jr.
For registration or more information call the Byron White Center at (303) 492-8049 or visit the center's Web site at . Online registration is available.