A Brief Review of the U.S. Supreme Court's Unusually Important 2019 Term
(LIVE WEBCAST)
This is the registration for the LIVE WEBCAST event
Date and Time: Wednesday, July 22, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Online Webinar Only. This live stream webinar will only be available through Zoom. You will receive a link to the event content via email before the event starts.
Credit: This seminar qualifies for 1 CLE Credit.
Price:
$40 HSBA Member (LIVE WEBCAST)
$50 Non HSBA Member (LIVE WEBCAST)
Cost includes the LIVE webcast ONLY which will run from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm HST.
Same day registrants are welcome, but please register at least one hour before the webcast.
Cancellation/Refunds: Cancellation requests must be received by Wednesday, July 15, 2020 for a full refund. There will be no refunds if you miss the live webcast.
Summary:
The Supreme Court handed down more than its usual number of highly consequential decisions in the Term just concluded.
Dean Soifer will discuss and answer questions about some of the most significant opinions, with particular attention to those by the Court's two most recent arrivals.
Speaker:
Dean Avi Soifer, William S. Richardson School of Law
Dean Soifer received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1972. He also holds B.A. cum laude (1969) and Masters of Urban Studies (1972) degrees from Yale.
While in law school, he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal, a director of the Law School Film Society, and a director of the Legal Services Organization. He helped to found the C.V.H. Project, representing people in Connecticut’s largest mental hospital. After graduating, he clerked for then-Federal District Court Judge Jon O. Newman in Connecticut from 1972-73.
Soifer began his law teaching career at the University of Connecticut in 1973, received a Law and Humanities Fellowship at Harvard University in 1976-77, and taught at Boston University from 1979-1993. He served as Dean of Boston College Law School from 1993-1998, and continued to teach at BC until 2003, when he became Dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai‘i.
Soifer received Boston College’s Distinguished Senior Research Award and he was appointed as a Distinguished Scholar at the University of Wisconsin's Legal Studies Institute. His book, Law and the Company We Keep (Harvard University Press, 1995) was awarded the Alpha Sigma Nu Triennial National Jesuit Book Prize in professional studies.
He continues to add to his extensive record of scholarly publications, presentations, and public service activities and he to teach primarily in the areas of constitutional law, legal history, legal writing, and law and humanities.
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