Location: Fitts Auditorium, 3501 Sansom St., Philadelphia, PA 19104
At this year's Steven S. Goldberg and Jolley Bruce Christman Bi-Annual Lecture in Education Law, Professor Justin Driver examines the Supreme Court's decision to eliminate affirmative action and considers its implications for higher education. This event is open to the public.
This program has been approved for a total of 1.5 Substantive CLE credits for Pennsylvania lawyers. CLE credit may be available in other jurisdictions as well. Attendees seeking CLE credit can make a payment via cash or check made payable to ”The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania” on the day of the event or prior to the event via the online registration link in the amount of $60.00 ($30.00 public interest/non-profit attorneys). In order to receive the appropriate amount of credit, evaluation forms must be completed.
Penn Carey Law Alums receive CLE credits free through The W.P. Carey Foundation’s generous commitment to Lifelong Learning.
About the Speaker
Justin Driver is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He teaches and writes in the field of constitutional law and is the author, most recently, of The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education, which the New York Times Book Review selected as an Editors’ Choice.
An elected member of the American Law Institute and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Driver was appointed by President Biden to serve on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. A recipient of the American Society for Legal History’s William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize, Driver has a distinguished publication record in the nation’s leading law reviews. He has also written extensively for general audiences, including pieces in The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
His first book—The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind—was selected as a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year and an Editors’ Choice of The New York Times Book Review. The Schoolhouse Gate also received the Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Education Law and was a finalist for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award and Phi Beta Kappa’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award.
Before joining the Yale faculty, Driver taught at Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago, the University of Texas, the University of Virginia, and the Westville Correctional Facility of Indiana. He is a graduate of Brown, Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), Duke (where he received certification to teach public school), and Harvard Law School (where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review). After graduating from Harvard, Driver served as a law clerk at U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and at the Supreme Court of the United States.