April 27, 2016. Roberta Shaffer interviewed Paulette Brown Brown about her distinguished legal career as well as the significance of the 1966 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Miranda v. Arizona. Speaker Biography: Paulette Brown became the first African-American woman to lead the American Bar Association (ABA) in August 2015. She is partner and co-chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee at the international law firm, Locke Lord LLP. She has held many positions throughout her career including in-house counsel to a number of 500 Fortune companies and as a municipal court judge. In private practice, she has specialized in all aspects of labor and employment and commercial litigation. Speaker Biography: Roberta I. Shaffer is the Law Librarian of Congress. Shaffer has had a distinguished career as a practicing librarian in various settings and as a library-science educator. She held positions at the George Washington University Law School, the Catholic University of America, the University of Texas and the University of Maryland. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7424
Oct. 20, 2015. Michael J. Sandel delivered the 2015 Frederic R. and Molly S. Kellogg Biennial Lecture on Jurisprudence. The lecture focused on such questions as whether the law should affirm certain moral judgments, or be neutral on moral and spiritual questions. Speaker Biography: Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught political philosophy since 1980. Sandel's writings on justice, ethics, democracy and markets have been translated into 27 languages. His legendary course "Justice" is the first Harvard course to be made freely available online and on television. It has been viewed by tens of millions of people around the world, including in China, where Sandel was recently named the "most influential foreign figure of the year" by China Newsweek. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7110
Sep. 16, 2015. In commemoration of Constitution Day, the Law Library of Congress hosted a public program on that examined the right of religious freedom, which is protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Speaker Biography: Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University. Speaker Biography: Jess Bravin is Supreme Court correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7050
April 6, 2015. In his lecture, Nicholas Vincent explained Magna Carta's connection to Washington, D.C., a story that contains many strange twists and turns. He will also revealed new information on copies of Magna Carta elsewhere, on the meaning and history of the great document, and how the legend of Magna Carta has been exploited by all shades of political opinion. Speaker Biography: Nicholas Vincent is professor of medieval history at the University of East Anglia, and one of the world's leading experts on Magna Carta. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6769
Dec. 9, 2014. As a part of a symposium on the enduring legacy of Magna Carta, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is interviewed by David Rubenstein. Speaker Biography: Stephen G. Breyer is an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Speaker Biography: David Rubenstein is co-founder and co-CEO of the Carlyle Group. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6697
Jan. 14, 2015. Ruth Mazo Karras discussed, through an analysis of the lives of three women, the way law affected (or not) women at different levels of society in medieval England. Speaker Biography: Ruth Mazo Karras is professor and chair of the history department at the University of Minnesota. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6666
Sep. 16, 2014. For the Library's annual Constitution Day lecture, Akhil Reed Amar discussed Magna Carta and its historical connection to the U.S. Constitution. Speaker Biography: Akhil Reed Amar is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law at both Yale College and Yale Law School. He received a bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, in 1980 from Yale College and a J.D. in 1984 from Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of The Yale Law Journal. After clerking for Judge Stephen Breyer, U.S. Court of Appeal, 1st Circuit, Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985. He is also is the co-editor of a leading constitutional law casebook, "Process of Constitutional Decision-Making." Amar also is the author of "The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles" (1997) and "The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction" (1998). For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6656
Dec. 9, 2015. Scholars, historians and contemporary thinkers discuss how Magna Carta's political and legal traditions have carried into our current times at this symposium, Conversations on the Enduring Legacy of the Great Charter, held in conjunction with the Library's exhibition, "Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor." Speakers included Law Librarian of Congress David Mao and Sir Robert Worcester. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6623
Dec. 9, 2014. Scholars, historians and contemporary thinkers discuss how Magna Carta's political and legal traditions have carried into our current times at this symposium, Conversations on the Enduring Legacy of the Great Charter, held in conjunction with the Library's exhibition, "Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor." Speaker Biography: Joyce Lee Malcolm is Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment at the George Mason University School of Law. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6622
Dec. 9, 2014. Scholars, historians and contemporary thinkers discuss how Magna Carta's political and legal traditions have carried into our current times at this symposium, Conversations on the Enduring Legacy of the Great Charter, held in conjunction with the Library's exhibition, "Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor." Speakers included Roberta I. Shaffer (Library of Congress, ret.), Jonathan Jacobs (City University of New York) and William C. Hubbard (American Bar Association). For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6630
Dec. 9, 2014. Scholars, historians and contemporary thinkers discuss how Magna Carta's political and legal traditions have carried into our current times at this symposium, Conversations on the Enduring Legacy of the Great Charter, held in conjunction with the Library's exhibition, "Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor." Speakers included Carrie Johnson (National Public Radio), Vicki Jackson (Harvard Law School) and Craig Lerner (George Mason University Law School). For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6628
Dec. 9, 2014. Scholars, historians and contemporary thinkers discuss how Magna Carta's political and legal traditions have carried into our current times at this symposium, Conversations on the Enduring Legacy of the Great Charter, held in conjunction with the Library's exhibition, "Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor." Speakers included law professors John Witte Jr. and Alonzo L. McDonald. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6621
Dec. 9, 2014. Scholars, historians and contemporary thinkers discuss how Magna Carta's political and legal traditions have carried into our current times at this symposium, Conversations on the Enduring Legacy of the Great Charter, held in conjunction with the Library's exhibition, "Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor." Speaker Biography: Renee Lettow Lerner is professor of law at George Washington University Law School. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6629
Dec. 9, 2014. David Mao and Sir Robert Worcester provide opening remarks for the symposium, Conversations on the Enduring Legacy of the Great Charter, held in conjunction with the Library's exhibition, "Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor." Speaker Biography: David S. Mao is the Law Librarian of Congress. Speaker Biography: Sir Robert Worcester is chair of the Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Commemoration Committee. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6626
Dec. 9, 2014. Scholars, historians and contemporary thinkers discuss how Magna Carta's political and legal traditions have carried into our current times at this symposium, Conversations on the Enduring Legacy of the Great Charter, held in conjunction with the Library's exhibition, "Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor." Speakers include A.E. Dick Howard, Cornelius Kerwin and David Fontana. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6613
Dec. 17, 2014. This video shows how to access, search and subscribe to the Law Library of Congress's Global Legal Monitor. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6605
Nov. 6, 2014. The Library of Congress celebrated the opening of the exhibition "Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor" with an evening gala. Held in the Library's Coolidge Auditorium, the ceremony included a mix of speakers and musical performances by the Temple Church Choir and Mezzo-Soprano Denyce Graves-Montgomery. Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal provided remarks along with Librarian of Congress James Billington, Law Librarian of Congress David Mao, the Very Rev. Philip Buckler and a keynote address by Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Antonin Scalia. Charles Humphries served as master of ceremonies for the program. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6603
Nov. 6, 2014. The Library of Congress opened its 10-week exhibition "Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor," which features the Lincoln Cathedral Magna Carta, the great charter of rights and liberties, one of only four surviving copies of the original issue in 1215. HRH The Princess Royal, Princess Anne, cut the ribbon in the exhibition gallery and spoke briefly during the opening ceremony in the Great Hall of the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building. Sir Peter Westmacott (British Ambassador to the U.S.), British dignitaries and Library of Congress officials participated in the morning events. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6598
Dec. 9, 2014. As a part of a symposium on the enduring legacy of Magna Carta, an expert panel discussed rule of law as it relates to contemporary issues surrounding civil liberties and surveillance. Speaker Biography: Orin Kerr is Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Speaker Biography: Frank James "Jim" Sensenbrenner Jr. has served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Wisconsin since 1979. He is a member of the House Committee on the Judiciary and chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations. Speaker Biography: Jerrold L. Nadler has served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing New York since 1992 and is a member of the House Committee on the Judiciary and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6596
Dec. 5, 2014. U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch discusses the legacy of Magna Carta in the United States. Speaker Biography: Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1975, Orrin Hatch is the the senior senator for Utah and, since 2015, President Pro Tempore of the Senate. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6590