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Professor Purcell Delivers Prestigious Griswold Lecture
and Receives Prize at the United States Supreme Court
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) Professor
Edward A. Purcell, Jr., a legal historian and the Joseph Solomon
Distinguished Professor of Law at New York Law School, will
be honored by the Supreme Court Historical Society on Wednesday,
May 23rd when he delivers the Society's prestigious Erwin N.
Griswold Lecture and accepts a Book Prize from the Society.
Professor Purcell's lecture will address "Brandeis,
Erie, and the Emergence of Stricter Scrutiny," and will
focus on the impact Brandeis' jurisprudence made in expanding
the role of federal courts in closely examining government actions
that restricted civil liberties and civil rights. The topic
is an extension of the analysis undertaken in his highly acclaimed
work, Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the
Judicial Power, and the Politics of the Federal Courts in Twentieth-Century
America (Yale University Press, 2000), for which Professor
Purcell is receiving the Griswold Prize. Since its inception
nearly a decade ago, only three other books have been honored
with the Griswold Prize.
Professor Purcell's address
will be delivered in the Chamber of the Supreme Court at 6:00
p.m. It will be preceded by introductory remarks by Associate
Justice David H. Souter, who has served on the nation's highest
court since 1990, and will be followed by a reception honoring
Professor Purcell in the East and West Conference Rooms of the
Supreme Court. The audience is expected to include a distinguished
gathering of leading legal scholars and advocates, and to be
televised by C-SPAN at a later date. The event is open
to the public; tickets are $10, and advance reservations, which
are required and must be made by Monday, May 21, may be made
by calling (202) 543-0400.
Professor Purcell, the Joseph
Solomon Distinguished Professor at New York Law School, has
taught at the School since 1989. A cum laude graduate
of Harvard Law School, he also holds a Doctorate in American
History from the University of Wisconsin. In addition
to Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution, he has authored
more than a dozen articles and two other books, Litigation and
Inequality: Federal Diversity Jurisdiction in Industrial America,
1870-1958 and The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism
and the Problem of Value. He teaches courses on civil
procedure, federal courts, complex litigation, and civil rights
at New York Law School.
The Supreme Court Historical
Society serves the Court, the legal profession, historians and
the public. The Society is a private, not-for-profit organization
dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of historical
information about the Supreme Court of the United States through
educational programs, publications, scholarship, and the acquisition
of Court-related antiques and artifacts. For more information
about the Society, please visit www.supremecourthistory.org
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Erwin N. Griswold, whose career
is commemorated by this lecture, was the Chairman of the Supreme
Court Historical Society from 1987 until his death in 1994.
He served as the Dean of Harvard Law School, Solicitor
General of the United States, and was the veteran of more than
120 oral arguments before the Supreme Court. Dean Griswold
was also a partner at the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis, and
Pogue; the firm honors his memory by underwriting the Griswold
Book Prize and Lecture.
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