Constitution Week 2008

Affirmative Action for the Master Class: Understanding
the Proslavery Constitution

Roger Newman is a noted scholar of American law and the Constitution. His biography of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black won the Scribes Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography. The New York Times selected it as a notable book and called it “a giant book on a giant man.” The book also served as the basis of one of the programs in the PBS series on the history of the Supreme Court. Newman is editor-in-chief of a four-volume encyclopedia, The Constitution and Its Amendments, and co-author of Banned Films: Movies, Censors and the First Amendment. In addition, he is editor of the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, which will be published next year. Newman has appeared on PBS, National Public Radio, C-Span, and Entertainment Tonight. He teaches at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is working on a book about President Bill Clinton’s appointments to the Supreme Court.

North Underground Lecture Hall
Monday, September 15, 2008, 7:30 p.m.

Sponsored by The Office of the Provost