Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Lawyers Association and the Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group

Lecture Description:

According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was the great critic of what he called “the curse of bigness” in business and government since Thomas Jefferson. On the 100th anniversary of Brandeis’s Supreme Court confirmation, Rosen argues that Brandeis can teach us more than any other justice about the future of free speech, freedom from government surveillance, and the dangers of big banks and corporations who take reckless risks with what Brandeis called “other people’s money.” This talk will make a passionate case for why Brandeis matters and what he can teach us about current questions involving the Constitution, monopoly, corporate and federal power, technology, privacy, and free speech.
 

Speaker Bios:

Jeffrey Rosen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center, the only institution in America chartered by Congress “to disseminate information about the United States Constitution on a non-partisan basis.” Rosen is also a professor at The George Washington University Law School, as well as a Contributing Editor for the Atlantic. He is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he explores issues involving the future of technology and the Constitution. Since 2000, he has served as a moderator at The Aspen Institute, where he conducts seminars and panels on technology and the Constitution, privacy, and free speech and democracy. He is a highly regarded journalist whose essays and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, on National Public Radio, and in The New Yorker, where he was a staff writer. He is also the author of several books including The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America. Books about Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and President William Howard Taft are forthcoming.

Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School.