Natural Rights, Enumerated Rights, and the Ninth Amendment

Date of Event

10-15-2008

Description

Michael W. McConnell, Presidential Professor of Law, Judge, 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Oct 15, 2008 at Case Western Reserve University, School of Law) Michael W. McConnell joined the faculty of S.J. Quinney College of Law in 1997 after teaching at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 years, where he was William B. Graham Professor of Law. Prior to his teaching career, Professor McConnell served as assistant to the solicitor general with the U.S. Department of Justice, assistant general counsel for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and clerked for Chief Judge J. Skelly Wright, of the District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He also served a clerkship with U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan. Among the country's most distinguished scholars in the fields of constitutional law and theory with a specialty in the religion clauses of the First Amendment, Professor McConnell has argued 11 times before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is widely published in the areas of church-state relations and the First Amendment. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was sworn in as a judge on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on January 3, 2003. Professor McConnell teaches constitutional law, family law, state and local government, religion and the First Amendment.

Lecture Series

Sumner Canary Lecture

Subject Headings

natural rights; enumerated rights; constitutional law; Ninth Amendment

Location

Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Document Type

Video

Comments

via UC Chanel posted on Oct. 12, 2010

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