Pulitzer-prize Journalist Linda Greenhouse and
New School President Bob Kerrey
Discuss the Courts and Constitutional Issues
in this Transitional Election Year

Former New York Times Supreme Court Reporter and
Former Nebraska Senator Envision the Post-election Courts

WHAT:

Bob Kerrey, president of The New School, and journalist Linda Greenhouse, former Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times for nearly 30 years, assess the decisions of the Roberts court as the United States heads into a presidential election in a time of domestic and international unrest. Kerrey and Greenhouse will discuss whether civil liberties are being eroded or transformed by a changing balance between individual liberty and state security. They will also address the court’s personnel changes expected in the next administration. The newly-elected president will have the power to nominate two US Supreme Court justices.

WHO:

Linda Greenhouse, is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who covered the United States Supreme Court for nearly three decades for the New York Times. She will join Yale Law School in January 2009 as the Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow.

Bob Kerrey has been president of The New School since 2001. He served as both governor and US senator of Nebraska during the 1980s and 1990s.

WHEN:

Tuesday, September 23, 6:00 p.m.

WHERE:

Arnhold Hall, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, The New School, 55 West 13th Street, Second Floor (Near Sixth Avenue), New York, NY

RSVP:

Admission is $8, and free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID. In person purchases can be made at The New School Box Office at 66 West 12th Street, main floor, Monday- Friday 1:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

ABOUT THE NEW SCHOOL
Located in the heart of New York’s Greenwich Village, The New School is a center of academic excellence where intellectual and artistic freedoms thrive. The more than 9,600 matriculated students and approximately 5,300 continuing education students come from around the world to participate in a wide range of undergraduate to doctoral programs in art and design, the social sciences, management and urban policy, the humanities and the performing arts. When The New School was founded in 1919, its mission was to create a place where global peace and justice were more than theoretical ideals. Today, The New School continues that mission, with programs that strive to foster engaged world citizenship. The eight schools that make up The New School are: The New School for General Studies, The New School for Social Research, Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, Parsons The New School for Design, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, Mannes College The New School for Music, The New School for Drama, and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. For more information, visit www.newschool.edu.

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