Podcasts

Annual Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture
November 11, 2008 - Judge William Fletcher of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals delivers the annual Currie Memorial Lecture. In his talk titled, "Whose Courts are They? Federal Courts in an Age of Federalism," Fletcher addressed a recurring and unanswered question among scholars of the federal courts: What constitutional obligation does Congress have to confer jurisdiction on the federal courts?
Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture
March, 2008
What can Brown do for you?: Neutral principles and the struggle for ownership of the Equal Protection Clause
March 25, 2008 - Professor Pam Karlan of Stanford Law School presents the annual Currie Lecture. One of the nation's leading experts on voting and the political process, Karlan is the co-author of three leading casebooks on constitutional law and related subjects. She has served as a commissioner on the California Fair Political Practices Commission and as an assistant counsel and cooperating attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. A former clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the Supreme Court of the United States, Karlan is also the founding director of Stanford Law School?s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.
Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture | Pam Karlan