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Justice Stephen Breyer in Conversation

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Partner:: New Republic
Location:: The New Republic
Washington, D.C.
Event Date:: 02.21.08
Speakers:: Justice Stephen G. Breyer,; Jeffrey Rosen
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Summary: The New Republic is hosting the Washington event of the 2008 season, an intimate discussion with one of the most intriguing and powerful men in the country: the Honorable Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

Jeffrey Rosen, TNR Legal Correspondent and Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, and Justice Breyer will have a wide ranging conversation about the past, present, and future of the Supreme Court - The New Republic

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Justice Stephen G. Breyer

Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice, was born in San Francisco, California, August 15, 1938.

He received an A.B. from Stanford University, a B.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk to Justice Arthur Goldberg of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1964 Term, as a Special Assistant to the Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Antitrust, 1965-1967, as an Assistant Special Prosecutor of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 1973, as Special Counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, 1974-1975, and as Chief Counsel of the committee, 1979-1980.

He was an Assistant Professor, Professor of Law, and Lecturer at Harvard Law School, 1967-1994, a Professor at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, 1977-1980, and a Visiting Professor at the College of Law, Sydney, Australia and at the University of Rome.

From 1980-1990, he served as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and as its Chief Judge, 1990-1994. He also served as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States, 1990-1994, and of the United States Sentencing Commission, 1985-1989.

President Clinton nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat August 3, 1994.

Jeffrey Rosen

Jeffrey Rosen is a professor of law at George Washington University and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. A widely read legal commentator, his most recent book is The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America, a companion book to the PBS series on the Supreme Court.

He is also the author of The Most Democratic Branch, The Naked Crowd, and The Unwanted Gaze.

A graduate of Harvard College, Oxford University, and Yale Law School, he has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and his essays and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic, as well as on National Public Radio.

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01.: Introducing Justice Stephen Breyer

00 min 46 sec

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02.: Regaining Positivity after Last Court Decisions

04 min 53 sec

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03.: Business Cases Unanimous in Supreme Court

02 min 02 sec

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04.: Justice Breyer a Capitalist Tool?

03 min 05 sec

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05.: Unanimity Missing from Constitution Cases

02 min 15 sec

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06.: Is Unanimity a Good Thing in Court?

05 min 47 sec

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07.: Achieving More Unanimity

02 min 21 sec

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08.: Importance of Temperament

02 min 23 sec

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09.: Passion in Dissent of Seattle School Case

09 min 10 sec

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10.: Bi-Partisan Judicial Restraint

05 min 01 sec

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11.: Judicial Humility and Pragmatism

03 min 31 sec

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12.: Barack Obama Reading "Active Liberty"

00 min 38 sec

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13.: Q & A

00 min 18 sec

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14.: Q1: Standing in Cases

04 min 19 sec

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15.: Q2: Top Secret Cases

00 min 26 sec

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16.: Q3: Constitutional Boundaries

05 min 21 sec

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17.: Q4: Jewish Background

01 min 39 sec

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18.: Q5: Pragmatism and Principal

02 min 23 sec

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19.: Q6: Labor Cases

02 min 02 sec

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20.: Q7: Remedies

02 min 12 sec

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21.: Q8: International Law

06 min 03 sec

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22.: Q9: Modifying President's Power

01 min 09 sec

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The Inside Story on the U.S. Supreme Court

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Justice Stephen Breyer on the inside story of the United States Supreme Court.
Good Temperament and Professionalism in Court

02 min 33 sec

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Justice Stephen Breyer explains the necessity of exercising a balanced temper and professional demeanor while practicing law.
Humility and Practicing Law

03 min 06 sec

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Justice Stephen Breyer comments on humility and the practice of law.
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01 hr 07 min 58 sec

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