On Monday, July 29, 2024, Kate Shaw, Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, was Chautauqua Institution’s 20th annual Robert H. Jackson Lecturer on the Supreme Court of the United States.
To view Professor Shaw’s lecture, which focused on the Supreme Court’s July 1 decision in Trump v. United States, regarding a former president’s immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct during his time in office, click here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwtC3Si43QI
(I am honored to have introduced Professor Shaw’s lecture.)
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Kate Shaw is a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. A constitutional law scholar, her academic work and writing focus on executive power, the law of democracy, the Supreme Court, and reproductive rights and justice. Her scholarly writing has appeared in, among other places, the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, and the Northwestern Law Review, and her popular writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, TIME, and The Atlantic. Shaw is a contributor with ABC News, a contributing opinion writer with The New York Times, and co-host of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast on the Supreme Court. For her Penn webpage, click here.
Chautauqua Institution’s Robert H. Jackson Lecture is named in honor of the former Chautauquan, New York State lawyer, national bar leader, New Dealer, U.S. Solicitor General, U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Supreme Court justice, and Nuremberg chief prosecutor of Nazi war criminals.
The annual Jackson Lecture at Chautauqua Institution is a leading expert’s consideration of the Supreme Court, its Justices, significant decisions, and related topics in the weeks following the Court’s start of its annual summer recess.
Chautauqua’s twenty Jackson Lecturers have been:
- 2005: Geoffrey R. Stone, University of Chicago professor;
- 2006: Linda Greenhouse, New York Times writer and Yale Law School lecturer;
- 2007: Seth P. Waxman, WilmerHale partner and former Solicitor General of the United States;
- 2008: Jeffrey Toobin, legal writer and book author;
- 2009: Paul D. Clement, Clement & Murphy PLLC partner and former Solicitor General of the United States;
- 2010: Jeff Shesol, historian, communications strategist, and former White House speechwriter;
- 2011: Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate and Amicus podcast host;
- 2012: Pamela Karlan, Stanford University professor;
- 2013: Charles Fried, Harvard University professor and former Solicitor General of the United States;
- 2014: Akhil Reed Amar, Yale University professor;
- 2015: Laurence H. Tribe, Harvard University professor;
- 2016: Tracey L. Meares, Yale University professor;
- 2017: Judge Jon O. Newman, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit;
- 2018: Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, of the Supreme Court of Canada;
- 2019: Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP partner and former Solicitor General of the United States;
- 2020 (online): Ruth Marcus, Washington Post associate editor and columnist;
- 2021 (online): Melissa Murray, New York University professor and Strict Scrutiny podcast co-host;
- 2022: Reva Siegel, Yale University professor;
- 2023: Justin Driver, Yale University professor; and
- 2024: Kate Shaw, University of Pennsylvania professor.
