David Strauss to Deliver Jorde Symposium Lecture on March 10
David Strauss, Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, will give the 2025 Brennan Center Jorde Symposium on March 10 at 4 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, the lecture will be held in the Levinson Auditorium and is open to the Yale community.
In his talk “Polarization, Victimization, and Judicial Review,” Strauss will explore how a version of judicial review that has been successful in the past — based on the understanding that courts will intervene when people are unfairly excluded from democratic politics — threatens, today, to become a destructive competition among groups claiming the status of victims.
Commentators include Amna Akbar, Charles W. Ebersold & Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Professor of Law at Ohio State University Moritz College of Law; Ryan Doerfler, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; and Moshe Habertal, Gruss Professor of Law at NYU School of Law.
David Strauss is the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law and the Faculty Director of the Supreme Court and Appellate Clinic. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and he was a Marshall Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of “The Living Constitution” (Oxford University Press, 2010), the co-author of “Equality and Democracy: The Enduring Constitutional Legacy of the Warren Court” (Oxford University Press, 2019), and a co-editor of the Supreme Court Review.
Strauss is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been a visiting professor at Harvard and Georgetown. He has received the Graduating Students’ Award for teaching excellence six times. He has also served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, as Special Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and as a member of the President’s Commission on the Supreme Court. He has argued 19 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Brennan Center Jorde Symposium4, held annually since 1996, sponsors top scholarly discourse and writing on the issues central to the legacy of Justice William J. Brennan Jr.
