Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, will deliver the School of Law’s 2007 Tyrrell Williams Lecture on “The New Supreme Court: Continuity and Change” at 4 p.m. March 7 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall.
Greenhouse’s talk is part of the law school’s Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series on “Access to Justice: The Social Responsibility of Lawyers,” which brings to the University nationally and internationally prominent practitioners, judges, academics and commentators
“For a quarter century, she has been the country’s top reporter covering the country’s top court” Karen L. Tokarz, J.D., LL.M., professor of law and executive director of the Clinical Education and Alternative Dispute Resolution programs, said of Greenhouse. “She knows the ‘who, what, where, when and why’ for every Supreme Court justice and every Supreme Court decision and never fails to come up with new insights and new perspectives.”
Greenhouse, author of “Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey,” won a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism in 1998.
She has covered the Supreme Court for the Times since 1978, except for two years during the mid-1980s when she covered Congress. She has appeared on PBS as a “Washington Week” panelist since 1980.
Greenhouse is a graduate of Radcliffe College, where she serves on the advisory committee to the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. She earned a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School and has several honorary degrees.
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