The lecture, “Supreme Court Reform, Politics, and Polarization,” will be presented by Maggie Lemos, who is the Robert G. Seaks, LL.B. ’34 Professor of Law and faculty co-advisor for the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School. Prior to her work at Duke, Lemos was an associate professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; a Bristow Fellow at the Office of the Solicitor General; and a law clerk for Judge Kermit V. Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. She earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law and her B.A. from Brown University.
“We are fortunate to have Maggie Lemos coming to Marshall to share her deep understanding of the way the U.S. Supreme Court operates,” said Patricia Proctor, director of the Simon Perry Center for Constitutional Democracy, which sponsors the Amicus Curiae Lecture Series. “Professor Lemos is a former law clerk for a U.S. Supreme Court justice and has seen Court from the inside, as very few people do. She also served on the bipartisan Presidential Commission of scholars and legal practitioners that considered whether the Court should be reformed and if so, how. The way the Supreme Court is operating is a ‘hot issue’ right now, with many questioning what they view as political decisions in a time of deep political polarization, and we are honored to host a legal scholar of this caliber to discuss the ongoing debates about how the Court is fulfilling its role.”
The lecture is sponsored by Marshall’s Simon Perry Center for Constitutional Democracy with support from the West Virginia Humanities Council. The lecture is free and open to the public.