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[PAST EVENT] Institute of Bill of Rights Law Constitution Day Lecture with Judge Stephanos Bibas
Please join the Institute of Bill of Rights Law for our 2021 Constitution Day Lecture with Judge Stephanos Bibas of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Judge Bibas will present a lecture on “Arrogance, Showing Off, and Hiding the Ball: The Dangers of Judicial Rhetoric in American Democracy."
Judge Bibas was previously a professor of law and criminology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. As director of the Penn Law Supreme Court Clinic, he argued six cases before the Supreme Court of the United States and filed briefs in dozens of others. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 1989 with a B.A. in political theory and from Oxford University in 1991 with a B.A. in jurisprudence. He then earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1994. After graduating from Yale Law, Judge Bibas clerked for Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court and was a litigation associate at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C. Thereafter, Judge Bibas served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he successfully prosecuted the world’s leading expert in Tiffany stained glass for hiring a grave robber to steal priceless Tiffany windows from cemeteries. Before his tenure at Penn Law, Judge Bibas taught at the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Iowa College of Law and was a research fellow at Yale Law School. He has published two books and more than sixty scholarly articles.
The event will take place in Room 127 at 1:00 pm on Friday, September 10. We hope to see you there!
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