12th Annual Shakespeare and the Law

The Boston Lawyers Chapter

The Federalist Society and Commonwealth Shakespeare Company present Shakespeare’s Richard II and The Limits of Executive Power.

Hosted & Moderated by:
C. Boyden Gray, Former White House Counsel to President George H. W. Bush

Directed by:
Steven Maler, Artistic Director of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company

Participants include:

• Jennifer Braceras, Political Columnist
• Former Federal Judge Nancy Gertner
• Federal Judge Nathanial M. Gorton
• Judge Andrew Grainger, Massachusetts Appeals Court
• Michael Keating, Partner, Foley Hoag
• Daniel Kelly, Partner, McCarter & English
• Federal Judge Dennis Saylor, IV
• Jay Stephens, General Counsel, Raytheon
• David Tuerck, Chair of Suffolk’s Economics Department and Executive Director of Suffolk’s Beacon Hill Institute
• Federal Judge Douglas P. Woodlock
• Federal Judge Rya W. Zobel

Special Guest Panelists:

• Rachael Cobb, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Government, Suffolk University
• Edward Whelan, President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center; Contributor to National Review Online’s Bench Memos

The Federalist Society and Commonwealth Shakespeare Company present Shakespeare’s Richard II and The Limits of Executive Power.

Hosted & Moderated by:
C. Boyden Gray, Former White House Counsel to President George H. W. Bush

Directed by:
Steven Maler, Artistic Director of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company

Participants include:

• Jennifer Braceras, Political Columnist
• Former Federal Judge Nancy Gertner
• Federal Judge Nathanial M. Gorton
• Judge Andrew Grainger, Massachusetts Appeals Court
• Michael Keating, Partner, Foley Hoag
• Daniel Kelly, Partner, McCarter & English
• Federal Judge Dennis Saylor, IV
• Jay Stephens, General Counsel, Raytheon
• David Tuerck, Chair of Suffolk’s Economics Department and Executive Director of Suffolk’s Beacon Hill Institute
• Federal Judge Douglas P. Woodlock
• Federal Judge Rya W. Zobel

Special Guest Panelists:

• Rachael Cobb, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Government, Suffolk University
• Edward Whelan, President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center; Contributor to National Review Online’s Bench Memos

The Federalist Society, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and McCarter & English, LLP present their 12th Annual Shakespeare and the Law program featuring a staged reading of Richard II followed by a discussion on the legal and political consequences when a king or a president goes too far.

Registration: Please RSVP to Dottie Moore at [email protected] or 617.449.6617.