1776, Judicial Review, And Becoming “Top Nation"

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Join the Austin Lawyer Chapter for a lunch event!

Featuring: 

• Anthony Sanders, Director of the Center for Judicial Engagement at the Institute for Justice and Adjunct Professor, University of Minnesota Law School

Tickets:

Members $35
Non Members: $45
Students/Young Lawyers (less than 5 years out of law school): $25 
RSVP Required. Lunch included.

CLE:
Pending

While declaring Independence in 1776, Americans rejected their old sovereign—the Crown in Parliament—and embraced a new one—the people. They also embraced a new technology: written constitutions. Together, these innovations set the stage for something that few anticipated during that year of revolution: judicial review. This is the story of how judicial review emerged from choices that were made in the country’s earliest moments, how it was accepted through a memory of the Revolution, and how in time it became so embedded in our constitutional order that we didn’t need to look back to 1776 anymore. But at America’s 250th it is good we remember anyway.

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