Justice Antonin Scalia
New Mexico Student Chapter
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will visit the UNM School of Law and present an afternoon lecture. The law school is working in cooperation with the Federalist Society in sponsoring Justice Scalia's visit. [RSVP now!]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will visit the UNM School of Law and present an afternoon lecture. The law school is working in cooperation with the Federalist Society in sponsoring Justice Scalia's visit.
Justice Antonin Scalia
United States Supreme Court
Antonin Scalia was born in Trenton, NJ on March 11, 1936. He married Maureen McCarthy and has nine children: Ann Forrest, Eugene, John Francis, Catherine Elisabeth, Mary Clare, Paul David, Matthew, Christopher James and Margaret Jane.
He received his A.B. from Georgetown University and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and his LL.B. from Harvard Law School, and was a Sheldon Fellow of Harvard University from 1960–1961.
He was in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio from 1961–1967, a professor of law at the University of Virginia from 1967–1971, a professor of law at the University of Chicago from 1977–1982 and a visiting professor of law at Georgetown University and Stanford University.
He was chairman of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law from 1981–1982 and its Conference of Section chairman from 1982–1983. He served the federal government as general counsel of the Office of Telecommunications Policy from 1971–1972, chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States from 1972–1974 and assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel from 1974–1977.
He was appointed judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1982. President Reagan nominated him as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat September 26, 1986.
For more information on Justice Scalia's visit, contact Melissa Lobato at lobato@law.unm.edu.
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