Annual State Constitutional Law Lecture Features Celebrated Princeton Scholar
Princeton University’s William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics Keith Whittington will serve as the featured speaker during the 26th Annual State Constitutional Law Lecture at Rutgers University–Camden.
Sponsored the Rutgers School of Law–Camden, the Rutgers University Law Review, and the Rutgers–Camden Center for State Constitutional Studies, the talk, titled “The New Deal in State Constitutional Law: The Case of New Jersey,” will take place at 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26.
According to Robert Williams, a professor of law at Rutgers–Camden, where he serves as associate director of the Center for State Constitutional Studies, Whittington is a very well-known and highly respected political science scholar of constitutional law, who has supervised several recent doctoral dissertations on state constitutionalism.
“The Annual State Constitutional Lecture has included an interdisciplinary approach over the 26 years, including law professors, historians, state judges and political scientists,” says Williams. “We felt that now was the time to hear from this important political science scholar on his views of state constitutionalism.”
Whittington is the author of several books, including Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning and Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History, which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award for best book in law and courts and the J. David Greenstone Award for best book in politics and history.
Formed in 1997, the Center for Constitutional Studies cosponsors the annual state constitutional lecture, which will be published as the foreword to the Rutgers University Law Review’s annual issue.
Williams says that knowledge of state constitutions isn’t just for the legal community. “There’s more in state constitutions that affect daily life as compared to the U.S. Constitution, like public schools, state taxations, and state budget, which fuels state government and that affects everybody every day.”
For more information about the lecture, which will be held in in the law school faculty lounge, located on the fourth floor of the law school’s east building on Fifth Street, please contact 856-225-6625.
For directions to campus, including tips on parking, visit camden.rutgers.edu.