Constitutional Law Professor Jamal Greene to Deliver 2025 McCormick Lecture
Professor Jamal Greene of Columbia University will deliver the 2025 McCormick Lecture, sponsored by the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and the J. Byron McCormick Society.
Greene's talk will focus on the role of ordinary Americans in transforming a Constitution written and amended under conditions of mass political exclusion into a charter for a modern, pluralistic democracy.
Event: Jamal Greene Presents: A Republic, If We Can Build It
When: Thursday, February 27, 2025, at 5:30 p.m.
Where: The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, Room 164, 1201 E. Speedway. Campus map: http://map.arizona.edu/
Who may attend: This event is free and open to the public. Register here. Priority seating will be given to members of the McCormick Society and their guests. Otherwise, seating is first-come, first-served.
Background: Jamal Greene is the Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches courses in constitutional law, the law of the political process, and comparative constitutional law.
He is the author of “How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart,” as well as numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on constitutional law and theory.
From January 2023 to December 2024, Greene served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel. He served as a law clerk to the Hon. Guido Calabresi on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to the Hon. John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court.
He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and his A.B. from Harvard College.
The J. Byron McCormick Society for Law and Public Affairs was formed to honor the memory of J. Byron McCormick, who served Arizona with distinction as president of the University of Arizona, as dean of the College of Law, and as an advisor to the Arizona Board of Regents. Members of the McCormick Society foster dialogue about the critical issues of our time through an annual public lecture. Past speakers in the series have included U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan, former U.S. Representative Barney Frank, former U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe, and PBS commentator and New York Times columnist David Brooks.