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Vladeck to Deliver 2024 Dermot S. McGlinchey Lecture at Tulane Law
Read Time: 1 minMcGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce the 2024 annual Dermot S. McGlinchey Lecture on Federal Litigation at Tulane Law School. Professor Stephen I. Vladeck, the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas at Austin, will deliver an address on “The Most Unaccountable Branch: What’s Really Wrong with the Supreme Court—and How to Fix It.”
This year’s lecture will take place at 5:00 p.m. on Monday, March 18 in John Giffen Weinmann Hall, Wendell H. Gauthier Moot Court Room, at Tulane Law School, located at 6329 Freret Street in New Orleans. The event is free of charge and open to the public, with a reception to follow.
Professor Vladeck teaches and writes in the area of federal jurisdiction and is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic. He is the co-host of the “National Security Law Podcast,” CNN’s Supreme Court analyst, and a co-author of Aspen Publishers’ leading national security law and counterterrorism law casebooks. A graduate of Yale Law School, Vladeck clerked for the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Rosemary Barkett on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Established in 1996, the Dermot S. McGlinchey Lecture on Federal Litigation is broadly dedicated to exploring federal court adjudication, constitutional law, and justice under law. It is permanently endowed and sponsored by McGlinchey Stafford in honor of the firm’s founder, the late Dermot S. McGlinchey, a distinguished Tulane Law School graduate (L ’57). Click here for more information about Mr. McGlinchey and the history of the lecture.