The Constitutional Law Center’s Distinguished Lecture Series brings to campus the nation’s leading constitutional scholars to engage students and faculty on the important issues of the day. Speakers deliver a formal lecture, teach a class, and meet with students in informal settings.
This year, we are pleased to welcome Associate Justice Leondra Kruger of the Supreme Court of California. Justice Kruger will discuss the experiences and decisions that shaped her path to the bench and answer general questions about the judiciary in a conversation facilitated by Drake Law Dean Roscoe Jones, Jr.
Before her appointment to the California Supreme Court, Justice Kruger served in the U.S. Department of Justice as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. From 2007 to 2013, she worked at the DOJ as an Assistant to the Solicitor General and later as Acting Deputy Solicitor General. During her tenure in the Office of the Solicitor General, she argued 12 cases before the United States Supreme Court. In recognition of her outstanding service, she received the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service—the Department’s highest honor— in both 2013 and 2014. Prior to that, Justice Kruger was in private practice, where she specialized in appellate and Supreme Court litigation. Justice Kruger received her J.D. from Yale Law School, serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, she clerked for Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Join us Thursday, April 17, at 3 p.m. in Cartwright Hall, Room 213. Livestream will NOT be available.
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