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6:00 PM Networking
Professor Dan Farber
UC Berkeley
Sho Sato Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley
“The Supreme Court & the Constitution”
Thursday, February 27, 2020
6:30 PM Buffet Dinner
7:00 PM Program
RSVP to Brodie Hilp
In addition to being a Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, Dan Farber is also the Faculty Director of the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment. Professor Farber serves on the editorial board of Foundation Press. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Life Member of the American Law Institute. He is the editor of Issues in Legal Scholarship.
Professor Farber is a graduate of the University of Illinois, where he earned his B.A., M.A., and J.D. degrees. He graduated, summa cum laude, from the College of Law, where he was the class valedictorian and served as Editor-in-Chief of the University of Illinois Law Review. After graduation from law school, he was a law clerk for Judge Philip W. Tone of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then for Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Professor Farber practiced law with Sidley & Austin, where he primarily worked on energy issues, before joining the University of Illinois College of Law faculty in 1978. He was a member of the University of Minnesota Law School faculty from1981 to 2002, where he was the McKnight Presidential Professor of Public Law. He also has been a Visiting Professor at the Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, and the University of Chicago Law School.
Among Professor Farber’s eighteen books are Research Handbook on Public Choice and Public Law (Elgar 2010) (with A. O’Connell); Judgment Calls: Politics and Principle in Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press 2008) (with S. Sherry); Retained by the People: The “Silent” Ninth Amendment and the Rights Americans Don’t Know They Have (Basic Books 2007); and Lincoln’s Constitution (University of Chicago Press 2003).
We gather at 6:00 PM for networking and socializing; 6:30 is the Buffet Dinner and the Program begins at 7:00 PM.
Members & Invited Guests: $30
Non-members: $35 ($30 for dinner and $5 requested donation to help offset program costs)
Please email Brodie Hilp at btilford@pacbell.net that you are coming by Thursday, February 20 (we need a ‘head count’ for the dinner). Thank you for your help.
RSVP: To make certain you have a dinner, please RSVP.
Mail checks, made out to Brodie Hilp, to 130 Bridgeside Circle, Danville, CA 94506.