UC College of Law's Constitution Day Discussion on Sept. 17 Covers a Constitutional Building Block
The UC College of Law will host professor Marci Hamilton, Benjamin Cardoza School of Law, as the 2013 Constitution Day lecturer. Her Sept. 17 presentation is titled The Most Important Building Block of the United States Constitution: Distrust and Separation. Professor Hamilton will discuss how the framers of the United States Constitution shared a key insight a building block that has made the Constitution as successful as it has been: distrust of anyone holding power. The framers, she argues, agreed that those holding power are always tempted to abuse that power and that concentrations of power are particularly dangerous. To avoid tyranny, they implemented devices to separate power, check power and disable it when it broaches on tyranny.
Marci A. Hamilton is one of the United States leading church/state scholars and holds the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, where she specializes in church/state issues and the dynamics of child sex abuse in institutional settings. She is an author, lecturer and advocate on the protection of the vulnerable from religious institutions. She is also a national leader for legislative reform for the protection of children from sex abuse. During 2012, she was honored as one of Pennsylvanias Women of the Year and received the National Crime Victim Bar Associations Frank Carrington Champion of Civil Justice Award.
Professor Hamilton has testified before numerous state legislatures regarding the elimination of the statutes of limitations for childhood sex abuse. She is frequently asked to advise Congress and state legislatures on the constitutionality of pending legislation and to consult in cases involving important constitutional issues. Professor Hamilton clerked for Associate Justice Sandra Day OConnor of the U.S. Supreme Court after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She also holds degrees from the Graduate School of Pennsylvania State University and Vanderbilt University.
This lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Alfred B. Katz Constitution Day Fund in memory of Alfred B. Katz, 35.
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