Judge Katzmann will deliver the John Marshall Harlan ’20 Lecture in Constitutional Adjudication, “Judging the Laws of Congress.”

This event is free and open to the public.

http://lapa.princeton.edu/content/katzmann-lecture

Robert A. Katzmann is Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The only jurist in the federal courts with a Ph.D in political science, throughout his career he has been concerned about how to make government function more effectively. At the time of his appointment to the federal bench, he was the Walsh Professor of Government, Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University; a fellow of the Brookings Institution; and president of the Governance Institute. Numerous awards for his public service, as well as his legal writing, have been bestowed on Judge Katzmann since joining the bench. His most recent book is "Judging Statutes" [Oxford University Press, 2014]. A book sale and signing will follow the lecture.

Past Harlan Lecturers include Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor; Judge Dieter Grimm, Federal Constitutional Court of Germany; Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia; Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey Stuart Rabner ’82; Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, Supreme Court of Canada; Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens [ret.]; and the Honorable Andras Sajo, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights.