AVAILABLE SEATING IS LIMITED.
Rsvp to Caroline Cardarople, cc2500@columbia.edu/212 854 4518.

The lecture will be broadcast simultaneously to Davis Auditorium in the Schapiro Center. All attendees are invited to the reception in the Faculty Room.

With a focus on the rulings of the past two years, this lecture examines the relationship between the Supreme Court and the country. Decisions on gay rights, affirmative action, federalism, and civil liberties will be discussed in detail with an eye to understanding how a "conservative" Court could produce notably non-conservative decisions. How do the Justices, in their ivory tower, learn about their world, and how does that knowledge shape their opinions? What is their relationship to the "constitutional culture" in which they function?

LINDA GREENHOUSE has been the Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times since 1978. In 1990, she was named a senior writer for The Times. She has also covered Congress and the United States Senate.

Ms. Greenhouse graduated from Radcliffe College and earned the Master of Studies of Law at Yale Law School. For her coverage of the Supreme Court, she received the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism in 1998. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and an honorary member of the American Law Institute. She is Vice-President of the Women's Forum of Washington, D.C. and serves on the council of the Schlesinger Library on the History of American Women at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

This lecture is presented in connection with Ms. Greenhouse's two-day visit in the Department of Political Science as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar.

ADDITIONAL EVENTS FOR UNDERGRADUATES

On Thursday, April 7, from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Ms. Greenhouse will meet informally with undergraduates to discuss the Supreme Court beat and the Court's relationship with the press. On Friday, April 8, from 10:00 a.m. to noon, she will meet informally with undergraduates to discuss civil liberties and national security in the age of global terrorism. Attendance at both events is limited to 40 students.

RSVP to Caroline Cardarople, Department of Political Science, cc2500@columbia.edu/212 854 4518.