The great Walter Dellinger, one of Professor Amar’s role models in the law and one of the great lawyers of the past century, moves Professor Amar to present and review his role models and why they matter to all of us. Dellinger’s career was so enormous in its scope, so impactful in its action, that it forms a scaffolding for considering topics as varied as the most important SCOTUS footnote ever written; other momentous careers such as Earl Warren, Charles Black, and Telford Taylor; the lighter side of working for President Clinton; the last public statements of Benjamin Franklin and now Dellinger himself - and much more. Fittingly, Dellinger’s last writing has impact beyond his demise, as he provided background and perspective for the momentous nomination by President Biden of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - and so we consider that.
Leaving The Field
Ending Catch-22
The Purpose of the Truth - Special Guest Bob Woodward
Advise and Impeach
Nullification Nullity
Jefferson Ben Amar
Sedition and Perdition
The Unanimous Man
Succession Inquisition
Snap - You're in Lisbon
Menus without Eating - Special Guest Prof. Philip Bobbitt
Ex-Pres Ex-perts
Bullets (Not) Dodged, Part 3: Shocked, Shocked!
Bullets Dodged, Part 2: The Faithless and the Feckless
Inauguration: Bullets Dodged
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