How does biography and memoir shape our understanding of law?

Join us for a one-day conference exploring how legal figures have been represented through biography/memoir and how personal narratives shape our understanding of law, justice and ethics. Co-sponsored by the MA Program in Biography and Memoir and the Touro Law Review. Co-organized by Rodger Citron (BAM), Kyu Ho Youm (BAM) and Miryam Segal (MALS, Middle Eastern Studies).

Featuring:

John Q. Barrett on his biography of Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson

Kai Bird on American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn and the World He Made

Guido Calabresi, in conversation with Norman Silber, on Outside In: The Oral History of Guido Calabresi

Asma Bint Shafiq on A Social Justice Lawyer in Bangladesh: The Pioneering Work of Salma Sobhan

Gary Stein on Justice for Sale: Graft, Greed, and a Crooked Federal Judge in 1930s Gotham

David Tatel on Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice

Brenda Wineapple on Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation