Supreme Court Justice in Town for Public Lecture

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be the 17th speaker in the Richard E. Snyder President’s Lecture Series at Tufts University, on Wednesday, October 2, at 4:30 p.m. in Gantcher Sports and Convocation Center, on Tufts’ Medford/Somerville campus. Scalia will talk about “Interpreting the Constitution” and then participate in a brief question and answer session.

Members of the public can reserve tickets for the free lecture by calling 617-627-3787. Tickets for members of the Tufts University community will be available starting Tuesday, September 24, at the front desk of Dowling Hall Student Services Center. Information on security procedures will be included with tickets.

Justice Scalia was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and is now the longest-serving member of the court. From 1982 to 1986 he served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was chairman of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law from 1981to 1982 and its Conference of Section Chairmen from 1982 to1983.

Justice Scalia was in a private practice from 1961 to1967 before moving to the public sector. He served as general counsel of the federal Office of Telecommunications Policy from 1971 to 1972, as chairman of the Administrative Conference of the U.S. from 1972 to 1974, and as assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel from 1974 to 1977. He has been a professor of law at the University of Virginia and University of Chicago, and a visiting professor of law at both Georgetown University and Stanford University.

Supported by former chairman and CEO of Simon and Schuster Richard E. Snyder, who graduated from Tufts in 1955, this lecture series was established in 2004 to bring to Tufts speakers who have challenged conventional wisdom in their professional work.

Previous lecturers in this series have included ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero, historian Niall Ferguson, journalist Bob Woodward, author Salman Rushdie, political philosopher Michael Sandel, psychologist and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self Sherry Turkle, physicist Freeman Dyson and author Michael Pollan.

– Information from Tufts University