achived URL: http://law.case.edu/lectures/webcast.asp?dt=20081015

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start date and time: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 4:30 PM

end date and time: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 5:30 PM

categories:   legal & courtroom   historical

event description:

video webcast -

Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, OH presents the Sumner Canary Lecture entitled "Natural Rights, Enumerated Rights, and the Ninth Amendment." Michael W. McConnell, Presidential Professor of Law at the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law, and judge, 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals presents the lecture.

Michael W. McConnell discusses the problems that members of the First Congress faced with drafting a Bill of Rights and deciding what to include and what to leave out. He discusses the legal status of retained rights and the effect of explicitly enumerating some rights but not others.

Highlights of Michael W. McConnell's career include:

- Teaching at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 years

- William B. Graham Professor of Law at University of Chicago Law School

- Assistant to the solicitor general with the U.S. Department of Justice

- Assistant general counsel for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget

- Clerkship with Chief Judge J. Skelly Wright, of the District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

- Clerkship with U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan

- Arguing 11 times before the U.S. Supreme Court

- One of the country's most distinguished scholars in the fields of constitutional law and theory with a specialty in the religion clauses of the First Amendment

- Publications on church-state relations and the First Amendment

- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

- Judge on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (sworn in - 2003)

- Presidential Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah

- Teaching constitutional law, family law, state and local government, religion and the First Amendment at the S.J. Quinney College of Law

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