October 15, 2010
Americans are divided in their beliefs about whether our courts operate on unbiased legal principle or political interest. Many wonder whether judicial appeals to law are anything more than a fig leaf deployed to obscure partisan purposes.
Comparing law to the practice of common courtesy, Professor Bybee’s new book argues that our courts not only survive under such suspicions of hypocrisy, but actually depend on these conditions.
Comments on Professor Bybee’s book will be given by:
Professor Charles Geyh
Associate Dean for Research and John F. Kimberling Professor of Law
University of Indiana — Bloomington, Mauer School of Law
Professor Susan Silbey
Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Keith Bybee
Paul E. and the Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72 Judiciary Studies Professor of Law
Associate Professor of Political Science
Director, Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media (IJPM)
Syracuse University
Refreshments will be provided.
EVENT PARTICIPANTS
Associate Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University College of Law
Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper Professor of Judiciary Studies at the College of Law
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