We are very pleased to have Robert A. Schapiro, Dean and C. Hugh Friedman Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, as our speaker for this event, presenting: “Constitutional Crisis or Continuity?: United States Supreme Court Review and Update” to include discussion of: Historic decisions of the 2023-2024 Supreme Court Term and upcoming cases with potentially broad impact relating to presidential power, abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, and gun regulation, among other topics.
This most topical presentation will provide 1.0 hour MCLE credit for participants.
We greatly appreciate Dean Schapiro’s willingness to again share his knowledge and expertise with our lawyers’ group, and hope that all of you will attend this program.
Some Information About Our Speaker:
ROBERT A. SCHAPIRO
Dean and C. Hugh Friedman Professor of Law
University of San Diego School of Law
Robert A. Schapiro is Dean and C. Hugh Friedman Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law. He obtained a B.A. from Yale College, M.A. from Stanford University, and J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. Schapiro clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Prior to becoming Dean at the USD School of Law in 2021, Schapiro was a faculty member at Emory University School of Law. At Emory, he served as Dean and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance. He had previously held positions as associate vice provost for academic affairs, associate dean of faculty for the law school, and as associate faculty director for Emory’s Halle Institute for Global Learning.
Schapiro received the 2023 Witkin Award for Excellence in Legal Education from the San Diego Library Foundation. While at Emory, Schapiro received several awards, including the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award for excellence in graduate education, the Ben F. Johnson Faculty Excellence Award, Most Outstanding Professor from the Emory Student Bar Association, and Professor of the Year from the Emory Law School Black Law Students Association.
Schapiro’s scholarship focuses on federalism and state and federal constitutional law. His most recent scholarly works include The Unconstitutional Conditions Vacuum in Criminal Procedure, Yale Law Journal (2024) (with Kay Levine & Jonathan Remy Nash), Protecting State Constitutional Rights from Unconstitutional Conditions, U.C. Davis Law Review (2022) (with Kay Levine & Jonathan Remy Nash), and States of Inequality: Fiscal Federalism, Unequal States, and Unequal People, California Law Review (2020). His book, Polyphonic Federalism: Toward the Protection of Fundamental Rights, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2009.
Contact Information
University of San Diego School of Law
5998 Alcalá Park
Warren Hall – 200A
San Diego, California 92110-2492
