Justin Driver, professor of law at Yale Law School and award-winning constitutional law scholar, will deliver the College of Law’s Lane Lecture at noon Nov. 8 in the Hamann Auditorium at the College of Law.
Driver will present “Are Public Schools Becoming Constitution-Free Zones?” and cover the subjects of race, sex, religion, crime, liberty, patriotism and equality, as well as how the Supreme Court’s treatment of these incendiary topics has shaped public education and the constitutional rights of students around the country.
Before becoming a law professor, Driver clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. He teaches and writes in the area of constitutional law and is the author of “The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind.” The book examines the intersection of two American institutions: the Supreme Court and the public school.
The University Bookstore will be selling copies of Driver’s book at the event, with Driver available for autographs following the lecture.
The talk is free and open to the public.
