September 27/Cleveland, OH+Web: From Anti-Slavery Lawyer to Chief Justice: The Remarkable Career of Salmon P. Chase #MCLE

The remarkable career of Ohioan Salmon P. Chase deserves to be remembered. Beginning as a young lawyer defending runaway slaves in Cincinnati, Ohio, Chase went on to serve as Senator from Ohio as a Free Soiler, Governor of Ohio as a Republican, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, Secretary of the Treasury under President Lincoln, and Chief Justice of the United States. In all these roles, he relentlessly pursued the goal of liberty and equality for all Americans, white and black, male and female.
Title:
From Anti-Slavery Lawyer to Chief Justice: The Remarkable Career of Salmon P. Chase
By:
Case Western Reserve School of Law
Sumner Canary Lecture
When/Where:
September 27
4:30 PM-5:30 PM
Moot Courtroom (A59)
11075 East Blvd
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
CLE Credit:

Randy E. Barnett

1 hr. of CLE credit available
Also Available As Webcast
Speaker:
Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts. After graduating from Northwestern University and Harvard Law School, he tried many felony cases as a prosecutor in the Cook County States’ Attorney’s Office in Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at Penn, Northwestern and Harvard Law School. In 2008, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies. Professor Barnett argued the medical marijuana case of Gonzalez v. Raich before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2004. Author of more than 100 articles and reviews, as well as nine books, he regularly publishes opinion pieces and provides commentary in the national media. In 2007, Prof. Barnett was featured in the documentaries, The Trials of Law Schooland In Search of the Second Amendment. He also portrayed an assistant prosecutor in the 2008 independent film InAlienable.
Cost:
Free and open to the public. Reception follows.
We encourage attendees to arrive at registration 20 minutes prior to the start of a lecture to sign in, obtain materials, and be seated.
More:
http://law.case.edu/Lectures.aspx?lec_id=317