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Lecture focuses on judicial power, Feb. 27
Posted February 23, 2006; 10:26 p.m.
Political scientist Robert Lowry Clinton will examine the Supreme
Court's power to interpret the Constitution in a lecture scheduled for
4:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, in 104 Computer Science Building.
The lecture, titled "John Marshall and the Myth of Marbury," will look
at the Supreme Court's power of judicial review, which was established
in the 1803 case of Marbury v. Madison. Clinton is the author of
"Marbury v. Madison and Judicial Review," which challenges widely held
assumptions about the seminal case and the origins of constitutional
judicial review.
Clinton is chair of the Department of Political Science at Southern
Illinois University-Carbondale. He is the author of "God and Man in the
Law: The Foundations of Anglo-American Constitutionalism" and currently
is working on a history of the Marshall Court.
The talk is part of the Alpheus Mason Lectures in Constitutional Law
and Political Thought sponsored by the James Madison Program in
American Ideals and Institutions.