The Goldfarb Center virtually held its 2021 William R. and Linda K. Cotter Debate to explore this topic with two top experts in the field of constitutional law. All are welcome to view the debate’s recording on YouTube!
Suzanna Sherry, the Herman O. Loewenstein Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, will discuss the merits of lifetime appointments. The opposing view will be argued by Ilya Shapiro, director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute, who recently authored Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court (2020). His latest book has a chapter on term limits and discusses Professor Sherry’s provocative article, “Our Kardashian Court (and How to Fix It)”, on the need to decelebrify the court.
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