stephanie newbold, matthew natchezny and elizabeth woodcock who came up with the idea for the program. we're happy to be here. we're particularly happy to be have as our host justice breyer who will be speaking to you in a minute. i will tell you briefly what you don't know already about justice breyer. he's a californian. he studied at stanford, oxnard and harvard law school. he came here to 1964 which happens to be a year after gideon v wainwright. so he missed that activity. then went on to become very active at the justice department, counsel to the senate judiciary committee. also very active in the academic world. president carter then appointed him to the first circuit in 1980. served there for 14 years. president clinton appointed him to this court where he became one of now seven justices who also served as a law clerk in this court. he's been on the court obviously now since 1994 for 11 years he was the most junior justice on the court. almost broke a record for that. but now he's moved up quite handsomely in seniority. my pleasure to have justice breyer speak to us tonight.