stefanie newbold. matthew dechesney, and elizabeth witcook came up with the idea of the program. we're also particularly happy to have as our host this evening justice breyer who will be speaking to you in a minute. i will just tell you briefly what you don't know already about justice breyer. he is a californian, studied at stanford, oxford and then harvard law school, became a law clerk here at the supreme court in 1964, which happens to be a year after gideon v. wane right. so he missed that activity then went on to become activity 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 has been on the court obviously now since 1994 for 11 years, he was the most junior justice on the court, almost broke a record from that, but now he has moved up quite handsomely in seniority. at any rate, my pleas