and when he came to speak at yale law school, and i was sitting in the law school auditorium, reading my little book, waiting for him to come in, had never seen him before, and all of a sudden i looked up and somebody was saying, "miss wright," and he was introducing himself, and i could not believe it. and he said, "i'm malcolm x." and he knew everything about my life. i couldn't believe it. and i then found out someone from my hometown was one of his followers who had... from the bridgeport, connecticut, mosque. but anyway, we became friends. and i went down to have lunch with him a number of times in his restaurant, and he would be very funny. whenever i ordered white bread, he'd say, "don't eat that. that's got no nutrition in that." >> hinojosa: (laughs) but the fact is that even though you were a follower of martin luther king, you were... and malcolm x was clearly wanting to engage with you and you were clearly open to having broad conversations. >> of course, i mean, there's no one way to anything. in fact, malcolm x's brother, who was the social services commissioner in michi

when we met in law school, it was relatively rare for women to be at yale law school. in law school generally. hard to believe now, most graduates are women from law school. she could have gone anywhere. her interest in law school was legal services for poor people. when she got out, instead of taking a clerkship or big firm job, she went to work for the children's defense fund. she went to alabama to investigate whether segregated academies were claiming tax exemptions on the grounds that they were just private academies that happened to have no african-americans. and they changed the law and the school eventually changed the practice. she went to south carolina, this , toore important to me now investigate why so many 14-year-old and 15 --year-old children were in adult jails. not so much of that anymore. everywhere she went, she made something good happen. when she came home to arkansas to be with me, she opened the first legal aid clinic we ever had with the university is. forget, she made me take her to record the date of the judge accepted the legal aid. the cozy

as yale law school has said, no serious modern scholar thinks that slaughterhouse is a plausible reading of the 14th amendment. not that the modern consensus is unanimous. university of illinois law professor kurt lash has taken up the mantle of defending the court's opinion in slaughterhouse. professors michael ross and pam brandywine have also had some kind things to say about the opinion in the case, as do jonathan lorre in his marvelous 2003 book about the case. many of these are down in the book store downstairs. i know they like when i say things like this. [laughter] mr. barnett: i will not litigate the dispute. my own view is that the majority misrepresented is a matter of public record. i think in the interest of full disclosure i should mention that law professors richard ames, steve calabrese, michael cam curtis, michael lawrence, filled -- bill than that -- van alstyne, filed an amicus brief contending that it should be reversed. to support that conclusion here would require an exegesis of historical material. even worse, it would be extremely tedious. instead, i wish to revi

that was a reference, i'm sure, to lanny davis, who was hillary clinton's yale law school classmate, general of the united states, duking it out in the first part of this program about the ongoing questions surrounding secretary clinton's emails. i don't know that we resolved anything, but two bright individuals who were given terrific opportunity to make their case. i will see you next week. its sleek design... is mold-breaking. its intelligent drive systems... paradigm-shifting. its technology-filled cabin...jaw-dropping. its performance...breathtaking. its self-parking...and self-braking...show-stopping. the all-new glc. mercedes-benz resets the bar for the luxury suv. starting at $38,950. i'i like to think of myself as more of a control... enthusiast. mmm, a perfect 177-degrees. and that's why this road warrior rents from national. i can bypass the counter and go straight to my car. and i don't have to talk to any humans, unless i want to. and i don't. and national lets me choose any car in the aisle. control. it's so, what's the word?... sexy. go national. go like a pro. what's

school, it in law was relatively rare for women to be at yale law school. or in law school at all.ard to believe now. she could got anywhere. her interest in law school was legal services for poor people. when she got out instead of taking a clerkship or a big firm job she went to work for the children's defense fund. she went to alabama to investigate whether segregated academies were claiming tax exemptions on the grounds that they were just private academies that happened to have no african-americans. law and the the school changed the practice. to went to south carolina investigate why so many 14 and 15 euro children all of whom were african-american were in adult jails. not so much of that anymore. everywhere she went she did something good happen. she came to arkansas to be with me she opened the first legal aid clinic we ever had. where the university is. i will never forget, she made me take her to court the day the judge accepted the legal aid proposal. he was a crusty old guy who liked the old system of just appointing lawyers. the guys sitting on the bench. i introduced

when we met in law school, it was relatively rare for women to be at yale law school. or in law school generally. hard to believe now, most graduates are women from law school. she could have gone anywhere. her interest in law school was legal services for poor people. when she got out, instead of taking a clerkship or big firm job, she went to work for the children's defense fund. she went to alabama to investigate whether segregated academies were claiming tax exemptions on the grounds that they were just private academies that happened to have no african-americans. they changed the law and the school changed the practice. she went to south carolina to investigate why so many 14 and 15-year-old children, all of whom were african-american, were in adult jails. not so much of that anymore. everywhere she went she did something good happen. she came to arkansas to be with me she opened the first legal aid clinic we ever had. where the university is. i will never forget, she made me take her to court the day the judge accepted the legal aid proposal. he was a crusty old g

when we met in law school it was relatively rare for women to be at yale law school or in law school generally. it's hard to believe most graduates now are women from law school. she could have gone anywhere. herger's in law school was legal services for poor people. when she got out instead of taking a clerkship or a big job she went to work for the children's defense fund. she went to alabama to investigate whether segregated academies were claiming exemptions under the grounds that they were part of the academies that haven't have no african-americans in them. and they change the law and the schools and eventually change the practice. she went to south carolina, this is more reporting to me now, to investigate why so many 14 and 15-year-old children all of whom are african-american were in adult jails. not so much of that anymore. everywhere she went she -- when she came to arkansas she opened the first legal aid clinic we ever had and where the university is. i will never forget she made me take her to court accepting the legal aid proposal. he was a crusty old guy who liked the

somebody told me yesterday you don't go to yale law school the play it safe. he said, "despite the fact that you got three felonies, you playing with house money, and you need to make a decision about what you can do that's actually ambitious and test the possibilities of the world. and can you think of ways to solve big problems." and always writing. writing is like breathing. always writing. >> brown: from suitland, maryland, i'm jeffrey brown for the pbs newshour. >> woodruff: the first part of jeffrey brown's report looks at a writing program in one of the nation's largest juvenile detention facilities. that's on our website at pbs.org/newshour. >> woodruff: finally, another installment in our series of "newshour essays," a long tradition of the broadcast that we have resurrected in the past few months. tonight we hear from nicholas thompson, the editor of the new yorker magazine website newyorker.com. we have heard a lot these days about how the internet, social media, and our addictive use of our handheld devices have reduced our attention spans. but in

to former clinton white house counsel lanny davis headed to iowa this morning to support his yale law schoolssmate secretary clinton. lanny, respond to the judge. >> i've been a great fan of the judge here at a platform with him and he's a great lawyer, former attorney general but it is shocking and almost unethical if you are actually a judge to pronounce the possibility of guilt without a trial or without an indictment and without a fact. all the caveats of statements is somewhat diminish that he would speculate about somebody committing a crime before investigation is complete, before an indictment and trial. let me state three facts that he can't dispute. fact one, is there were no designations on those e-mails and they didn't originate from her. he speck lates she removed designations and the only example he gave which is a fact were talking points sent to her and she said send it to me as a non-paper because they are talking points i want to use and the fax machine isn't working, non-paper meaning unofficially they were talking points. the other one we know about is what is retroactive

i thought she wals ts the most amazing person, back then women in law school were a distinct minority. there she was at yale could have written her ticket to go anywhere she warranted. all she was really interested in was providing legal services to poor people. when we got out she could have gone to work, big law firm, get a fancy clerkship. she took a job at the children's defense fund. it was a nice story in the press you may have seen in the last several days talking about a trip she took to alabama to see if these so-called tax exempt private schools were really just segregation academies and therefore not entitled to the tax exemption. i valued even more the trip she took to south carolina to see why so many african-american children were being held in prisons. it is hard to remember 40 years ago what things were like. she hadn't been elected to anything. but everything she touched she made better. then she came over to arkansas to be with me and we were teaching in the law school and she started the first legal aid clinic we ever had. she used to get me to drive her out to see her clients and stuff.

law, legal history, diplomatic history, and civil rights history. -- books include overtime, wartime, exploding american dreams, and cold war/civil rights. she received her phd from yale university. her jd from yale law school and her a.b. in sociology from university of california berkeley. most recently, she has been the chair of the american law and governance here. please join me in welcoming mary dudziak. [applause] dr. dudziak: thank you for that very kind introduction. thank you all. i am so grateful you took time on such a beautiful afternoon to think about war with me. [laughter] i have many thank you's, which i will try to do more quickly than is appropriate. i want to recognize a couple of really wonderful and important people here today in terms of the future of legal history. the director of the history office of the federal judicial system clara altman is here. ,and also the historian of the , state department, stephen randolph, and the state department historian's office has been pivotal in making foreign relations history open and accessible so that all of us can do our research and the office has thrived under his leadership and his wonderful staff is just a treasure. thank you to the natio

masters, written a memoir and two books of poetry, and at age 35 is now a third- year student at yale law school to do today is, is sort of let them know that i believe what doesn't look and what doesn't seem to be possible right now, but i believe is possible for them. because it is implausible, but hey, implausible happens all the time. >> brown: this is one of the nation's largest juvenile detention centers, on the day we visited housing over 300 young people aged 10 to 16 who are awaiting trial. as a condition to film this story, we were required to conceal their identities. it's also home to a fully- functioning public school, so students don't fall behind on classwork while here. betts visited through a program called "free write jail arts and literacy", which for 15 years has provided tutoring and creative writing instruction. a native of trinidad , roger bonair-agard is a poet and teacher who encourages his students to find their voice using the familiar language and places around them. >> as you might imagine the young people here have had who they are, and how they talk, and where they

and there she was at yale law school. she could have written her ticket to go anywhere she wanted.he was really interested in was providing legal services to poor people. when we got out, she could have gone to work, big law firm, get a fancy clerkship. she took a job at the children's defense fund. it was a nice story in the press, you may have seen, in the last several days talking about a trip she took to alabama to see if the so-called tax-exempt private schools were really just segregation academies and, therefore, not entitled to the tax exemption. i valued even more the trip she took to south carolina to see why so many african-american children were being held in adult prisons. it's hard to remember 40 years ago what things were like. she hadn't been elected to anything. but everything she touched, she made better. then she came to arkansas to be with me and we were teaching in the law school and she started the first legal aid clinic we ever had. she used to get me to drive her out to see her clients and stuff. and there was -- i'll never forget the day she was supposed to

he would go from georgetown to be a rhodes scholar at oxford, and then to yale law school. where he meets hillary rodham. and at 34, he is elected governor of arkansas, and he would be elected four times. he is in his mid-40's when he runs for president. one other thing important, clinton is born in 1948, which means what? he grows up during the 1960's. this is going to come back to play as part of the story, right? ambition. and this ambition means lots of things are malleable for clinton. that ambition is fundamental to understanding him. we want to think about scale of analysis, always. clinton is not simply a product of his times. his biography matters. who he is matters. when we are analyzing things, we always want to kind of keep our scale in focus, what it is we are trying to make sense of, and clinton, those things interact with each other, right? who is clinton with here? this is clinton with george mcgovern. clinton starts out in the 1970's as a liberal, a traditional liberal in many ways. one of the stories we are going to tell is the transformation of clinton's

david is a graduate of yale law school where he was in comment editor for the journal.please give him a welcome. [applause]. thank you roger. it is always a privilege to appear here at cato which i have done on many occasions. the center where i serve as senior counsel works constantly with cato, frequently as an adversary and a respectful one. but not infrequently. as an ally. so it is in that spirit that i offer what are going to be substantially critical remarks, but not entirely about the work that professor bernstein has presented us with. i had to say that i think there is a schizophrenia about this book and perhaps also about professor bernstein's approach to the issue of executive power. on the one hand, there is a professorial side, there professor bernstein acknowledges for example that the expansion of executive power, which certainly is an important phenomenon of our time and our ancestors time, is a very long-standing, structural developments and it has been exemplified by presidents of both political parties. he acknowledges that but then we have what i ha

bruce ackerman at yale law school has suggested, for example, replacing the office of legal counsel injustice department with an independent judiciary, a tribunal of senate-confirmed judges. no one who's worked in government thinks that's remotely pragmatic, that that would work. it's in terms of these things are happening all the time, and a lot of the discussions are fluid between law and policy and deliberations. there's not a place where you just, everything stops and we'll see what the court says next month when they get around to issuing. that's not how governance functions as a real world matter. that doesn't seem to be a satisfying solution, and the problem is there doesn't seem to be a satisfying solution. he came up with an idea, and he put it out there. i don't have an alternative idea. so the best aye been able to come -- i've been able to come up with is transparency. the check of public opinion and whether it's, hey, we're rectally rehydrating people, is that what we as a country are all about or whether it's this here's this interpretation of the patriot act that everyon

and there she was at yale law school. she could have written her ticket to go anywhere she wanted.he was really interested in was legal services for poor people. >> after that event, andrea mitchell caught up with him on the rope line and asked him about what he thinks of republican front-runner donald trump. >> how's it feel to be back in new hampshire which love you? >> wonderful. >> take a picture. >> i love this place, you know? >> reporter: how do you feel about the kind of campaign donald trump is running, sir? >> the republicans will have to decide who is nominated. how i feel is only relevant once they pick a nominee. we're trying to win a primary. we have to do that first. >> reporter: can hillary win this one? >> since you have already been president. >> sure. win here? sure. but it's going to be hard. >> reporter: what is your advice to her? >> she is here a lot. worked hard. all you can do. these people are really fair. no candidate that borders new hampshire ever lost a primary here except dean and john kerry. but i think she can. you know, they have been good to us an

she graduated from yale college cum laude in 1986 and received her law degree from harvard law school in 1989. after law school, justice wright clerked for judge damon keith of the circuit circuit court of appeals. she then went into private practice for five years at hogan and hartson. but before long, she felt the pull of public service. she joined the u.s. attorney's office for the district of minnesota as an assistant u.s. attorney, and has been a dependable, dedicated leader of the minnesota legal system ever since that time. during her time as a federal prosecutor, she received the united states department of justice director's award and the department's special achievement award. so if you look at her path before she became a judge, every step of the way she excelled. she excelled growing up. she excelled in college and law school in terms of her record. she excelled as a judicial clerk. she excelled in private practice. and she then excelled in the u.s. attorney's office where she received numerous awards. she was then appointed by, i believe, governor jesse ventura, so this i