USU
conference to open with keynote by Justice Antonin Scalia
September 3, 2008 | LOGAN -- Justice Antonia Scalia
of the United States Supreme Court is the keynote speaker
for Utah State University's conference "Freedom
and the Rule of Law." He speaks at noon Sept. 15
in the Stevenson Ballroom of the Taggart Student Center
on the USU campus. The public is invited.
"Freedom and the Rule of Law" is sponsored
by USU's department of political science and is coordinated
by faculty member Anthony Peacock. In addition to Scalia,
10 nationally recognized political scientists and legal
scholars will deliver lectures over the two-day conference.
A full schedule
for the conference and list of speakers is available
online.
"Participants in the conference are the best
in their fields," Peacock said. "It's a privilege
to have Justice Scalia join us and open the conference.
Utah State University is honored to have him as a guest
on our campus."
Peacock teaches constitutional law at USU, and the
political science department offers a law and constitutional
studies major. Peacock and fellow department member
Peter McNamara are developing a new program in the department,
the "Project on
Liberty and American Constitutionalism," that
will explore the meaning of liberty in the American
constitutional system. They felt this conference would
be a perfect kickoff for the new project.
Scalia was nominated by President Reagan to the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
and took the oath of office Aug. 17, 1982. He was again
nominated by Reagan to be associate justice of the United
States Supreme Court and took his seat Sept. 26, 1986.
He received his undergraduate education at Georgetown
University and University of Fribourg (Switzerland),
and he earned his law degree from Harvard in 1960. He
was a Sheldon fellow at Harvard University in 1960-61.
Scalia was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1962 and was
in private practice in Cleveland from 1961 to 1967.
He was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1970. He was
professor of law at the University of Virginia (1967-74)
and University of Chicago (1977-82). He was a visiting
professor of law at Georgetown University (1977) and
Stanford University (1980-81).
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