Judge Neomi Rao on "The Province of the Law"

A belated 2021 lecture sponsored by the Georgetown Center for the Constitution

Last month, the Honorable Neomi Rao delivered the Georgetown Center for the Constitution's 2021 Thomas M. Cooley Judicial Lecture on "The Province of the Law."  (Like many such events, the lecture had been scheduled for 2021, but was postponed until this year due to the pandemic.)

Judge Rao's lecture is a complement -- perhaps even a sequel -- to her 2022 Sumner Canary Lecture on "Textualism's Political Morality." given the subject, I thought it might be of interest to VC readers, so a video is below.

The Cooley lecture is delivered annually by a distinguished jurist, and coincides with the Center's annual book prize and symposium. The judicial lecture and dinner is also co-sponsored by the Federalist Society.

Comments

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Quite sporting of Prof. Adler to handle this while Prof. Barnett is busy performing the important research underlying Today In Supreme Court History.

"Another day . . . so sad, so sad"

Choose to see Paul McCartney perform. Every time.

[DaivdBehar]

I could not take more than 5 minutes of this Ivy indoctrinated lawyer blah blah blah. Did she mention that courts cannot make laws nor repeal laws, which is the making of law? Did she mention that Ivy indoctrinated scumbags are bookworms who know shit about the complicated technical subject on which they are setting national policy? Did she mention the rent seeking theory? Judges are always biased in favor of tyrannical, government that does nothing well save collect the $trillions in taxes and totally wastes them. Did she say, Trump was a weak leader who got played by Ivy indoctrinated Swamp lawyers? Did she say, there is nothing lower than a federal judge save a serial rapist and murderer of children and a journalist?

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How can "Judge Rao's [April 2022] lecture" be "perhaps even a sequel -- to her 2022 Sumner Canary Lecture on "Textualism's Political Morality"?

[Noscitur a sociis]

What is the incongruity you're seeing with this description?

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How can an April lecture be a sequel to a summer lecture?

When does summer start by your reckoning?

[mse326]

Sumner with an "N" not summer.

[Noscitur a sociis]

You may want to reread the name of lecture.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

By my reckoning, summer starts here.

Or do you believe . . .?

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

O man do I feel stupid!

But probably not stupid enough to learn a lesson!

Thanks for your patience.

[MatthewSlyfield]

I have no patience, I'm not a doctor.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

I see no stupidity. You mistook a consonant in a readily understandable circumstance.

Stupidity would be sticking with a mistake after recognizing it.

[Cal Cetín]

"Last month, the Honorable Neomi Rao delivered the Georgetown Center for the Constitution's 2021 Thomas M. Cooley Judicial Lecture...

"Judge Rao's lecture is a complement -- perhaps even a sequel -- to her 2022 Sumner Canary Lecture..."

Her 2021 lecture is a sequel to her 2022 lecture. The province of the law must include time-travelling.

[Stephen Lathrop]

Perhaps the time has come to mull the question whether active judges should identify themselves with ideologically fraught theories of jurisprudence, or maybe with any theories of jurisprudence. Would it be better for the legitimacy of the nation's courts if cases and controversies were the subjects, and decisions the results, and the practicalities of the courtroom were disentangled from politically-charged theorizing about jurisprudence?

[apedad]

But who tells (yells?) the Senators and Representatives to make a law?

People -- I mean Special Interest groups do.