Public Lectures by Prof. David O’Brien
Topic 1:Life in the Marble Temple: Institutional Change and Development in the U.S. Supreme Court
Time: July 4, 2017 18:30-20:30
Venue:JB102, Fudan University Jiangwan Campus
Topic 2:Competing Approaches to Constitutional Interpretation:“Original Intent” and “A Living Constitution”
Time: July 5, 2017 18:30-20:30
Venue:JB102, Fudan University Jiangwan Campus
Organizers: Fudan University’s Foreign Affairs Office & Fudan Law School
Short Bibliography of Prof. David O’Brien
Prof. David O’Brien has been a Judicial Fellow and Research Associate at the Supreme Court of the U.S., holding Fulbright Teaching and Research Awards at Oxford University, England, the University of Bologna, Italy, and in Japan, and was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York, and a Visiting Professor at Institut d’Etudes Politique Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2, and a Fudan Senior Fellow at Fudan University in Shanghai.
He is the author of numerous books and over 100 articles, including Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics (11th ed. W.W. Norton), which received the ABA’s Silver Gavel Award; a two-volume casebook, Constitutional Law and Politics (10th ed., W.W. Norton); and an annual Supreme Court Watch (1991 – 2015, W.W. Norton); Animal Sacrifice & Religious Freedom: The Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (University of Kansas Press), and To Dream of Dreams: Religious Freedom and Constitutional Politics in Postwar Japan (University of Hawaii Press), among other books . In addition, he has edited several books and co-authored others, including The Judicial Process: Law, Courts, and Judicial Politics (C.Q. Press), Government by the People (22 nd ed., Prentice Hall), and Judicial Independence: Critical Perspectives from Around the World ( UVA Press).