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Judicial Reputation: A Conference on Neglected Justices

This conference, which is sponsored by Vanderbilt's Program in Constitutional Law & Theory, opens at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 3, with a keynote address delivered by G. Edward White, the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. This lecture is free and open to the public.

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G. Edward White joined the Virginia law faculty in 1972 after a clerkship with Chief Justice Warren of the Supreme Court of the United States and a year as Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation. He was appointed John B. Minor Professor of Law and History in 1987, and held that chair until 2003. In 1992 he was appointed to a University Professorship, which he held until 2003. From 1990 until 1992 and from 2001-03, he was the Sullivan & Cromwell Research Professor; from 1994-97 the E. James Kelly Research Professor; and from 1999-2001 the Class of 1963 Research Professor. He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow, and twice a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Fellow of the Society of American Historians, and a member of the American Law Institute.

White's 12 published books have won numerous honors and awards. These include final listing for the Pulitzer Prize in history, the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, the James Willard Hurst Prize from the Law & Society Association, the Littleton-Griswold Prize from the American Historical Association, the Scribes Award, and Association of American Law Schools' Triennial Book Award. White's books have garnered 13 such honors and awards since 1976.

White was editor of the Studies in Legal History series for North Carolina Press from 1980-85, and adviser on law manuscripts for Oxford University Press from 1986-1996. He has been on the editorial board of the Virginia Quarterly Review from 1980-2002. He has served on the Commission for Undergraduate Education in Law and the Humanities, and has taught summer humanities seminars for lawyers and judges under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

White earned his J.D. at Harvard after earning a B.A. at Amherst and both an M.A. and a Ph.D. at Yale.

Date/Time	Occurrence Details
Date: Apr 03, 2008 to Apr 05, 2008 Time: 04:00 PM to 12:00 PM	Vanderbilt Law School 131 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37203