Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
The Relevance of Chief Justice John Marshall
Speaker
Professor Joel Richard Paul
Coordinator
Steve Clarey
The keystone of our living Constitution has been the independence and legitimacy of our judiciary, which many believe is now threatened. At other points in American history, the Supreme Court has faced similar challenges, none greater than the Jeffersonian Crisis in 1801, when the newly appointed Chief Justice John Marshall defended judicial independence against the Jeffersonians. Learn how John Marshall, a poorly educated young attorney from a hardscrabble backwoods family, turned the tables on Thomas Jefferson and made the Constitution what it is today.
Speaker Bio
Joel Richard Paul is the Sullivan Professor at the University of California Law School, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), where he teaches constitutional law. He previously taught on the law faculties of Berkeley, Yale, Connecticut, Leiden and American. He is the author of, among other publications, Without Precedent: How John Marshall Invented American Diplomacy. He was educated at Amherst College, the London School of Economics, Harvard Law School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
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