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DESCRIPTION:This year’s Constitution Day Debate at Colgate will feature J
 onathan Turley\, the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Inter
 est Law at George Washington University\, and Michael Klarman\, the Charle
 s Warren Professor of Legal History at Harvard Law School\, debating “Is
  There a Constitutional Crisis? How Would We Know?”\n\nThe annual debate
  will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Thursday\, Sept. 18\, in Colgate M
 emorial Chapel\, sponsored by the Robert P. Kraynak Institute for the Stud
 y of Freedom and Western Traditions with support from the Office of the Pr
 esident\, the Dean of the Faculty\, and University Events. The debate will
  be moderated by Stephen P. Garvey ’87\, A. Robert Noll Professor of law
  at Cornell Law School. Register to livestream the debate here.\n\nJonatha
 n Turley: Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal schol
 ar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to
  legal theory to tort law. He has written over three dozen academic articl
 es that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals at Cornell\, Du
 ke\, Georgetown\, Harvard\, Northwestern\, the University of Chicago\, and
  other schools. He is the author of the best-selling and award-winning boo
 k The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage (Simon & Schuster
 \, 2024). After a stint at Tulane Law School\, Professor Turley joined the
  George Washington faculty in 1990 and\, in 1998\, was given the prestigio
 us Shapiro Chair for public interest law\, the youngest chaired professor 
 in the school’s history. In addition to his extensive publications\, Tur
 ley has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last tw
 o decades\, including the representation of whistleblowers\, military pers
 onnel\, former cabinet members\, judges\, members of Congress\, and a wide
  range of other clients. He is also one of the few attorneys to successful
 ly challenge both a federal and a state law.\n\nTurley has worked for vari
 ous networks and newspapers for over three decades. He is currently the le
 gal analyst for Fox News. He has previously worked as a legal analyst for 
 NBC\, CBS\, and the BBC. He is also a columnist for USA Today\, The Hill\,
  and other national newspapers. Turley’s columns on legal and policy iss
 ues appear regularly in national publications with hundreds of articles in
  such newspapers as the New York Times\, Washington Post\, USA Today\, the
  Los Angeles Times\, and the Wall Street Journal. Turley received his BA a
 t the University of Chicago and his JD at Northwestern. In 2008\, he was g
 iven an honorary doctorate of law from John Marshall Law School for his co
 ntributions to civil liberties and the public interest.\n Michael Klarman:
  Professor Michael J. Klarman is the Charles Warren Professor of Legal His
 tory at Harvard Law School\, where he joined the faculty in 2008. He recei
 ved his BA and MA (political theory) from the University of Pennsylvania i
 n 1980\, his JD from Stanford Law School in 1983\, and his DPhil in legal 
 history from the University of Oxford in 1988. At Oxford\, he was a Marsha
 ll Scholar. After law school\, Klarman clerked for the Honorable Ruth Bade
 r Ginsburg on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (198
 3–84). He joined the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law
  in 1987 and served there until 2008 as the James Monroe Distinguished Pro
 fessor of law and professor of history. \n\nKlarman’s first book\, From 
 Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Eq
 uality\, was published by Oxford University Press in 2004 and received the
  2005 Bancroft Prize in History. \n\nHe published two books in 2007\, also
  with Oxford University Press: Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil R
 ights Movement and Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American Histor
 y\, which is part of Oxford’s Inalienable Rights series. In 2012\, he pu
 blished From the Closet to the Altar: Courts\, Backlash\, and the Struggle
  for Same-Sex Marriage. In 2016\, Oxford University Press published his co
 mprehensive history of the Founding\, The Framers’ Coup: The Making of t
 he US Constitution\, which was a finalist for both the George Washington B
 ook Prize and the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award. In 2020
 \, he authored the Harvard Law Review Foreword on “The Degradation of Am
 erican Democracy — and the Court.” Klarman is currently working on a c
 omprehensive history of race and sports in the United States\, from the be
 ginnings of organized sports around the Civil War to the present.\n Stephe
 n P. Garvey ’87: Stephen Garvey\, A. Robert Noll Professor of Law at Cor
 nell Law School\, has written and taught in the areas of capital punishmen
 t\, criminal law\, and the philosophy of criminal law. Following his gradu
 ation from Yale Law School\, Professor Garvey clerked for the Hon. Wilfred
  Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit\, and then h
 e practiced in the Washington\, D.C. firm of Covington & Burling. He joine
 d the Cornell Law School Faculty in 1994. Garvey received his MPhil in pol
 itics at Oxford University (University College)\, Oxford\, England\, in 19
 89 and a BA in political science from Colgate University in 1987. He is al
 so a member of the Kraynak Institute External Advisory Board.
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