Constitution Week
September 17-23, 2023
On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document they had created. Each year, we recognize the US Constitution on September 17.
How can we celebrate? We have:
- activities like Jeopardy games and and fact quizzes
- videos of readings of the constitution from popular media like star trek, school house of rock, documentaries and more.
- Explore the interactive constitution, bill of rights, signers and more
- Learn more about Voting in Illinois
- and so much more.
Hamilton: The Man, the Musical, and the Law
Enjoy hearing more from the particpants about Hamiliton: The Man, the Musical and the Law
Taken from https://constitutioncenter.org/news-debate/americas-town-hall-programs/hamilton-the-man-the-musical-and-the-law
Participants
- Ketanji Brown Jackson is a judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Until December of 2014, she also served as a Vice Chair and Commissioner on the United States Sentencing Commission. Prior to her four years of service on the Sentencing Commission, Jackson worked for three years as Of Counsel at Morrison & Foerster LLP, with a practice that focused on criminal and civil appellate litigation in both state and federal courts, as well as cases in the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Erwin Chemerinksy is the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law and 13th Dean of the University of California Berkley Law School. He is the author of 11 books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction, and has published more than 200 law review articles. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court.
- Joshua Douglas is Thomas P. Lewis Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law. He is the author of Vote for US: How to Take Back our Elections and Change the Future of Voting, a co-author of an Election Law case book, and co-editor of Election Law Stories. Douglas has published in top journals, including the Georgetown Law Journal, Penn Law Review Online, Vanderbilt Law Review, Washington University Law Review, George Washington Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, and the Election Law Journal, among others.
- Vanessa Nadal is legal counsel for 5000 Broadway Productions. She also works with the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund and with the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham. Nadal serves on the NYC Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. Previously, she was a commercial litigation associate at Jones Day.
- Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
