Uncertain Justice: The Supreme Court and the Constitution

For the nation’s 227th Constitution Day Laurence Tribe, one of the nation’s pre-eminent scholars of Constitutional Law at Harvard University, discusses his newest book Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution with Randall Kennedy. Is the Roberts Court really the “least dangerous” branch of our federal government, as Alexander Hamilton opined in Federalist Paper No. 78? Tribe argues that this Supreme Court is shaking the foundation of the nation’s laws and reinterpreting the meaning of the Constitution.

Laurence Tribe is Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard University. In addition to teaching Constitutional Law for more than 40 years, he has helped write the constitutions of South Africa, the Czech Republic, and the Marshall Islands; has argued dozens of cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, including the first argument in Bush v. Gore; and was appointed in 2010 by President Obama and Attorney General Holder to serve as the first Senior Counselor for Access to Justice. Professor Tribe has written 115 books and articles, including American Constitutional Law, the most frequently cited treatise on the U.S. Constitution. His current book Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution examines the implications of recent controversial Supreme Court decisions.

Randall Kennedy is Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His areas of interest include contracts; civil rights and civil liberties; race and the law; and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the author of 6 books and numerous articles about the law, including
Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency. His most recent book is For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law.