Former U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) sponsored legislation establishing Constitution Day in 2004, requiring all publicly funded educational institutions to provide annual programming on or near that day.
The College of Law will host Richard Katskee, assistant clinical professor of law at Duke University, as he presents "Taking Liberties: The Supreme Court's New Hierarchy of Rights and its Victims” at noon Monday (Sept. 18) in the College of Law, Fitzsimmons Event Hall.
Watch the lecture on the College of Law YouTube channel.
Katskee has also served as the vice president and legal director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, where he challenged and defended governmental action in cutting-edge cases in the fields of health care, education, employment, public accommodations and immigration.
Katskee is a former member of the Supreme Court and Appellate practice at Mayer Brown LLP in Washington, D.C., and served as deputy director of the Program Legal Group in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, where he was legal advisor to the assistant secretary for civil rights. He led the development of policy initiatives on the implementation of the federal laws barring discrimination on the basis of race, sex and disability in the nation’s schools, colleges and universities.
He taught First Amendment law at the American University Washington College of Law, and professional and political ethics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard College.
Katskee received his juris doctorate degree from Yale Law School, a master’s degree in political science from Harvard University and his bachelor’s degree with highest distinction and high honors in political science from the University of Michigan.