History of law in America with Jed Shugerman
Air Dates: November 24-25, 2018
The confirmation of Justice Bret Kavanaugh was a bruising episode for many Americans. Jed Shugerman views that confirmation process against the long history of America鈥檚 courts and essential debates over the constitutional limits on executive power.
Shugerman is a Professor of Law at Fordham University. He attended Yale Law School and graduated in 2002, and went on to earned his PhD in History. Blending his two areas of study, Shugarman published, The People鈥檚 Courts: The Rise of Judicial Elections and Judicial Power in America. The book 鈥渢races the history of judicial elections and Americans鈥 quest for an independent judiciary鈥昽ne that would ensure fairness for all before the law鈥昮rom the colonial era to the present.鈥 (Harvard University Press, 2012). His articles often appear in Law Journals such as Yale Law Journal, the Georgia Law Review and the Harvard Law Review.
鈥Story in the Public Square鈥 airs on Rhode Island PBS in Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts on Sundays at 11 a.m. and is rebroadcast Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. An audio version of the program airs Saturdays at 8:30 a.m. & 6:30 p.m. ET, Sundays at 4:30 a.m. & 11:30 p.m. ET on SiriusXM鈥檚 popular P.O.T.U.S. (Politics of the United States), channel 124. 鈥淪tory in the Public Square鈥 is a partnership between the Pell Center and The Providence Journal. The initiative aims to study, celebrate and tell stories that matter.