Supreme Semester Features Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author of Gideon’s Trumpet

It would be a remarkable semester to have events for students with 3 members of the United States Supreme Court (Roberts, Scalia, Alito) and one Pulitzer-Prize winner (Linda Greenhouse).  Whatever word captures beyond remarkable is now appropriate at RWU School of Law….

I am pleased to announce that Anthony Lewis will come to Bristol on the afternoon of March 19 for a presentation in conjunction with the publication of his newest book, Freedom for the Thought We Hate: Tales of the First Amendment.  Lewis is the author of the classic Gideon’s Trumpet, a brilliant and moving recounting of the battle to win legal representation for people charged with crimes, and Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment, an important work on free speech and press.  In addition, Lewis has won not one but two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting for the New York Times.

Lewis new book is sweeping in scope, beginning with the battles between the nascent press and the English Crown in the 16th century and concludes with his thoughts on the challenges to conventional constitutional doctrine presented by the Internet. Click here for a review of Lewis’ new book in the New York Times.