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Vice Dean Patrick Gudridge, Henry Monaghan, Gisela Cardonne Ely and Alan Dershowitz
JOHN HART The University of Miami School of Law was proud to remember and honor John Hart Ely, a member of its faculty from 1996 to 2003, and the first holder of the Richard Hausler Distinguished Faculty Chair, by presenting the first Ely Lecture on January 22nd. The inaugural lecture took the form of a conversation including Alan Dershowitz, Henry Monaghan and Patrick Gudridge. Professors Dershowitz and Monaghan are distinguished scholars and longtime friends of Professor Ely. Alan Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, widely known for his advocacy and commentary on a wide range of issues, including civil liberties. Henry Monaghan is the Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law at Columbia Law School, and is generally recognized as among the most incisive constitutional scholars of our time. Professor Gudridge, a
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one-time editor and later colleague of Professor Ely, teaches and writes in the field of constitutional law at UM Law, where he currently holds the position of Vice Dean. The lecture series honors John Hart Ely, a constitutional scholar whose work continues to have a tremendous impact on legal thinking across the globe. Over the course of a long career at Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and Miami, Ely created a remarkable body of writing 窶馬otably insightful, elegant, and powerful. His book, Democracy and Distrust, is generally regarded as one of the very few genuinely influential discussions of American constitutional law published in the 20th century.
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