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Civics in the First Circuit

Speeches by Judges on Civics Topics

 

Title 

Speaker(s)

Advancing the Rule of Law (Excerpts from the 2019 Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law Ceremony)

David F. Levi, Allyson K. Duncan, Anthony M. Kennedy and Samuel A. Alito

Chief Justice Roberts Remarks at University of Minnesota Law School

John G. Roberts, Jr.

Civic Education and the Federal Courts

Robert A. Katzmann

Civic Education: The Key to Preserving Judicial Independence

Marjorie O. Rendell

The Constitutional and Historical Origins of Judicial Independence: Testimony of Louis H. Pollak before the Commission in Separation of Powers and Judicial Independence 

Louis H. Pollak

An Independent Judiciary: If You Can Keep It

D. Brooks Smith

An Independent Judiciary: In Honor of the Sesquicentennial Anniversary of the Massachusetts Superior Court

Stephen G. Breyer

Judicial Governance and Judicial Independence

Anthony J. Scirica

Judicial Independence 

William H. Rehnquist

Judicial Independence and 21st-Century Challenges

Sandra Day O'Connor

Judicial Independence: The Situation of the U.S. Federal Judiciary

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Judicial Review and the American Constitution 

Collins J. Seitz

Judicial Role and Judicial Image 

William H. Hastie

The Making of Law: Hierarchies of Courts and Hierarchies of Values

Louis H. Pollak

One-Day Law School for Journalists

Cynthia M. Rufe

In Rare Appearance, 2 Justices Concur Against Threats to Neutrality

Stephen G. Breyer & Anthony M. Kennedy 

Remarks on Judicial Independence

Sandra Day O'Connor

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Ponders Judicial Independence in Inaugural Katzmann Lecture

Sonia Sotomayor

What Is the Role of the Judge in Our Litigious Society

Marjorie O. Rendell

 

These are collected in this Research Guide by the Third Circuit (available only to court users):