Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Princeton University politics Professor Robert George will address the evolving concept of liberty in a public discussion scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday on the university campus.
Titled "Active Liberty: A Conversation," it will be held in Room 50 of McCosh Hall on the Princeton campus.
The free discussion is a ticketed event open primarily to the university community, with a limited number of tickets available to the general public until 3 p.m. Thursday at the Richardson Auditorium ticket office. Each person may pick up a maximum of two tickets.
The event is sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, the Program in Law and Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values.
It is a continuation of a conversation begun in 2004 when Professor George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and founding director of the James Madison Program at Princeton, was one of two panelists to deliver a response to talks Justice Breyer gave at Harvard as part of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values.
Justice Breyer was appointed a Supreme Court justice by President Bill Clinton in 1994 and has written books and articles about administrative law, economic regulation and the Constitution.
Professor George is a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics and formerly served as a presidential appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He was a judicial fellow at the U.S. Supreme Court and has written on constitutional law and legal philosophy.
