Legal scholar to argue against conservative judicial activism | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Legal scholar to argue against conservative judicial activism Legal scholar to argue against conservative judicial activism Published: September 27, 2005 Author: Michael O. Garvey Cass R. Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, will give a rescheduled lecture on his recently published book,Radicals in Robes:Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong forAmerica,at4 p.m.Oct. 4(Tuesday) in the Notre Dame Law School Courtroom. Sunsteins book argues thatjudicial activismis not an exclusively liberal movement and that, particularly since the late William Rehnquists 1986 confirmation as chief justice, the Supreme Court has compiled an unprecedented record of judicial activism.He opposes what many conservatives call the “Constitution in Exile” movement, arguing that it threatens widely accepted understandings of the First Amendment and that its success would mean the end of numerous vital federal agencies. According to a Publishers Weekly review of the book,Americans monitoring the upcoming Senate deliberations over Bush’s nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court will want to bear in mind the arguments Sunstein so trenchantly presents." Sunstein is a contributing editor at The New Republic and The American Prospect, and a frequent contributor as well to the New York Times Book Review and the New York Review of Books.His other books includeRepublic.com,Why Societies Need Dissent, Risk and Reason,andDesigning Democracy: What Constitutions Do. * Contact: * Jay H. Tidmarsh, professor of law, at 574-631-6985 or tidmarsh.1@nd.edu TopicID: 13365 Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn