Lisner Auditorium welcomes Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer for a conversation with Nina Totenberg, NPR’s legal correspondent, followed by a book signing by the justice. The event, a Smithsonian Associates production, is 7 p.m. Oct. 27.
George Washington University students can buy discounted tickets for $10 starting at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, at the Lisner Box Office. There are 100 student-priced tickets are available.
Tickets are still available for non-students on the Smithsonian Associates website.
President Clinton nominated Mr. Breyer to the Supreme Court in 1994. Mr. Breyer has earned a reputation for erudition, pragmatism and the ability to work with both sides of the political divide.
He taught law for many years as a professor at Harvard Law School and at the Kennedy School of Government. He also worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Supreme Court Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg; as a Justice Department lawyer in the antitrust division, an Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor; and as chief counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee, working closely with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Ms. Totenberg will talk with Mr. Breyer about his life before and after becoming a Supreme Court justice and his interpretation of the Constitution as a “living” document. His book, The Court and the World, will be available at Lisner for signing.