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Join us for a conversation with Bob Bauer, former White House counsel under President Barack Obama, former co-chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, and former co-chair of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States under President Biden, Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence and Co-Director of the Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic at NYU School of Law; and Jack Goldsmith, former Head of Office of Legal Counsel, Assistant Attorney General, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University. This program is part of the Rockefeller Center's "Law and Democracy: The United States at 250" speaker series, and is presented as the 2025-2026 Thurlow M. Gordon 1906 Lecture. The Thurlow M. Gordon 1906 Lecture was established in honor of Thurlow Gordon, Class of 1906, in 1976 to bring "recognized authorities in some field of law" to campus for audience and discussion.
Join us for a conversation with Bob Bauer, former White House counsel under President Barack Obama, former co-chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, and former co-chair of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States under President Biden, Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence and Co-Director of the Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic at NYU School of Law; and Jack Goldsmith, former Head of Office of Legal Counsel, Assistant Attorney General, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University. This program is part of the Rockefeller Center's "Law and Democracy: The United States at 250" speaker series, and is presented as the 2025-2026 Thurlow M. Gordon 1906 Lecture. The Thurlow M. Gordon 1906 Lecture was established in honor of Thurlow Gordon, Class of 1906, in 1976 to bring "recognized authorities in some field of law" to campus for audience and discussion.
