Law Expert to Give Constitution Day Lecture at Holy Cross

Friday, September 12, 2014

GoLocalWorcester Lifestyle Team

The College of the Holy Cross will celebrate Constitution Day on September 17th with a talk by Leslie F. Goldstein, a Judge Hugh M. Morris professor emerita of political science and international relations at the University of Delaware.

The talk is titled “The US Supreme Court and Racial Minorities,” and will be held at 4pm in the Rehm Library in Smith Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

A graduate of Cornell University, Goldstein specializes in constitutional law, gender and law and political theory. Her research interests include law and courts in the global order; comparative women’s rights; and the history of political though. The author of five books, she is currently working on a forthcoming publication on the Supreme Court and racial minorities. She is a regular contributor to scholarly journals including Political Research Quarterly, Constitution, Social Research, and Constitutional Commentary.

In 2004, Congress passed legislation requiring that every institution of higher education receiving federal funds hold an educational program on the Constitution on September 17, the day delegates to the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in 1787 to sign the completed Constitution.

The program is sponsored by the College’s political science department and the Jack Miller Center (JMC), a non-partisan, Philadelphia-based non-profit dedicated to reinvigorating education on the U.S. Constitution. In the past four years, JMC has provided matching funds to nearly 150 of the most outstanding programs on college campuses across the country exploring the central role of the Constitution to understanding the American experience, past and present.