C-SPAN to Broadcast Brooklyn Book Festival Panels from Moot Court Room on Sept. 17

09/13/2017

C-SPAN Book TV will broadcast live from the Moot Court Room on Sunday, Sept. 17, as part of the annual Brooklyn Book Festival, the largest free literary event in New York City. The Law School, a festival partner, will host a full day of panel discussions and talks in the Moot Court Room and Student Lounge.

At 4 p.m. Dean Nick Allard will moderate a panel on Culture, Politics and the Supreme Court featuring Sheryll Cashin, author of Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy, and Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributing writer and editor for The Atlantic.

The Festival also welcomes more than 200 publishers, presses, booksellers, and literary organizations to the popular Festival Day Literary Marketplace across the street from the Law School in Columbus Park. This year, the Law School will have a booth staffed by faculty authors where their recent books will be for sale. Titles include:

Animus: A Short Introduction to Bias in the Law, by Professor William Araiza;
Invented by Law: Alexander Graham Bell and the Patent that Changed America, by Professor Christopher Beauchamp;
The Introverted Lawyer, by Professor Heidi K. Brown;
Social Enterprise Law, by Professors Dana Brakman Reiser and Vice Dean Steven Dean;
Democracy Against Domination, by K. Sabeel Rahman; and
Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age, by Professor Nelson Tebbe.

See the C-SPAN2 broadcast schedule here.