Dean Allard and Faculty Authors Take Part in Brooklyn Book Festival

At this year’s annual Brooklyn Book Festival on Sept. 17, Dean Nick Allard delivered opening remarks for the day’s event in the Moot Court Room and served as moderator for a panel discussion aired live on C-SPAN that focused on the legal and political issues related to the Trump Administration and the Supreme Court. The panel, “Culture, Politics, and the Supreme Court,” featured Sheryll Cashin, professor of law at Georgetown Law School, 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, who discussed his new book One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported.

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 had a booth staffed by faculty authors selling their recent books. 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.

The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City, presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors. One of America’s premier book festivals, the event draws thousands of booklovers to Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights. The Law School hosted a full day of panels and speakers in the Student Lounge and Moot Court Room, where C-SPAN aired all the panels live.

Watch CSPAN coverage of the Brooklyn Book Festival:
Dean Allard Opening Remarks
Dean Allard Panel Discussion