One of the nation’s foremost constitutional law scholars, Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, will be the keynote speaker of the annual Yale L. Rosenberg Lecture at the University of Houston Law Center. His talk is titled “Constitutional Separation of Powers.”
The event will be held at the Law Center’s John M. O’Quinn Law Building at 6:30 p.m. on March 24. Attendees have the option to join online.
Chemerinsky, who is also the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at Berkeley Law School, has authored 20 books and over 200 law review articles. His most recent book, No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States, was published in August 2024. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2022, he was the President of the Association of American Law Schools.
Before joining the UC Berkeley School of Law, Chemerinsky was the founding dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and held faculty positions at Duke Law School, University of Southern California Law School and DePaul Law School.
A reception and book signing will follow the lecture.
Attendees are eligible to receive one hour of Texas continuing legal education credit.
WHAT: Yale L. Rosenberg Memorial Lecture
WHO: Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law
WHERE: UH Law Center John M. O'Quinn Law Building and online
WHEN: 6:30 p.m., Monday, March 24, 2025
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Carrie Anna Criado, UH Law Center Assistant Dean of Communications and Marketing, 713-743-2184, cacriado@central.uh.edu; Rashda Khan Director of Communications, 713-743-2184 rkhan20@uh.edu
About Yale L. Rosenberg
The Yale L. Rosenberg Memorial Fund was established to fund a student-writing prize and to bring distinguished speakers to the Law Center. Rosenberg joined the University of Houston Law Center faculty in 1972 after a distinguished career in government. His teaching of Civil Procedure, Federal Jurisdiction, Professional Responsibility, and Jewish Law earned him the UH Teaching Excellence Award in 2000. An award-winning scholar, Rosenberg has been called "America's prophet" for his analysis of the decline of federal habeas corpus. An alumnus of Rice University, he graduated from New York University Law School in 1964. Past Rosenberg speakers have included Samuel L. Levine, Joshua Dressler, David Dow, Cornell Brooks, Renee Knake Jefferson, Gabriel “Jack” Chin, Tanya Kateri Hernandez, Nelson Tebbe, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Janai S. Nelson and Noah R. Feldman.To view and download COMPARATIVE AMERICAN AND TALMUDIC CRIMINAL LAW by Irene Merker Rosenberg and Yale L. Rosenberg, a book published electronically by the University of Houston Law Center, please visit: law.uh.edu/rosenberg/jewishlaw/.
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