The Seattle University School of Law welcomes the entire Seattle University community to our annual event for Constitution Day. This year's event includes a conversation on the following topic: should court expansion be a part of Supreme Court reform? The conversation will feature two respected Supreme Court experts from across the country — Holly Brewer and Gabe Roth — and will be moderated by Professor Andrew Siegel of Seattle University. 

This event is part of the School of Law's Project on the Supreme Court and Our Constitutional Future, with additional support from the American Constitution Society.

Location: Sullivan Hall - Room C5
Date: Tuesday, September 17
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm

About Holly Brewer

Holly Brewer is the Burke Professor of American History at the University of Maryland. She is the author of By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority (2005), which won three national prizes in legal history, as well as of the prizewinning "Entailing Aristocracy in Colonial Virginia"  in The William and Mary Quarterly, and “Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire,” in the Law and History Review. She is currently finishing a book called The King's Slaves: Creating America's Plantation System, under contract with Princeton University Press, for which she received a Guggenheim fellowship. She has contributed to numerous amicus briefs before the Supreme Court, and was the lead author for the historians brief in Trump v. U.S. 

About Gabe Roth

Gabe Roth is executive director of Fix the Court, a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) organization that advocates for non-ideological fixes to make the federal courts, and primarily the U.S. Supreme Court, more open and more accountable to the American people. Gabe founded the organization in 2014. Previously, he managed the Coalition for Court Transparency, a national alliance of media and legal organizations that advocated for the broadcast of Supreme Court proceedings. Before that, Gabe worked in political consulting in New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Originally from Nashville, Gabe began his career as a producer at the NBC affiliate in Jacksonville, Fla.

About Andrew Siegel

Professor Andrew Siegel is the William C. Oltman Professor of Teaching Excellence and a Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. He is an innovative teacher of a wide variety of courses involving Constitutional Law, Torts, American Legal History, Civil Procedure, and the United States Supreme Court. His scholarship focuses on constitutional theory, contemporary constitutional and public law, and American legal history. Professor Siegel has held a variety of leadership positions in his time at Seattle University. He currently directs the Law School's new "Project on the Supreme Court and Our Constitutional Future."