A Conversation with Kermit Roosevelt III AB '93 on Politics, Patriotism, and Values
Join us for an inspiring conversation about politics, patriotism, and preserving our country’s values. The evening will begin with wine and beer and hors d'oeuvres. Members and their Guests $20. Non-members $40.
Award-winning author Kermit Roosevelt presents a thought-provoking discussion about the conflict between U.S. government policies and American ideals. At a time when our nation faces increasing threats of terror, national security measures are implemented to protect us, yet too often innocent citizens are persecuted, wrongly perceived as enemies of the state. Roosevelt, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania, draws from his critically acclaimed novel, Allegiance, to provide an inside view of how our government measures up to “liberty and justice for all.” Join us for an inspiring conversation about politics, patriotism, and preserving our country’s values.
If you wish, Roosevelt will sign your copy of his novel, Allegiance. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at this event.
Kermit Roosevelt III
Kermit Roosevelt is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania, the author of Allegiance, a critically acclaimed historical novel, and the great-great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. Born in Washington, DC, he attended Harvard University and Yale Law School. Before joining the Penn faculty, he clerked for D.C. Circuit Judge Stephen F. Williams and Supreme Court Justice David Souter and practiced law in Chicago. His experiences clerking and practicing law informed his first novel, the national campus bestseller In the Shadow of the Law, which won the Philadelphia Atheneum Annual Literary Award and was selected as a best book of the year by the Christian Science Monitor.
Kermit Roosevelt works in a diverse range of fields, focusing on constitutional law and conflict of laws. His book, Conflict of Laws, offers an accessible analytical overview of conflicts. His prior book, The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions, sets out standards by which citizens can determine whether the Supreme Court is abusing its authority. He has also published in the Virginia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Columbia Law Review, among others. He represented a detainee in the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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