Podcast appearances and mentions of John A Garver

This episode, “Marriage Equality in Minnesota: A Horatio Ellsworth Kellar Webinar,” is from an online discussion examining marriage equality and its history in Minnesota. This virtual event featured Minnesota Law Alumnus Jack Baker and Michael McConnell, the first legally married same-sex couple in the history of the United States, and an overview of the 2012 marriage amendment campaign and the 2013 adoption of same-sex marriage by statute in Minnesota. The panel discussion also includes: William Eskridge, the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School, and Christopher R. Riano, President of the Center for Civic Education and a Lecturer at Columbia University, who discuss their book, The Marriage Equality Debate: From Outlaws to In-Laws, as well as the history of same-sex marriage in Minnesota; Gail Langer Karwoski an author and educator based in Athens, Georgia who worked with Baker and McConnell on a book titled, The Marriage Heard ‘Round the World Cristine Almeida, Attorney at Law and Owner of Almeida Public Affairs, and Richard Carlbom, Founder of United Strategies, Who both guide a discussion about the 2012 marriage amendment campaign and the 2013 adoption of same-sex marriage by statute in Minnesota. Dean Garry W. Jenkins opens with remarks and an overview of the history of same-sex marriage in Minnesota. Dale Carpenter, constitutional law professor at SMU Dedman School of law and former Minnesota Law Faculty member, moderates the remainder of the 90 minute discussion. A note for listeners: Please be advised that, during this discussion, a brief video is played that contains strong language. This webinar was originally recorded on October 15, 2020. Subscribe to the Minnesota Law podcast feed on SoundCloud, or via your preferred podcast network, for more LawTalk episodes, as well as other podcast content produced by Minnesota Law. Watch a rebroadcast of the webinar here: https://youtu.be/UtmGsXzENdE Learn more about the University of Minnesota Law School by visiting law.umn.edu and following Minnesota Law on Twitter twitter.com/UofMNLawSchool.

Featuring William Eskridge (@EskridgeBill), Coauthor and John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School; Steven Calabresi, Clayton J. and Henry R. Barber Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law; Maggie Gallagher (@maggiegallaghe), Former Chairman, National Organization for Marriage; moderated by Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro), Director, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Justice Scalia also greatly influenced the law of statutory interpretation. By eliminating legislative history as a source of statutory meaning, Justice Scalia forced Congress to say what it meant in the text of the laws it adopted rather than hiding the ball in a forest of contradictory legislative history. Justice Scalia construed statutes by looking at the plain meaning of their texts. He revived the canons of statutory interpretations, which had fallen into disuse since the Legal Realist movement of the 1930's and 1940's. He even wrote a treatise on statutory interpretation, which no justice other than Justice Joseph Story in the early Nineteenth Century had done. In the Warren Court era, statutory cases rarely quoted the text of the statutes being interpreted and focused instead exclusively on the legislative history. Justice Scalia helped change that. Courts today always begin with the text of statutes and rarely look at the legislative history. Justice Scalia also played the key role in developing the doctrine of Chevron deference in Administrative Law, moving the interpretation of ambiguous delegations of legislative power to elected executive branch officials and away from courts. While it is clear why Justice Scalia expressed these views, he was also expressing, in the last years, great concern about how Chevron deference was working in practice. -- This panel was held on November 19, 2016, during the 2016 National Lawyers Convention in Washington, DC. -- Featuring: Prof. William Eskridge, Jr., John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School; Prof. Abbe R. Gluck, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale Law School; Prof. Gary S. Lawson, Philip S. Beck Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law; and Prof. Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. Moderator: Hon. Diane S. Sykes, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. Introduction: Mr. Dean A. Reuter, Vice President & Director of Practice Groups, The Federalist Society.