“WRITERS ON WRITING” RADIO SHOW

About the Episode
Dr. Brenda Greene interviews Jamal Greene, Dwight Professor of Law and author of How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart (HMH, March 2021). Dr. Greene and Professor Greene discuss the history of the First Amendment and racial issues associated with the rights movement in the United States. Greene argues, “The framers' vision of rights failed for good reason.” He notes, “Recovering that vision, but not all of it, is the problem of the 21st century.” Professor Greene also discusses his views on the suppression of voting rights, the expansion of the Supreme Court, and the denial of the tenure for MacArthur Genius Fellow Nikole Hannah-Jones at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

About Jamal Greene
Jamal Greene is a constitutional law expert whose scholarship focuses on the structure of legal and constitutional argument. He teaches constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, the law of the political process, First Amendment, and federal courts. Greene is the author of the book How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart (HMH, March 2021). He is also the author of numerous law review articles and has written in-depth about the Supreme Court, constitutional rights adjudication, and the constitutional theory of originalism, including “Rights as Trumps?” (Harvard Law Review, Foreword for the 2017–2018 Supreme Court term); “Rule Originalism” (Columbia Law Review, 2016); and “The Anticanon” (Harvard Law Review, 2011), an examination of Supreme Court cases now considered examples of weak constitutional analysis, such as Dred Scott v. Sandford and Plessy v. Ferguson. For more about Jamal Greene, please visit www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/jamal-greene

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