Roundtable on U.S. Supreme Court to Be Held Oct.4

Coming one day after the annual opening of the U.S. Supreme Court, a roundtable is planned to address why the United States Supreme Court and the justices who serve on it matter. It will be one of the activities planned to complement this year’s common reader selection, Justice Sonia Sotomayor's autobiography “My Beloved World.”

The event is being coordinated by Dr. Deborah Nestor of the Department of Language and Literature. It will be held at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 4, in Multi-media Room B of the Ruth Ann Musick Library. During the program, three Fairmont State professors, Dr. Gregory Hinton (Business Law), Dr. Ingrid Bircann-Barkey (Spanish) and Dr. Nenad Radulovich (History) will give their perspectives on the court and its justices.

In her book, Sotomayor, the first Latina justice on the court, tells the story of her childhood in New York as the daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants, through her career as a first generation college student and into her early years in the legal profession.

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