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SUMMARY:The 22nd Annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States — Michael Dreeben
DESCRIPTION:Michael R. Dreeben is a distinguished lecturer from government at Georgetown University Law Center and an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. From 1988 to 2019\, Dreeben served in the Office of Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice\, first as an assistant to the solicitor general and then as a deputy solicitor general. As deputy solicitor general from 1994 to 2019\, Dreeben supervised the criminal docket for the United States in the U.S. Supreme Court. Dreeben has argued 109 Supreme Court cases on behalf of the United States and private clients. He has briefed hundreds more. He also argued cases in every regional federal court of appeals\, including en banc cases in 10 circuits. During the summer of 2006\, he served as a special assistant United States attorney in the District of Maryland.\n \nFrom 2017 to 2019\, Dreeben was detailed to serve as counselor to Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III in the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and obstruction of justice. \n \nIn 2023\, Dreeben returned to the Department of Justice to serve as counselor to Special Counsel Jack Smith\, where he represented the United States on brief and in argument in Trump v. United States on the question whether a former president has immunity from criminal prosecution for his official acts. \n \nDuring his tenure in the Solicitor General’s office\, Dreeben argued many landmark cases in criminal law and procedure. These include cases involving hate crimes and the First Amendment\, Fourth Amendment rights in the internet age\, cases involving public corruption and private fraud\, and the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause. \n \nDreeben received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, a master’s degree in history from the University of Chicago\, and his law degree from Duke University\, where he served as an articles editor on the Duke Law Journal. He served as a law clerk to the honorable Jerre S. Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Dreeben has also taught at Harvard Law School\, Duke Law School\, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, and has published articles and posts on the Supreme Court and the Department of Justice. His most recent essay is “Robert Jackson’s The Federal Prosecutor Revisited\,” in the Harvard Law Review Forum (2026).  \nChautauqua Institution’s Robert H. Jackson Lecture is named in honor of the former Chautauquan\, Jamestown lawyer\, New Dealer\, Solicitor General\, Attorney General\, Supreme Court justice\, and Nuremberg chief prosecutor. Every summer the Jackson Lecture is a leading expert discussing the Supreme Court\, the Justices\, signal decisions\, and related legal developments. \nChautauqua’s previous Jackson Lecturers have been Geoffrey Stone (2005)\, Linda Greenhouse (2006)\, Seth Waxman (2007)\, Jeffrey Toobin (2008)\, Paul Clement (2009)\, Jeff Shesol (2010)\, Dahlia Lithwick (2011)\, Pamela Karlan (2012)\, Charles Fried (2013)\, Akhil Amar (2014)\, Laurence Tribe (2015)\, Tracey Meares (2016)\, Judge Jon O. Newman (2017)\, Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella of Canada’s Supreme Court (2018)\, Donald B. Verrilli\, Jr. (2019)\, Ruth Marcus (2020)\, Melissa Murray (2021)\, Reva Siegel (2022)\, Justin Driver (2023)\, Kate Shaw (2024) and Kim Lane Scheppele (2025). \nThis program is presented in collaboration with the Robert H. Jackson Center.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/the-22nd-annual-robert-h-jackson-lecture-on-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states-michael-dreeben/
LOCATION:Hall of Philosophy\, Hall of Philosophy
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Weekly Themes,Week Five (July 25–August 1),CHQ Assembly,Featured Events,Special Lectures
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