Tuesday, September 26, 2023 – Winfield C. Cook Constitution Day Conversation
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Winfield C. Cook Constitution Day Conversation
Citizenship and Immigration Law in American History
Amanda Frost, University of Virginia
John E. Jones, III, Dickinson College
To commemorate Constitution Day in 2023, Dickinson College will feature President John E. Jones III, a retired federal judge, in a wide-ranging constitutional conversation with noted legal historian Amanda Frost from the University of Virginia. Jones and Frost will discuss how various landmark cases and developments from the American past have helped shape several recent controversies in citizenship and immigration law.
This program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and the House Divided Project.
The first 40 students who arrive at ATS for this presentation will received a free, signed copy of Amanda Frost’s book.
Biographies (provided by the speakers)
Amanda Frost is the John A. Ewald Jr. Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. She writes and teaches in the fields of immigration and citizenship law, federal courts and jurisdiction, and judicial ethics. Her scholarship has been cited by over a dozen federal and state courts, and she has been invited to testify on the topics of her articles Read more