The College will mark Constitution Day with a lecture from Yale Law School professor Peter Schuck.
The lecture, titled “Myths and Realities of Immigration Law and Policy,” will be held on September 13 starting at 7:30 p.m. in Physicians Memorial Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
Professor Schuck is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor Emeritus of Law and Professor (Adjunct) of Law at Yale Law School where he has held the chair since 1984.
Immigration has become an important issue in recent political campaigns and at the Supreme Court. Several states, including South Carolina, have passed controversial laws implementing their own plans to enforce federal immigration law. Professor Schuck will provide a broader context for these controversies, having written widely on immigration and other areas of the law for many years.
Schuck has published fourteen books, including: Citizens, Strangers, and In-Betweens: Essays on Immigration and Citizenship; The Limits of Law: Essays on Democratic Governance; and Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation (with James Q. Wilson). In addition to writing dozens of scholarly articles, he has been a frequent contributor of opinion pieces in Harper’s, The New Republic, and nearly every major American newspaper.
This event is co-sponsored by the College of Charleston Office of the Academic Experience, the First-Year Experience, the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science, and the Charleston School of Law.
Constitution Day celebrates the signing of the United States Constitution by the constitutional convention of 1787.
