EI’s Spring Speaker Series

On Thursday, February 18 at 7:30 PM, Joan Biskupic will speak in the Gettysburg College Lyceum.  Biskupic's talk is titled Antonin Scalia and the Contemporary Supreme Court.

Joan Biskupic has covered the Supreme Court for the Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly and recently USA Today for over twenty years. Biskupic is the author of the best-selling biography Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice and the recent biography American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Biskupic is the co-author of Congressional Quarterly's 3^rd Edition encyclopedia on the Supreme Court (with Elder Witt). She holds a law degree from Georgetown, an MA in English from the University of Oklahoma, and completed her undergraduate education in journalism at Marquette University. Her new book, American Original, was named one of NPR's top five current affairs books of 2009.  

In American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Biskupic traces Scalia's life from his roots in New York City to his experiences in the Nixon and Ford administrations in order to give readers a sense of his journey to the Supreme Court and the basis for his ideals.

This event is the first in the Eisenhower Institute's Spring Speaker Series at Gettysburg College.  Future speakers include Howard Ernst on March 18 and Gwen Ifill on April 8.

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