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Sunday, January 5th, 7–8:30 PM ET

Linda Greenhouse

Linda Greenhouse is a senior research scholar in law at Yale Law School, where she taught from 2009 to 2023. For the previous thirty years, she was the Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for her coverage of the Court. Her commentary on the Court appears frequently in the Times’ opinion pages, as well as in the New York Review of Books and other publications. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College (Harvard) and earned a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School. In her extracurricular life, she has served on a number of nonprofit boards, including the Harvard Board of Overseers and the National Senate of Phi Beta Kappa. She served from 2017 to 2023 as president of the American Philosophical Society, the country’s oldest learned society, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, where she served on the Council for more than 20 years, and an honorary member of the American Law Institute. She is the author of six books, including Becoming Justice Blackmun, a biography of the Supreme Court Justice; The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction (now in an updated 3rd edition); and a memoir, Just a Journalist. Justice on the Brink: A Requiem for the Supreme Court was published by Random House in 2021.

Emily Bazelon

Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine, the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School, and a co-host of Slate’s Political Gabfest, a popular weekly podcast. She writes frequently about the intersection between law and pressing social issues, including free speech, reproductive rights, the Supreme Court, and federal and state government. She is the author of two national bestsellers published by Penguin Random House: Charged, about the power of prosecutors, and Sticks and Stones, about how to prevent bullying. In 2020, Charged won the current interest Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Emily was also a finalist for a National Magazine Award in the public interest category in 2023.

Before joining the Times Magazine in 2014, Emily was a writer and editor for nine years at Slate and a law clerk on the First Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.