Changing Role of State Constitutions to be Discussed During Annual Rutgers-Camden State Constitutional Law Lecture

For Immediate Release

CAMDEN --  Robert Schapiro, a prominent authority on state constitutional development and debates, will deliver the 19^th annual State Constitutional Law Lecture at the Rutgers School of Law—Camden at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28.

His talk is titled “In the Twilight of the Nation-State:  Subnational Constitutions in the New World Order” and will seek to situate state constitutions within the evolving context of federalism in the United States and around the world.. 

Schapiro is associate dean and professor at Emory Law School.  The author of the forthcoming book “Polyphonic Federalism:  How a Federal System Protects Fundamental Rights” (University of Chicago Press, 2008), Schapiro regularly publishes his research and commentary in top legal and scholarly journals nationwide, including Cornell Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Northwestern Law Review.

The annual Rutgers-Camden State Constitutional Law Lecture will be held in room 207 in the Law School Building, located at Fifth and Lawrence Sts. on the Camden campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

The talk, which is free of charge and open to the public, is sponsored by the Rutgers-Camden Center for State Constitutional Studies and the Rutgers School of Law—Camden.  For more information call (856) 225-6625.

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