美国2012年大选及其对美国联邦高等法院的影响
主讲人：Gerald Rosenberg (芝加哥大学政治学副教授）
时间：11月9日（周五）19:00―21:00
地点：图书馆报告厅
主持人：林承铎博士
主讲人简介：
Gerald Rosenberg，男，芝加哥大学政治学副教授、法律学讲师，英国牛津大学政治和哲学专业硕士毕业，后获美国密西根大学法律学位，并从耶鲁大学获得政治学博士学位。2002-03学年度曾作为美国国务院富布赖特项目学者，在厦门大学法学院任教。
此次Rosenberg教授应芝加哥大学中国中心和山东大学美国中心的邀请，于11月来华前往北京、苏州、济南、厦门和西安短暂讲学，就美国2012年大选及其对美国联邦高等法院的影响的议题与中国高校的学者、学生展开交流。
Gerald Rosenberg on the 2012 US Elections and the Courts
A talk by political scientist and lawyer, Gerald Rosenberg
Associate Professor of Political Science and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago
Date and time: Friday, November 9, 2012, 7:00-9:00pm
Location: Room Amphitheatre, Library （图书馆报告厅）
Moderator: Dr. LIN Chengto（林承铎博士）
Professor Gerald Rosenberg will examine the relationship between the composition of the individuals and groups that supported the winner of the November 6, 2012, U.S. presidential election and the U.S. Supreme Court. What influences will that electoral coalition have on judicial nominees, the issues the U.S. Supreme Court will face in the next four years, and the ideological direction of its decisions? What do these influences suggest about the independence of the U.S. Supreme Court? The independence of the U.S. Supreme Court is understood to be essential for the rule of law. Why is this the case? What are the formal and informal mechanisms that support judicial independence in the United States? How well, and under what conditions, do they work? How are they influenced by elections?
Gerald N. Rosenberg is Associate Professor of Political Science and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago with interests in American politics and public law. Trained as both a political scientist and a lawyer, he earned a master’s degree in Politics and Philosophy from Oxford University, a law degree from the University of Michigan, and a doctorate in Political Science from Yale University. During the 2002-3 academic year, he taught at the Law School of Xiamen University in China as a Fulbright Professor.
His main focus is on the use of courts to further the rights and interests of the relatively disadvantaged. His book The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? overturns a generation of conventional wisdom about the impact of court decisions. The book was awarded the Wadsworth Publishing Award by the American Political Science Association for making a lasting contribution to the field of law and courts.
In addition to his scholarship, Rosenberg received a Quantrell Award for his teaching and four graduate students whose work he has supervised have won six national awards. Besides his year at the Law School of Xiamen University, Rosenberg has taught at Yale University, Northwestern University School of Law (where he served as the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law) and was a Visiting Fellow in the Law Program of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
