5:04 p.m., April 12, 2007--Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will present a talk at 4:30 p.m., Friday, April 27, in the Thompson Theatre of the University's Center for the Arts.
The talk is free and open to the University community, but tickets are required, and seating is very limited. Tickets are now available at the Office of Alumni and University Relations in Alumni Hall from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., weekdays, and you must present a valid UD ID to pick up a ticket.
The lecture is sponsored by UD's Legal Studies Program and the offices of the President and University Relations.
A native of Trenton, N.J., Scalia received his bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, and his law degree from Harvard Law School. He was a Sheldon Fellow of Harvard University from 1960-61.
After practicing law in Cleveland from 1961-67, he served as professor of law at the University of Virginia from 1967-71 and at the University of Chicago from 1977-82. He also was a visiting professor of law at Georgetown and Stanford universities. Scalia chaired the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law from 1981-82 and its Conference of Section Chairmen from 1982-83.
He served the federal government as general counsel of the Office of Telecommmuncations Policy from 1971-72 and assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel from 1974-77. He was appointed judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1982.
President Ronald Reagan nominated Scalia as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat on Sept. 26, 1986.
He is married to Maureen McCarthy, and they have nine children, including Matthew, who is an instructor in UD's Department of Military Science, and enrollment and scholarship officer in the Army ROTC Program.
