Elizabeth Prelogar, the 48th Solicitor General of the United States, shared her thoughts on representing the federal government before the Supreme Court, appellate advocacy and the keys to a happy legal career before a packed audience of students, alumni and local attorneys at the 扒哥黑料 School of Law on September 4, 2024. Topics covered included the workings of the Solicitor General鈥檚 office, the certiorari process, the current Supreme Court and the so-called 鈥渟hadow docket.鈥
Her remarks, 鈥淩epresenting the United States in the Supreme Court: A Conversation with U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar,鈥 consisted of a 鈥渇ireside chat鈥 with professor Jonathan H. Adler, the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and founding Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law. The full conversation may be .
Solicitor General Prelogar was at CWRU to deliver the 2024-25 Sumner Canary Memorial Lecture. The Canary lecture is one of the law school鈥檚 premier lecture series. Previous lecturers have included prominent federal judges, academics and two sitting Supreme Court justices. An archive of Sumner Canary Memorial Lectures and associated publications can be found here.