Honorable Stephen Breyer to Speak at ALI’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco
The American Law Institute (ALI) is pleased to announce that Stephen Breyer, retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, will appear in conversation with two of his former clerks at the Institute’s Annual Meeting.
Justice Breyer will be joined by Caitlin Halligan of the New York State Court of Appeals and Jenny Martinez of Stanford University, at ALI’s Annual Dinner on the evening of Tuesday, May 21, 2024, at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.
More about our speakers:
The Honorable Stephen Breyer is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Born in San Francisco in 1938, he is a graduate of Stanford, Oxford, and Harvard Law School. He taught law for many years as a professor at Harvard Law School and at the Kennedy School of Government. He has also worked as a Supreme Court law clerk (for Justice Arthur Goldberg), a Justice Department lawyer (antitrust division), an Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor, and Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 1980, he was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit by President Carter, becoming Chief Judge in 1990. In 1994, he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Clinton. He has written books and articles about a range of legal topics, including administrative law, economic regulation, and the U.S. Constitution. His books include Active Liberty (2005), Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View (2010), The Court and the World (2015), and The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics (2021). His wife, Joanna, was born in Great Britain and is a retired clinical psychologist. They have three children—Chloe, Nell, and Michael—and six grandchildren.
Caitlin J. Halligan, Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, was born in Xenia, Ohio in December 1966. In April 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul nominated Judge Halligan to the Court of Appeals, and the New York Senate confirmed her nomination on April 19, 2023. In addition to her clerkship with Justice Breyer, she clerked for Judge Patricia Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Before attending law school, Judge Halligan served as a Princeton-In-Asia Teaching Fellow in central China and as a legislative aide on Capitol Hill. From 1999 through 2006, she served in the New York Attorney General’s Office, including more than five years as Solicitor General of New York. She also served as General Counsel to the Manhattan District Attorney from 2010 through 2013, and in private practice at several law firms in New York City. Most recently, she was a partner at Selendy Gay Elsberg, where she headed the firm’s appellate and pro bono practices. Judge Halligan has taught various courses on public law issues at Harvard and Columbia Law School.
Jenny S. Martinez is the provost at Stanford University, formerly the Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean of Stanford Law School and the law school’s 14th dean. Professor Martinez is a leading expert on international law and constitutional law, including comparative constitutional law. She is the author of The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2012) and numerous articles in leading academic journals. She teaches courses on constitutional law, civil procedure, international law, and international business transactions. She is a Senior Fellow (by courtesy) of Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a faculty affiliate of Stanford’s Center on International Security and Cooperation and Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. In addition to her clerkship with Justice Breyer, she clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; she was also an associate legal officer for Judge Patricia Wald of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
