Before the program: Professor Laurence H. Tribe stands with the “welcome” banner in front of Yardley Hall before the start of his presentation on the Constitution and the Supreme Court on October 7, 2014. 

Students and other invited guests attending the October 7^th forum received a copy of Professor Tribe’s recent book, Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution, Henry Holt & Company, 2014.  From left: Tristan L. Duncan, partner, Shook Hardy & Bacon L.L.P;  Professor Laurence H. Tribe, Harvard Law School; and Teresa Wynne Roseborough, General Counsel of The Home Depot.

Backstage before the 2014 constitutional forum.  Pictured from left:  Tristan L. Duncan, partner and Constitutional Law Practice Co-Chair, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.; Professor Laurence H. Tribe, professor of constitutional law, Harvard Law School; Teresa Wynne Roseborough, General Counsel of The Home Depot; David J. Waxse, co-founder of the Johnson County First Amendment Foundation and Magistrate Judge (ret.), U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas; Cheryl Brown Henderson, founding president of the Brown Foundation and daughter of Oliver Brown, the Kansas named plaintiff in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka school desegregation litigation; and J. Eugene Balloun, co-founder of the Johnson County First Amendment Foundation and partner, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Sharing a moment before the program:  Cheryl Brown Henderson and Gene Balloun.

Sara Hofeditz Christensen, Assistant Public Defender, Missouri State Public Defender (District 16 - Jackson County), and  creator of the Red Curtain Study Guide, talks with Scott  DuPree, of counsel, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., and Advisory Committee Chair, Johnson County First Amendment Foundation. 

Harvard Law School Professor Laurence H. Tribe engages in a lively discussion about the current Supreme Court and its interpretation of the Constitution with Teresa Wynn Roseborough, General Counsel for The Home Depot.

More than 800 students from 10 counties came to the event at Johnson County Community College from as far away as Cherokee (in southeastern Kansas, near the Oklahoma border), Hiawatha (near the Nebraska border), Topeka, Leavenworth, Atchison, Paola, Eudora, and Baldwin – and from as nearby as Kansas City, Overland Park, Olathe, Spring Hill, and Blue Valley.  The students each received a copy of Professor Tribe’s book, Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution .  A number of students took the opportunity to pose thoughtful and insightful questions to Professor Tribe.