Legal journalist and attorney Dahlia Lithwick will present “Uncovering the U.S. Supreme Court” at a lecture co-sponsored by the American Constitution Society-Drake Law School student chapter and the Drake University Constitutional Law Center.

The event is free and open to the public. It will be held Thursday, Dec. 17, 4:30 p.m., in the Legal Clinic Library at the Neal and Bea Smith Law Center (2400 University Ave.).

Lithwick is a senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate magazine, where she covers the courts and the law. She contributes to the columns “Supreme Court Dispatches” and “Jurisprudence,” as well as the Amicus podcast series. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, The Washington Post, and CNN.com. She was a legal commentator for the NPR show Day to Day, a regular guest on The Al Franken Show, and has been a guest columnist for The New York Times op-ed page. In 2001, she was awarded the Online News Association’s award for online commentary.

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—Submitted by Kayla Choate, Law School Alumni Affairs & Communications Coordinator