"Filling the Court: From Midnight Judges to Court Packing to Garland, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh," a talk by Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University, and one of America's pre-eminent constitutional scholars.

In his talk, Professor Amar will discuss the long and always fiercely political history of Supreme Court vacancies and replenishment, from the earliest days of the Republic to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1937 "court-packing" plan, to more recent nomination controversies, including those surrounding Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, Merrick Garland, and Neil Gorsuch—and Brett Kavanaugh, nominated to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy and whose confirmation hearings will soon be underway.