Conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Datum/Zeit
11.07.2024, 18:30 - 19:45
Ort
Universität Zürich-Zentrum
Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich
Raum: Aula KOL-G-201
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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We are pleased to welcome U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States at the University of Zurich.

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice, was born in Bronx, New York, on June 25, 1954. She earned a B.A. in 1976 from Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and receiving the Pyne Prize, the highest academic honor Princeton awards to an undergraduate. In 1979, she earned a J.D. from Yale Law School where she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. She served as Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office from 1979–1984. She then litigated international commercial matters in New York City at Pavia & Harcourt, where she served as an associate and then partner from 1984–1992. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush nominated her to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, and she served in that role from 1992–1998. In 1997, she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit where she served from 1998–2009. President Barack Obama nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 26, 2009, and she assumed this role August 8, 2009.
 
Conversation
Introduction: Suzi LeVine, Former U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein
Q&A: Prof. Dr. Andreas Kellerhals, Director of the Europa Institut at the University of Zurich with Isabelle Jacobi, Journalist at NZZ, foreign desk (former U.S. Correspondent for Swiss Public Radio SRF)
 
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