Priority registration will be given to Minnesota Law students, faculty, and staff beginning Sep 11, 10:00 am. On Sep 12 at 10:00 am registration opens to all alumni, and the University of Minnesota community on Sep 13 with a promo code. The legal community and the public will be able to reserve tickets beginning Sep 14, 10:00 am.

Robert A. Stein ’61, Everett Fraser Professor of Law and Distinguished Global Professor, served as dean of the University of Minnesota Law School for 15 years and is the former executive director and chief operating officer of the American Bar Association. Professor and Mrs. Robert A. Stein have generously endowed this lecture series to enrich the Law School community by inviting leaders of the bench and bar and of the governments of the U.S. and other nations to deliver an annual lecture on a topic of national or international interest.

Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 28, 1972. She married Jesse M. Barrett in 1999, and they have seven children – Emma, Vivian, Tess, John Peter, Liam, Juliet, and Benjamin. She received a B.A. from Rhodes College in 1994 and a J.D. from Notre Dame Law School in 1997. She served as a law clerk for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1997 to 1998 and for Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1998 Term. After two years in private law practice in Washington, D.C., she became a law professor, joining the faculty of Notre Dame Law School in 2002. She was appointed a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 2017. President Donald J. Trump nominated her as an

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat on October 27, 2020.

General Info

Rules of courtroom decorum will be followed. No purses, backpacks, bags, cell phones, cameras or recording devices will be allowed in the theater. We strongly recommend leaving these items at home and traveling light.

Presented by the University of Minnesota Law School.