Cornell Scholar to deliver Fiscus Lecture Oct. 6
Bernadette Meyler
Cornell University Professor Bernadette A. Meyler will present the Ronald J. Fiscus Lecture in Constitutional Law at Skidmore College on Thursday, Oct. 6.
Titled "Common Law Originalism: Constructing Constitutional Meaning from Transatlantic Legal Contexts," the talk will begin at 8 p.m. in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.
Meyler is a professor of law and English at Cornell, where her research and teaching focus primarily on the intersections between constitutional law and the common law, British and American legal history, law and literature, and law and religion.
Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, including, among others, the Stanford Law Review, Cornell Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, and Theory and Event. A graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School, she received a Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies and a Chancellor's Fellowship to pursue her doctorate in English at the University of California, Irvine. Following law school, she clerked for the Hon. Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Meyler is admitted to the New York Bar.
She is also a member of the Graduate Field of English and founded and leads Cornell's annual Law & Humanities Colloquium. Meyler is currently working on two book manuscripts: Towards a Common Law Originalism and Theaters of Pardoning: Sovereignty and Judgment from Shakespeare to Kant.
In 2009-10, she served as the inaugural Mellon/LAPA Fellow in Law and Humanities at Princeton University, where she worked on her manuscript for Towards a Common Law Originalism.
The Fiscus Lecture was inaugurated in 1991 by Skidmore's Department of Government to honor the late Ronald J. Fiscus, a Skidmore faculty member from 1980 to his death in 1990. Professor Fiscus was a constitutional law specialist and a key contributor to the development of a minor in law and society at Skidmore.
