Constitution Day events will be held at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Sept. 17.
A Constitution Day 2018 presentation with Professor Robert Yablon of the UW-Madison Law School will be held from 6 until 8 p.m. in Reeve Union, room 307.
Yablon will speak on “Voting and Equal Protection” and answer questions following his talk.
Yablon teaches civil procedure, federal jurisdiction and the law of democracy. His research interests include political and election law, constitutional law, federal courts, and statutory interpretation. Yablon received a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from UW-Madison and a master’s degree in social policy from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He then earned a J.D. at Yale Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following law school, Professor Yablon served as a law clerk for Judge William Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor.
Copies of the U.S. Constitution will be on display and available for pickup 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday, Sept. 17, in the Reeve Concourse.
Events are sponsored by the UW Oshkosh American Democracy Project in honor of Constitution Day.
For additional information on the American Democracy Project and Constitution Day events, visit their website.
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