I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome

to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by

Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution

among the American people. Justice John Paul Stevens passed away on Tuesday at the age of 99.

Justice Stevens was the second longest serving and second oldest justice to serve in Supreme Court history as well as one of the

most revered. On today's episode we remember Justice Stevens, his judicial

philosophy and some of his most influential

majority opinions and dissents.

And I'm so thrilled and grateful that joining us to commemorate Justice Stevens's life and

legacy are two of his extremely distinguished

former law clerks. Kate Shaw is professor of law at the Benjamin and

Cardozo School of Law at yeshiva University and co-director of the Florsheimer Center for

Constitutional Democracy.

She clerked for Justice Stevens during the 2007 term, and Daniel Farber is the show

satire professor of law at the University of California Berkeley and

faculty director of Berkeley's Center for Law, Energy, and the

environment. He clerked for Justice Stevens during the 1976 term.

Kate Daniel, thank you so much for joining us on this important occasion.

Thank you so much, Jeff.

Thank you.

Kate, let's begin by summing up Justice Stevens' constitutional legacy.

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