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Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer to give UM lecture

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SUPREME COURT JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER TO GIVE UM LECTURE

MISSOULA--

The University of Montana School of Law will host its third member of the U.S. Supreme

Court when Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer speaks at the William B. Jones and Judge

Edward A. Tamm Judicial Lecture Series.

Breyer, the Supreme Court’s 108th justice, will give the sixth installment in the Jones-

Tamm Lecture Series at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, in the University Theatre. He will discuss

"The Work of the Supreme Court." The lecture is free and open to the public.

The series is presented by UM’s law school to enhance understanding of the judicial system. Previous speakers have included justices Sandra Day O'Connor and .

William J. Bennett, former U.S. education secretary and drug czar, gave the last Jones-Tamm lecture in March.

Breyer was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Clinton in 1994.

Born in in 1938, he was educated at Stanford and Oxford universities before earning his law degree from in 1964. After clerking for U.S. Supreme

Court Associate Justice Arthur J. Goldberg and teaching at Harvard, Breyer served as special assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice during 1965-67; as assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in 1973; as special counsel to the U.S.

Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Administrative Practices, during 1974-75; and as

-more- Brever.rl—2 chief counsel to the U.S. Judiciary Committee during 1979-80.

In 1980, he was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit following nomination by President Carter. From 1990 to 1994, Breyer was chief judge of the First Circuit.

The Jones-Tamm Lecture Series honors the memory of two former Montanans who had distinguished careers on the federal bench in Washington, D.C. Both Jones and Tamm were trial judges on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; Tamm also served on the

D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The two judges had strong ties to Montana and its law school.

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