From Pepperdine
While many college kids may be more interested in who's serving as their wing man, students in Malibu on Wednesday will get a chance to see the guy who plays a crucial national role as a swing man, and, no, not in basketball. Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, who often provides the pivoting and decisive vote in deeply split cases on the U.S. Supreme Court, will participate in a conversation with a panel of legal experts, led by law school dean Ken Starr as part of the William French Smith Memorial Lecture, named after the notable Los Angeles lawyer and onetime U.S. attorney general. Kennedy, a California native, Stanford grad, onetime San Francisco practitioner and still faculty member at University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law, was elevated to the appellate bench by President Ford and to the Supreme Court by President Reagan. Though a conservative stalwart, he has become since the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, analysts say, the crucial swing vote in the most contested cases that now come before the court. Reservations are required for the afternoon session but the online system for making them either is down or not taking them any more.
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