On December 11, 2023, Professor John Q. Barrett moderated and spoke as part of a Historical Society of the New York Courts program on “Justice Felix Frankfurter and the Idea of Judicial Self-Restraint: Then and Now in Federal and State Courts.”

The other participants in this program, which occurred in the Great Hall at the New York City Bar Association, were:

• Professor Brad Snyder of Georgetown University Law Center, author of the biography Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment (W.W. Norton, 2022);
• The Honorable Jonathan Lippman, former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and of the State of New York, now in private practice at Latham & Watkins;
• The Honorable Barbara N. Underwood, Solicitor General of New York State and former Acting Solicitor General of the United States;
• Dean Troy A. McKenzie of New York University School of Law; and
• Henry M. Greenberg, former president of the New York State Bar Association, in private practice at Greenberg Traurig.

To watch video of this program, which begins with Professor Snyder lecturing about Frankfurter and then is a panel discussion of judicial restraint, click here.