The Information Superhighway is wonderful, but excellent is a requirement if the thing is to make sense. Living and working in a Chicago suburb, we have access to interesting programs from time to time, but there is a lot of good content out there that most lawyers simply can’t get. Until high speed internet has made the transfer of very narrowcast video possible and even inexpensive, I wouldn’t have had immediate access to, say, two Supreme Court Justices who sat down to present a 90 minute conversation.
I was very interested when I saw a report of a Joint Federalist Society / American Constitution Society program featuring Justice Scalia and Justice Breyer in a Conversation on the Constitution: Perspectives from Active Liberty and A Matter of Interpretation. Of course, I could have read the two books, and probably will, but it was easier, at the moment to click on a link from the ACS Web site — I’m sure there’s also a Federalist Society link, but I was unable to find it, and listen in on yesterday’s program. Jan Crawford Greenburg, ABC New Legal Correspondent — I thought she worked for the Chicago Tribune on the Supreme Court patrol; this seems to be a very positive career mood — was the moderator.
As a tradeoff for not being able to send question cards to the podium, I could sit in my office or home office, pausing the video stream when the phone rang, thoroughly enjoying the program in a comfortable chair. The ACS URL — I’m sure there’s a Federalist Society URL around somewhere — is http://www.acslaw.org/node/3909. There is no charge for watching. You’ll need Real Player or Windows Media video installed with your Browser, but you likely already have both on hand.
There’s a lot of good law-related program material on the Web. I’ll try to keep you advised when I hear of something really interesting.
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