Answers to (Judicial) Diversity Quiz

Answers to the (Judicial) Diversity Quiz above:

(1) Sandra Day O'Connor, educated at Stanford both as an undergraduate and law student. At right is Justice O'Connor's official portrait (note the pink blouse), now hanging in the ground-floor gallery at the Court.

(2) As posted, Ronald Reagan nominated O'Connor in 1981.

(3) Reagan, a 1932 graduate of Eureka College in Illinois, is the last U.S. President not to have attended Harvard or Yale. This differently schooled President also nominated 2 others to the high bench who were not products of Harvard or Yale: Robert H. Bork (University of Chicago; Chicago Law) and Douglas H. Ginsburg (Chicago; Cornell Law). Neither was confirmed. In February 1988 the vacancy was filled by Anthony M. Kennedy (Stanford; Harvard Law), whom Justice Harry Blackmun (Harvard; Harvard Law) thus welcomed to his "good old no. 3" club. The 2005 nomination by President George W. Bush (Yale; Harvard MBA) of another person of diverse schooling, his White House Counsel, Harriet Miers (Southern Methodist University; SMU Law), also failed. (A chronology of all nominations to the Supreme Court is here.)

Bonus question: Charles Evans Whittaker, who served on the Court from 1957 to 1962, earned his law degree in 1924 from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Whittaker served with the Court's next-most-recent-public-university-law-grad, Chief Justice Earl Warren (University of California-Berkeley). Appointing both was President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.

Guest Blogger: Jacqueline Ross

It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Jacqueline Ross (left) as today's guest blogger.
Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, Urbana-Champaign, Jacqueline is an internationally noted comparatist in the fields of evidence and criminal law and procedure. Her scholarship -- published in journals in the United States and elsewhere -- includes "Impediments to Transnational Cooperation in Undercover Operations: A Comparative Study of the United States and Italy," 52 American Journal of Comparative Law 569 (2004), winner of the Edward Wise Senior Scholar Prize from the American Society of Comparative Law for best article in comparative criminal procedure.
Jacqueline's a co-founder and co-director of the Michigan-Illinois-Princeton Workshop on Comparative Law Works in Progress, and also the co-organizer of a seminar series on Transnational Intelligence and Policing in Immigrant Communities that alternates between Institut D'Études Politiques de Paris and the University of Illinois College of Law. Her research projects include comparative studies of undercover policing in the United States, Italy, Germany, and France; and of policing in the immigrant communities of the United States and France, for which she's received a Fulbright Research Fellowship and a grant from France's Agence Nationale de Recherche.
An honors graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Jacqueline clerked for Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, then practiced as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago and Boston before entering academia.
In her guest post below, Jacqueline applies comparative analysis to undercut the claim, made by many a common law expert, that evidence admitted in civil law trials without any form of prior screening.
Heartfelt welcome!