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Please join the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics for "Supreme Court Ethics: Is the Court Really the ‘Least Dangerous Branch?" with Judge Mark L. Wolf. This event is co-sponsored with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
Abstract: Alexander Hamilton wrote that the courts would be the least dangerous branch of the government to be established by the Constitution. The Supreme Court’s new Code of Conduct for the Justices, among other things, prompts the question whether this is now true.
Bio: Mark L. Wolf is a Senior United States District Judge and the Chair of Integrity Initiatives International. Prior to his appointment to the bench in 1985, Judge Wolf served as a Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General after Watergate and as the chief federal prosecutor of corruption in Massachusetts. Judge Wolf has since served as the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and on its Committee on Codes of Conduct. He has taught and lectured in the U.S. and around the world about the role of the judge in a democracy and combatting corruption.
View the event recording here.
Read Judge Wolf's remarks here.