Maeva Marcus is director of the Graduate Institute for Constitutional History (formerly the Institute for Constitutional Studies) located at the New-York Historical Society and the George Washington University Law School. President of the American Society for Legal History, she is editor of the completed eight-volume series, The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800. Her other publications include Truman and the Steel Seizure Case (1977) and Origins of the Federal Judiciary: Essays on the Judiciary Act of 1789 (1992).

Lecture topics:

• Judicial Review in the Early Republic
• The Judiciary Act of 1789: Political Compromise or Constitutional Interpretation?
• George Washington's Appointments to the Supreme Court
• Separation of Powers in the Early National Period
• Is the Supreme Court a Political Institution? An Eighteenth-Century View

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