Students are invited to a conversation on law and civic life with The Honorable Stephen Breyer, Former Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court.  Justice Breyer retired in 2022 after serving nearly 28 years as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He is now the Byrne Professor of Administrative Law and Process at Harvard Law School.

This event is open to all Suffolk students and is sponsored by the Political Science and Legal Studies Department of the College of Arts and Sciences.  

Registration to attend this event is required.  This event is not open to the general public.

The in-person location of the event is now: Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE), 10 Winter Place (off of Winter Street). 

The overflow viewing location remains at Sargent Hall in the McLaughling Court Room (Room 425)

Justice Breyer's Biography (Source: United States Supreme Court)

Stephen G. Breyer (Retired), Associate Justice, was born in San Francisco, California, August 15, 1938. He married Joanna Hare in 1967, and has three children - Chloe, Nell, and Michael. He received an A.B. from Stanford University, a B.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk to Justice Arthur Goldberg of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1964 Term, as a Special Assistant to the Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Antitrust, 1965–1967, as an Assistant Special Prosecutor of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 1973, as Special Counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, 1974–1975, and as Chief Counsel of the committee, 1979–1980. He was an Assistant Professor, Professor of Law, and Lecturer at Harvard Law School, 1967–1994, a Professor at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, 1977–1980, and a Visiting Professor at the College of Law, Sydney, Australia and at the University of Rome. From 1980–1990, he served as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and as its Chief Judge, 1990–1994. He also served as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States, 1990–1994, and of the United States Sentencing Commission, 1985–1989. President Clinton nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat August 3, 1994. Justice Breyer retired from the Supreme Court on June 30, 2022.