The Jury, Citizenship, & Responsible Deliberation: Reflections of a Yale Professor & Sometime Juror in a Murder Trial

2015 CONSTITUTION DAY LECTURE

Dr. Norma Thompson is Associate Director of the Whitney Humanities Center and Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Yale University. Her scholarship and teaching are in the humanities, with special interests in political philosophy. She is author of three books: Unreasonable Doubt: Circumstantial Evidence and an Ordinary Murder in New Haven; Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community: Arion’s Leap; and The Ship of State: Politics and Statecraft from Ancient Greece to Democratic America.

Sponsored by the Department of Political Science, the Eve Adler Department of Classics, the Jack Miller Center, and Middlebury Community Engagement.

Refreshments will be served.