Event: Supreme Court Roundup with Stephen J. Hammer
Date: Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Location: Arts District Mansion
CLE Credit: CLE credit is pending

Stephen Hammer is a associate in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he is a member of the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law and Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice groups. He served as a law clerk to Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States during October Term 2020. He also served as a law clerk to Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Judge Gregory G. Katsas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Mr. Hammer attended Harvard Law School, where he served as a managing editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy and received his J.D. magna cum laude. Before law school, he served as an infantry officer in the 82nd Airborne Division and deployed twice to southern Afghanistan. Mr. Hammer received an M.Phil. in theology from Oxford, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. He received his A.B. summa cum laude in classics from Princeton and graduated as Latin salutatorian. Mr. Hammer resides in his hometown of Dallas with his wife and their six children.

Event: Our Colorblind Constitution: Ending Racial Discrimination in College Admissions with Adam K. Mortara
Date: Thursday, August 24, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Location: Arts District Mansion
CLE Credit: CLE credit is pending

Adam Mortara graduated from the University of Chicago in 1996 with a B.Sc. in chemistry.  He then attended Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he received a masters degree in astrophysics on a British Marshall Scholarship.

Mr. Mortara graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with highest honors in 2001.  Following graduation, he clerked for Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and then for Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States.  After his clerkships, he was a Temple Bar Scholar of the American Inns of Court.

From 2003 to 2020, Mr. Mortara was with Bartlit Beck LLP where he tried high stakes intellectual property cases and, more notably, Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard.  He retired from Bartlit Beck and founded Lawfair LLC, a civil and voting rights firm.  He has been a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School since 2007, where he teaches Federal Habeas Corpus, Federal Jurisdiction, Criminal Procedure, and Writing for the Judiciary.