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Professor Orentlicher Writes in Support of Maintaining the Supreme Court at Eight Members in Zocalo Public Square
07/20/2016
Professor David Orentlicher considers that the current evenly divided United States Supreme Court may be a good thing for the nation in a column he wrote for the website Zocalo Public Square. The piece was posted on June 24.
Harkening to his days as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives, as well as relying upon his expertise as a constitutional law scholar, Professor Orentlicher concludes that systems which are equally divided can force public officials to compromise and craft solutions that work for common good as opposed to favoring one side or the other.
Professor Orentlicher served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2002 through 2008. He is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at IU McKinney and co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health. He also has taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago Law School. He earned degrees in law and medicine at Harvard and specializes as well in health care law and ethics.
