Rosen: Roberts Court on collision course with America?
"I love teaching, both in the classroom and in being able to talk to colleagues about all of these interesting issues," he said.
"(Legal) teaching is one of the best jobs in the world - you have tremendous freedom. I can work at home most of the time and spend time with my lovely wife and kids, and you set your own hours, and nothing beats tenure."
According to Grossman, Hopkins briefly considered establishing a law school in the 1970s. Clearly that idea never came to fruition. Nonetheless Rosen believes Hopkins has a significant "role" in answering some key legal questions of the 21st century.
"It has a wonderful role to play, with such a distinguished political science faculty and department of Arts and Sciences generally," he said.
"It's able to promote conversations about Constitutional issues that transcend legalistic debate, and Constitutional debate isn't legalistic - it's about fundamental principles - so the kind of discussions that Professor Grossman is promoting are both extremely useful and very well-suited to a place like Johns Hopkins."
"In some ways, it can do even better than a place with a law school can, because it's going to take the Constitution back from the lawyers," he said.
At the question-and-answer session following the lecture, one student asked Rosen whether or not Justice Kennedy was unhappy with Rosen's June 18, 2007 article in the New Republic entitled, "Supreme Leader: The arrogance of Justice Anthony Kennedy."
Through the grapevine, Rosen had heard that Kennedy was not pleased, and mentioned the great deal of both positive and negative feedback he'd gotten from others. Still he described his reasons for writing the piece that he must have known would upset the Court's current swing vote.
"I couldn't help myself - I just had to get it off my chest," said Rosen, who later in his speech complimented Kennedy for being in line with the general public on most issues, at least "for the moment."
"(Legal) teaching is one of the best jobs in the world - you have tremendous freedom. I can work at home most of the time and spend time with my lovely wife and kids, and you set your own hours, and nothing beats tenure."
According to Grossman, Hopkins briefly considered establishing a law school in the 1970s. Clearly that idea never came to fruition. Nonetheless Rosen believes Hopkins has a significant "role" in answering some key legal questions of the 21st century.
"It has a wonderful role to play, with such a distinguished political science faculty and department of Arts and Sciences generally," he said.
"It's able to promote conversations about Constitutional issues that transcend legalistic debate, and Constitutional debate isn't legalistic - it's about fundamental principles - so the kind of discussions that Professor Grossman is promoting are both extremely useful and very well-suited to a place like Johns Hopkins."
"In some ways, it can do even better than a place with a law school can, because it's going to take the Constitution back from the lawyers," he said.
At the question-and-answer session following the lecture, one student asked Rosen whether or not Justice Kennedy was unhappy with Rosen's June 18, 2007 article in the New Republic entitled, "Supreme Leader: The arrogance of Justice Anthony Kennedy."
Through the grapevine, Rosen had heard that Kennedy was not pleased, and mentioned the great deal of both positive and negative feedback he'd gotten from others. Still he described his reasons for writing the piece that he must have known would upset the Court's current swing vote.
"I couldn't help myself - I just had to get it off my chest," said Rosen, who later in his speech complimented Kennedy for being in line with the general public on most issues, at least "for the moment."
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