The DePaul College of Law recently hosted U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for a day of  lecture and learning. The longest-serving current member of the nation’s highest court engaged faculty and staff in informal meetings and class lectures and delivered the law school’s annual Enlund Scholar-in-Residence Lecture titled, “The Methodology of Originalism.”

Nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by Reagan in 1982.

Prior to becoming a judge, Scalia charted a noted career as an attorney, public servant and educator.  He was a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Virginia School of Law and a visiting professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and Stanford University Law School.

He also served as an assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice and from 1974 to 1977 as general counsel for the Office of Telecommunications Policy.

The DePaul College of Law was established in 1912.  Its research centers and institutes focus on issues such as health law, international human rights law, intellectual property, law and science, death penalty defense, animal law, international aviation law, family law, public interest law, international weapons control and dispute resolution.  Included among DePaul’s alumni are state and federal judges, municipal, county and state leaders and two generations of Chicago mayors.

The College of Law selects the scholars, jurists and lawyers who serve as Enlund Scholars based upon the meaningful contributions they have made to the development of law and legal institutions through their research, advocacy and practice. Enlund Scholars explore differing perspectives on law, lawyers and social justice.