Topic: The American Experiment at 250
Constitutional Democracy in a Time of Global Conflict and Democratic Pressure: What the Founders’ Vision Means for Citizens Today
Featured Speaker: Professor Martin S. Flaherty*
Friday, May 8, 2026
10:30 am to 1:30 pm
(luncheon and speaker portion of event begins at 11:45am)
Scarsdale Golf Club
Tickets are $70/adult or $35/student
(adult price increases by $5 after Saturday, May 2, 2026)

*Martin S. Flaherty is Leitner Family Professor of International Human Rights Law and Founding Co-Director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School. He is a longtime Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and also currently teaches at Columbia Law School and Barnard College. Professor Flaherty earlier served as a law clerk for Justice Byron R. White of the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Judge John Gibbons of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Flaherty received a J.D. from Columbia Law School, an M.A. and M.Phil. from Yale (in history), and B.A. from Princeton.

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Walk-ins are welcome but please RSVP to Anne Lyons in advance and bring cash or a check payable to League of Women Voters of Scarsdale in the sum of $75/ticket (write Annual Meeting luncheon in memo line along with the names of attendees). Credit cards are not accepted.