A lecture delivered by UCI Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky on February 11, 2010 as part of the Campus Conversations Series sponsored by UCI's Office of Equal Opportunity & Diversity. Dean Chemerinsky, author of six books, most recently, Enhancing Government: Federalism for the 21st Century (2008), was named by Legal Affairs as one of "the top 20 legal thinkers in America." He has frequently argued appellate cases before the United States Supreme Court and the United States Courts of Appeals, and he has testified many times before congressional and state legislative committees. He regularly serves as a commentator on legal issues for national and local media.