Book Talk with Cliff Sloan

Cliff Sloan is a current Dean’s Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center. He has previously served as Associate Counsel to the President and as general counsel of Washington Post Newsweek Interactive. He is a retired litigation partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, as well as a former ACS Board of Directors member from 2015-2017. The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made explores the legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s court of the 1940s and 1950s, informed by the influences of wartime, and the frequent deference of the court to political pressure.