Laurence Tribe ’66 outlines his unique and colorful process for preparing for oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, sharing the ‘argument board’ he created in 1986 for Bowers v. Hardwick, a case in which he contended that a Georgia state law criminalizing private, consensual sexual conduct violated the Fourteenth Amendment. Tribe’s argument boards are now part of HLS Special Collections. “I would do a kind of flow diagram — red, blue, black, yellow — of what I anticipated the exchange would be,” Tribe explains.
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