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Brad Karp Presents World Jurist Association’s Medal of Honor to Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
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- May 1, 2023
Firm chairman Brad Karp presented retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer with the World Jurist Association’s highest recognition, the Medal of Honor, at the WJA’s World Law Congress on April 13.
Justice Breyer retired in June 2022 after 28 years on the Court, where he championed judicial independence, democracy, human rights and international cooperation. Presenting Justice Breyer with the Medal of Honor at the event at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Brad described him as a “pragmatic consensus-builder” and “an individual who believes that progress can be made by walking the halls and speaking with and listening to his fellow justices.”
Justice Breyer "believes that when fundamental rights and due process are threatened, a judge is duty-bound to dissent and to express his reasoning clearly and forcefully," Brad said, "something he has done repeatedly on the most consequential issues of our time."
The WJA, a non-governmental organization with special consultative status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council, is dedicated to pursuing “a world ruled by law, not force” and works cooperatively with judges, lawyers, law professors, students and other professionals from around the world to strengthen the rule of law and its institutions.