Aaron Streett, "Religious Liberty After Greece v. Galloway"

Commentary by Bigelow Fellow Genevieve Lakier

Aaron Streett is the Chairman of Baker Botts’ Supreme Court and Constitutional Law Practice. He practices primarily in federal and state appellate courts. He has presented oral argument in over 20 appeals, covering the U.S. Supreme Court, the Texas Supreme Court, and various courts across the country, with concentrated experience in the Fifth Circuit and D.C. Circuit. Mr. Streett maintains an active practice in the Supreme Court of the United States, representing parties in merits cases six times since 2010, as well as filing numerous amicus and certiorari-stage briefs. In October Term 2013, he successfully represented petitioners in the noted securities case of Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc. In October Term 2014, Mr. Streett argued in Baker Botts L.L.P. v. ASARCO LLC, a case presenting important questions about bankruptcy attorneys’ fees. Mr. Streett’s practice involves cutting-edge and high-stakes appeals in all substantive areas of the law, including commercial litigation, statutory interpretation, constitutional law, administrative law, securities and white-collar criminal defense. Mr. Streett received his B.A. summa cum laude from Hillsdale College and went on to graduate with high honors from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was the managing editor of the Texas Review of Law and Politics. Following graduation from law school, Mr. Streett served as a law clerk to the Honorable David B. Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and to the Honorable William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States.

Genevieve Lakier has a JD from the New York University School of Law and a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago. She clerked for the Honorable Judge Robert Sand of the Southern District of New York and the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Her research focuses on the intersections between culture and law. She is currently engaged in a long-term project exploring the cultural history of the First Amendment concept of speech, and another project exploring the changing role of the state in the regulation of sexuality and sex work.

This event took place on March 26, 2015, and was presented by the Jewish Law Student Association, the Christian Legal Society, the Dallin H. Oaks Society, the St. Thomas More Society, and the Federalist Society.