As part of the upcoming celebration of the 100th anniversary of Louis D. Brandeis’s appointment to the Supreme Court, the University is hosting a panel discussion called “Louis D. Brandeis, the Supreme Court and American Democracy.”

The panel will feature Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, among other renowned speakers. Due to an anticipated high demand for tickets, there will be a lottery held from Dec. 1 to 8 in order to fairly distribute tickets, according to an email Interim President Lisa Lynch sent to the student body on Friday.

Executive Director of Integrated Media Bill Schaller wrote in an email to the Justice that the University expects to have between 1,200 and 1,300 tickets to the event. He wrote that the lottery will be open to students, faculty, staff and alumni, and that the largest number of tickets will be allotted for students, with another portion reserved for faculty and staff and a small allotment of tickets “for our board, and elected and civic officials, and other dignitaries.”

In her email, Lynch also announced that the event would feature opening remarks by Ginsburg, followed by a panel discussion with Ralph D. Gants, a chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; Philippa Strum ’59, senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a presidential memorial and think tank; Jeffrey Toobin, a staff writer at The New Yorker and Mark Wolf, senior judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Former University President Frederick Lawrence, now a senior research scholar at Yale Law School, will moderate the panel.

“Long before I ever imagined becoming President of Brandeis University, Louis Brandeis was a hero of mine, who influenced my work as a practicing lawyer and as a legal scholar. After I came to Brandeis, I delighted in weaving Justice Brandeis’s words and legacy into so many occasions on campus,” Lawrence wrote in an email to the Justice.

He went on to outline three aspects of Justice Brandeis that he views as remarkable: “Louis Brandeis understood that theory and practice do not pull in opposite directions. … Louis Brandeis understood that social justice is not just one field of a career. It is a way of life. It infuses everything we do. … Louis Brandeis was an exemplar of moral courage,” Lawrence wrote.

The celebration, called “Louis D. Brandeis 100: Then and Now,” will include a series of lectures and events throughout the spring semester and will begin on Thursday, Jan. 28 with the panel.

—Hannah Wulkan