This summer, the Academy of Achievement interviewed my former boss Justice Kennedy about a wide range of topics, including his childhood, being a young judge, becoming a Justice, deciding cases, stare decisis, interpreting the Constitution, and the role of the Supreme Court.

  I don't know if Justice Kennedy has talked about these questions in such depth for a public audience before, but I think the discussion was revealing. If you're interested in who Justice Kennedy is, and his approach to being a judge, this interview is a good place to start.

  You can find the interview transcript starting here. Unfortunately, the video is broken up into segments, and not all of it has been posted, so you need to click on the individual links on the transcript page to view that portion of the interview. Anyway, it's worth doing; the interview is quite interesting.