IBRL Hosts Annual Supreme Court Preview on Sept. 24-25
Since 1988 the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William & Mary Law School has marked the commencement of the new term of the U.S. Supreme Court with its annual Supreme Court Preview. The Preview brings together distinguished lawyers, judges, journalists, and law professors from around the country to discuss and analyze the Court's upcoming term. Panelists for the 2010 Preview on Sept. 24-25 will include many of the nation's leading legal scholars, two federal appeals court judges, 11 lawyers who have argued a combined total of 210 cases before the Court, and six journalists who cover the Court for media such as National Public Radio, the New York Times, SCOTUSblog, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Registration is $325. For more information contact IBRL@wm.edu or call (757)221-3810.
The Preview begins on Friday at 6:30 PM with a moot court proceeding of Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association, in which two experienced Supreme Court advocates will present arguments before a mock panel of justices. The moot court will be followed by panels on Justice Elena Kagan and a retrospective on the Roberts Court. On Saturday, panels will discuss upcoming cases which involve business law, criminal law, the First Amendment, and individual rights. The program also will feature lunchtime breakout sessions on topics such as enemy combatants and President Obama, election law, and the role of the solicitor general. A panel on federalism concludes the Preview.
Distinguished participants in the 2010 Preview include:
Debo P. Adegbile, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Joan Biskupic, USA Today
Jess Bravin, The Wall Street Journal
Beth S. Brinkmann, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Paul D. Clement, King & Spalding
Charles J. Cooper, Cooper & Kirk
Ted Cruz, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Walter Dellinger, O'Melveny & Myers; Duke Law School
Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog
Davison M. Douglas, Dean, William & Mary Law School
James Dwyer, William & Mary Law School
Gregory C. Garre, Latham & Watkins
Thomas C. Goldstein, Akin Gump
Linda Greenhouse, Yale Law School
Pam Karlan, Stanford Law School
Allison Orr Larsen, William & Mary Law School
Adam Liptak, The New York Times
Michael W. McConnell, Stanford Law School
Glen Nager, Jones Day
Carter G. Phillips, Sidley Austin
David Savage, The Los Angeles Times
Jeffrey S. Sutton, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
William Van Alstyne, William & Mary Law School
Timothy Zick, William & Mary Law School
Editor's Note: A pre-Preview panel on Proposition 8 and the Supreme Court will be held at the Law School at 4:00 pm on Sept. 24. Admission is free to this 4:00 pm event and all are welcome.