Friday Calendar
- Boston University Law: THE ROLE OF THE JUDGE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
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Panel discussions will provide an overview of the evolution of the judicial role in American society and the independence of the judiciary, as well as an examination of the issues regarding the judicial role in national security, contemporary case management, the role of social science in the judicial process and the relevance of international sources of law to judicial decision-making in the United States. Judge Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals, one of America’s leading legal thinkers, will deliver the keynote address.
Speakers include the Honorable Richard A. Posner, Guido Calabresi, Michael Boudin, Alex Kozinski and Stephen Reinhardt
University of Miami Law: Kevin A. Kordana & David H. Tabachnick, On Belling the Cat: Rawls & Corrective Justice
Villanova Law: Christopher Drahozhol, University of Kansas School of Law
University of Texas Law: Cindy Estlund (Columbia University)
University of Georgia International Law: Ed Swaine (University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School), “Judicial States”
University of Georgia Law: Thomas Lee (Fordham), Federal Court Review of Federal Law Voluntarily Incorporated into State Law
UCLA Law: Devon Carbado, UCLA School of Law
Ohio State Legal History: Thomas D. Morris, Norms and Facts: Racially Mixed Juries in Reconstruction South Carolina
Notre Dame Law: Professor Heather Gerken, Harvard Law School
Yale Information Society Project: Access to Knowledge (A2K) Conference
Georgetown Law & Economics: Michael Trebilcock, University of Toronto Law School