Judicial Review: Historical Debate, Modern Perspectives, and Comparative Approaches
Thursday, October 15, 2009
4pm-5:30pm Keynote Address
Betts Theater, Marvin Center, 800 21st Street, NW
This is a ticketed event. Tickets will be distributed to students via raffle.
Welcome: Frederick M. Lawrence, Dean and Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
Introduction: Renée Lettow Lerner, Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
Keynote: The Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
6pm-8:30pm Dinner
Dinner for invited guests. Kinkead’s, 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Friday, October 16, 2009
8am-9am Continental Breakfast and Registration
Dee Kelly Student Commons, Lerner Hall, 1st floor
9am-10:30am
Panel I: Law and Judicial Duty
Jacob Burns Moot Court Room, Lerner Hall (L101)
Moderator:
- Renée Lettow Lerner, Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
Commentators:
- Ann Althouse, Robert W. & Irma Arthur-Bascom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
- Mary Sarah Bilder, Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
- G. Edward White, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Author Reply:
- Philip Hamburger, Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
10:30am-10:45am Coffee Break
Dee Kelly Student Commons, Lerner Hall, 1st Floor
10:45am-12:15pm
Panel II: The Will of the People
Jacob Burns Moot Court Room, Lerner Hall, L101
Moderator:
- Peter J. Smith, Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
Commentators :
- Jenna Bednar, Associate Professor, University of Michigan Department of Political Science
- William E. Forbath, Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law, The University of Texas School of Law
- Richard Primus, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Author Reply:
- Barry Friedman, Vice Dean and Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law, New York University Law School
12:30pm-2pm Lunch
Lunch for invited guests, Faculty Conference Center, Burns Hall, 5th floor
2pm-3:30pm Panel III: Contemporary & Comparative Approaches to Judicial Review
Jacob Burns Moot Court Room, Lerner Hall, L101
Moderator:
- David Fontana, Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
Principal Speakers:
- Nelson Lund, Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law & the Second Amendment, George Mason University School of Law
- Ayelet Shachar, Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism, University of Toronto Law School
Commentators:
- Vicki C. Jackson, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law and Associate Dean of Transnational Legal Studies, Georgetown University Law Center
- Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
3:30pm-5pm Reception
Faculty Conference Center, Burns Hall, 5th floor