Podcast
Matters of Faith
Welcome and Introduction
Professor Austin Sarat
Session I – “Religion, Law, and Discrimination”
Professor Caroline Mala Corbin, Law, University of Miami
Session II – “Against Neutralism: Faith Based Groups, Discrimination, and State Subsidy”
Professor Corey Brettschneider, Political Science, Brown University
Session III – “Religious Freedom and the Nondiscrimination Norm”
Professor Richard W. Garnett, Law, University of Notre Dame
Session IV – “How Religion Has Grown to Accommodate American Law”
Professor Amanda Porterfield, Religion, Florida State University
Session V – “The Red Herring of Religion”
Professor Steven D. Smith, Law, University of San Diego
Dissenting Voices
Welcome and Introduction
Dean Ken Randall
Session I – “The Ethics of an Alternative: Counterfactuals and the Tone of Dissent”
Professor Ravit Reichman, Brown University
Session II – “Detours and Dead Ends: The Narrative Lines of Dissent in Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas”
Professor Susanna Lee, Georgetown University
Lunch and Keynote – “Why Societies Don’t Need Dissent (As Such)”
Professor Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School
Session III – “Dissent in the Legal Academy and the Temptations of Power”
Professor Richard H. Pildes, NYU School of Law
Session IV – “Depression and Dissent: The Idea of Structural Inequality in the Civil Rights Politics of the 1930s”
Professor Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School
Merciful Judgments
Session II – “Mercy, Desert and Criminal Law’s Moral Credibility”
Professor Paul H. Robinson, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Lunch and Keynote – “Justice, Community, and Mercy”
Professor Stephen Macedo, Princeton University and James Staihar, Princeton University and University of Maryland
Session III – “Actions of Mercy”
Professor Alice Ristroph, Seton Hall University School of Law
Session IV – “Mercy, Judgment, and the Epistemology of the “Exception” in the Context of Transitional Justice”
Professor Susan H. Williams, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Transitions
Welcome and Introduction
Dean Ken Randall and Professor Austin Sarat
Session I – “Midnight Deregulation”
Jack Beermann, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
Session II – “Midnight Rulemaking and Congress”
Nina Mendelson, Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Lunch and Keynote – “Case Studies in Legal Transitions: Hugo Black and Reconstruction”
Akhil Reed Amar, Professor of Law, Yale University
Session III – “Debating the Global Rule of Law a Half Century After Hart/Fuller: Different Transitions, New Perspectives on Legality and Morality”
Ruti Teitel, Professor of Law, New York Law School
Imagining Legality
Welcome and Introduction
Dean Ken Randall and Professor Austin Sarat
Session I – “Trust Us Justice: Law in ’24′”
Desmond Manderson, Canada Research Chair in Law and Discourse, McGill University
Session II – “Real Justice: Law and Order on Reality Television”
Laurie Ouellette, Professor in Communication Studies, University of Minnesota
Lunch and Keynote – “Law’s Screen Life”
Richard K. Sherwin, Professor of Law, New York Law School
Session III – “The Responsibilities of the Cyranoid Citizen”
Anna McCarthy, Associate Professor, Tisch School of Arts, New York University
Session IV – “Law’s Visual Afterlife: Thoughts on Law, Film, and Translation Theory”
Naomi Mezey, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center
Speech and Silence in American Law
Welcome and Introduction
Dean Ken Randall and Professor Austin Sarat
Session I – “Our Word is Our Bond”
Marianne Constable, Professor of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
Session II – “Sticking It Out or Getting Out: The Law and Morality of Speech, Silence, and Resignation by High Government Officials”
Louis Seidman, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown Law Center
Session III – “The First Amendment and the Dilemma of Anonymity”
Martin Redish, Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy, Northwestern University
Session IV – “Speech, Silence, the Body”
Peter Brooks, Professor, Yale University
Sovereignty, Emergency, and Legality
Session I – “Defined Orderly Ways”
Patrick Gudridge, Professor of Law, University of Miami
Session II – “The Banality of Emergency”
Leonard Feldman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
Lunch and Keynote – “The Organic Law of Ex Parte Miligan”
David Dyzenhaus, Professor of Law, University of Toronto
Session III – “The Racial Sovereign”
Sumi Cho, Professor of Law, DePaul University
Session IV – “Should Constitutional Democracies Redefine Emergencies and the Legal Regimes Suitable for THEM”
Michel Rosenfeld, Professor of Law, Yeshiva University
Legal Doubt, Scientific Certainty
Welcome and Introduction
Dean Ken Randall and Professor Austin Sarat
Session I – “Doubting Evidence: Is Skepticism Material to Evidence Law?”
Scott Brewer
Session II – “Whose Science Is Our Science? Institutional Roles in Assessing Science and the Impact of Scientific Knowledge”
Steph Tai
Lunch and Keynote – “Law’s Rules and Nature’s God: Problematic Constructions of Science in the Law”
Sheila Jasanoff
Session III – “Law, Science, and Incommensurability”
O. Carter Snead
Session IV – “Under the Influence of Technology: Evidence, Law, and the Production of Objectivity”
Jennifer Mnookin
Imagining a New Constitution
Welcome and Introduction
Dean Ken Randall and Professor Austin Sarat
Session I – “Reconceiving the United States Constitution”
Lorraine Weinrib, University of Toronto School of Law
Session II – “Recognizing the Values Associated w Minority Dominated Institutions”
Heather Gerken, Yale Law School
Lunch and Keynote – “Redesigning the United States Constitution: Is it Desirable? Is it Feasible?”
Sanford Levinson, University of Texas School of Law
Session III – “Recalibrating Checks and Balances: Dividing the Executive”
William Marshall, University of North Carolina School of Law
Session IV – “Government in Opposition: the New Separation of Powers”
David Fontana, George Washington University School of Law
Law’s History
Welcome and Introduction
Dean Ken Randall and Professor Austin Sarat
Session I – “History ‘Lite’ Revisited”
Martin Flaherty, Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
Session II – “Of Vagrants and Wanderers: History and Mythology in Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville”
Risa Goluboff, Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Session III – “Law, History, and Constitutional Myth-Making”
William J. Novak, Associate Professor of History, The University of Chicago
Session IV – “Law as Public History: How Supreme Court Opinions, Like Historical Monuments, Enable Visions of the Past to Shape the Future”
Mary Dudziak, Professor of Law, History and Political Science, Gould School of Law, University of Southern California