Symposia

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The Structure of Standing at 25

Welcome and Introduction
Dean Ken Randall and Professor Heather Elliott
Panel I - The Structure of Standing: History and Text
Robert J. Pushaw, Jr. and Ernest Young
Keynote - “Standing: Who Can Make a Court Listen?”
Judge William Fletcher, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Panel II – The Structure of Standing: Private Rights, Public Rights, and Normative Standards
Jonathan R. Siegel, Maxwell L. Stearns, and F. Andrew Hessick III
Panel III - Suits By and Against Governmental Entities
Thomas D. Rowe, Tara L. Grove, and Heather Elliott

The Punitive Imagination

Welcome and Introduction
Dean Ken Randall and Professor Austin Sarat
Session I – “Imprisonment Without Justice”
Professor Caleb Smith, American Studies and English, Yale University
Session II – “Injustice, Authority and the Criminal Law”
Professor Stephen P. Garvey, Cornell Law School
Session III – “Punishment By Various Other Names”
Professor Leo Katz, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Session IV - “To See a World in a Grain of Sand”: Dignity and Indignity in American Criminal Justice
Professor Carol S. Steiker, Harvard Law School
Session V - “Which Question? Which Lie?” Reflections on Payne v. Tennessee and the “Quick Glimpse” of Life
Professor Michelle Brown, Sociology, University of Tennessee
Session VI - “Overview and Commentary”
Patricia Ewick, Sociology, Clark University

Civil Rights in the American Story

Welcome and Introduction
Professor Austin Sarat
Session I – The “Myth of a Color Blind Civil Rights Movement”
Professor Mark Brilliant, History and American Studies, University of California Berkeley
Session II – Civil “Rights and the Myth of Moral Progress”
Professor Richard Ford, Stanford Law School
Session IV – “Reframing the Equality Agenda”
Professor Susan Sturm, Columbia Law School

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