The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue
A Look at the October 2018 and 2019 Terms
Presented through the generosity of The George M. Yeager Family Foundation
Cato’s annual Constitution Day symposium marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the U.S. Constitution. We celebrate that event each year with the release of the new issue of the Cato Supreme Court Review and with a day-long symposium featuring noted scholars discussing the recently concluded Supreme Court term and the important cases coming up. Past speakers have included Judges Alex Kozinski, Diane Sykes, and Douglas Ginsburg, Professors Richard Epstein, Michael McConnell, and Nadine Strossen, and Supreme Court litigators Paul Clement, Neal Katyal, and Walter Dellinger.
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
10:30AM—7:00PM EDT
Cato Institute
F. A. Hayek Auditorium
1000 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC
CLE credit will be offered and the form will be distributed at the conference.
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Symposium Program
| 10:30-10:45AM |
Welcoming Remarks Ilya Shapiro, Director, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute Introduction Trevor Burrus, Research Fellow in Constitutional Studies and Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review |
| 10:45AM-12:00PM |
Panel I: Old Amendments, New Developments Brianne J. Gorod, Chief Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center Anthony J. Colangelo, Professor of Law, Southern Methodist Univ. Dedman School of Law Eric Baxter, VP & Senior Counsel, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty Moderated by Trevor Burrus, Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review |
| 12:00-1:00PM | Lunch |
| 1:00-2:15PM |
Panel II: Constitutional Structure Paul J. Larkin Jr., The John, Barbara and Victoria Rumpel Senior Legal Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation Roger Pilon, B. Kenneth Simon Chair, Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute Braden H. Boucek, Vice President of Legal Affairs, Beacon Center of Tennessee Moderated by William Yeatman, Research Fellow, Cato Institute |
| 2:15-3:30PM |
Panel III: Potpourri Joshua D. Wright, Univ. Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason Univ. Ilya Somin, Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason Univ. Andrew M. Grossman, Partner, BakerHostetler, and Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute Moderated by Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute |
| 3:30-3:45PM | Break |
| 3:45-5:00PM |
Panel IV: Looking Ahead: October Term 2019 Elizabeth Slattery, Legal Fellow, Heritage Foundation Tom Goldstein, Partner, Goldstein & Russell Jan Crawford, Chief Legal Correspondent, CBS News Moderated by Trevor Burrus, Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review |
| 5:00-6:00PM |
Annual B. Kenneth Simon Lecture: Judicial Independence and the Roberts Court Hon. Thomas Hardiman, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Moderated by Ilya Shapiro, Director, Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute |
| 6:00-7:00PM | Reception |
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