**The Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies Presents a Symposium**

# The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue 
*A Look at the October 2008 and October 2009 Terms*

**To celebrate [Constitution Day](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Day_%28United_States%29) and the publication of the eighth volume of the annual *[Cato Supreme Court Review](/pubs/scr/index.html).***

****Thursday**, September 17, 2009 
10:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. 
F.A. Hayek Auditorium** 

Cato Institute 
1000 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. 
Washington, D.C. 20001

| About the Symposium| [Registration](https://www.cato.org/events/ccs2009/register.html) |

**Symposium Program**

| **10:00 — 10:30 a.m.** | Registration |
|---|---|
| **10:30 — 10:45 a.m.** | Welcoming Remarks **[Roger Pilon](/people/roger-pilon)** Vice President for Legal Affairs and Director, Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute Introduction **[Ilya Shapiro](/people/ilya-shapiro)** Editor in Chief, *Cato Supreme Court Review* |
| **10:45 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.** | **Panel I: Civil Rights and Federalism: Voting Rights, Equal Protection, and Preemption** [[![Media Name: ipod.jpg](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/optimized/public/download-remote-images/object.cato.org/169672258913/ipod.jpg?itok=5gSrqX94)](/sites/cato.org/files/download-remote-images/object.cato.org/169672258913/ipod.jpg)](https://cdn.cato.org%0A/archive-2009/cca-09-17-09-1.mp3)[Download Podcast of Welcoming Remarks and Panel 1](https://cdn.cato.org%0A/archive-2009/cca-09-17-09-1.mp3) Moderator: **[Ilya Shapiro](/people/ilya-shapiro)** Editor in Chief, *Cato Supreme Court Review* **Kenneth L. Marcus** Ackerman Chair, CUNY/​Baruch College School of Public Affairs **Roger Clegg** President and General Counsel, Center for Equal Opportunity **[Roger Pilon](/people/roger-pilon)** Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute |
| **12:00 — 1:00 p.m.** | Lunch |
| **1:00 — 2:15 p.m.** | **Panel II: The Many Kinds of Speech: Obscenity, Public Parks, Elections** [[![Media Name: ipod.jpg](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/optimized/public/download-remote-images/object.cato.org/169672258913/ipod.jpg?itok=5gSrqX94)](/sites/cato.org/files/download-remote-images/object.cato.org/169672258913/ipod.jpg)](https://cdn.cato.org%0A/archive-2009/cca-09-17-09-2.mp3)[Download Podcast of Panel 2](https://cdn.cato.org%0A/archive-2009/cca-09-17-09-2.mp3) Moderator: **[Roger Pilon](/people/roger-pilon)** Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute **Nadine Strossen** Professor of Law, New York Law School; former President, ACLU **James Bopp, Jr.** General Counsel, James Madison Center for Free Speech **Brad Smith** Professor of Law, Capital University Law School; former Chairman, FEC |
| **2:15 — 3:30 p.m.** | **Panel III: Criminal Law: Revisiting the Fourth and Sixth Amendments** [[![Media Name: ipod.jpg](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/optimized/public/download-remote-images/object.cato.org/169672258913/ipod.jpg?itok=5gSrqX94)](/sites/cato.org/files/download-remote-images/object.cato.org/169672258913/ipod.jpg)](https://cdn.cato.org%0A/archive-2009/cca-09-17-09-3.mp3)[Download Podcast of Panel 3](https://cdn.cato.org%0A/archive-2009/cca-09-17-09-3.mp3) Moderator: **[Timothy Lynch](/people/timothy-lynch)** Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute **Erik Luna** Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law **Orin Kerr** Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School **Mark Chenoweth** Senior Fellow in Legal Studies, Pacific Research Institute |
| **3:30 — 3:45 p.m.** | Break |
| **3:45 — 5:00 p.m.** | **Panel IV: Looking Ahead: October Term 2009** [[![Media Name: ipod.jpg](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/optimized/public/download-remote-images/object.cato.org/169672258913/ipod.jpg?itok=5gSrqX94)](/sites/cato.org/files/download-remote-images/object.cato.org/169672258913/ipod.jpg)](https://cdn.cato.org%0A/archive-2009/cca-09-17-09-4.mp3)[Download Podcast of Panel 4](https://cdn.cato.org%0A/archive-2009/cca-09-17-09-4.mp3) Moderator: **[Ilya Shapiro](/people/ilya-shapiro)** Editor-in-Chief, *Cato Supreme Court Review* **Jan Crawford Greenburg** Legal Correspondent, ABC News **Tom Goldstein** Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP **Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz** Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center |
| **5:00 — 6:00 p.m.** | **Annual B. Kenneth Simon Lecture: Natural Rights and the Effect of Partial Enumeration** [[![Media Name: ipod.jpg](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/optimized/public/download-remote-images/object.cato.org/169672258913/ipod.jpg?itok=5gSrqX94)](/sites/cato.org/files/download-remote-images/object.cato.org/169672258913/ipod.jpg)](https://cdn.cato.org%0A/archive-2009/cca-09-17-09-5.mp3)[Download Podcast of B. Kenneth Simon Lecture](https://cdn.cato.org%0A/archive-2009/cca-09-17-09-5.mp3) **Hon. Michael W. McConnell** Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (until August 31, 2009; as of September 1, 2009: Professor of Law and Director of the Constitutional Law Center, Stanford Law School) |
| **6:00 — 7:00 p.m.** | Reception |