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Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey Rosen
His most recent book is The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America. He also is the author of The Most Democratic Branch, The Naked Crowd, and The Unwanted Gaze. Professor Rosen's essays and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, on National Public Radio, and in The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer. The Chicago Tribune named him one of the 10 best magazine journalists in America and the L.A. Times called him, "the nation's most widely read and influential legal commentator." |
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Sri Srinivasan
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Tracey George
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Dr. Terri Peretti
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Bradley W. Joondeph
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Vikram Amar
Professor Amar writes, teaches and consults in the public law fields, especially constitutional law, civil procedure, and remedies. He is a frequent commentator on local and national radio and TV, and has written dozens of op-ed pieces for newspapers and magazines. |
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Pamela S. Karlan
She is the founding director of Stanford Law School’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. Professor Karlan is the co-author of three leading casebooks on constitutional law and related subjects, as well as more than four dozen scholarly articles. |
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Jonathan H. Adler
Professor Adler teaches courses in environmental, regulatory, and constitutional law. He is the author or editor of three books on environmental policy and has appeared on numerous radio and television programs. |
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Mitchell Pickerill
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Brian Wolfman
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Robin S. Conrad
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David L. Franklin
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Jeffrey Rosen is a professor of law at The George Washington University and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. Professor Rosen graduated Harvard College, summa cum laude, attended Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and received his J.D. from Yale Law School. He also clerked for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Sri Srinivasan is a partner in the Washington D.C. office of O'Melveny & Myers, and his focus is on appellate litigation and complex litigation. He rejoined O'Melveny in 2007 after five years in the Solicitor General's Office. Mr. Srinivasan holds an A.B. and M.B.A from Stanford University, and graduated Order of Coif, with distinction, from Stanford Law School. He also clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court, and Judge Harvie Wilkinson III on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Sri has argued 12 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, and has represented clients in numerous other cases involving a broad range of legal and constitutional issues in the Supreme Court and in intermediate appellate courts and trial courts.
Professor Tracey George brings a social science perspective to law and courts. She teaches Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, and Contracts. Prior to joining the Vanderbilt law faculty, she clerked for Judge Francis D. Murnaghan Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, practiced law in Washington, D.C., and was a professor at University of Missouri School of Law and Northwestern University Law School.
Dr. Terri Peretti teaches constitutional law, judicial politics, and American politics. Her current research focuses on judicial review, the Supreme Court, and the judicial selection process. She is the author of In Defense of a Political Court (Princeton University Press 1999) and a number of law review articles on judicial selection and independence. Dr. Peretti serves the Political Science Department as Chair and Pre-Law Advisor.
Professor Bradley Joondeph received a J.D. with distinction from Stanford Law School. Prior to becoming a professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law, he was a judicial clerk for Judge Deanell Reece Tacha of the United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, served as a clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor for the October Term, 1999, and has been a professor or lecturer at Washington University School of Law, Stanford Law School, and the University of Kansas School of Law. He specializes in constitutional and tax law, as well as serving as the advisor to Santa Clara Law Review.
Professor Vikram Amar received his J.D. from Yale in 1988. Since graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, then for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court, worked at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and has taught law at UC Berkeley School of law, UC Hastings, UCLA School of Law, and UC Davis Law School.
Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1998, Professor Pamela S. Karlan was a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and served as a law clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge Abraham D. Sofaer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Prior to joining the faculty at Case Western Reserve University School of Law as a Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation, Professor Jonathan H. Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and worked at the Compe¬ti¬tive Enterprise Institute. He holds a J.D. summa cum laude from George Mason University School of Law.
Dr. Mitchell Pickerill is an associate professor at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his J.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington. His areas of specialization include law and courts and American politics.
Brian Wolfman is currently the Director of the Public Citizen Litigation Group, a national public interest law firm based in Washington, DC. The Litigation Group is a division of Public Citizen, a non-profit consumer advocacy group that works to effect change in Congress, before federal regulatory agencies, and in the courts. Mr. Wolfman’s litigation includes cases involving consumer health and safety regulation, freedom of information, expanding access to the courts, opposing federal preemption of state products liability law, and class actions. Prior to working at the Litigation Group, for five years, Mr. Wolfman represented poor people in a legal services program in rural Arkansas. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his JD from Harvard Law School. Mr. Wolfman has argued four cases in front of the Supreme Court, winning three.
As a long-time veteran of the National Chamber Litigation Center (NCLC), the U.S. Chamber's public policy law firm, Robin S. Conrad has spent close to a quarter century shaping the law on some of the most important public policy issues of the day. Conrad, senior vice president for the past 10 years and now executive vice president, has played a key role in building NCLC into a litigation powerhouse-setting new records every year for entering and winning cases on behalf of American business. In 2007, The National Law Journal selected Conrad as one of The 50 Most Influential Women Lawyers in America. The New York Times Magazine prominently featured the NCLC's Supreme Court practice in cover story on Sunday, March 16, 2008.
Professor Franklin joined DePaul from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in New York. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and received his J.D. from the University of Chicago. Professor Franklin clerked for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He worked as a litigation associate at Covington & Burling in New York, and he has written for The New Republic, Slate, and Green Bag. At DePaul, he teaches Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Legislative Process.
