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College of William & Mary Law School William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository Supreme Court Preview Conferences, Events, and Lectures 2016 2016-2017 Supreme Court Preview: Schedule and Panel Members Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the William & Mary Law School Repository Citation Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the William & Mary Law School, "2016-2017 Supreme Court Preview: Schedule and Panel Members" (2016). Supreme Court Preview. 267. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/preview/267 Copyright c 2016 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/preview 2016-2017 Supreme Court Preview Schedule of Events Friday, September 23, 2016 WELCOME 5:00 PM MOOT COURT 5:05 to 6:05 PM CHIEF JUSTICE: JOAN BISKUPIC JUSTICES: BOB BARNES, JESS BRAVIN, LINDA GREENHOUSE, PATRICIA MILLETT, DAVID SAVAGE, PAUL SMITH, GREG STOHR, RICHARD WOLF ADVOCATES: CHRISTOPHER LANDAU & DAVID STRAUSS BREAK 6:05 to 6:15 PM MOOT COURT DISCUSSION 6:15 to 6:30 PM THE COURT AND THE 2016 ELECTION 6:35 to 7:25 PM MODERATOR: ADAM LIPTAK PANELISTS: PAM KARLAN, NEAL KATYAL, KANNON SHANMUGAM, DAVID STRAUSS Saturday, September 24, 2016 BUSINESS 9:00 to 10:05 AM MODERATOR: ANDY PINCUS PANELISTS: JEFF FISHER, NEAL KATYAL, PATRICIA MILLETT, KANNON SHANMUGAM CRIMINAL 10:15 to 11:05 AM MODERATOR: ADAM GERSHOWITZ PANELISTS: BETH BRINKMANN, JEFF FISHER, LEONDRA KRUGER, DAVID SAVAGE BREAK 11:05 to 11:20 AM CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES 11:20 AM to 12:35 PM MODERATOR: BOB BARNES PANELISTS: ERWIN CHEMERINSKY, PAUL CLEMENT, GREG GARRE, PAUL SMITH BREAK 12:35 to 12:55 PM LUNCH BREAKOUT SESSIONS 12:55 to 1:45 PM ROOM 119: RACE AND THE ROBERTS COURT MODERATOR: LYLE DENNISTON PANELISTS: ERWIN CHEMERINSKY, GREG GARRE, LINDA GREENHOUSE ROOM 124: THE LEGACY OF JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA MODERATOR: JOAN BISKUPIC PANELISTS: PAUL CLEMENT, PAM KARLAN, CHIRSTOPHER LANDAU, ALAN MEESE ROOM 127: AN 8 MEMBER SUPREME COURT? MODERATOR: TARA GROVE PANELISTS: BETH BRINKMANN, JEFF FISHER, ADAM LIPTAK, ANDY PINCUS IMMIGRATION 2:00 to 2:50 PM MODERATOR: JESS BRAVIN PANELISTS: ERWIN CHEMERINSKY, GREG GARRE, LEONDRA KRUGER ELECTION LAW 3:00 to 3:50 PM MODERATOR: REBECCA GREEN PANELISTS: PAUL CLEMENT, LYLE DENNISTON, PAM KARLAN, PAUL SMITH CONFERENCE CONCLUDES 3:50 PM 2016-2017 Supreme Court Preview Panel Members ROBERT BARNES has been a Washington Post reporter and editor since 1987. He joined the paper to cover Maryland politics, and has served in various editing positions including metropolitan editor and national political editor. He has covered the Supreme Court since November 2006. JOAN BISKUPIC has covered the Supreme Court for 25 years and has written several books on the judiciary, including Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice (2014) and American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (2009). She is also the author of Sandra Day O’Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice (2005). She currently is working on a biography of Chief Justice John Roberts. During the 2016-17 academic year, she will be a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine, law school and a contributing legal analyst for CNN. She is on a one-year sabbatical from her position at Reuters as an editor in charge for Legal Affairs. Before joining Reuters in 2012, she was the Supreme Court reporter for The Washington Post and for USA Today. She is a regular panelist on PBS’s Washington Week with Gwen Ifill. A graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2015. JESS BRAVIN covers the U.S. Supreme Court for The Wall Street Journal, after earlier postings as United Nations correspondent and editor of the WSJ/California weekly. Mr. Bravin is the author of The Terror Courts (Yale, 2013), an award-winning account of military trials at Guantanamo Bay, and Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme (St. Martin's, 1997), and a contributor to books including Violence in America: An Encyclopedia (Scribner, 1999), Crimes of War 2.0 (Norton, 2007) and A Concise Introduction to Logic, Second Edition (Wadsworth, 1984). His work has been recognized with the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize, for coverage of the International Criminal Court, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, for coverage of the legal response to 9/11, and, with a Wall Street Journal team, the National Press Foundation's Excellence in Online Journalism Award for coverage of the Supreme Court's health care case. Prior to joining The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Bravin wrote for publications including the Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar and Spy magazine, evaluated scripts for a Hollywood talent agency and managed a campaign for local school board. While in law school, he served as a member of the University of California Board of Regents and the Berkeley, Calif., Police Review Commission. Mr. Bravin also led the effort to designate Raymond Chandler Square (Los Angeles City Historic-Cultural Monument No. 597) in Hollywood, in honor of the hard-boiled novelist. Mr. Bravin has taught at the University of California Washington Center, was awarded the 2006 John Jacobs Fellowship by UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and Institute of Governmental Studies, and held the 2015 John Field Simms Sr. Memorial Lectureship in Law at the University of New Mexico. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall). BETH S. BRINKMANN currently serves as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice. She directs the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division, which is responsible for briefing and arguing cases on behalf of the United States, its departments and agencies, in the appellate courts throughout the country. She handles a broad range of legal issues in this role, including the defense of federal statutes and regulations against constitutional challenge, administrative law, governmental immunity issues, national security issues, government contracts, employment law, qui tam litigation, intellectual property matters, and federal preemption. Ms. Brinkmann formerly practiced law in both private and public interest law offices, including before the Supreme Court of the United States for approximately 15 years, first as an Assistant to the Solicitor General and then as chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Supreme Court and Appellate practice. She argued 24 cases before the Court during that ii time. Ms. Brinkmann received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and her J.D. from Yale Law School. Before entering practice, she served as a law clerk to Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the Supreme Court of the United States. ERWIN CHEMERINSKY is the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at University of California, Irvine School of Law, with a joint appointment in Political Science. Prior to assuming this position in 2008, he was the Alston and Bird Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University from 2004-2008, and before that was a professor at the University of Southern California Law School from 1983-2004, including as the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science. He also has taught at DePaul College of Law and UCLA Law School. He is the author of ten books, including The Case Against the Supreme Court, published by Viking in 2014, and two books to be published by Yale University Press in 2017, Closing the Courthouse Doors: How the Supreme Court Made Your Rights Unenforceable and Renewing Free Speech on College Campuses (with Howard Gillman). He also is the author of more than 200 law review articles. He writes a weekly column for the Orange County Register, monthly columns for the ABA Journal and the Daily Journal, and frequent op-eds in newspapers across the country. In January 2014, National Jurist magazine named Dean Chemerinsky as the most influential person in legal education in the United States. Chemerinsky holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University. PAUL D. CLEMENT is a partner at Bancroft PLLC. Mr. Clement served as the 43rd Solicitor General of the United States from June 2005 until June 2008. Before his confirmation as Solicitor General, he served as Acting Solicitor General for nearly a year and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General for over three years. He has argued over 80 cases before the United States Supreme Court, including McConnell v. FEC, Tennessee v. Lane, Rumsfeld v. Padilla, Credit Suisse v. Billing, United States v. Booker, MGM v. Grokster, ABC v. Aereo, and Hobby Lobby v. Burwell. He has argued before the Supreme Court 24 times in just the last four Terms. Indeed, Mr. Clement has argued more Supreme Court cases since 2000 than any lawyer in or out of government. Mr. Clement has also argued many important cases in the lower courts, including Walker v. Cheney, United States v. Moussaoui, and NFL v. Brady. Mr. Clement’s practice focuses on appellate matters, constitutional litigation, and strategic counseling. He represents a broad array of clients in the Supreme Court and in federal and state appellate courts. Last year, for example, he successfully argued Supreme Court cases involving significant issues of copyright law, religious liberty and labor law, and he successfully defended a $1.2 billion jury verdict for clients in the Tenth Circuit, while securing the reversal of an over $2 billion jury verdict for another client in the Seventh Circuit.