2012 Chicago-Kent Law Review Live Symposium

Presented in partnership with the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States (ISCOTUS)

Symposium Editor

Professor Carolyn Shapiro, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

Chicago-Kent College of Law
565 West Adams Street
Chicago, Illinois 60661
November 15–16, 2012
Contact: cklawreview.me@kentlaw.iit.edu

Despite the central role that the Supreme Court regularly plays in significant matters of public concern, our understanding of the relationship between the Court and the American public remains strikingly underdeveloped. We have voluminous scholarship on the Court itself—on the development of the institution, on the people who have sat on the bench, and on their written opinions. And we have some understanding, largely through opinion poll data, of attitudes of the American people toward their highest court and the decisions it issues. But when it comes to the connection between the two—on the pathways of communication that link the public and their Supreme Court—there is still much work to be done. This issue of the Cʜɪᴄᴀɢᴏ-Kᴇɴᴛ Lᴀᴡ Rᴇᴠɪᴇᴡ marks an important step toward a better understanding of the nature and evolution of the relationship between the Court and the public.

November 15th

The Supreme Court and Celebrity Culture

4:30pm–5:30pm | Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium
The Honorable Richard A. Posner, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY8Ekm_EDWM]

November 16th

Schedule

9:00am–10:15am	Panel 1: The Supreme Court and Technology	Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Courtroom
10:15am–10:30am	Break	Front Lobby
10:30am–12:00pm	Panel 2: Ideology, Neutrality, and Self-Deception: What the Supreme Court Says and What the Public Hears	Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Courtroom
12:00pm–12:15pm	Break	Front Lobby
12:15pm–1:15pm	Lunch Break and Keynote	Morris Hall
1:15pm–1:30pm	Break	Front Lobby
1:30pm–2:45pm	Panel 3: Journalists’ Roundtable	Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Courtroom
2:45pm–3:00pm	Break	Front Lobby
3:00pm–4:15pm	Panel 4: Beyond the Written Opinion: When Justices Speak to the Public	Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Courtroom

Panel Participants

Panel 1: The Supreme Court and Technology

Panel Moderator
Nancy Marder, Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

Keith Bybee, Professor of Law, Syracuse University
Open Secret: Why the Supreme Court Has Nothing To Fear From the Internet

Tom Goldstein, Publisher and Co-Founder, SCOTUSblog

Jerry Goldman, Research Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
The U.S. Supreme Court and Information Technology: From Opacity to Transparency In Three Easy Steps

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N_1e83Ojic]

Panel 2: Ideology, Neutrality, and Self-Deception: What the Supreme Court Says and What the Public Hears

Panel Moderator
Christopher Buccafusco, Assistant Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

Dan Kahan, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Cognitive Bias and the Constitution

Dan Simon, Richard L. and Maria B. Crutcher Professor of Law and Psychology, USC Gould School of Law
Nicholas Scurich, Assistant Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior, and Criminology, Law & Society, UC-Irvine
Judicial Overstating

Tom Tyler, Macklin Fleming Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Deference to Authority as a Basis for Managing Ideological Conflict

Carolyn Shapiro, Associate Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Claiming Neutrality and Confessing Subjectivity in Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hflx-KaMwEo]

Keynote

Linda Greenhouse, Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law and Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence, Yale Law School

Panel 3: Journalists’ Roundtable

Panel Moderator
Linda Greenhouse, Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law and Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence, Yale Law School

Kimberly Atkins, Supreme Court Correspondent, LawyersUSA

Amy Howe, Editor, SCOTUSblog

Tony Mauro, Supreme Court Correspondent, The National Law Journal
Opinion Announcements

David Savage, Supreme Court Correspondent, Los Angeles Times

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiMOgPkcXvE]

Panel 4: Beyond the Written Opinion: When Justices Speak to the Public

Panel Moderator
Sheldon Nahmod, Distinguished Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

Jason Mazzone, Professor, Lynn H. Murray Faculty Scholar in Law, University of Illinois College of Law

Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law, George Washington Law

Christopher Schmidt, Assistant Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Beyond the Opinion: Supreme Court Justices and Extrajudicial Speech

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfLNllcaank]